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I don't recognize many of my opinions in the arguments against which Blattid responds. Perhaps that's because I was unclear and hasty in my earlier posts. Rather than exacerbat…
25 Apr 2003, 02:58
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Blattid raises some good points. I'll try to address one. Blattid: If I say that Texas is smaller than Rhode Island, my statement doesn't, on face, correspond with reality. Si…
24 Apr 2003, 00:33
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I agree with most of Blattid's response. A couple of clarifications: Blattid writes: I would use a different metaphor than that of a mirror reflecting reality. Perhaps a lens …
23 Apr 2003, 20:33
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I think there are problems with fetishizing the "real" in this sense--reading old anthropology, or even contemporary historical accounts, presents interpretations of reality that…
23 Apr 2003, 19:07
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Could it have been Hyacinth? (regarding question number two) sepia…
24 Oct 2002, 23:14
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I don't mean to butt in, but I think a third perspective might be helpful . . . The _concept_ of total linguistic replacement predates Orwell; the positivists were interested in…
31 Jul 2002, 01:03
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Blattid, I don't think I'm in Kansas anymore . . . [...] I agree that the evidence is ambiguous. I read the wounds as self-inflicted, amounting to more than ritual gashes but l…
12 Jul 2002, 00:49
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On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 12:41 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote: [. . .] I believe that he did so, deliberately opening his veins several times to feed an inhumu or two. It seemed …
31 May 2002, 04:12
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This sounds like a valuable interview. It pushes back the 'unreliable narrator' question one level: are we to take the term "shadowchild" literally, or to view it as a slip wher…
02 May 2002, 05:21
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One question that has perplexed me is why multiple copies couldn't have been 'downloaded' at the same time, and why all the 'data' seems to have left mainframe whenever downloadi…
23 Apr 2002, 08:09
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I agree that examining the force of language in the Short Sun series would be extremely productive, but I would accentuate different elements. My predisposition is towards a rhe…
30 Mar 2002, 14:41
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Jack Chalker's _Web World_ seemed to present an interesting treatment of this issue, from what I remember (I read those books back in the early eighties, and would not recommend…
27 Mar 2002, 19:13
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On a slightly different note, I came across a reference to a Saint Thecla that I found interesting. I'm curious how much light it on her eventual union with Severian. The passa…
06 Mar 2002, 03:08
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Guy, _Lexicon Urthus_ might be helpful; others on the list are more qualified than myself to discuss its value for summary/plot exposition. When I reread the series after a coupl…
02 Mar 2002, 23:39
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When I hear music that I often listened to when reading, I tend to remember those stories ("state-dependent memory"?); for me Miranda Sex Garden's _Fairy Tales of Slavery_ perfec…
02 Mar 2002, 17:53
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Alga, Those titles sound interesting. I've been researching related topics (which are more pertinent to John Crowley, but still relevant to Wolfe), and fictional accounts shou…
14 Feb 2002, 09:28
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It seems that I was being overly simplistic in my attempt to portray Blattid as nit-picking over semantics. I'm glad that I provoked him to present a valuable hermeneutic analys…
02 May 2001, 21:32
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: [re: inhumi taken along with the Nieghbors] Fine; assume the Neighbors never lie and that the narrator is 100% trustworthy. That's a reasonable hypothe…
01 May 2001, 19:47
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Quetzal may have been the descendant of inhumi who drank from Neighbors, thus possessing other-than-human intelligence (at least, as Dan'l Danehy-Oakes argues, prior to consuming…
27 Apr 2001, 22:34
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Yves raises some interesting issues: This questioning of identity was one of the more powerful aspects of the series, in my mind. I suppose that each reader negotiates her own …
23 Apr 2001, 22:11
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