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Gene's daughter framed this review gifted it to him. J.…
19 Aug 2011, 14:08
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Isn't this the punishment Thecla had to endure until her execution? J.…
11 Aug 2011, 16:51
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Think that is worth noting. It is why some ancient translator thought Mowgli was a story about the son of "Spring Wind". I don't think we are supposed to miss that there actually I…
08 Aug 2011, 18:50
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I believe the moral of Marc's story is that there were not rewards. He speculated on a socialist system in *hope* that he would gain the love of a woman -- and perhaps he presume…
08 Aug 2011, 14:29
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Interesting. I found _Perelandra_ much more preachy than _That Hideous Strength_ -- one metaphor after another. And for that reason found it tedious to work through (even though …
08 Aug 2011, 13:29
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One point, the things shared in common at this time, were shared voluntarily at the household level. As Peter says to Ananias (who lied about the *percentage* he gave from the proc…
07 Aug 2011, 16:11
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I think it is worth mentioning again that Wolfe's politics do not really map to a political party. It's vaguely conservative and vaguely libertarian. Essentially a kind of conser…
07 Aug 2011, 13:31
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I like the conniving wife in the movie "Ran". In literature, Regan in "King Lear" and Iago in "Othello" are what we are talking about right?…
05 Aug 2011, 22:03
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1) I remember distinctly that the Covenant Chronicles just ran out of steam. 2) It is a slightly veiled plagiarism of the Sword of Shanara (which was a plagiarism of The Lord of …
04 Aug 2011, 22:09
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I did! I did! I think she's under rated.…
03 Aug 2011, 15:55
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Nothing so emphatic. I think you are conflating two interviews: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intgw.htm James Jordan: I might as well at least /ask/ one of the $64,…
03 Aug 2011, 15:33
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1) Since this is a democratically selected list, you would probably have to limit the voting to exclusively to women to hope that a woman author would make the top 10. We're talk…
02 Aug 2011, 15:56
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One other thing...the "enormous darkness" is not the subject of this sentence. In fact it is not a sentence at all, but a sentence fragment. The enormous darkness carries no more…
02 Jun 2011, 12:49
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"Enormous darkness high overhead, blotting the sun-drenched field, the straggling line of servants in which she had stood, and the soldiers' precise column. She had seen it desce…
02 Jun 2011, 12:07
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Thanks, Roy. Just a clarification and a couple of interpretations that I don't agree about. Yes. What I assert is that the chems personalities come from scans a people using the …
01 Jun 2011, 21:56
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Okay. That's really bizarre. They 'fixed' that but they didn't fix the Marble/Mint mix-up. It is in "Calde of the Long Sun" during Rose's funeral when Echidna-in-Marble takes Mu…
31 May 2011, 22:47
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Why would anyone make prosthetic hands for a woman that look old? On the other hand, whatever one believes about Rose's hands, the fact that they are *old-looking* requires its o…
31 May 2011, 18:31
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Well, in "Exodus of the Long Sun", in chapter 14, "The Best Thieves in the Whorl", page 313 (HB version), Siyuf is having a discussion with Mint. Marble is not there. A paragraph…
31 May 2011, 18:31
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Perhaps the only the Rajan could see the light of Sol's sun. He was only asking the others to imagine it. Perhaps he wasn't seeing it with human eyes. Just sayin'. There was a d…
31 May 2011, 15:30
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There aren't any scholars. There is author. A very good one. He's shown his skill with this sort of thing in the other two names. There's none of that skill on display in your in…
30 May 2011, 20:28
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Thanks Andrew. Certainly a) and c) are in line with my understanding til now. I disagree that it contradicts what Typhon says. It only provides more information. From Calde of …
30 May 2011, 20:11
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Because the "redactors" are not sloppy. That's the beauty of what Wolfe has done here. It is possible to imagine an intelligent scholar translating Juno as "Early Summer" and Rhe…
30 May 2011, 19:32
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Nick, I think you and I read Wolfe's various novels and short stories similarly except I don't read his attraction as centered around a single deity or myth. Like you, I have a …
30 May 2011, 18:53
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Yeah, but the following is not the description of a king: "Should our folk require a sword, I am the sword that springs to their hands. Asked to heal, I cure their sick -- when I…
27 May 2011, 14:28
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Valorius is fine name for a knight. I can't find any likely reference to "lurn" in any language. It bothers me. I think we're talking about Persephone (the Maiden). But it is pos…
26 May 2011, 22:43
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See mine and Marc Aramini's conversation here: http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2011-February/021710.html http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2011-February/0…
26 May 2011, 21:53
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I think the problem is Wolfe's answer to the Ymar date question in an interview. I suspect he was probably too flippant in giving an answer. I doubt he had thought carefully how …
26 May 2011, 15:38
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After thinking about it, Nick probably means that Thetis is Phanes by way of Metis, which makes perfect sense. (Thetis is my favorite Greek god) J.…
26 May 2011, 14:59
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Boy, Nick, did you ever come to the right counter. Phanes is not a bad key. What is your source on him? Because the only picture I've found of him is slightly reminiscent of the …
26 May 2011, 06:36
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This was actually my first assumption. I was motivated to make it work. But we know more about Severian than anyone else in the book, yet beyond very broad outlines (in some case…
26 May 2011, 02:21
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The chronology based on the Rajan's spirit-travel is pretty dicey. The Rajan is a Time traveler, and if you consider pay attention to when Horn left home, and how long ago Hoof a…
25 May 2011, 22:38
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You make a convincing argument that 'Spring Wind' makes a fine designation for 'March'. But not for Mars. Let me again stipulate the pattern set for the other characters from the…
25 May 2011, 22:34
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I think he does intend a connection. It is not for nothing that the Student's end is so similar to Typhon's. He goes tumbling from his tower after Our Hero's return. J.…
25 May 2011, 20:17
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Now my interest is peaked. At first I thought you were thinking of Zephyrus. I think Wolfe *did* riff on that in The Book of the Long Sun. But the comment about having a lot of h…
25 May 2011, 19:42
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I doubt that information would have gone over any better with Ouen. Sev maneuvered nicely around that bit of doo-dah and even the fact that he was his son in case it came up. In…
25 May 2011, 17:43
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James Wynn: Yeah, but Sev is a Time-traveler. This is his grandfather after all. Granted, Severian doesn't tell us everything. J.…
25 May 2011, 17:00
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Either in Castle of the Otter or during his online chat on the SciFi channel, Wolfe says the kind of music he enjoys is Folk and Filk. J.…
25 May 2011, 15:02
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I always found it interesting that the old guy and Ouen appeared so estranged. That's the other thing that throws people. Yeah, Ouen is Dorcas' son, but is that old guy really Ou…
25 May 2011, 14:14
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Also, Typhon offered Severian food (although Severian takes it unJesus-like) and dangled him over the precipice. J.…
25 May 2011, 11:31
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Can one have too many JWs? Really? Think about it. I think I remember who thought there were too many JWs and when he left the list he invited me to friend him on Facebook. But h…
25 May 2011, 11:19
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A review by our editing department has determined it was Marc Aramini. I apologize. J.…
24 May 2011, 21:54
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As I read this story, its the other way around. The translators have erred in reading reference such as "Mt Olympus" or such in the myths as metaphorical language referring to ot…
24 May 2011, 16:18
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If one isn't _quite_ familiar with the Bible, then the last 1800 years of history and literature will be viewed through a fog. 150 years ago, any school girl could discuss obscur…
24 May 2011, 16:12
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Acts gives both names. Of course, the names Wolfe selects do not always have an obvious purpose to them. So it's understandable that even a "bible thumper", as Antonio calls peo…
24 May 2011, 13:10
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????? Are you winding me up, Antonio? Almost all of Part II and all of Part III are lifted out of The Jungle Book and has zero relation to the life Romulus. Part IV has parallels …
23 May 2011, 22:23
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Confirmation bias. It doesn't fit with what I expected, therefore it is invisible. J.…
23 May 2011, 22:06
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Erase the names and colors? Shall I also leave out the names of Juno, Rhea Silvia, and Mars? And all the "color" that is similar to the life of Romulus? Get real. Expanding on An…
23 May 2011, 22:05
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Why do you not say that this is the story of Mowgli with a few details of Romulus thrown in? The name "Mowgli" actually _means_ 'frog', and there are at least as many parallels a…
23 May 2011, 21:36
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Well, it means that Ymar is of some sort of royal stock. That like Severian, he has a twin (probably fraternal). Since he is being raised by the Torturers it is clear that he has…
23 May 2011, 19:56
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And yet I think Wolfe created Severian to appeal to that sort of audience. He has said repeatedly that initial seed to Severian was that he wanted a character fans could easily c…
23 May 2011, 19:05
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