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Ehh...this topic was not really discussed long or in depth before Wright's motives were opined. Saying "people, having decided, by whatever methods are thought appropriate, that …
01 Dec 2010, 22:26
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Analyzing an argument by the supposed motives of the arguer can quickly go off the rails. From "Pilgrim's Regress" by CS Lewis: "'Come, come,' said the jailor. "You must kn…
01 Dec 2010, 21:55
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I think this quote by Dan'l is very insightful and well-put. The solution to certain puzzles affect the way the text is read. And the way one is inclined to read the text affects…
01 Dec 2010, 19:48
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I know Silk's body had cuts on both his arms as well as his wrists. I didn't remember that it says he cut his face as well. Where does it say that? The cuts on his arms and wris…
01 Dec 2010, 17:17
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As someone who has a long list of explanations that are not shared by a large constituency, I must say that in my experience they are almost always engaged directly or not at all…
01 Dec 2010, 16:14
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Apparently, the Neighbor did not "lure" him to his death. That implies intent. At the end of RttW, the Rajan says: "We will sail tonight. Would you be willing to make my farewell…
01 Dec 2010, 14:24
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This was a typo influenced no doubt by the Green-Blue pairing of St Anne & St Croix. I don't believe St. Croix is Horn's planet. u+16b9…
30 Nov 2010, 22:12
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Okay. But if Wolfe is riffing off of Ragnarok (and I think there is sufficient evidence that he is) then surely he ascribes to the Poetic/Prose Edda versions (assuming there _is_…
30 Nov 2010, 21:41
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This is a common misapprehension. Odin's sons Vidar and Vali (Vidar having slain Fenrir) survive Ragnarok (the floods and fires) and live in the new fields where Asgard (now burn…
30 Nov 2010, 21:01
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Well, the inhumi are "demonic" but the C. writings are an accumulation of mythology, the Odyssey, the Gospels, Islamic tradition, and other writings. So, I agree that it is unnec…
30 Nov 2010, 19:30
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For a while, I maintained a place-holding hypothesis that the only pure humans left on Blue (besides very recent arrivals) were the Maitre and Number Five. But VRT-as-Marsch has …
30 Nov 2010, 18:41
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Unfortunately, I am the source for this, but it turned out that the reading was based on a printing defect in my copy of On Blue's Waters. I still think, based the meeting and ot…
30 Nov 2010, 17:52
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One should beware of what the text spells out in a Wolfe novel. In an interview, Wolfe referred to Sandwalker as a Shadow Child, which is not surprising considering…
30 Nov 2010, 15:08
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One should beware of what the text spells out in a Wolfe novel. In an interview, Wolfe referred to Sandwalker as a Shadow Child, which is not surprising considering their psychic…
30 Nov 2010, 15:06
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C.S. Lewis, whose books Wolfe claims to have read in their entirety, made a very impassioned argument in one of his books that D. was a being that pointed to Christ. It depends …
30 Nov 2010, 05:47
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I really don't understand why some people have a problem with Pan = Pas. I supposed it is because people have come to think of him as a minor woodland deity dancing around with w…
30 Nov 2010, 00:09
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I think this is an excellent and significant guess. I think you are on to something here. I don't know what. But I smell game. u+16b9…
29 Nov 2010, 23:26
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I haven't read Christmas Inn yet. I didn't realize the wife's name could be deduced and a search of the archives does not show that anyone else did either. However, this is the…
29 Nov 2010, 20:14
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Dionysus is an important god in Greek mythology but he is missing from the Whorl pantheon. I argue that the name "inhume" is associated with the Dionysus. http://urth.org/whorlma…
29 Nov 2010, 19:49
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I _do_ like the connection between Pas and Pazuzu. I mean, it works so sweetly as a connection between Pas and Typhon. BUT I find the connection between Pas and Pan so compelling …
29 Nov 2010, 19:46
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Well, in Wolfe's novels vampires are very, very common. Soldier of Sidon, The Wizard Knight, and Long/Short Sun. Significantly, Typhonians were a kind of vampire (see Montegue S…
29 Nov 2010, 19:23
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We know that Jahlee copulated with humans during soul travel. What would have prevented a child from being born of such a union? u+16b9…
29 Nov 2010, 19:06
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It would be very fitting indeed for inhumi or Neighbors to have had a hand in Typhon's decision to launch the Whorl. http://urth.org/whorlmap/midas.htm (There are a lot of arguabl…
29 Nov 2010, 19:03
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This is not unlikely. I have elsewhere posited that the name of the city "Viron" is associated with the word for werewolf, "vironsusi". Wolfe would have either come across this t…
29 Nov 2010, 18:42
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Somewhere I have them more carefully detailed. But Hesphaestus was conceived by Hera without the need of a mate. When he was born, he was so ugly and so his mother threw him off …
23 Nov 2010, 14:35
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22 Nov 2010, 16:59
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I think the information came from Lemur...but, okay, he had never been on Urth either. Still, the rituals of the Charter map one-to-one with the Catholic Church. And the Chrasmol…
08 Nov 2010, 15:53
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How is there a "future" when Time collapses at the end of a cycle? In TAD alternate universes that are near one another affect each other just as if you tune the strings on a gui…
08 Nov 2010, 14:34
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Those are hardly the only two possibilities. Given that Time collapses with each cycle it is entirely irrelevant whether the cycles were "earlier" (in meta-Time) or not. For the …
08 Nov 2010, 06:04
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Are we talking about what Silk says in the first chapter of Nightside? "He would have to be firm with them, extremely firm. Remind them that the Outsider was known to esteem them…
05 Nov 2010, 22:41
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Not thought police...smugly anal. For the rest, I guess you already have my response. ~u+16b9…
05 Nov 2010, 21:15
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Sorry Ryan. That was just me distorting and misrepresenting facts as I'm nihilistically inclined to do. u+16b9…
05 Nov 2010, 21:11
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Only a aspergers-debilitated geek would be interested in policing what is a "fact" from what is an alternate reading from what is an error based on another posters erroneous read…
05 Nov 2010, 20:31
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EVERYBODY selectively reads a Wolfe novel, if they've read him long. Anyone who says he has not is selectively recalling. (I would not say such people are bending or misrepresen…
05 Nov 2010, 19:58
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Anybody who has posted to this list for any amount of time is guilty of taking a phrase as expansive when it has a more narrow reading in context. So Pot Meet Kettle. Additional…
05 Nov 2010, 18:32
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It TELLS us nothing in itself. The _why_ questions are the point. If Typhon is Spring Wind and/or the Student, what is the significance of his sons? I suspect that an epiphany i…
03 Nov 2010, 17:22
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I love this sort of post. That he is punished in the place of another, Molah Nadan is a Christ figure.…
26 Oct 2010, 15:20
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Hmmm... perhaps. But the fact that he is aware, in this event at least, that he is making these transpositions gives me pause. u+16b9…
22 Oct 2010, 18:06
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I'm pretty sure that is not the only time the Rajan confuses Hy with Seawrack. I couldn't tell you exactly where. I thought there was a time where he talks about Hyacinth singing…
21 Oct 2010, 15:42
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I think he chose it as a treasonous cognate to "Jahlee" which means "false". But Jahlee says people wouldn't like her real name there. Are we to assume they speak Sanskrit or Hi…
15 Oct 2010, 14:25
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I would suppose (for supposition is all we have, I think) that when Rigoglio thought of the Typhons, he thought of their monstrous versions in the Whorl. And though he retained t…
07 Oct 2010, 14:45
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"he saw them"…
06 Oct 2010, 17:22
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Nicely done, Roy. I'll just address your proffered questions. Isn't it because they were worshiped _secularly_ on Urth? I mean, worshiped in the sense that Stalin was worshiped …
06 Oct 2010, 16:19
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They probably made a bloody mess, but --assuming they weren't scabby on the resurrected Christ-- once you cleaned them they would probably be no more than scratches on the forehe…
30 Sep 2010, 17:35
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Not really. Or so I would think. Drive spikes through the flesh. Pull them out. You have a hole that someone could put their fingers through but the flesh would be closed up othe…
30 Sep 2010, 17:23
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Well, just a joke from Wolfe, IMO. Essentially, (so I believe) it is the same as renaming Typhon "Mars-Typhon", that is, "Spring Wind", because a scribe thought Mars from the Ro…
30 Sep 2010, 17:18
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Well, imprints from the nails in his wrists and ankles would not be readily apparent, I think. It could be that the ability to recognize him at all was the miracle...not the inab…
30 Sep 2010, 16:48
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Perhaps Wolfe was intrigued the parallels between the Whorl and Pellucidar and decided to double-down on Burroughs. u+16b9…
29 Sep 2010, 20:43
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Should be... "I think we can safely say that the parts that are NOT in the original myths/stories are absolutely historical."…
29 Sep 2010, 19:38
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I don't know. Maybe. I was only noting how tricking divining these stories is. In the Q&A, Wolfe implied that The Chapter in "Long Sun" is the Torturer's Guild. The wolves and t…
29 Sep 2010, 15:45
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