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Another example of how one can live in their own world and think it is universal. Probably, it came easy to me because it is also so unnatural for me to associate "pike" with fis…
13 Dec 2010, 21:18
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Only in the second movement.…
13 Dec 2010, 19:33
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Yeah, I'm beginning to realize that often my "explanations" sound to normal people like one of Auk's brain-damaged sermons---channeling voices from blind gods. But sometimes it w…
13 Dec 2010, 19:19
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Your central point is taken that there are known knowns. But, technically Triskele might be /merely/ an alien creature that is analogous to dogs. If you saw it, you might prefer …
13 Dec 2010, 19:13
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Jerry, Perhaps you are asking yourself "If that is the intended connection, shouldn't Blood have had a twin whose name is associated with water?" That's what I thought too as I …
13 Dec 2010, 18:38
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The spear that pierced Christ's side. What can I say? That's just the way I'm wired, I guess. I even thought the reference was obvious when I wrote it this morning. Clearly, I'm …
13 Dec 2010, 17:28
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There _are_ universal truths. Some questions are unanswerable because Wolfe didn't think of them while writing. But there are single answers to many open questions. But, I affirm…
13 Dec 2010, 16:36
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No. It's only in the novel. It's when Jack looks at the sun shining in the windows of the hotel and has an epiphany that everything his son has been saying about the place is tru…
13 Dec 2010, 15:36
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Off the subject, you know, I can't ever remember being confused about Blood's father. I was really surprised to learn it was a matter of dispute. I'm not bragging. I mean, I migh…
13 Dec 2010, 14:02
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Interesting theory. It seems to me the consensus has been that Jonas came from the Tzadkiel ship. If that's true and Jonas recognizes the ship, wouldn't it suggest that House Abs…
11 Dec 2010, 20:31
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Well, Milton didn't invent Lucifer. I don't know exactly when Isaiah 14:12 was first linked to Satan/the Devil but it goes back at least to St. Jerome. And the Gospels use Satan …
11 Dec 2010, 01:03
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Properly, Silk BECAME Odin, just as Horn became Silk. u+16b9…
11 Dec 2010, 00:51
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From Cecil Adams: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1173/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk Lewis Carroll himself got bugged about this so much that he was moved to write …
11 Dec 2010, 00:47
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Sorry. Didn't mean to whine.…
10 Dec 2010, 04:19
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There's a real leap. That's about as obscure as identifying Cain and Able as the children of Eve. Or Mary as the mother of Jesus. Or Romulus as the child of Rhea Silvia. Umm....…
09 Dec 2010, 23:08
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What I meant was that *for purposes of literary allusion*, all that mattered to Wolfe is that Dionysus is called "the god of the vine". Yet, the term "liana" was still deftly cho…
09 Dec 2010, 22:05
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I don't know about this. A thesis is usually a written paper arguing a point, not a person fighting Ogres. I apologize without regret for the snark, Andrew, but this makes it cl…
09 Dec 2010, 20:37
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You know, these objections *might* possibly carry more weight with me if BEFORE I read The Book of the Short Sun, I had NOT noted that Quetzal tracked nicely with Dionysus and ar…
09 Dec 2010, 20:31
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This is actually pretty perceptive (no pun intended), although it isn't the *quite* the way I learned it. The Myers-Briggs website puts it this way: "...when it comes to dealing …
09 Dec 2010, 02:48
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So...we agree that he's is the god of the "vine", not just grape vines. I do not believe specific species of vines mattered to Wolfe for this association one little bit. Dionysus …
08 Dec 2010, 23:34
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[roll eyes] Right. And the word "vine" is the only association to Dionysus in the book right? That's the only thing I've used to draw a connection to the inhumi and Dionysus, rig…
08 Dec 2010, 11:50
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It appears he hasn't read anything else by Wolfe. Granted, "The Wizard Knight" is probably not the novel anyone one would chose as the fulcrum of his body of work...but mostly be…
08 Dec 2010, 03:07
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I just remembered that Lee had connected "Silver Silk" and "Silent Silk" with Silvanus and Silenus. Silvanus was considered equivalent to Silenus who was the tutor and companion …
08 Dec 2010, 02:54
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Um....the "son of Thyone", is discussed or referenced at least four times in Return to the Whorl. That's a big deal being made of the child of an extremely minor goddess. The way…
07 Dec 2010, 23:52
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I don't know why you can't see this is an important quote. First of all, HORN is up-front about holding information back here. In a first person memoir, that's a _big_ deal. And …
07 Dec 2010, 14:04
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I'll answer this, however, one might as well speculate what are the odds Krait (very coincidentally ensouled by Horn's son) would find Horn in that pit after he had lain "unconsc…
07 Dec 2010, 04:22
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Again, the Rajan is not merely a Neighbor in human disguise. I understand why this is so hard to keep this in mind because it was a concept that was controversially debated in th…
07 Dec 2010, 04:20
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I just remembered that inhumi are seraphim-- flying deadly serpents-- ala Isaiah 14:26 and 30:6 (saraph uwph saraph). Leading angels into battle in a very Jesus-like thing. u+16…
06 Dec 2010, 23:23
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So...the deal-making was farce? The Rajan (who really just Silk after all) will go on to the Whorl and Neighbors will soon discover that their bargain is not worth the paper it w…
06 Dec 2010, 22:07
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I would not say so. I sat in on a Wolfe Q&A discussion in which someone said, "...and after all, Typhon was on the Whorl as Pas, in a way." Wolfe adamantly corrected him, "Not 'i…
06 Dec 2010, 21:24
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Yes. Horn dies twice. First in the pit on the island. Then on Green in the lander. What does he do that makes you think of him that way? And when you answer remember that everyt…
06 Dec 2010, 21:14
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More coming. But I'll answer these questions right now: It is ONLY legitimate _because_ HORN is _more_ than human. He-Pen-Sheep's people were in proximity to the Neighbor's on t…
06 Dec 2010, 19:54
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So do you posit that the monkeys are Inire's children, or that Inire and Fetchin are twins? u+16b9…
05 Dec 2010, 14:48
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Of course it's not Horn. (I say) Horn died in the pit and even his memories--those physically housed in his body--died on Green. By the time the Rajan begins writing the story, a…
05 Dec 2010, 00:09
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Even if your reading of "one whose spirit is dying" is the one intended (and it might well be), it comes to the same thing. We have examples of dying spirits in The Book of the S…
04 Dec 2010, 22:39
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Significantly, there are puppet references associated with Horn. Shortly after leaving home, he is attacked by a leatherskin, a creature with three jaws. It is Pinocchio's "dog f…
04 Dec 2010, 19:57
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Just as with the Storm King in AEG, the alien powers at the bottom of the oceans only matter to humanity because of their followers. It's sort of the same lesson as the inhumi. I…
03 Dec 2010, 21:50
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Merry Christmas, Stuart. Sincerly, Drag on the List. ;P…
03 Dec 2010, 21:34
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Time and dislocation have made the Gospels very Wolfean. Jesus was a very controversial figure. A lot of people did want him arrested and humiliated or just plain dead for what h…
03 Dec 2010, 19:09
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I don't think I seen Wolfe light up the way he did when I asked a question about AEG. But then, he might feel the same way about Home Fires right now.…
03 Dec 2010, 05:00
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heh heh Eh...I suppose. I just think that this quote is like the picture of the astronaut on the moon or the statue of Blind Justice. The reader is supposed to recognize it and …
03 Dec 2010, 03:08
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It is from the first chapter of Nightside: [referring to the merchants] "He would have to be firm with them, extremely firm. Remind them that the Outsider was known to esteem them…
02 Dec 2010, 23:30
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Once again, for Lee.... Horn on the ruinous island sees a Neighbor in the form of a greenbuck. He chases after it, falls in a pit, breaks his neck and dies. The reason I say he …
02 Dec 2010, 20:47
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Perhaps it is because I'm old-fashioned that I don't have a problem imagining the soul in the body as a person inside a suit. In fact, Wolfe almost never presents the soul in pur…
02 Dec 2010, 20:38
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Last year Wolfe said, (or I understood him to say) that Skip's last name is Reese [I don't know the spelling]. I asked Wolfe whether that implied HF was in the AEG universe. He r…
02 Dec 2010, 18:24
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I think the Logician term for that is "tit for tat". And here is an applicable opportunity to address the motives of a writer to understand his text. It would be a valid refutati…
02 Dec 2010, 16:41
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As I said, I believe the Rajan when he says that the Neighbors came from Blue. Point made. But the fact that there are lots of trees means nothing...zero. I'm not sure why you th…
02 Dec 2010, 07:05
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List oBW: "Blue's sentient race." List iGJ: "The name by which the sentient native race is known on Blue's western continent, the Vanished People." Hmmm...I'm a member of America…
02 Dec 2010, 03:45
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I think you are building a greater foundation for this issue that truly exists. As originally stated there were three posts that all agreed that Wright's premise that the Increat…
01 Dec 2010, 23:33
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But once you have decided to discuss Jameson's motives for his conclusions, haven't you changed the subject from analyzing his arguments to detailing his biography or excoriating…
01 Dec 2010, 22:52
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