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Good point. Plenty of people never get this. .…
23 Apr 2003, 13:21
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Amazing no one has mentioned 'Against The Lafayette Escadrille', which is one of my favorite short stories. I generally disagree with the various folks who think that GW is a weak…
19 Apr 2003, 18:44
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She was his third wife, and they had an open marriage. .…
18 Apr 2003, 20:09
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Perhaps. What is the terrain like, in kwaZulu-Natal? Does it resemble the tropical jungle of the scene in 'The Jungle Garden'? Do Zulus use arrow poison? For that matter, do they…
17 Apr 2003, 01:36
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"Must" is a strong word. It is obviously South America. It is true, Isangoma means what y'all are saying in Zulu. Maybe it means something else in some south American Indian lan…
17 Apr 2003, 00:49
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They use lifting bodies. Severian says this explicitly. .…
16 Apr 2003, 01:05
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And it is a specific avatar, that is a specific human manifestation of celestial forces. All of his miracles have to do with time and his peculiar relationship with time. But I…
05 Apr 2003, 11:58
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Excuse me? I assume you are talking about the Book of Job. Ha-Shatan, the term used in the Book of Job, means 'the adversary'. It is not a proper name. If you get into Qabalah a…
13 Mar 2003, 22:29
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If? I thought he was a Catholic, not a Jungian or some other kind of newager. .…
13 Mar 2003, 21:22
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The words might perhaps be ambiguous. His manner, vocal tone and body language made it unambiguous. This is why I was careful to add the words between the - -. That one is perfe…
13 Mar 2003, 15:53
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This is consonant with orthodox Chriatianity, as I understand it. Severian is experiencing (perhaps 'is being exerpeinced by' is a more accurate way to put it) the Mystical Body o…
12 Mar 2003, 21:02
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I would be shocked if he hadn't. .…
12 Mar 2003, 06:34
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Well, they were very specifically associated with sadomasochism. I had assumed that Wolfe did know about this. .…
02 Mar 2003, 00:37
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Michael Swanwick is on the same level as Gene Wolfe. Also on that level, or just slightly below it, is Patricia Anthony. .…
01 Mar 2003, 02:30
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Oh probably. Another good story. Not, in my opinion, on the same level as 'Against The Lafayette Escadrille', but good. .…
19 Feb 2003, 17:57
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Lafayette. This is a great story, or prose poem or whatever it is exactly. One of my very favorites. My wife knows how to do Flash animation, and it has always been in the back …
19 Feb 2003, 16:46
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Fuligin is already the color of lamp-black. Interestingly, if you read this article, lamp-black is so black for the same reason this new stuff is. J. ___…
07 Feb 2003, 19:38
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This is not exactly what I was getting at. If you, an ordinary person, go and stand in front of a King and tell him that he is forbidden from doing something he wants to do (for i…
27 Jan 2003, 19:05
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Mostly for health reasons. A prophet is normally being instructed to inform people who are more powerful than he is of something that they don't want to hear. .…
27 Jan 2003, 18:41
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Slight correction. More relevant than the rest of Xenophon, I mean. Not more relevant than Herodotos. .…
27 Jan 2003, 18:24
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There is only one work of Herodotos. It is called 'The History'. Xenophon's Anabasis is probably more relevant. .…
27 Jan 2003, 18:10
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Sorry folks: I thought that was the delete button, not the send button. J. ___…
24 Jan 2003, 11:08
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Plutarch's Life…
24 Jan 2003, 10:10
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Huh. It must be confusing to read this stuff without first knowing Herodotos etc. I had never thought of that. J. ___…
24 Jan 2003, 10:08
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Herodotos is great. Herodotos and Bernal Diaz del Castillo are perennially tied for being my favorite book. I reread them both at least once a year. .…
21 Jan 2003, 08:03
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IHNJH, IJLS: "A 2-hr Yanni video with intermittent shots of George Clooney's buttocks". .…
21 Jan 2003, 05:27
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In conversation at WorldCon, I asked Gene Wolfe when we were going to see more Latro books, and he replied that he would write some more when he was finished with his current proje…
20 Jan 2003, 16:36
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After he's written some more Latro stories. They may be right up there with 'The Book Of The New Sun'. It's hard to say, as the story is not complete. .…
19 Jan 2003, 17:52
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After he's written some more Latro stories. .…
19 Jan 2003, 16:48
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The book is called "Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating Myth And The Frame Of Time", and it is by Giorgio di Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, who were professors of the history…
08 Jan 2003, 21:12
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I really do think it is from "Hamlet's Mill". Anyone who enjoys Gene Wolfe's fiction owes it to themselves to read Hamlet's Mill. J. ____…
08 Jan 2003, 12:11
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Could easily be "Hamlet's Mill". J.…
06 Jan 2003, 17:25
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I see. .…
05 Jan 2003, 19:56
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No. As you said, the conversation went like this: Typhon's pretty sharp. He figured it all out, except which head to defend, and who can really blame him for that? My reading of …
05 Jan 2003, 11:13
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The 'Vance Integral Edition' is scheduled to come out in February. Jack Vance is pretty old, but he's not dead yet. .…
03 Jan 2003, 19:21
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I thought that Typhon did, in fact, recognize Severian. .…
03 Jan 2003, 18:36
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For us, now. We're not. So far. Hopefully no one ever will. But who can predict the future? Give it time: another Thirty Years War might be fought over the opinions expressed on…
28 Dec 2002, 23:03
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My first thought, which apparently did not occur to GW, was Trimurti (the syncretic Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva being the One God (or reasonable facsimile of same…
21 Dec 2002, 16:05
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I really like 'Barry Lindon'. My favorite Kubrick picture also. You guys are *really* cute when you get to sniping at each other. .…
21 Dec 2002, 15:57
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I am awaiting delivery of my copy of the 44 volume Vance Integral Edition, which (so it is said) should start arriving in February sometime. This has not been my experience at all…
20 Dec 2002, 20:35
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I may be mistaken about this, but I do not believe that Graves spoke or read Welsh. He worked from translations. .…
18 Dec 2002, 17:28
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It happens at right angles to Silk's normal timeline. We are three dimensional creatures moving involuntarily in a fourth dimension. This motion, and this dimension are seen as ti…
18 Dec 2002, 16:55
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This isn't the point. Marc feels uncomfortable and doesn't want to say. You can make a case for saying he shouldn't have opened his [virtual] mouth about it. Whatever. I met Gen…
18 Dec 2002, 15:37
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Who we, white man? He's holding up admirably, and I would like to encourage him not to give in to peer pressure. .…
18 Dec 2002, 09:07
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It was Wilt Chamberlain, as I recall. .…
05 Dec 2002, 05:11
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The idea of time as a dimension is much older than Boethius and very widespread. These are all recent developments, Aquinas, Aristotle, all of it. You find 'advanced' ideas about…
18 Nov 2002, 21:06
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I greet the Rider of the Mouse! Here's one (somewhat simplified) way of looking at it: Human people are creatures which exist in three dimensions. and are in involuntary motion i…
18 Nov 2002, 19:18
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It's interesting that he shows up sometimes when people eat peyote. .…
13 Nov 2002, 19:45
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There's a green guy who is important in Islam also. And there's the one that's associated with peyote. Maybe they're not all the same green guy. It's interesting to contemplate w…
13 Nov 2002, 17:13
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These are the only two kinds of philosophy? The more I think about this, the less I am satisfied with it, and the less I think it is true, even if you limit it to Greek philosophy…
02 Nov 2002, 17:16
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