Posted from 2 addresses as Jeff Wilson, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com, Jeffery Wilson
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No, it's not, but I'd be a pretty superficial reader if I never wondered why an author writes what he writes.…
20 Oct 2006, 04:39
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If you check the quotations, David Duffy brought it up; I just did a little deconstruction on it.…
20 Oct 2006, 04:36
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No more so than most people. Murder mysteries were already established as a category of polite literature before she chose to write them; misogyny isn't. With Stephen King, I do…
19 Oct 2006, 15:00
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If an author complusively wrote novels about Jews being tortured and killed, I'd at least suspect him of anti-semitism. The Latro books are great counterexamples for the suggesti…
19 Oct 2006, 05:02
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misogyny isn't the same thing as sexism…
19 Oct 2006, 04:17
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Twain had no problem with black people; he paid for more than one to attend college, among other philanthropies. However, he had little use for Indians, other than as the unsympa…
19 Oct 2006, 03:17
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I agree, I was just playing along with the red herring theme. Twain wrote about his own society, in which esentially everyone was a racist, largely in a time when racism was ensh…
18 Oct 2006, 05:42
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That counts; what they have to say can be considered relevant without the involvement of a man to make it so.…
17 Oct 2006, 16:02
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And he was himself an admitted and practicing racist.…
17 Oct 2006, 15:59
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Mez Smith was an equal member of The Committee, and Quilla is both a willing exploiter of her sex and the rescuer of the nominal hero. They also have the essential conversation a…
17 Oct 2006, 02:52
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It's just that Wolfe seems to be really fond of including misogynist characters and situations in his stories.…
17 Oct 2006, 02:51
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An sufficiently wealthy exultant lady could have a series of khaibits, each one sustaining her youth and beauty for a few years, then replaced by another, newer one. Thus Holy Ka…
16 Oct 2006, 23:32
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Possible; what is "G.W."'s reasoning for using Latin in the text, again? The passage where the ambiguity of English is ridiculed indicates they aren't speaking English, nor the si…
14 Oct 2006, 22:33
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It is, at least among historical humanity. Dark hair is dominant over light, with red incompletely recessive to dark and incompletely dominant over light. Of course observed expr…
14 Oct 2006, 22:24
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This, at least, is explainable as evidence of the use of flyers by the exultants other than strictly between their estates and the Autarch's demesne. Exultant children could easi…
07 Oct 2006, 22:15
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"motif"…
08 Sep 2006, 16:01
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VV's novel, _THE UNIVERSE MAKER_, combines the two themes (as you can probably guess from the title), as well as the Wolfean theme of an emergent, higher ethical order emerging f…
08 Sep 2006, 05:32
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Do you mean the Bible? Particularly, "turn the other cheek"?…
08 Sep 2006, 05:23
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I believe Dan'l is employing a metasyntactic variable here, rather than making a typo. The "higher" beings are much too manipulative to be considered holy fools.…
08 Sep 2006, 02:51
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Truly separable? Jeff…
02 Sep 2006, 05:46
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As a counterexample, top-posting has apparently addled one poster here to the point where he replies to my post as if you wrote it, complimenting you on a sig that it does not co…
29 Aug 2006, 05:11
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Perhaps it was mentioned then, but the narrator redacts the dialogue to avoid writing it, becasue he still has those memories lurking within.…
28 Aug 2006, 06:10
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Considering the way Thecla's memories loom and threaten to take over whenever she is called to mind, perhaps avoiding the old Autarch's personal name is an attempt to keep *that*…
28 Aug 2006, 05:28
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When would people *need* to write a coherent reply without coinscribing or interleaving, or just plain bottom posting like I'm doing now?…
28 Aug 2006, 05:21
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People (I won't embarass Bob, Iorwerth, Dan'l, or Matthew by mentioning their names), Please lay off the top-posting; it makes your posts very hard to follow. Even if your mail …
27 Aug 2006, 20:22
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It may not be inscrutable; hopefully, some new meaning emerges that is obvious in retrospect if X and Y are related by Z, but wouldn't otherwise.…
26 Aug 2006, 20:49
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I think you're going way too far here. We see *one* ET who shapeshifts, and that only in the afterthought book, URTH, while others demonstrate their reliance on mechanical disgui…
25 Aug 2006, 19:59
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My impression is that Nessus is underpopulated, with five standing buildings per inhabitant. The Eata conincidence I'll give you, but the others you likst are hardly that. My im…
21 Aug 2006, 04:20
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We can't assume it's natural because one of the Great Beasts (Erebus) lives in/on/as a volcanic mountain itself. They sap energy from Urth the same way the black beans/worms sap …
01 Aug 2006, 03:02
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Ahem. In _There Are Doors_, I recently reread where he writes (as Lara), "'[...]Perhaps three children. Perhaps three dozen.'" As it happens, a 12:1 ratio just about fits the mil…
29 Jul 2006, 05:17
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More ambiguous. At one point he says Urth is "perhaps a million years in our future." In _There Are Doors_,…
28 Jul 2006, 06:12
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I don't recall Domnina entering the chamber; wasn't she just in a mirrored hallway?…
28 Jul 2006, 04:39
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If Inire is really all those other people and in all those other places, he's likely a double agent posing as one of the sun-stoppers, the same way the Autarch is also a spy for …
25 Jul 2006, 03:22
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These last sound more like the doings of the Autarch, who is flat out shown doing sneaky things under assumed identities, unlike Inire who is only suspected of it.…
23 Jul 2006, 16:23
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Revelations provides for at least a second Incarnation. Meanwhile, the scripturally unique Flood *is* duplicated by the author. That sounds too close to a suggestion that belief …
22 Jul 2006, 22:24
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How can we tell the difference?…
22 Jul 2006, 03:34
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If there was no Incarnation, who was Crucified?…
21 Jul 2006, 17:17
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IIRC, he says it takes place "perhaps a million years" in the future, but the "perhaps" releases him from any responsibility of accuracy. The Stone Town certainly would not last …
20 Jul 2006, 07:21
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Works fine from here. Maybe if you gave up the evils of top-posting, the hierogrammates would allow you access.…
11 Jul 2006, 07:29
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I think it is, except for (as the author says) it being the previous cycle of creation, before our latest Big Bang. Though I am not sure if he is speaking as the same GW who is t…
10 Jul 2006, 08:30
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"Please do not offer peanuts to my god." Has anyone ever found the etymology of "punchau"?…
08 Jul 2006, 17:20
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I think this is more in Skinner's area, myself. Certainly Greeks and Romans were conditioned to see the past as a place of glory and names forever remembered, with the future a m…
16 Jun 2006, 04:53
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I've seen this claimed for classical Attic cultures as well; IIRC as recently as "It's Greek to Me" (Paperback) by Michael Macrone, Tom Lulevitch…
15 Jun 2006, 04:33
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some of it, but his work itself duplicates Wolfe's hard work.... Of course, wikifying the book is likely to produce new insights and discoveries that can be fed back into the new…
13 Jun 2006, 07:34
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No more alien than Doc Savage, or any number of other melanin-rich characters of literature. But Inire should have some obvious nonhuman feature to be considered a "cacogen," pa…
11 Jun 2006, 21:57
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However, Isangoma is butt naked; nothing to hide Inire's nonhuman nature or his ultratech gadgets.…
09 Jun 2006, 20:52
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Not quite; they mention an expectant couple next door. "Paul's Treehouse" has Paul living in the tree behind his parents' house.…
09 Jun 2006, 06:40
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I think shapeshifting works best if left to the order of creature that Tzadkiel is. Father Inire needn't change shape, because his human appearance is artificial, and can be chan…
27 May 2006, 04:43
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*shiver* Are you sure you're not Borski wearing a doggett-like mask?…
27 May 2006, 04:34
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Or rather, insect-like masks behind their face-like masks.…
26 May 2006, 04:51
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