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Obviously, I meant "Pas was NO master at keeping his family in line."…
23 Jun 2005, 09:47
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Gads! That unwrapped text in the online view at the urth.net site was so annoying, I'm resending this email. If you are reading this in an email application, my apologies. Just de…
17 Jun 2005, 17:50
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Japanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls May 23, 6:12 AM (ET) TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail for snatching manneq…
23 May 2005, 04:58
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In case Kieran's post doesn't "take" I'll offer this one. Is Sinew be Marrow's son? Consider: 1) Sinew doesn't "quite" fit with Horn's name. Not the way Hoof and Hide do. But it …
21 Feb 2005, 15:29
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And that was Wolfe's point right? That honor and courage are more than just carrying a weapon against overwhelming odds or protecting your reputation -- although that might be par…
04 Jan 2005, 06:05
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http://blog.gleeson.us/sean/2004/11/05/blogus_natus_est_nobis Scroll down to see it. (For those who don't know, Father Brown is an mystery sleuth from a series written by G.K. Ch…
01 Dec 2004, 17:10
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With so little discussion going on about Wolfe's works lately, I been free to wool-gather over the Urth list. Will the old list be merged into this one on make searches easier? W…
05 Nov 2004, 07:13
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I got the idea while reading "The Book of the Short Sun" that Horn was (originally) balding. Is this accurate? The cover of "On Blue's Waters" shows a Horn looking quite young, w…
02 Oct 2004, 17:43
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I wrote: "the picture Wright paints of Mars is far less hospitable than what we now know to be the case." I should have written "the picture Wright paints of Mars is far less I…
28 Sep 2004, 14:37
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I just finished "The Last Hope of the Earth" (aka "The Creeping Shroud") by Lan Wright. I hunted this book down because I suspected Wolfe may have been paying a tribute to it in th…
28 Sep 2004, 13:06
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Ohmygosh! I complete forgot about this book sitting on one of my shelves. I bought it coincidentally about 2 months before I read tBotNS for the first time at a friend's recommenda…
16 Sep 2004, 11:57
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Anyone else out there? ~ Crush…
14 Sep 2004, 12:39
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You might be interested then in Penguin Classics' "Chronicles of the Crusades" which combines Joinville's "The Life of Saint Louis" and Vilain de Villehardouin's "Conquest of Const…
07 Sep 2003, 01:17
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As I see it, the chief benefit of the Typhon Clone explanation originally put forward by Don is the number of narrative puzzles it answers, and that it explains many of Wolfe's lit…
06 Sep 2003, 19:07
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Don said: Oops! My mistake. You said "Quetzal is the only *inhumu* who is...Dionysus." Duh. Well, all I can say is that I don't believe that (anymore). I think that entire inhumi…
05 Sep 2003, 04:42
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How can you say that? You are the one that argued (successfully IMO) that Silk is a clone of Typhon! If Silk parallels Apollo (one of the more indisputable parallels with him prop…
05 Sep 2003, 01:59
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Don posited: Crush responds: The importance of archetypes in understanding what is going on in the Long and Short Suns can hardly be overemphasized. And I agree that the serpent L…
04 Sep 2003, 22:12
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Marc said: I have presumed that because the tomato is called "the love apple" from the French "Pommes d'amour", the tomotoes Silk denied her were a metaphor for the love he denied…
22 Aug 2003, 02:49
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Josh said: Crush bites: *I* was not aware of this. I googled for it and could only find references to to da Vinci's "mirror-image script", how he recommended that painters use a m…
19 Aug 2003, 16:04
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Ash said: Chems wouldn't be found on Urth at all if they were invented on board the Ship. Reference Sidero's claims concerning this. Jonas was an exception, and he clearly came fro…
16 Aug 2003, 17:50
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Don, My false modesty must be working over time for you have surely turned my head. :-D Well, one would have to wade through a library to read everything necessary to take on "Ham…
09 Aug 2003, 17:37
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I learned new word yesterday while reading to my kids "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix": Catherine wheel: A rotating firework. --- Crush…
01 Aug 2003, 22:23
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Does anyone know for certain whether will Wolfe will attend? -- Crush…
29 Jul 2003, 15:16
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Josh Geller says: I put the whole [Delany/Baldanders theory] forward as much as a wry comment on the wrangling over minutiae which, in my opinion, badly infests this list at the po…
29 Jul 2003, 14:47
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Best place I've found to buy books a reasonable (or better) price: http://www.abebooks.com Here one can buy copy of Little, Big in pb (very good condition) for $3.75 or a first ed…
28 Jul 2003, 17:13
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I don't have anything to workshopped right now but I would certainly pay a couple hundred just to hang out with Gene Wolfe and the rest of you guys. Unfortunately, my experience w…
26 Jul 2003, 14:38
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Wolfe has said that the next Latro novel is "in its very early stages". Wolfe does not intend the next installment to wrap up Latro's story (ie get him home), but with Wolfe's adva…
21 Jul 2003, 05:49
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Andrews asks: ...what would be the narrative point of Sev having a false belief in his own perfect memory? If the intention were to cast ambiguity over everything he says, then it …
14 Jul 2003, 06:15
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Andrew explained: One of my problems with Roy's list representing deliberate "errors" is just their triviality - I find it hard to think that most of them could mean anything much.…
14 Jul 2003, 03:25
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Jeff Prucher wrote: " the ability to record all the events of a person's life which is what Severian's memory does." and Chris said: "Now, with normal people who don't have Sev's p…
09 Jul 2003, 01:34
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Andrew elaborates on his theory identifying Lucius Tarquitius as our boy, Latro. Crush falls in line: The reference at issue is Livy 3:27 "The next morning Cincinnatus arose and w…
23 Jun 2003, 14:43
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Chris speculates: Latro does know a lot about Zoroastrianism and perhaps he speaks Persian. But his knowledge of Greek was not formally learned. We know this because while he can …
19 Jun 2003, 06:54
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Feel free to give me a hard time. My life is far to cushy as it is. :-) Since we've agreed to agree, I'm possibly putting too fine a hair on it to say I'd put more weight on the w…
18 Jun 2003, 20:48
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Chris says: Crush recants: Hmmm. Herodotus 7:83 says that the Immortals were "all Persians". So either Latro was not an Immortal, or Wolfe is engaging in literary license in presu…
16 Jun 2003, 20:06
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I feeling pretty dense right now since I can think of only one rape in my reading of Wolfe right now: the infamous act by Severian on the semi-conscious Jolenta. I'm tracing my mem…
21 Apr 2003, 18:01
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Crush sort-of disagrees: Well, for the stuff I've read online, yeah, true. And I haven't read "Strange Travellers" yet although it is on my shelf. But "Endangered Spieces" (speakin…
16 Apr 2003, 00:46
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Blattid yelps: Still unable to post to the list. Grrrr. Still (Aaaargh!) unable to post so replying in person. Feel free to repost to the list if you want to reply. Crush muses: …
10 Apr 2003, 22:10
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The following is the text of the Gene Wolfe Chat on Sci-Fi.com last night. I've edited it for readability: *** - *** - ********************************************************…
04 Apr 2003, 16:01
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0014_01C2F775.11AC3D10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printabl…
31 Mar 2003, 17:02
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Charles Reed admonishes: Now you're verging on slandering those of us who prefer to analyze the text on its own merits first and foremost. Crush tries to mend some bridges: Lookin…
14 Mar 2003, 17:01
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Don postulates: The only certainty is that Dorcas is Ouen's mother. Ouen denies ever impregnating Katherine, and the only evidence that Ouen could be Severian's father is that the…
10 Mar 2003, 15:31
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Don notes: This segment is more speculative than the last since I haven't gotten to a second reading of the Long Sun books. Nevertheless, I am firmly convinced of its correctness …
07 Mar 2003, 23:10
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Crush responds soothingly: Since I'm primarily responsible for all this, I'll take some of this on... First, my opinions have developed about regarding Hyacinth and Chenille since…
03 Mar 2003, 16:45
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Adam Stephanides takes on Crush's list of Wolfean lovers: I haven't read the Soldier books in a long time, and my memory of them is dim, so you may well be right about Latro. But …
20 Feb 2003, 22:54
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Nutria proffered: Blattid deferred: H'mmm. I don't know if I'd go so far as to call the theories of modern science "myths." Crush butts in: One definition of "myth" certainly cou…
14 Feb 2003, 21:07
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I've been recently been re-reading the Fifth Head of Cerberus. I've been intrigued by the number of parallels between it and The Long Sun/Short Sun. I know this has been vaguely no…
31 Jan 2003, 17:16
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I recently had a conversation with a friend (an Evangelical Christian) about Jonah. My friend is the first person I had met to openly sympathize with Jonah. He was a teenager in Ne…
28 Jan 2003, 19:32
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Regarding reading the Soldier books, Nutria wrote: You might want to skim Bulfinch's Mythology before starting in. You've gotta know a bit, yea more than a bit, about ancient Greek…
20 Jan 2003, 19:04
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I'm trying and failing to remember the essay or work in which CSL argues that the uplifting of the Virgin Mary was God's answer to a Roman Empire crazy for Aphrodite and other orgi…
17 Jan 2003, 23:42
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Two responses..... Marc says: I have a hard time accepting that Wolfe would ever be sympathetic to a feminine point of view, especially when attempting to equate the moral stance …
16 Jan 2003, 18:43
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