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Roy said If I may push the Biblical analogy further; Typhon, in the NS, seems to me as the God of the Old Testament, while Pas, in the LS, is more like the God of the New Testament…
05 Nov 2002, 23:23
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Roy said Interesting slip you made there; I wonder if alga appreciates it? <g> Oops! My apologies to Alga. I hope if she gives a hoot one way or the other, she appreciates it. …
01 Nov 2002, 18:56
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mantis asked Now Crush, what trace, however obscure, led you here [to Edogawa Ranpo]? Crush responds This is the sort of libertine association that wedges itself so firmly in the …
01 Nov 2002, 16:32
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Adam said We aren't told whether the Outsider created the universe actively a la Genesis, or whether it "emanated" from him Gnostic-style. Crush interjects Well, we do know that i…
01 Nov 2002, 16:24
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mantis asked Now Crush, what trace, however obscure, led you here [to Edogawa Ranpo]? Crush responds This is the sort of libertine association that wedges itself so firmly in the …
01 Nov 2002, 16:18
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Anyone here familiar with the works of Edogawa Ranpo? He's (apparently) an influential Japanese children's mystery author who died about 1964. I was wondering about his (remotely p…
31 Oct 2002, 17:00
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First of all, thanks for the recommended readings on Gnosticism. Tom said: Given the article's (necessary) paucity of details concerning the various Gnostic doctrines, Wolfe certa…
28 Oct 2002, 16:59
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Roy sneered: I must be getting senile, because I just re-read the LS series this autumn and completely missed those two "facts". Could you tell me where in the texts they might be …
28 Oct 2002, 16:38
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Tom said: Gnostics (as far as we know) weren't all that pessimistic, really. Compared to doctrines like Sheol and predestination, Gnostics were positively euphoric. It's best to r…
25 Oct 2002, 19:47
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Adam Stephanides said: Perhaps I'm being dense, and it's been several years since I last read TBOTLS; but I don't see any particular connection between the Long Sun books and Gnost…
25 Oct 2002, 16:12
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Roy stickles: The cat on the handle is an ordinary cat.... ...It's on the page before that "friend" quote. (279, paper) "He'd got it specially made for me, or anyhow the picture p…
25 Oct 2002, 14:39
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Roy triumphed: I found the definitive answer, and the friend _is_ Auk. It's in chapter 5 of LAKE (111, paper), right after Auk met Silk and Chenille in the arbor at Sun Street: "A…
24 Oct 2002, 21:46
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Roy helpfully assists: Joe gave the correct answer for the first question...For the second question: I have the paperback, and re-read from when Silk first met Chenille to the quot…
24 Oct 2002, 18:57
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Now that the discussion has worked it's way back to the Long Sun, I would like to put out some puzzles I come across while carefully re-reading scenes involving Chenille (to test m…
23 Oct 2002, 16:48
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I haven't read Peace but I'll offer that in alchemy, the "egg" is associated with the coffin. -- Tuppence tossing Crush -----Original Message----- From: Michael Andre-Driussi [mai…
22 Oct 2002, 19:08
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Michael Straight writes: Tom adds: Even the cylinder shape with the people inside is a nice inversion of the real world. Crush interjects: I consider it a mistake to try to incor…
10 Oct 2002, 18:43
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First Roy drew a rather oppugnant comparison between the Lord's participation in events of the Fall of Man and those of Pas in the Whorl, then Patera Nutria (Coypu) opined: Now, th…
09 Oct 2002, 21:33
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Crush wrote: Yes, so it does. Now the question is, who wrote the list of characters and places? Was it Wolfe? He's never added any such list to his books in the past. Crush respon…
08 Oct 2002, 14:38
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Roy asked: I meant to say something about that parenthetical bit above the last time you brought it up. Where is the evidence that Chenille is "genetically engineered"? The list of…
08 Oct 2002, 14:28
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Roy noted: Marble ending up on Blue was a fluke; as Mucor's guardian she was just in the right place at the right time, and being the calde's friend didn't hurt. Cijfer was married…
07 Oct 2002, 19:14
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Regarding Alga's background on the Tin Woodman: Ok. Now I have brand new interest in the sequels to "The Wizard of Oz", but I still don't see more than a superficial connection to…
26 Sep 2002, 18:43
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Jerry Friedman wrote: Can we imagine a prosthetic-bearing bio in love with a chem wanting to become fully a chem? Response: It is not a two-way street. It is the most natural of i…
25 Sep 2002, 22:03
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Matthew Weber taunts: Wouldn't Jonas be a case of exactly that? Crush goes for the bait: Yep. He would, among others.…
25 Sep 2002, 15:39
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Mantis ponders: So is there a level of prosthetic inclusion where the items are purely prosthetic (human level), and then a level beyond that where the prosthetics begin to influen…
25 Sep 2002, 15:25
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It's too complex to explain here, but for now I'll give the answer and toss out a few of the dots for you to connect. Marble lied about posing for the picture. It was Molybdenum w…
24 Sep 2002, 18:07
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Marc Arami suggested: ...or Pasicrates, who may see in Latro the ideal victim (and whose continued sexual exploitation may be the source of Latro's deep depression at the end of AR…
17 Sep 2002, 21:39
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--- Robert Borski <rborski at charter.net> wrote: ...Pasicrates, who may see in Latro the ideal victim (and whose continued sexual exploitation may be the source of Latro's deep depre…
17 Sep 2002, 16:09
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Nutria declares We can always fall back on thematic rather than literal associations. If the name Hyacinth is also a pointer to Apollo, this relationship stands without her having …
09 Sep 2002, 21:18
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Nutria (Coypu) quoted: "Watching carefully for her reaction, Silk said, 'I would have carried you, Maytera, if I could; but I knew you'd be too heavy for me to lift.'" (LS3, 4; p. …
09 Sep 2002, 15:16
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William Ansley said: I don't agree with you on the necessity of Hyacinth being a chem. In fact, we seem to be interpreting Wolfe's words so radically differently, I doubt we can ag…
09 Sep 2002, 14:29
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A response and a question..... Roy C. Lackey said: Then Lemur pitched a fit and fired the azoth. (LS2, 12) He didn't want to admit that he was a chem because he was aware of the p…
06 Sep 2002, 15:27
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Whipping that Dan'l Danehy-Oakes said: Meanwhile, back at the Whorl: one last question ... why, do you suppose, Wolfe chose to call them "chemical" persons instead of (say) "elect…
05 Sep 2002, 21:43
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Matthew Malthouse said If one posits that Hyacinth is ex-male, male , chem male or female one has to answer what purpose it serves. More what purpose would it serve to have Silk f…
03 Sep 2002, 20:31
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I hope not to come off as strident in this posting, but that's probably not possible <shrug>: Several posts have argued that "it is not necessary for Hyacinth to be a transsexual …
03 Sep 2002, 17:02
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Borski said: Bonus gratuity: although I don't belief this is true, in order to make your theory work, you might try arguing that "Lime" is short for "Limestone." Crush answers: Ar…
03 Sep 2002, 14:58
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My Long Sun site is back up and at http://gene-wolfe.tripod.com/index.htm. So Hartshorn and others can view the source of the loonyness and stop it before it's too late. -----Orig…
03 Sep 2002, 14:44
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At the request of my Sys Admin, I've pulled my Long Sun site from my work server. I'll try find a new place for it this weekend get it back up. -- Crush…
31 Aug 2002, 18:31
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Jerry Friedman says: By far the best clue I see that Hyacinth *could* be a chem is her name, as you pointed out. But I see nothing to contradict the obvious interpretation that sh…
31 Aug 2002, 18:22
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I intended to clip the following Boski question from my response since I answered it in my other recent posting. Failing to clip it makes it look like I'm being sarcastic when tha…
30 Aug 2002, 15:35
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After checking my sources, here's my response to Robert Borski's questions (thanks again Mr. Borski): Robert Borski said According to you she's a chem. So does this mean that she…
30 Aug 2002, 15:15
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The following is my response to A. Bin Talal who contacted me off-list but has offered of his own accord for my response to be posted on-list. -------------------------------------…
30 Aug 2002, 14:31
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Regarding essays at http://www.visualclick.com/~jwynn/GeneWolfe/LongSun/ Robert Borski said: I fear you've misread alga's comments, which were intended not as a suggestion that y…
29 Aug 2002, 23:05
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The nice comments I've received recently on my "articlettes" have surely turned my head. I do need to thank Blattid for correcting my grammar on the use of the word "inhuma". Havi…
28 Aug 2002, 13:52
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I've never met Robert Borski, although I enjoyed his recent Peace article. I haven't to my knowledge met anyone on this list, although it is my desire to go to WorldCon one day and…
28 Aug 2002, 13:31
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Ok. I think it is (to me) absolutely conclusive that Gene Wolfe took the word "Inhuma" from the Amazonian bird described in Peter Fleming's "Brazilian Adventure". In fact, I think …
21 Aug 2002, 22:11
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their lot. Of course I meant "does NOT change with whom they threw their lot" -- Crush…
02 Aug 2002, 15:49
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True. But they ARE in league with Erebus ("the darkness of Death" - that is the literal definition of the word). The fact that the New Sun eventually overcomes the darkness does ch…
02 Aug 2002, 15:08
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So it appears GW DID consider the Equator angle and used it as an excuse to give the Ascians their name (which has symbolic implications although not everyone agrees (with me ;-D) …
01 Aug 2002, 15:41
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That is an -excellent-- point! Except the title is not "The Shadow of **A** Torturer", it is "The Shadow of THE Torturer". Is it "The Sword of the Lictor" where Severian describes…
01 Aug 2002, 15:35
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IIRC In "Castle of the Otter" Wolfe says that a shadow implies the sun because the sun *stands behind* (as in, supports, affirms, etc) the one that casts a shadow. Also, that the "…
31 Jul 2002, 16:41
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