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... At first I didn't know what you meant by the critical take on faith, but you're thinking of Bin's trust in Ariael and the townspeople's beliefs about consorting with the Flyin…
26 Feb 2002, 22:42
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--- Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu> wrote: ... ... Has anyone connected this with Luke 24? 13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, abou…
06 Feb 2002, 16:51
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... ObLit: War and Peace. Jerry Friedman…
06 Feb 2002, 16:33
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--- Joe Eull <lo_phan17 at hotmail.com> wrote: ... Strangely enough, I made this same mistake when I was Hebrew school, but the eighteenth (not ninth) letter of the Hebrew alphabet i…
05 Feb 2002, 20:37
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Good gosh! Maybe this statement will help me understand the story, but how can you tell "Copperhead" is not near-future? Does this make "The Peace Spy" alternate history? There'…
04 Feb 2002, 17:21
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--- maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu> wrote: ... ... "a huge friend with dripping jaws that spoke to me" (if I have it right after looking it up last night)--not so scary. It's rig…
04 Feb 2002, 17:12
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I'm surprised that someone can tell so much about what I think from one comment as to draw conclusions about my literary tastes. The idea I was responding to was that the Commonwe…
01 Feb 2002, 15:50
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--- Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu> wrote: ... Why? Maybe Ymar was judged unworthy. Or is this something from UotNS, about the memory of ever having read which I'm in …
31 Jan 2002, 22:40
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... Master Malrubius. Looks like I was unclear above. I meant that LotR may have been Wolfe's model in how to handle literarily the role of God, not that BotNS is some kind of i…
17 Dec 2001, 16:36
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"No sight of God" is literally true, but God is busily arranging coincidences, prophetic dreams, and stuff like that. Sort of like TBotNS, as a matter of fact. I wonder whether T…
12 Dec 2001, 23:52
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... Sounds like fun. But no flightless birds? You won't be able to see how Thecla stalked?…
16 Nov 2001, 18:03
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Well, at least it hit you without your being told. I didn't get it even with Mantis's hint (Chicago). What I e-mailed to Brian the Invisible Librarian was that it was presumably …
31 Oct 2001, 21:24
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I must have misunderstood an earlier post. Circumflex. Here I thought you were French! (Or a probably bilingual child of French immigrants, or something.) But then you probably…
26 Oct 2001, 12:27
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Okay, at the risk of cluttering up the list with material that's already been posted, here's what I've got. Any other names for Blaine, the forger of _The Lusty Lawyer_, and Kingl…
25 Oct 2001, 12:38
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Thanks, and thanks to the others who responded. The archives are a real pain to use, aren't they? Probably unavoidable. I still should have checked them before asking. So I'll …
19 Oct 2001, 10:10
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--- Talarican <exultnttalarican at mindspring.com> wrote: ... This stuff is all very interesting! I suppose I'm unlikely to look up the references, but what's _Thrust_ and who made …
05 Sep 2001, 14:23
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What he said. ... And I wouldn't be surprised to learn that every prophecy ever made comes true. (Though in the _Long Sun_, there's a point where Incus thinks Scylla has posses…
03 Aug 2001, 14:29
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Or the Outsider has been taking a hand--when he enlightened Silk, or just in general, the way he makes sure that auguries and Gaonese astrologers provide correct prophecies or that…
03 Jul 2001, 09:46
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... Esperanto! Thanks. You know when I would have guessed that? Does anyone know whether how many of the words from Grandecitta are Esperanto? According to <http://wwwtios.cs.…
22 Jun 2001, 10:59
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--- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <ddanehy at siebel.com> wrote: ... You could at least say "Socrates" safely. Jerry Friedman…
21 Jun 2001, 09:49
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I should probably mention that _Ada_ is alternate- history sf, with a little stefnal fun about the technology of "Anti-Terra". (Pace Nabokov and some Nabokophiles who would undoub…
18 Jun 2001, 16:16
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--- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <ddanehy at siebel.com> wrote: ... ... Yahoo's otherwise excellent e-mail truncates long messages, so I can't combine this with your comments about it not ma…
18 Jun 2001, 16:00
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... Thanks for this clarifying outline. ... And that, in turn, was set into type by publishers, introducing further errors. I read the SFBC edition, but I gather from comments …
18 Jun 2001, 07:54
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Right--sorry I didn't allow for that in my post. Part of the reason for my lack of interest in the reliability of Wolfe's narrators is that this goes back a hundred years, to Henr…
15 Jun 2001, 09:27
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Augustus Caesar, "Festina lente" (make hast slowly). ;-) ... A European proverb. Prosper Merrimee cites a Romany version in "Carmen" (a recommended story--the long version has …
15 Jun 2001, 09:01
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--- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <ddanehy at siebel.com> wrote: ... If I may introduce my non-religious perspective-- people read novels for reasons quite different from those they read the Go…
13 Jun 2001, 14:59
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You're right, and I don't know how I was overlooking that, but I wasn't joking. I think there still might be something special about the Claw and those bushes. Should I subscribe …
04 Jun 2001, 13:54
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