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I've lost your email addy. Could you contact me? -- Crush…
15 Jan 2003, 18:07
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Just back from Christmas vacation... Roy wrote: Severian isn't Jesus, despite demonstrable similarities in their stories. Silk isn't Moses; hell, he actually got to the promised l…
30 Dec 2002, 15:58
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Well, for most of it, you would have to accept some of my presuppositions about Chenille and Tussah (realizing he was definitely human really opened things up for me) which I've ye…
19 Dec 2002, 16:12
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Blattid responds: Correct. A few pages later, when he explains to Blood that he is the help sent in response to Pa. Pike's prayers, Silk begins by saying that he saw Pike praying f…
18 Dec 2002, 16:35
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Roy wrote: To go from Marble's notion of abandonment to the destruction of a child requires a leap in logic that leaves me in the dust. I can only conclude that . . . hell, I don't…
04 Dec 2002, 15:21
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Matthew Malthouse posits: I'm reasonably certain that even in it's best years the Cenoby would not have extended to that many maids and if Marble or Molybdenum wroked in a grander …
03 Dec 2002, 20:04
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diegesis [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. — to narrate; dia` through + ? to lead.] A narrative or history; a recital or relation. The world in which the narrative is set. In other words, the w…
02 Dec 2002, 23:37
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Here is a link to this text: http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/cc/cc77.html -- Crush…
27 Nov 2002, 21:01
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Nutria rejoinds: [Crush's interpretation of Quetzal's allegory] makes sense, but I don't think its the only way to read it. You're right I think that serpents are all over…
27 Nov 2002, 20:10
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Allegory, typology, or symbolism? Let me explain... Charles said: Well, I don't see it that way, though I'll grant that this is a matter of interpretation. Quetzal identifies him…
27 Nov 2002, 16:55
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Charles Reed posted: Last week, Crush posited the following: I guess the idea of Quetzal being on board the Whorl from the beginning bugs me more than it should. There are other…
26 Nov 2002, 16:43
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Roy wrote: Ah. [the quote] from when Marble was killing Musk, LS3: 3. "Her hands, the bony blue-veined hands of an elderly bio, glowed crimson in the flames." As for the rest . . …
26 Nov 2002, 15:49
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William Ansley wrote: Crush, Thank you for the complete URL. It may just be my Macintosh email client (Eudora 5.1) that has a problem when you leave off the http://, so I may be t…
26 Nov 2002, 15:31
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Today on National Public Radio, Terry Gross of "Fresh Air" interviewed poet Sekou Sundiata about receiving a kidney transplant from a female friend. He mentioned that transplant re…
20 Nov 2002, 21:10
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Chris said: I'm getting a copy this weekend, in fact, and I wondered if anyone here had a translation they would particularly recommend above all others. Crush responds: This is c…
18 Nov 2002, 15:57
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Don asks: Please explain. Is this the usual SF take on FTL or is there a physics explanation that makes backward time travel the most likely? I'm pretty ignorant on this. Crush …
18 Nov 2002, 15:56
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Adam asks: Did Typhon, then, fail to provide scriptures for his invented religion? If so, why? If not, what happened to them? 2) Iirc, the Writings were a melange of quotes from …
08 Nov 2002, 00:33
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Personally, I have no problem reconciling the texts. People were generally ignorant of the Whorl because it was built in orbit from a captured asteroid. After all, how aware is the…
07 Nov 2002, 21:48
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Anyone here familiar with the works of Edogawa Ranpo? He's (apparently) an influential Japanese children's mystery author who died about 1964. I was wondering about his (remotely p…
31 Oct 2002, 17:00
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Tom said: Gnostics (as far as we know) weren't all that pessimistic, really. Compared to doctrines like Sheol and predestination, Gnostics were positively euphoric. It's best to r…
25 Oct 2002, 19:47
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Now that the discussion has worked it's way back to the Long Sun, I would like to put out some puzzles I come across while carefully re-reading scenes involving Chenille (to test m…
23 Oct 2002, 16:48
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Michael Straight writes: Tom adds: Even the cylinder shape with the people inside is a nice inversion of the real world. Crush interjects: I consider it a mistake to try to incor…
10 Oct 2002, 18:43
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Roy noted: Marble ending up on Blue was a fluke; as Mucor's guardian she was just in the right place at the right time, and being the calde's friend didn't hurt. Cijfer was married…
07 Oct 2002, 19:14
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Matthew Malthouse said If one posits that Hyacinth is ex-male, male , chem male or female one has to answer what purpose it serves. More what purpose would it serve to have Silk f…
03 Sep 2002, 20:31
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I hope not to come off as strident in this posting, but that's probably not possible <shrug>: Several posts have argued that "it is not necessary for Hyacinth to be a transsexual …
03 Sep 2002, 17:02
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Borski said: Bonus gratuity: although I don't belief this is true, in order to make your theory work, you might try arguing that "Lime" is short for "Limestone." Crush answers: Ar…
03 Sep 2002, 14:58
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My Long Sun site is back up and at http://gene-wolfe.tripod.com/index.htm. So Hartshorn and others can view the source of the loonyness and stop it before it's too late. -----Orig…
03 Sep 2002, 14:44
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At the request of my Sys Admin, I've pulled my Long Sun site from my work server. I'll try find a new place for it this weekend get it back up. -- Crush…
31 Aug 2002, 18:31
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The following is my response to A. Bin Talal who contacted me off-list but has offered of his own accord for my response to be posted on-list. -------------------------------------…
30 Aug 2002, 14:31
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The following is the story of Typhonâs war with Zeus and the Olympians as told by Apollodorus. It is a story that seems rife with potential background for Wolfeâs Typhon. Unfor…
01 Jul 2002, 17:57
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The recent talk about Chadwick's "History of the Early Church" made me think of another Church history book that I'm convinced is sitting on Wolfe's shelf at this moment: Eusebius'…
11 Jun 2002, 16:25
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Just to fill out the background material on pagan: Henry Chadwick is the author of the Penguin-published "History of the Early Church" (a book I thoroughly enjoyed-but I can't fin…
10 Jun 2002, 18:38
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