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Does the British Amazon.com have a Search Inside feature yet? I've found the one available on the American side invaluable. Unfortunately after a certain number of page views it …
04 Dec 2004, 11:05
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Well, we have a difference of opinion here. If this were a "normal" writer I don't think I would have any problem showing that the 7 volumes of Long Sun/Short Sun were envisioned a…
03 Dec 2004, 18:38
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Even if you don't publish it? Maybe Hmpf just a good copy for Mom to read?…
03 Dec 2004, 18:06
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Phrases marked ">>" were mine. Civit said: Maybe. But I would be very surprised to learn that the argument that Silk gives for not disarming Viron does not map to Wolfe's own opi…
03 Dec 2004, 17:59
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Having read just about everything Lewis wrote, I can confidently assert that his *fiction* is the most compelling. Even "Pilgrim's Regress". That moment where the protagonists disc…
01 Dec 2004, 23:29
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I don't think the New Testament, the Eastern Orthodox, the RCC, or any Protestant demononation teaches that. It is no easy lifelong task to "die daily" or to "put on the whole armo…
01 Dec 2004, 22:37
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I gotta disagree about "That Hideous Strength". I found it to be an untamed genre busting imagination-orgy of the sort that Wolfe has made his stock and trade. The head of a murde…
01 Dec 2004, 21:15
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Isn't this a bit like asking of the mystery genre, "who is working in the same vein as Arthur Conan Doyle?" It seems to me that the only current fantasy writers not furthering the…
01 Dec 2004, 18:31
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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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Well, I don't believe that in the case of "The Long Sun" (albeit I admit I'm something of an ideological hermit on this count). But if you chose to adopt my radical (but true) view…
01 Dec 2004, 07:34
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That depends on how much your firstborn would bring. :-) The book is out of print and I'm not selling. A review of the Internet reveals that it cannot be had for less than $225. …
30 Nov 2004, 14:05
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Crush is giddy about learning a new useful word: ag?on ( P ) Pronunciation Key (gn, -n, ?-gn) n. pl. a?gon?es (-gnz) 1.. A conflict, especially between the protagonist and …
30 Nov 2004, 11:05
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I haven't read "The Problem of Susan", but I have read "Narnia" several times so I will butt in on only one point. The point about the "lipstick and nylons" was that she turned he…
05 Nov 2004, 15:57
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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've started it, but (judging for previous Wolfe works) I might want to re-read the whole 2 volumes before saying anything certain. First of the Year sounds good to me. ----- Ori…
04 Nov 2004, 06:08
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Well, I'm sure you'll fit in around here just fine in spite of that. ;-) ~ Crush…
11 Oct 2004, 20:44
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Scyetletull, Welcome! Marc Aramini was (to my knowledge) the first and most adamant advocate for this theory (but he does not *exactly* hold it now). The most recent and heated …
10 Oct 2004, 17:24
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Why not? But if so, the planets Neighbors and Inhumi do not strike me as obvious exemplars of the missionary field that the Short Sun Narrator is supposed to evangelize. We know no…
05 Oct 2004, 10:38
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Hmmm.. Who will he take the "good news" too? The Neighbors and Inhumi hardly needed whatever theological messages the Short Sun Narrator had to offer. Rather becoming a mere foil…
05 Oct 2004, 10:12
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Well, it seems from the pictures that he must have read something of it or was given specifics on what to paint. It seems to me that there must be a story there regarding these co…
04 Oct 2004, 16:28
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Well, life was no picnic on Blue, either. I remember reading "Angela's Ashes" as the author described his parents sitting by the fire clacking their false teeth, and I realized t…
03 Oct 2004, 17:45
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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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Which doesn't mean that stopping the story with "Citadel of the Autarch" would have been the best plan. I didn't get idea from Wolfe that his editors wanted an extra novel only t…
30 Sep 2004, 11:34
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William Ansley: This is absolutely true - especially for the "Book of the Short Sun". So perhaps reading "Fifth Head" just before plowing into the last series could be useful. O…
29 Sep 2004, 13:56
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New Sun I Castle of the Otter (aka "Castle of Days") "Best of Crank" containing "Empires of Foilage and Flower" NS II-IV "Endangered Species" containing "The Map" and "The Cat" "Ur…
29 Sep 2004, 11:51
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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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Well, as Horn said, you saw what you saw, but using the Long Sun as an example, I have come to a much different conclusion. Wolfe takes the stock stereo-types and puts them throug…
09 Sep 2003, 19:16
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Matthew says: .... ... Well, the concept fits thematically with Typhon's name and identification with Set and all the other serpents that devoured the Sun during an eclipse. So …
09 Sep 2003, 15:45
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Crush reponds: I'm curious what in your opinion the actual difference would be in the procedure Roy has proposed? Transferring a soul would be something only God could do. Doctors…
07 Sep 2003, 23:08
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Civet asked: It was in response to Josh telling him that the current discussion (a year ago) was whether Hyacinth was a male chem. Since I suggested that theory, I remember this w…
07 Sep 2003, 13:52
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Teflon and Blattid agree: oookay. This will surely be good. While both T. and B. are cast from their towers by Severian, how oh how are they the same person? Or do you mean only t…
07 Sep 2003, 03:19
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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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Nutria posits: Crush responds: This tact has merit. There are very good thematic reasons which you have not mentioned for Silk to be a son of Typhon and (the original) Echidna. Bu…
06 Sep 2003, 23:16
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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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Marc says, Crush responds: I'd forgotten about that. Okay. This is the wierdest puzzle I've come across in the whole LS/SS series. Which is, how is Auk Silk? They evenly divide be…
06 Sep 2003, 06:05
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Don said: and Roy correctly (qualifiedly) asserted: Crush interjects: Don's pointer and Roy's assertion reminded me of another pointer to Pas as the serpent Ladon: Typhon/Pas is …
05 Sep 2003, 20:31
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Hmm. Well Typhon "goes to sleep" just after the Old Sun starts to seriously dim and dies for good and all just before Severian becomes Autarch. But who is the other Typhon I couldn…
05 Sep 2003, 18:46
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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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I recently took a look a "Shadow and Claw" at the bookstore. The Roche/Drotte confusion is there. Does anyone know whether the Mint/Marble confusion is carried into "Epiphany of th…
04 Sep 2003, 16:45
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LOL I didn't know it was a caterpiller! Thanks Dan'l. -- Crush…
26 Aug 2003, 19:36
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Oops that was supposed to go to Marc only. I'm not prepared to defend most of this -- that is, not far beyond what I've done so far -- so please don't get too exhuberant in shooti…
22 Aug 2003, 22:31
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Marc, This is my third attempt at sending this email. Each time I've said, "oh what's the point" but every time I see your post sitting in my Inbox I start again. Since you have r…
22 Aug 2003, 22:11
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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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Does mate' qualify as a stew? We must be satisfied with the soup that is set before us, and not desire to see the bones of the ox out of which it has been boiled. G.W. Dasent, Pop…
21 Aug 2003, 18:21
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After Crush posted the following: Michael Buice helped well as he could: Crush responds: After stating "I don't want to be obnoxious" you should have said "but I can't help mysel…
20 Aug 2003, 16:12
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