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I just read this quote by Wolfe. Irony? Pot-Meet-Kettle? J…
29 Apr 2011, 19:24
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Interesting. You'd think they could at least package it for the Scyfy channel or IFC. Maybe the owners are holding on to it until one of the actors wins an Oscar. Or maybe a bank…
28 Apr 2011, 22:33
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Did this movie ever make it out into the world?…
28 Apr 2011, 16:18
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I'm pretty sure that Viron's culture is South American--presumably that of the Commonwealth. The "ball game" is based on the Nahuatl game. It's an analogous Catholic culture. St…
22 Apr 2011, 18:45
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Perhaps if this were Orson Scott Card, I would think you were on to something. J.…
21 Apr 2011, 16:28
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Well, Wolfe was specifically asked about the Mint/Marble typos. Has anyone done so regarding this one? I think it would be a good idea. It is true that it occurs in the first 5 p…
20 Apr 2011, 15:28
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Essentially, an unreliable narrator is someone who: a) has motivation to distort the truth b) is obviously debilitated somehow in his perceptive/interpretive ability There must …
19 Apr 2011, 21:44
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Ah okay. Then I do not believe the *strong* version to be a true definition of an Unreliable Narrator. Verbal is merely making up most of the story. He is "unreliable" only in th…
19 Apr 2011, 20:00
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What then would be an example in literature of a 'strongly unreliable' narrator? J…
19 Apr 2011, 19:18
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Looking at that link again. I should say that I no longer believe Molybdenum's unused parts ever went anywhere except the attic in the cenoby. They had to be there for Rose to co…
19 Apr 2011, 17:01
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I'm glad it helped, David. My answers to a lot of your questions are implied by my explanation at the link I gave. I'll take a shot a few of them anyway. 1) I believe we are ti…
19 Apr 2011, 16:48
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I don't understand the reason for perpetuating the error. But in the List Q&A Wolfe confirmed that the Marble/Mint mix-ups were typos and that he was very annoyed about them. He …
19 Apr 2011, 16:38
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Looks like I cut my own response. To continue: "Consequently, it is reasonable to assume that the Roche/Drotte mix-up could be a typo and that copyrights and Library of Congress …
19 Apr 2011, 16:01
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Rose lost her hands due to amputation required from some slow flesh-destroying disease. Leprosy, to take a guess. When she visited Blood at his foster home when he was a child, s…
19 Apr 2011, 15:57
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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…
19 Apr 2011, 14:47
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Correction: Marble is a chem. Although she used to have facades that looked generally realistic or possibly very realistic, they have long-ago worn away. Rose is an old bio with…
18 Apr 2011, 22:55
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I think it is in Exodus of the Long Sun. There is a passage where "Mint" is mistakenly says "Marble" and another in a different place where "Marble" is mistakenly says "Mint". It…
18 Apr 2011, 22:40
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When I get home, I intend to see if the Marble/Mint mix-up in the "The Book of Long Sun" was replicated in the "Epiphany of the Long Sun" re-release. Wolfe seemed quite annoyed b…
18 Apr 2011, 21:17
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Additionally, e) Almost all of what he sees and hears that he considers important and also his interpretation on that. However, 1) some things he describes that he considers in…
18 Apr 2011, 19:18
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Well...Dorcas is a water nymph, and by extension a siren. One issue that might be important is that Valeria is, in a sense, Sev's "first girlfriend". He meets her before he met T…
18 Apr 2011, 19:03
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IIRC There were tribes in which Modred was viewed as a hero. There was a story of Arthur attempting to get rid of Modred by putting him and all the infants of Britain into basket…
16 Feb 2011, 13:16
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Remember that Mohammed grew up in a Christianized society. The Koran takes some divergent paths from Orthodox Christianity but, for example, it accepts the virgin birth of Jesus …
15 Feb 2011, 21:51
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I don' think so. It was a common misunderstanding based on (I think) St. Jerome's translation. In fact, I believe there was a commonly held myth is some places that all Jews has …
15 Feb 2011, 21:01
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Tomayto tomahto. Alexander the Great also didn't _actually_ have horns either (and Mars is a farmer not a soldier). The point is that according to Islamic and Berber tradition, h…
15 Feb 2011, 19:09
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Ah, yes! I had mentioned that elsewhere, but forgot to mention it here. Moses *does* have horns which is why he and Alexander are called "the two horned ones" in the Koran. u+16…
15 Feb 2011, 18:47
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Well, it would be nice if Wolfe had worked such a connection into the story. He's pretty good about that sort of thing. I haven't detected it, but it might be that I've failed to…
15 Feb 2011, 18:21
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I think it is a really interesting theory that an astral body will eventually starve if the traveler does not return to his corporeal form. It has the benefit of explaining why t…
15 Feb 2011, 17:51
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We have so little to go on regarding Ol' Barnacles. I've always wanted to connect him to the Rajan--sort of a Severian-Apu Punchau-style encounter or a Pike's Ghost encounter. Un…
15 Feb 2011, 16:13
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Actually, it is not at all uncommon for Wolfe to spend paragraphs of a hand-wringing over theories that are wrong but alert the reader to a puzzle to be solved. An obvious exampl…
15 Feb 2011, 14:37
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Another difference is that the eidolon becomes an independent branch of the original. From that moment, there are two of the original. This is not the case for the dream-traveler…
14 Feb 2011, 21:13
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So? My friend's American kids call their aunt "Tia". Various familial terms used within the Wolfe household mean nothing. There are plenty of people with French surnames in the U…
14 Feb 2011, 18:57
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The increasing scarcity of chems would conceivably cause this. Just as, when the Black Death depleted the population of Europe, it doomed feudalism since the serfs (slaves) gaine…
14 Feb 2011, 16:50
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A. Yes, but his meaning is not as simple as that, as is obvious in the fact that an astral body can bleed to death. When the Rajan said he wasn't afraid because "I'm not really h…
14 Feb 2011, 16:19
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It has always seemed likely to me that "Gene" (if that is the ultimate spelling) is an assimilation. Originally, the name was Jean. This seems implied by the Aunt Jeanine's name,…
14 Feb 2011, 13:12
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And they have sexual desire.…
12 Feb 2011, 06:54
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No. They are not merely corporeal bodies. They are a lighter. They don't need food. But the DO have blood! The Rajan bleeds. The inhumi attack him for his blood. They die from ph…
12 Feb 2011, 06:48
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I don't think it is likely Silk would ever have lived his life as a humble augur. Assuming Silk is the one Tussah was thinking of when he said "my son shall be Calde after me", h…
12 Feb 2011, 03:45
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Oh. And, by the same token, the swords and guns the astral travels conjure are entirely lethal. u+16b9…
12 Feb 2011, 02:57
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Let's say rather that they are different. Not real implies that they are merely virtual. They don't need to eat but they DO bleed. The Rajan is attacked by inhumi after his blood…
12 Feb 2011, 02:55
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I made a typographical error in the OBW quote...I'll repost the whole message for clarity. ---------------------------- All good, Roy. Few additional things... A person in soul t…
11 Feb 2011, 21:35
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Krait nodded. "You said you thought he was an old man, and you were angry because he had tricked you. You told me some trooper shot and killed him." I nodded. "Did you see his co…
11 Feb 2011, 20:59
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All good, Roy. Few additional things... A person in soul travel lighter but he still has mass. He is subject to gravity. He also bleeds and receives harm. When the Rajan is climb…
11 Feb 2011, 20:57
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"Like a new born baby it just happens every day" ~ The Rolling Stones, Paint It Black…
11 Feb 2011, 19:03
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Dude! You should post this.…
11 Feb 2011, 17:32
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I suggest to you Michael Andre-Driussi's "What Wolfe Expects of His Readers". http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10536 Initially, Wolfe did not intend to write "Urth of the New …
11 Feb 2011, 17:30
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I think it is a little more complex or simpler than either either of these. The Whorl and it's purpose were on the whole wholesome because no one is Evil Person in the sense that …
11 Feb 2011, 17:12
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Oops! Wrong direction, Craig. Although, that Concept of the Mind sounds interesting, so I'm just lucky that way I guess.…
11 Feb 2011, 16:40
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I understood it as a gladiatorial sport. It seems to have had a ritualistic element. Each space on the "board" represented actual mountains. So once again, there is a Roman theme…
10 Feb 2011, 20:54
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I'm not sure I would call it "bizarre". Perhaps I'm missing something. I didn't find it in the least inscrutable. I think thematically it's a Liberation story. The characters are…
10 Feb 2011, 20:28
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Did anyone here read 'Bloodsport' in the Sword & Dark Magic anthology?…
10 Feb 2011, 19:02
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