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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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Or with their process of development when it's interfered with. The article was interesting but I doubt very much that it has anything to do with the Neighbors' or the hus's or fe…
21 Mar 2002, 16:58
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--- maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu> wrote: ... Humanoid is one thing, but why doesn't he at least *resemble* Horn? Maybe he just likes Hoof because he likes Silkhorn and understan…
20 Mar 2002, 23:28
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That's a reasonable point (though I think the answer is probably "yes"). ... I think you misunderstood. Actually, you should be in favor of the literal Occam's razor--that entit…
19 Mar 2002, 17:41
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Very interesting! I think there's a good chance you're right that plants and animals are linked in some way that's not obvious (meaning that it didn't occur to me when I first rea…
18 Mar 2002, 21:39
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In fact, Nick Gevers asked two questions, and it's not clear whether Wolfe answered the first, the second, or both. NG: Can your readers usefully view The Fifth Head of Cerberus a…
18 Mar 2002, 21:20
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Okay, how? I too would be relieved, but I don't see the connection. Ah, got it. Au contraire, mon frere. Sundogs (mock suns, parhelia) have a good deal more than twice the angu…
14 Mar 2002, 22:02
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I don't think the eccentricity has much to do with it. The two planets will come into conjunction every x number of local years. If Green's orbit is eccentric, then sometimes the…
13 Mar 2002, 16:50
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Mantis: thanks for answering my distance-to-Lune question so unequivocally! --- Grant Peacock <grantpeacock at yahoo.com> wrote: [I wrote] Reasonable, though we can hang-glide on Ea…
12 Mar 2002, 18:13
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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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Good heavens, people keep coming up with things I never would have imagined! I may be too trusting to read Wolfe. I don't think moonlight is green, or not in any sense that would…
11 Mar 2002, 23:07
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ECT does help some people, including my late grandmother. I suppose in those cases the consequences are fortunate. I totally agree that there's no need for magical thinking. The…
06 Mar 2002, 22:54
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I suspect Jeff is thinking of a space warp that was already there, either naturally or created by someone like the Hierodules, which the _Whorl_ passed through without anyone's kno…
28 Feb 2002, 16:42
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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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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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--- 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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... 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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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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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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--- 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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... ... 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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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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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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