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--- On Thu, 7/23/09, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote: ... ... Speaking of pet peeves, that article hit one of mine. Lowth's grammar book never mentions split infinitives…
23 Jul 2009, 20:10
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You sure he's not someone who modifies quotations and puts his name after them? That one looks like, "You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity,…
20 May 2009, 00:05
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Sure. To restate what I said more concisely, propaganda is one of those things that I don't prefer to be done competently. Jerry Friedman…
19 May 2009, 22:58
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I'd be interested in a citation to Washington's writings for the quotation from his writings. It's widely quoted at Google Books with various differences in wording, but the first…
19 May 2009, 21:33
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It depends on what you mean by "good". I suppose you could say that a really "good" thief or murderer doesn't get caught, but I think the quotation marks are appropriate. Some pr…
19 May 2009, 20:28
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Not to nitpick... okay, to nitpick. Diploidy is what we have (except sperm and egg cells) and I think most organisms have. Double the usual number of chromosomes is tetraploidy. …
30 Apr 2009, 17:56
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--- On Tue, 4/28/09, Brian Lovely <brian at studiobl.com> wrote: ... ... I hope you read my response, pointing out that polyploid animals don't have double the usual number of li…
29 Apr 2009, 03:07
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... ... Thanks for the information. It seems that if they could baptize on that condition they could administer other sacraments on other conditions, but I believe you that they…
21 Apr 2009, 04:26
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--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote: ... As I recall, there's such a thing as a conditional baptism. You're making me wonder whether there's a cond…
20 Apr 2009, 21:33
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--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Allan Anderson <rubel at goosemoon.org> wrote: ... ... That's an interesting question. I don't remember anything about when he makes the decision. or when h…
20 Apr 2009, 21:24
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I don't think "for young adults", quoted above, means junior high. Maybe "YA", which I used, does, thought I thought it included high-school-age kids too. Jerry Friedman…
17 Apr 2009, 17:45
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There are other possibilities. For instance, the narrators could have added their comments, perhaps overtly raising the question of who they are. That is, Wolfe could have made t…
17 Apr 2009, 04:14
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--- On Thu, 4/16/09, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote: ... Declension? Case? Apparently I was part of one of those Zeitgeist things that caused people to have the same re…
16 Apr 2009, 23:17
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... Sorry to respond with a spelling correction rather than something substantive, but it's "Rajan". Jerry Friedman…
16 Apr 2009, 21:36
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Speaking of which, "La Befana" would work too, though I don't like it as well as "The Detective of Dreams". Hey, how 'bout "The War Beneath the Tree"? I think that one could have…
16 Apr 2009, 20:19
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... Mostly I find him sympathetic. However, I didn't like his sophistry about why it didn't matter that he planned to break his vow of chastity, or the fact that he broke his vow…
16 Apr 2009, 20:15
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I'll go along with that. ... I think he overdid the returning characters, too. No. Nor did we need the mechanical verb-at-the-end sentences in Dorp. Oreb and the catachrest in …
16 Apr 2009, 03:26
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... I'd be interested if you'd point those out (or some, if there are too many). My impression of /Pirate Freedom/ is what James Jordan confirmed-- it was a YA book. The time tr…
15 Apr 2009, 17:07
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Ah, good one. So Severian is taught that something like our democracy is the "highest" form of government, while the word itself (or what Wolfe decided to translate that way) is s…
07 Apr 2009, 14:16
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I may not read that right away. :-) Meaning what? It's not in the NSOED. [Roman lip service to tyrannicide] I didn't know that about the Roman emperors, so thanks. I probably d…
04 Apr 2009, 20:40
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--- On Thu, 4/2/09, Matthew Weber <palaeologos at gmail.com> wrote: ... That is, God established monarchy, and we (but not the Commonwealth) have departed from it? But which do y…
02 Apr 2009, 23:27
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--- On Thu, 4/2/09, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote: ... Yes, only not necessarily a joke. (At least, I didn't laugh.) I think the majority of Americans who th…
02 Apr 2009, 22:15
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Or equally appropriate. Indeed, a dedication copy of a festschrift could easily be presented at the kind of dinner Josh has in mind. I imagine Wolfe's children may be planning so…
31 Mar 2009, 16:58
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Agia? Master Palaemon? Jerry…
27 Mar 2009, 05:28
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For a while you just wouldn't be able to adjust your tax policy, no matter how great the need. The bankruptcy wouldn't happen till the emergency that required raising taxes. Jerr…
26 Mar 2009, 20:16
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--- On Fri, 3/20/09, David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au> wrote: No comment on Frank Herbert--I'm in denial about everything after /Dune Messiah/. ... This seems reasonable.…
21 Mar 2009, 02:13
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... In Special Relativity, exceeding the speed of light would not make time go backwards. Formally, it would make time an imaginary number (one reason to think exceeding the spee…
20 Mar 2009, 17:53
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Well, I think Wolfe would have said the same thing about his early training in any other context. I am by no means sure that "best" means "most moral" (though it would be a big pa…
20 Mar 2009, 04:04
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I enjoyed them, though I didn't bother following all the intrigue or all of Lymond's cryptic statements, and I could see how one could get a little tired of him. The detail is ast…
20 Mar 2009, 02:47
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... ... I haven't seen any mention yet of "The Best Introduction to the Mountains", where Wolfe says the code of conduct he learned in his childhood included, "Legitimate authori…
19 Mar 2009, 19:15
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That's what I was talking about. My comment on Jesus caused you to make a similar comment a little earlier. Jerry Friedman…
19 Mar 2009, 05:57
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... ... What plan? ... But I also can't fit the Long Past picture in with "a tongue that has not yet achieved existence" or "yet undiscovered concepts". Could this mean that w…
19 Mar 2009, 05:44
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I should remind you of this quotation from James Jordan's interview with that same person, whoever he is (or maybe I shouldn't, because I'd like to forget it): "JJ: This universe …
18 Mar 2009, 23:23
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I'd say that's still true. I'd have thought the key statement was not to resist evildoers, which would not be limited to the examples about turning the other cheek, giving your cl…
18 Mar 2009, 20:21
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--- On Tue, 3/17/09, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote: Brunians: > >> You don't think kids should be trained to fight Jerry: > > I do, but I'm not a Chris…
18 Mar 2009, 17:41
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That's how I remember it. Not that the problem had been exaggerated. Me too. ... I do, but I'm not a Christian. As the statement came from a Catholic priest, it surprised me g…
18 Mar 2009, 03:57
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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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Well, that comes from being individual members of a species, not from ape ancestry. And one could still imagine "curing" it, at least by arranging for more of us to be satisfied l…
05 Jan 2006, 01:30
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Of course not. I think Galt is right to say that Wolfe is against this attempt at improvement, and that he probably is against many like it. He's certainly in favor of the traditi…
01 Jan 2006, 18:39
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True. In this case, because it's egoistical, I think. Because Wolfe is a Roman Catholic and believes in original sin, a human flaw that can't be cured. I think it is religious. …
30 Dec 2005, 21:15
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I've wondered about this in connection with the discrepancies between Severian's account of Merryn in New Sun and one of the twins' in Short Sun. (Why doesn't Severian tell us he'…
18 Dec 2002, 23:22
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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'm not either, but I mentioned it as a strong (in my mind) criticism of the possibility that the _Whorl_ got back to Ushas using the white hole as a spacetime warp. Could Ty…
13 Dec 2002, 17:53
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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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More (but not as good) evidence of a flood is the Neighbor in the tree that one of the twins sees through the Neighbors' ring. Somewhere late in RTW. ... This is very appealing f…
10 Dec 2002, 21:41
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Clearly you're more upset about this than I gathered from your previous post. I'm sorry. I had no intention of hurting anyone, certainly not you, someone whose posts I'm often gr…
04 Dec 2002, 20:44
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I apologize. When I thought about it, I thought that my reasons for not mentioning my Ph. D. were better than my reasons for revealing it, so I probably should have stayed "in the…
03 Dec 2002, 23:26
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This "technically" comment is more nearly correct than your "subjective" and "objective" comments. You're forgetting the expansion of the universe, though. To be nit-pickingly co…
03 Dec 2002, 00:26
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... My mistake. "Diegetic". There, that should be much clearer. :-) "Simplifies". I can't help with that. Jerry Friedman…
02 Dec 2002, 23:21
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... I think Newark is a possibility too. And why not a little bit north/east of New York? Say New Haven, or more likely Providence, home of Lovecraft. For some reason I always …
02 Dec 2002, 22:54
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