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Crush responds: My ability to defend connecting QT with Fr. Inire's Mirrors pretty weak. However, I thought "Quantum Tunneling" sounded promising because it worked so well within t…
20 Aug 2003, 04:16
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Josh said: Crush bites: *I* was not aware of this. I googled for it and could only find references to to da Vinci's "mirror-image script", how he recommended that painters use a m…
19 Aug 2003, 16:04
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William Ansley said: Crush disagrees (he thinks): Two things: ONE - I'm not sure the seams show between the NS and LS/SS or anywhere else because I'm still not certain (nor do I t…
19 Aug 2003, 04:41
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Matthew Malthouse wrote: Any requirement for acceleration to or deceleration from that speed would occasion subjective duration for those aboard. Viz the light-huggers of Alastair …
18 Aug 2003, 18:05
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Ash said: Chems wouldn't be found on Urth at all if they were invented on board the Ship. Reference Sidero's claims concerning this. Jonas was an exception, and he clearly came fro…
16 Aug 2003, 17:50
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Civet said: But Crush responds: Probably not much longer than it takes for a writer to find a publisher in today's market. While a lot of lousy books are blocked out of publishin…
14 Aug 2003, 19:19
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Crush suggested: Crush responds: Well, of course its unlikely. Its a cumbersome theory whose main benefit is that it explains the Whorl's existence in view of the captain's claim …
14 Aug 2003, 12:53
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Ash quoted: "There is only one ship, the captain says. All the ships we hail between the galaxies or the suns are this ship." Crush responds: Nice attempt. The bit about "only on…
13 Aug 2003, 15:04
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Don, My false modesty must be working over time for you have surely turned my head. :-D Well, one would have to wade through a library to read everything necessary to take on "Ham…
09 Aug 2003, 17:37
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Nice job, Dan'l. We should all hope to deserve one day to be so immortalized in song. Crush ----- Original Message -----…
06 Aug 2003, 20:37
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I learned new word yesterday while reading to my kids "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix": Catherine wheel: A rotating firework. --- Crush…
01 Aug 2003, 22:23
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Don said: But we can put that sort of thing aside on this list, act like grown-ups, not rise to bait (real or perceived), set aside extreme profanity, etc. Or if not, take it off-…
30 Jul 2003, 09:31
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Does anyone know for certain whether will Wolfe will attend? -- Crush…
29 Jul 2003, 15:16
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Josh Geller says: I put the whole [Delany/Baldanders theory] forward as much as a wry comment on the wrangling over minutiae which, in my opinion, badly infests this list at the po…
29 Jul 2003, 14:47
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Andrew gives an honest personal opinion (which is what I've noticed people usually do around here, but suddenly some people have gotten very sensitive and simultaneously thick): I …
29 Jul 2003, 13:56
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Best place I've found to buy books a reasonable (or better) price: http://www.abebooks.com Here one can buy copy of Little, Big in pb (very good condition) for $3.75 or a first ed…
28 Jul 2003, 17:13
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Well, all things being equal, I'm in. -- Crush…
26 Jul 2003, 22:53
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LOL What sort of things do you think people will talk about at the symposium? ;-)…
26 Jul 2003, 20:57
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Errrr. Josh? Where *do* you live? -- Crush ----- Original Message -----…
26 Jul 2003, 20:18
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I don't have anything to workshopped right now but I would certainly pay a couple hundred just to hang out with Gene Wolfe and the rest of you guys. Unfortunately, my experience w…
26 Jul 2003, 14:38
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Wolfe has said that the next Latro novel is "in its very early stages". Wolfe does not intend the next installment to wrap up Latro's story (ie get him home), but with Wolfe's adva…
21 Jul 2003, 05:49
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Charles takes Crush to task: Crush responds: Hey Charles, Thanks for the reply. I concur. Sev's and Horn's claims are thematically linked -- Horn does not claim to have a general…
15 Jul 2003, 13:35
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Andrews asks: ...what would be the narrative point of Sev having a false belief in his own perfect memory? If the intention were to cast ambiguity over everything he says, then it …
14 Jul 2003, 06:15
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Andrew explained: One of my problems with Roy's list representing deliberate "errors" is just their triviality - I find it hard to think that most of them could mean anything much.…
14 Jul 2003, 03:25
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Blattid asserts: That [all the discrepancies are mistakes on Wolfe's part] strikes me as the least likely hypothesis in general (though it may be correct in any _given_ case). Cru…
11 Jul 2003, 22:02
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Blattid disagrees: Roy, In most of the (apparent?) contradictions you list, you make an interesting assumption ... you cite Sev talking about an incident, then say that what he say…
11 Jul 2003, 00:50
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Roy corrects: Recent discussion has asserted that Horn or Silk--or Silkhorn--had a perfect memory, like Severian's. No such claim is made in either the LS or SS books. Crush pipe…
10 Jul 2003, 09:05
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Bravo, Roy! Excellent detective work. I believe you are right about this, and apparently others suspected it as well (http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0028/0443.shtml). You see,…
10 Jul 2003, 07:24
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Chris asks: On a side note, is anyone using the name "Civet"? I've been fascinated by these little beasties lately. Crush proffers: Since you are interested in civets I'll remind …
10 Jul 2003, 00:58
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There is at least agreement that these constellations are Crux and Monoceros, right? Crush ----- Original Message -----…
09 Jul 2003, 10:23
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Jeff Prucher wrote: " the ability to record all the events of a person's life which is what Severian's memory does." and Chris said: "Now, with normal people who don't have Sev's p…
09 Jul 2003, 01:34
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Andrew Bollen ponders the brain splitting puzzles in SoA and SotM. In so doing he pondered: "In the end, Hegisistratus certainly believes he has failed to deliver on his promise to…
24 Jun 2003, 20:27
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Andrew elaborates on his theory identifying Lucius Tarquitius as our boy, Latro. Crush falls in line: The reference at issue is Livy 3:27 "The next morning Cincinnatus arose and w…
23 Jun 2003, 14:43
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Marc theorizes: If we accept that the minor gods of the pantheon can immerse themselves in human flesh for a time, Latro's great fighting ability and his facility in speaking Gree…
19 Jun 2003, 22:15
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Michael Andre-Driussi said: Crush responds: If it's older name was "the Old Port", then there ought to be a "New Port". But the new port wouldn't be called that. It would be given…
19 Jun 2003, 19:42
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Andy Kean asked: ....could someone tell me if there is a website that has a copy of the paper "On Encompassing the Universe"? If you could help me, you would earn my undying gratit…
19 Jun 2003, 17:35
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Andrew theorizes: Crush replies: If he learned Greek in Egypt, he would either have been formally taught and studied Greek writing or he would have "picked it up" as practical Gre…
19 Jun 2003, 15:49
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Chris speculates: Latro does know a lot about Zoroastrianism and perhaps he speaks Persian. But his knowledge of Greek was not formally learned. We know this because while he can …
19 Jun 2003, 06:54
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Feel free to give me a hard time. My life is far to cushy as it is. :-) Since we've agreed to agree, I'm possibly putting too fine a hair on it to say I'd put more weight on the w…
18 Jun 2003, 20:48
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Andrew responds to Crush: Crush responds: Okay, good point. Rawlinson says that this build-up increased the size of the Athenian navy "up to" 200 ships, which was the number of sh…
17 Jun 2003, 01:48
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Chris says: Crush recants: Hmmm. Herodotus 7:83 says that the Immortals were "all Persians". So either Latro was not an Immortal, or Wolfe is engaging in literary license in presu…
16 Jun 2003, 20:06
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I'll take on Finley first. I haven't read Finley and I don't know what he means by "evidence" or "rare". The impression I get from Herodotus is that sea-trade was not rare among Io…
16 Jun 2003, 07:42
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Chris postulates: ...for Latro to have been fighting near the shrine of Demeter during the battle of Plataea, he must have been in the Persian contingent; not only that, he would h…
16 Jun 2003, 00:21
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Okay. Fixed my problem. Crush asked: What is this paste in Seven Lion's bags? Josh Geller answered: These are his war-paint. He puts them on before he goes into battle. Herodotos…
09 Jun 2003, 16:24
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Marc said: I must speak about the Jolenta "rape" - becuase I don't think it really is one. She went on the boat with him, teasing and playing and falling asleep. She's just being …
21 Apr 2003, 22:12
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More preemptive shots I just remembered Io in SotM. But that wasn't really a rape "scene" was it? It is vaguely alluded to (which is probably why I keep forgetting about it). And…
21 Apr 2003, 18:43
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I feeling pretty dense right now since I can think of only one rape in my reading of Wolfe right now: the infamous act by Severian on the semi-conscious Jolenta. I'm tracing my mem…
21 Apr 2003, 18:01
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Well, Wolfe has declared that his favorite kind of music is Folk (and filk). ----- Original Message -----…
18 Apr 2003, 16:03
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Josh rather petulantly argues: It is obviously South America. It is true, Isangoma means what y'all are saying in Zulu. Maybe it means something else in some south American Indian …
17 Apr 2003, 01:03
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Crush sort-of disagrees: Well, for the stuff I've read online, yeah, true. And I haven't read "Strange Travellers" yet although it is on my shelf. But "Endangered Spieces" (speakin…
16 Apr 2003, 00:46
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