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It's Gene Wolfe's 79th birthday, which seems like a good time to post a link to a poem I wrote that includes Wolfean themes. I add my best wishes for improved health for Mr. Wolfe…
07 May 2010, 05:17
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Hi, all! I'm rejoining the list briefly to point out that the name Hari Mau in the Short Sun books may come from "harimau", the Malay word for "tiger". See http://eyesonthefores…
02 Mar 2009, 04:27
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--- Don Doggett <harlekin at earthlink.net> wrote: [snip] Because the Outsider wanted it to. Since I don't have the text here, I'll accept for the sake of argument your claims that …
16 Dec 2002, 21:14
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I carelessly deleted a post that mentioned Linda Loring. She's a character in at least two of Raymond Chandler's novels--Philip Marlowe is in love with her. Robert Mitchum played…
11 Dec 2002, 19:02
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Here's a paragraph from Chapter 2 of _Invitation to a Beheading_, by Vladimir Nabokov, translated from Russian by Dmitri Nabokov (his son) in collaboration with the author. Only o…
25 Nov 2002, 18:40
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I took "surviving" to mean from now till then. I thought it was more wit than a joke, and in either case quite possibly meant to have a bearing on the story. One possible advanta…
13 Jun 2002, 22:53
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... The Vironese faith is not in fact that much like Judaism. They share priests sacrificing animals in a temple, but I don't remember private confession, augury, or dancing siby…
13 Jun 2002, 22:48
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I noticed that our contribution to the Invisible Library <http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/ILCatalogf.htm> (for those who joined the list since those discussions, it's a catalog of …
06 May 2002, 23:34
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How come you guys are all so convinced the abos exist? It seems ambiguous at best. The alternate theory would be that, inspired by his father's con and escaping his squalid life,…
26 Apr 2002, 21:10
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--- Tony Ellis <LittleSense at necronomicon.co.uk> wrote: ... "'We had no names before men came out of the sky,' the Old Wise If you take the OWO seriously, this is good evidence of…
26 Apr 2002, 20:44
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One Mark Barratt translated a rather long Dutch joke word for word into English in alt.usage.english at <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=1fafb33.9s3ssl3ywvluN%40de-st…
10 Apr 2002, 21:45
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... ... It *should* be "Xi Cygni", but I don't remember. (I must have read it.) Jerry Friedman…
22 Mar 2002, 03:27
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... Where did you get 150,000 miles? Anyway, you got me thinking about Green-Blue celestial mechanics. Stop me if this has all been done. We're pretty sure Green is not a satel…
11 Mar 2002, 23:52
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This is one of my favorites of your ideas so far. I'd never made the connection that _Severian_ is feeding the Green Man. On the other hand--maybe I've missed it, but how do you …
26 Feb 2002, 20:35
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... Isn't taking advantage of people's good qualities what the Flying People do in "The Waif"? Sort of the opposite of the inhumi. But I'm just throwing that out, because I don'…
04 Feb 2002, 17:25
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Hi, everyone! I've been on the Whorl List for a while, but I subscribed to this one to see what I've been missing and to mention the Invisible Library site <http://www.invisibleli…
15 Oct 2001, 12:58
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... ... And here I brought the books in to work (I'm just part-time) to post the relevant quotes! I'd certainly be interested in this, though it would be a big project. ... T…
04 Jun 2001, 14:05
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Nww that you mention it, I can see a parallel between the two events, but I'm still loooking forward to your showing any other kind of connection. It's unfounded in the sense that…
04 Jun 2001, 13:50
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I promised you folks an unfounded speculation. Several participants on this list have mentioned that some crucial event seems to occur between Silkhorn's last two astral trips to …
31 May 2001, 15:14
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... ... Sorry, should be "precioso". ... Or maybe another tree of the genus Schinus. To answer Rostrum (Yahoo truncated the digest message), part of the point of the folk-tal…
24 May 2001, 10:15
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Since you think posting it is a good idea, here it is. The delay was for my Spanish tutor (and English student), Roberto García, to review my translation. Thanks, Roberto! Any r…
22 May 2001, 12:30
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Hi! I'm new to this list, and trying to start out with some useful information before I get to the unfounded speculation. I've looked at most of the latest archive and didn't see…
18 May 2001, 14:47
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