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Hmmm...I did not catch this implication in your theory. I do not like. I mean, how does this comport with your concept of the Rajan as a Christ-figure (which I definitely agree w…
21 Nov 2011, 00:32
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Well, Babbie agreed with Seawrack. If you want to argue that it is impossible for a Neighbor to be out of touch with other Neighbors, fine. I don't see it, but have at it. Horns …
21 Nov 2011, 00:19
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Well, Silk's afterlife experience might be an alternate model of the soul. Additionally, "Soldier of Sidon" reveals that Wolfe is aware that the Egyptians maintained simultaneous…
21 Nov 2011, 00:11
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As I said before, ambiguity is a central element of Wolfe's fiction. The stories are filled with events that the reader *knows* occurs but have reasonable *altenate* explanations…
20 Nov 2011, 23:34
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Well, they aren't amoral. An seemingly unending list of strange rules govern their behavior. Rather, their morality is alien to ours. So one ought expect that a human who consults …
20 Nov 2011, 17:23
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If you guys are right, it occurs to me that she might have found the Rajan in her search because the Rajan was the only living version of Silk at the time she went looking.…
20 Nov 2011, 04:44
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Perhaps her astral powers are not spiritual as the Neighbors are but only mental. She finds physical souls (mental patterns). She can find Silk's. She knows that Horn's is in the…
20 Nov 2011, 03:53
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It depends on what you mean by "spirit". For many people a person's "spirit" or "soul" are mere systemic arrangements and typically that is the way Wolfe presents them as well. T…
20 Nov 2011, 03:51
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I don't think the prerequisite declared in the first clause of the first sentence of the above to be true. Once again, there's no reason to suppose being a Neighbor makes one om…
20 Nov 2011, 03:37
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Because the explanation I've presented strikes me as the one that best fits all the elements in the story. And if the explanation is right then Horn's spirit went first and his b…
20 Nov 2011, 03:10
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But that doesn't mean that I am positive how that would affect such a person's psychology under every possible circumstance (or even Wolfe). It is not possible to run such a bein…
20 Nov 2011, 02:59
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1) Seawrack was designed to be irresistible. 2) Why do you find it impossible that Neighbors would be fallible? You don't need me to point these things out. Why be provocative? I…
20 Nov 2011, 02:16
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Yeah, I knew it was Scandinavian for house. And I understood that the word referred to Babbie's ability to take in souls. It's just that the whole thing seemed rather overt for a…
20 Nov 2011, 01:43
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Yeah, I knew it was Scandinavian for house. And I understood that the word referred to Babbie's ability to take in souls. It's just that the whole thing seemed rather overt for a W…
19 Nov 2011, 23:18
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One last thing on this: If Wolfe had had the colonists call the Vanished People "Faeries" or "Fair Folk", I doubt there would be much argument faerie tropes would be very importan…
19 Nov 2011, 20:00
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******* I once had a toy, a little wooden man in a blue coat who was moved by strings. When I played with him, I made him walk and bow, and spoke for him. I practiced until I th…
19 Nov 2011, 17:18
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The mechanism is that the Neighbors (at least in the ways we encounter them) are spiritual beings. The mechanisms of their nature are delved into every time the Rajan dream-trave…
19 Nov 2011, 16:31
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Heh. I once made a list of about 20 parallels between 5th Head of Cerberus and Short Sun. One of them, by the way, was sentient trees. I don't think I included that the Neighbor…
19 Nov 2011, 16:20
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I'm not so sure they are and this appears to be a definite interest for Wolfe. When a person suffers a stroke his personality sometimes changes. What will heaven be like when we …
19 Nov 2011, 15:50
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"Babirousa" is a fine Vironese name. What is a "hus". All the other names for animals give you an idea of what they look like or where they are found. What know is that I don't …
19 Nov 2011, 14:39
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Sure. But, investigating the connection between memory and identity the common thread in Wolfe's fiction--the question of _who_ we are aside from our physical minds.…
19 Nov 2011, 14:31
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Maybe. It's been destroyed, and we don't know why or how. So it's hard to tell.…
19 Nov 2011, 14:10
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It does say something that we approach Wolfe so similarly and yet come away with so variant conclusions. I suppose that is why he wrote the stories like that...so that only I wou…
19 Nov 2011, 03:05
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Yeah, I get that. But I don't see how Horn even _could_ have chosen to do that unless he were already far more than human. Anyway, I think Horn had already been absorbed into Bab…
19 Nov 2011, 02:57
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It's not Horn's spirit. The same spirit that reanimated Horn, reanimates Silk. This doesn't just work on the technical level, it works on the level of the Neighbors as Faeries wh…
19 Nov 2011, 02:25
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************************ ?He dies because you shot him through the heart. Or because he suffered some disease or was kicked by a horse, as a wise friend once suggested to me. Bu…
19 Nov 2011, 01:55
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Why do you think a Neighbor should be an expert on Mother's worshippers? I'm not claiming the narrator ever was one. Secondly, this shows remarkable nativity regarding the concep…
19 Nov 2011, 01:42
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And the Rajan dream-travels and commands inhumi. At times the Divine rises about the mundane.…
19 Nov 2011, 00:43
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Wolfe is exploring concepts such as the Incarnation of Christ. When Jesus was a baby you don't suppose he sat around preaching about the mysteries of Heaven, do you? When his fath…
19 Nov 2011, 00:33
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It is exactly the same process for Silk as for Horn. Horn vacates his body. The Neighbor enters. Silk vacates his body. The Neighbor enters. What the Neighbor acquires is Horn's…
19 Nov 2011, 00:02
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As with Sphigx, Wolfe is using the transliterated name. Aphrodite/Kypris is an older god than Zeus who sort of adopted her but IIRC got it on with her as well. And Eros (Cupid), e…
18 Nov 2011, 22:36
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Correct. Well, sex goddess. Kypris is an old name for Aphrodite. But by the time we meet her, she is already well on her way to becoming an aspect of the Outsider.…
18 Nov 2011, 20:19
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No, I seem to have missed it. Which one?…
18 Nov 2011, 20:15
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No Kypris is the scan of Typhon's mistress. Regarding the devoured phallus, there is that fish that ate Mamelta, but there is also Tussah who was murdered by the Ayuntamiento (by…
18 Nov 2011, 19:03
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Yeah, but I don't believe Horn, the man from Viron, went into Silk. If one believes Horn is still 100% Horn when he crawled out that pit, I can still think of ways to justify the…
18 Nov 2011, 17:55
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On 11/18/2011 11:08 AM, If you want to call him Incanto, you are welcome to. I don't see how the identity of this fellow has at all changed between the time he was the Rajan of …
18 Nov 2011, 17:28
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Because Marble's hands passively absorb Rose's personality. Because the Ayuntamiento's chems aborb their personalities to the extent that they continue to live after the bios have…
18 Nov 2011, 17:24
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Discussing whether that is the case is the point of this list, no? This is literary criticism. It's not an issue of reproducing the experiment or reviewing the tape. People will h…
18 Nov 2011, 16:48
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Well, the later "version" IS the ruler of Gaon. But I don't believe he is primarily Silk or Horn (both of whom have died at that point). I think the name Silkhorn carries incorrec…
18 Nov 2011, 16:45
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That would be aesthetically pleasing (or infernally recursive depending on one's tastes). But is not necessarily so. We do, however, have explicit confabulations between Hy and S…
18 Nov 2011, 16:41
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Sure they are different people. So are Silk and Sand. So are Silk and Typhon. But you wanted the wearing of the hat to be a signal of some kind. I'm saying it might be, but that i…
18 Nov 2011, 16:38
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Unless, in some sense, Silk and the Rajan ARE Pike (ala the connection between Silk and Sand).…
18 Nov 2011, 15:51
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An incus is a bone in the ear. "ear of corn"…
18 Nov 2011, 15:23
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RttW. She is Olvine's tutor while she is living with Prolucutor Incus.…
18 Nov 2011, 14:58
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Ironically, the "not the son of my body, my son" explanation was totally generated from textual clues and a hint from Wolfe and it has turned out to be the one I find the most un…
18 Nov 2011, 03:20
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It adds confirmation to my favorite theory. I *do* believe Oreb was possessed when Silk bought him and I have always liked Pas for that role. It doesn't hurt that Isis left Osiri…
18 Nov 2011, 01:38
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I really don't see a need for the callotte-donning to buttress my case. But it is a fact that the way "Pike's ghost" was wearing the callotte, then disapperates, and the callotte…
18 Nov 2011, 01:33
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How do we know that Pas is not improved in some way? Pas is certainly spoken of in more appealing terms in SS than in LS. But think what Silk must provide are the more basic phys…
18 Nov 2011, 00:53
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You see that your theory IS complex to some degree in that even *I* have a hard to time keeping my terminology straight. And that of course you are right because you see Green as…
18 Nov 2011, 00:49
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Well, um, you know it's not a literal phallus, right? It was Osiris that was pieced together except his junk. You asked how many parts and, I just looked it up-- it was 14. The p…
18 Nov 2011, 00:21
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