Posted from 2 addresses as Jeff Wilson, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com, Jeffery Wilson
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It should into present a problem with day-to-day living, but given the Whorl is of a size that towns are visible overhead, any activity involving flying objects will be visibly a…
06 Apr 2006, 05:48
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no slosh, and the tiny acceleration would be swamped in the effects of the Whorl's spin gravity.…
06 Apr 2006, 05:28
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Shrinkage works both ways, but when frames are brought back to relative rest, the one that has experienced greater acceleration has experienced less duration. However, I don't th…
06 Apr 2006, 04:29
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An aquastor wouldn't need to rest or breathe either, of course.…
05 Apr 2006, 04:55
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That may be, but the problem arises, where does the change go when the mortal passes, or the god separates form the mortal? Again, you have the problem of changing the world or h…
05 Apr 2006, 04:47
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I'm really not sure it's in keeping with the character of the gods for them to learn such life lessons. Since they embody natural forces and human psychology, a god leearning a n…
03 Apr 2006, 23:39
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It's still a lesson in conflict, and allowing the other man to win is a lesson in sacrifice and deception, both principles of warfare easily as important as skill with arms.…
02 Apr 2006, 21:44
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I'm not sure such frailty is in character for a Greek god. Perhaps it is the damage that makes Latro subject to direct divine manipulation.…
02 Apr 2006, 21:40
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It seems inappropriate for Hercules to tutor Ares either on wrestling or on the wisdom of throwing a wrestling match.…
02 Apr 2006, 08:43
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"X is Y's parent" and sometimes with "X is Y's parent's parent" is a formula often used to describe special patronage of mortals, usually rulers, by divine being X in ancient tim…
02 Apr 2006, 08:34
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In light of what we know from the latter books that he's quite accomplished at the intellectual business of chemistry and biology, I've thought he was putting on a dullard act, o…
28 Feb 2006, 07:31
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Is this sarcasm? As I recall, Baldanders is quite brainy on matters that engage him, and it's no surprise that he and Dr. Talos were able to locate one another, given their origi…
25 Feb 2006, 19:12
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Not necessarily a Wolfe-ism. I recall from a pre-BOTNS Reader's Digest article, a bright but mentally ill boy incessantly asking his caregiver if there was a color darker than bl…
10 Dec 2005, 05:02
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My mileage does, but only in that it seems to me that almost everything he writes has some comedic content, however black alg=pain, lagnia=arousal, phobe=fear; afraid of sadists…
19 Sep 2005, 23:10
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Texas A&M has a prominent veterinary school, it occupies several buildings on campus, some decorated with sculpted animal skulls. Part of the curriculum involves practicing surgi…
27 Aug 2005, 13:18
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It's a BIG library as described, and the locals could not hope to have produced enough writings of note in their debased state of civilizational devolution. Given the political …
26 Aug 2005, 23:06
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Or maybe, with typical family tunnel vision, 5 continues going up to the section he's already familiar with from younger desires for more story books. Besides, it's up some ricke…
26 Aug 2005, 22:46
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At the time Wolfe wrote the original story, he had not yet published any books to my knowledge. Maitre's books are probably his private volumes of notes on vivisection and theori…
25 Aug 2005, 07:46
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This sounds backwards. By top-posting, do you somehow mean the original post on top of the reply? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/1…
19 Jun 2005, 00:38
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Not to mention where crime and drug use is so prominent, even among the "heroes" of the story....oh wait, have you read "The Fifth Head of Cerberus?" :)…
13 Jun 2005, 21:54
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Perhaps; they are certainly an order of being below that of the Pancreator, but they and their servants have qualities and insights into the divine truth beyond that of mere mo…
03 Jun 2005, 17:22
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The biblical Jonah not necessarily a sailor, on his flight from Ninevah the LJV has him paying a fare, not joining a crew. In light of his established position and relations to …
27 Apr 2005, 21:37
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I had a similar exeperience after reading "The Boy Who Hooked the Sun" and then suffering through a Hawaiin vacation slideshow, only to be presented with a mural of a boy netting…
17 Apr 2005, 15:50
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There's at least a few furry fandom people reading wolfe. I've seen some fan art that seems to conflate the various bestials in New Sun with Mr. Million from FIFTH HEAD. And both…
25 Mar 2005, 19:09
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Could it be that Sulpicius ordered that the room be kept for him until he came back, as long as necessary, and they have simply followed the order, since no other Autarch has bot…
04 Oct 2004, 08:42
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So the flood is so widespread as to make no differenece. Hmm...the agonies being offered to the Increate suggests it is a non-divine party doing the destroying, but who?…
28 Sep 2004, 22:10
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The flood may not be world-wide; indeed if the Increate is the God of the Old Testament, that would be in keeping with His promise not to destroy the world by water a second time…
27 Sep 2004, 08:00
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try http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_01.html http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_02.html…
17 Sep 2004, 14:10
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Perhaps the White Fountain is bright-era sun seen through the time tunnel sent by Apu Punchau to fetch the other-era earth. I like the idea, and it validates my time-twisted jour…
04 Jul 2003, 04:25
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They are opposites in that Ahriman is as foolish as Ormuzd is wise, and their agreement to make war to decide rulership of the world was slanted to favor Ormuzd, but Ahriman acce…
09 May 2003, 04:15
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She's not a Heinlein reader, she's damn near a Heinlein character! She described her own sexual responses similarly, with her "boing" being a close cousin to Deety's onomotopoeia…
22 Apr 2003, 00:18
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I don't find sprunging nipples to be an inappropriate idiom, and neither did my ex-wife. The spiggots remark I will give you, but I find Clarke's depiction of sex to be poorer st…
20 Apr 2003, 06:21
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Mine has note testifying to both symptoms - Is this some hybrid ZY beastie? (thank you, by the way, belated though it is!) JEff…
12 Apr 2003, 23:36
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It =is= possible, if the biological parents are also =Typhon's= biological parents. (Or whoever's.)…
12 Mar 2003, 01:04
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In the US, there's a much more prominent antecedent, the schlocky _THING WITH TWO HEADS_, starring Rosie Greer (as the body) and Ray Miland (as the new head). As far as non-homa…
10 Feb 2003, 00:32
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There may be more reproductional derrangements in the Otherworld than is spelled out. It's possible that many men and women are infertile or lacking in libido, some or all of the…
01 Feb 2003, 03:35
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=All= as usual? Is there something we don't know about Typhon or Baldanders?…
25 Jan 2003, 08:18
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That's an accurate translation. Our glorious republic was settled and founded by people who owed money to numerous other people in distant parts, after all.…
13 Oct 2002, 17:09
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Newt Gingrich co-authored _1945_ with professional SF writer William Forstchen. It was published late in 1995, but portions including a sex scene deleted from the final text were…
03 Sep 2002, 03:31
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There is precedent, with the royal jelly of the exultants. This would make Typhon an alien. While he =is= a tyrant from another star, he's should be human as he is descended from …
19 Jun 2002, 06:38
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[Undine Discussion] See below. Juturna =says= she serves Abaia. But the Undines are absolutely not into high-tech gadgets, since they slosh around naked all the time. I think An…
19 Jun 2002, 06:20
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The transcript does not render your question clearly at all; what exactly =did= you ask him, if you can recall at 11 years' remove? Is it possible to dodge the promise some other…
17 Jun 2002, 00:55
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Well yes, =Yesod= is a previous universe, an extension of one, or at the very least, a place settled by refugees from one according to Mantiss.…
12 Jun 2002, 01:28
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Did he explain why he has completely reversed his statements in the appendix of Shadow? Where is this "fact" documented? Whay can't this just be regarded as allegorical? The cr…
11 Jun 2002, 02:36
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The mammal's return shows that the function can return, even if the original organ does not. The dolphin's dorsal serves in place of a fish's, even though the original bony structu…
23 May 2002, 05:29
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I thought we just worked out that Dollo's Law is =not= about function; dolphins swim just as good as fish if not better.…
22 May 2002, 05:15
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In that case, I sit corrected but I don't see the relevance; the function returns even if the anatomical detail doesn't. The Frenchmen don't give the suspected abos a medical exam,…
20 May 2002, 06:03
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But Dollo's law is crap; it's violated by marine mammals, and moths that alight on trees in once-polluted areas.…
11 May 2002, 04:58
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Big fish in a small pond. I'm not sure if it counts, but given the time of year it begins and the passage of time, TBOTNS can be read as an incredibly grandiose "What I Did On …
09 May 2002, 04:54
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This I've heard of, but it is not specifically mentioned in the story, and it would contradict the dependency the abos have on their physical bodies. "A Story" has ghosts and the W…
29 Apr 2002, 04:38
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