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Doh! I hoped to be the first to reveal this connection between Silk and Llew Llaw Gyffes. It's not the only connection between the two either. It goes on and on. I've begun to won…
18 Dec 2002, 19:36
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Blattid responds: Correct. A few pages later, when he explains to Blood that he is the help sent in response to Pa. Pike's prayers, Silk begins by saying that he saw Pike praying f…
18 Dec 2002, 16:35
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As my head began to clear (with the help of friends) I realized I should have handled this entirely off-list. The way I handled this was not right ethically, and it was strategical…
18 Dec 2002, 16:12
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Marc explains: Sorry my previous message was so infuriating. There was no interview, there is nothing to cut and paste. On the back of the Christmas card that Mr. Wolfe sent me, …
17 Dec 2002, 16:16
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Hey Don, With the recent discussion on a Vironese name for Zx, it occurs to me that a good one for you might be Lycaon from the African hunting "dog." If you've read the Soldier bo…
16 Dec 2002, 16:26
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Personally, I always preferred the original Amerind name, "musquash". -----Original Message----- From: jismulkstis at att.net [mailto:jismulkstis at att.net] Sent: Thursday, December 12…
12 Dec 2002, 15:51
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Actually IMDB **will** search for characters (just enter Philip Marlowe and you'll see it is true). It appears no movie (listed there) used the character or at least the name "Lind…
11 Dec 2002, 19:48
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Crush offers: I second William's optimism and if you want a Vironese nickname I can also suggest that you merely shorten your last name to Zibeth or even Zibet which are other nam…
11 Dec 2002, 17:33
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Roy said: Marble was captured and placed aboard the airship, along with Silk. She never saw Hammerstone after that, because she went on the lander to Blue. She didn't communicate w…
04 Dec 2002, 19:51
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Roy wrote: To go from Marble's notion of abandonment to the destruction of a child requires a leap in logic that leaves me in the dust. I can only conclude that . . . hell, I don't…
04 Dec 2002, 15:21
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Matthew Malthouse posits: I'm reasonably certain that even in it's best years the Cenoby would not have extended to that many maids and if Marble or Molybdenum wroked in a grander …
03 Dec 2002, 20:04
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Crush originally wrote Matthew Malthouse queried: Ummmm...... And the quotes that establish this are? Crush responds: Sorry, I keep assuming everyone knows more about this s…
03 Dec 2002, 19:45
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Roy responded: I probably shouldn't even ask, but **where, in or out of the whorl, did you get such an idea???** Crush answers: LS4:16 Maytera Mint talks to Marble in the ruins of…
03 Dec 2002, 16:34
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diegesis [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. — to narrate; dia` through + ? to lead.] A narrative or history; a recital or relation. The world in which the narrative is set. In other words, the w…
02 Dec 2002, 23:37
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Look what you've done! I had resigned myself to let this go, and now you've stirred me up again. I'll take this out of order with part of your theory that drives craziest: Roy sai…
02 Dec 2002, 20:51
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Nice caluculations Mantis, however if one insists that Silk's Time coexists with Severian's Time then these numbers won't do. Wolfe puts Severian's time 1000 to 2000 years after Ty…
02 Dec 2002, 20:19
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Blattid said: While I have no idea whether Crush knows this or not, Gene Wolfe holds the same hypothesis... Gene Wolfe answered a passel of questions from this list... Crush writ…
02 Dec 2002, 18:21
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Ok, Roy, I think I got it now. Your contention is that Silk was so clueless that he wasn't aware that prosthetics were available even though there was a sibyl (just across the cour…
02 Dec 2002, 15:10
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Here is a link to this text: http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/cc/cc77.html -- Crush…
27 Nov 2002, 21:01
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Nutria rejoinds: [Crush's interpretation of Quetzal's allegory] makes sense, but I don't think its the only way to read it. You're right I think that serpents are all over…
27 Nov 2002, 20:10
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Charles brings the tablets from the mountain: Question: In the Long Sun books, is Quetzal the only one of his kind on the Whorl? Was he an original passenger or a late a…
27 Nov 2002, 20:00
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Allegory, typology, or symbolism? Let me explain... Charles said: Well, I don't see it that way, though I'll grant that this is a matter of interpretation. Quetzal identifies him…
27 Nov 2002, 16:55
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But in your verbose post, somehow you never addressed the fact that Silk says bio prosthetic technology was not available to Rose and Marble (LS3:1). I realize there is a reason yo…
27 Nov 2002, 15:31
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Some nice catches in your last post. Thanks. But in your verbose post, somehow you never addressed the fact that Silk says bio prosthetic technology was not available to Rose and …
27 Nov 2002, 15:21
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Roy said: Now that you've acknowledged that you "don't believe any chem had hands like that", that plays hell with your theory that they originally came from a dismantled chem. Eit…
26 Nov 2002, 21:42
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Charles Reed posted: Last week, Crush posited the following: I guess the idea of Quetzal being on board the Whorl from the beginning bugs me more than it should. There are other…
26 Nov 2002, 16:43
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Roy wrote: Ah. [the quote] from when Marble was killing Musk, LS3: 3. "Her hands, the bony blue-veined hands of an elderly bio, glowed crimson in the flames." As for the rest . . …
26 Nov 2002, 15:49
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William Ansley wrote: Crush, Thank you for the complete URL. It may just be my Macintosh email client (Eudora 5.1) that has a problem when you leave off the http://, so I may be t…
26 Nov 2002, 15:31
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Charles Reed inquires: I just can't see any textual support (which again is not the same as the lack of refutation) for the idea that any inhumi ever visited Urth. Is there any? …
25 Nov 2002, 17:39
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Roy asked: Which passage? I gave textual citations for each passage I quoted in these "Marble" posts. Crush responds: Perhaps I'm missing it -- the quote was: "And, just to head o…
25 Nov 2002, 16:13
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Very nice find, Don! Particularly (as one would suppose my reaction) the link on Dyaus-Nahusha. Personally, I would never have imagined a linkage between Quetzalcoatl's little raft…
25 Nov 2002, 15:53
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Well, for the Soldier books the entire Greek pantheon is of questionable identity. Demeter/Earth Goddess and Kore/Artemis are ostensibly at odds yet their orders to Latro are not n…
22 Nov 2002, 23:36
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Roy asserts: The hand was custom made to look like that of an old woman, in anticipation of the need; she couldn't afford to get new hands for every stage of aging: Crush responds…
22 Nov 2002, 18:09
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And, just to head off Crush, those hands Marble took from Rose *never* belonged to any hypothetical martyred chem maid. Chem maids were made to look like young female bios. The pro…
21 Nov 2002, 15:39
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Today on National Public Radio, Terry Gross of "Fresh Air" interviewed poet Sekou Sundiata about receiving a kidney transplant from a female friend. He mentioned that transplant re…
20 Nov 2002, 21:10
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Jerry Friedman (J.F.) persists: I think [Crush's explanation] was [misleading]. I had the impression that people who didn't know physics were gathering that FTL means time going b…
20 Nov 2002, 20:56
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Crush said: ...unless a majority of the people on this have a B.A. in Physics Crush reconsiders: A *B.A.* in Physics is what I might have but, of course, most people get a B.S.…
20 Nov 2002, 15:15
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Don asked: Please explain. Is this the usual SF take on FTL or is there a physics explanation that makes backward time travel the most likely? I'm pretty ignorant on this. Crush…
20 Nov 2002, 00:14
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Charles proffers: But consider another interpretation: the inhumi (before the Whorl came) can be seen as the "rabbits in the garden" -- i.e., the stupid, mindless beasts that they…
19 Nov 2002, 18:52
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Charles Reed quotes: Here are Gene Wolfe's own words, which you can find in volume 6 of the Whorl archives: "Typhon did not know about the inhumi [and] would have done everything …
19 Nov 2002, 17:05
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Roy ponders: 1) How could an inhumi have attained [the position of Prolocutor]? 2) Who was Quetzal's mama? Crush offers: 1) It is extremely unlikely that Quetzal could have attai…
19 Nov 2002, 15:27
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Nicely done, but place our explanations side by side and I think you can see why I explained it the way I did <g>. -- Crush -----Original Message----- From: Andy Robertson [mailt…
18 Nov 2002, 20:10
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Chris said: I'm getting a copy this weekend, in fact, and I wondered if anyone here had a translation they would particularly recommend above all others. Crush responds: This is c…
18 Nov 2002, 15:57
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Don asks: Please explain. Is this the usual SF take on FTL or is there a physics explanation that makes backward time travel the most likely? I'm pretty ignorant on this. Crush …
18 Nov 2002, 15:56
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Don posits: The Whorl left from Urth in the Age of the Monarch and the only way it could end up in the time of Ushas is for it to travel faster than light. The argument is that th…
15 Nov 2002, 16:19
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Josh Geller notes: There's a green guy who is important in Islam also. And there's the one that's associated with peyote. Maybe they're not all the same green guy. It's interesting…
13 Nov 2002, 19:21
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Oops! I meant "was of Quetzal's design". Perhaps I need to be more clear. I never presumed Quetzal showed up at Typhon's door with a bag of trinkets like a serpentine Santa Claus.…
11 Nov 2002, 20:04
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Roy wrote: Uh, Quetzal was an inhumi. The inhumi have no technology. None at all. They are not good with their hands--probably because they don't have any in their natural state. <…
11 Nov 2002, 14:24
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Adam asks: Did Typhon, then, fail to provide scriptures for his invented religion? If so, why? If not, what happened to them? 2) Iirc, the Writings were a melange of quotes from …
08 Nov 2002, 00:33
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Personally, I have no problem reconciling the texts. People were generally ignorant of the Whorl because it was built in orbit from a captured asteroid. After all, how aware is the…
07 Nov 2002, 21:48
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