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I doubt if Wolfe would see much of a connection between the Oracle of Changes (the I Ching, I presume) and the Outsider, who seems a fairly clear Christian/Moslem take on the Sup…
06 May 2003, 04:50
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Oren, I say read the books in the order they were published--I am currently going through them all myself, in order. I just finished New Sun for my fourth or fifth (or possibly …
27 Apr 2003, 22:41
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I think that the suggestion that Agia is a cacogen is likely a thematic dead end, as you suppose, but it is an interesting one. The curiousness of the mask straps remaining is a…
20 Apr 2003, 02:55
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Robertson Davies can't be dead! Take it back, take it back! Okay, okay, I guess he was getting on in years ... but what a loss! He's just about my favorite "mainstream" author. …
20 Apr 2003, 02:38
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The connection between Severian and the Sand Garden would seem, to me, no more (or less!) complicated than the connection between the Conciliator and the claw, for it is there th…
15 Apr 2003, 04:43
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I can't say this is my favorite quote, but it always tugs my heart whenever I read the Book of the New Sun. It comes from Shadow, chapter XII, and Thecla is the speaker: "I ough…
11 Apr 2003, 03:17
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Hello fellow Wolfeans! I'm new to the Urth group, and trying to catch up with the various correspondence. Don, I liked the discovery in Graves of a reference to a red beard as …
10 Mar 2003, 02:26
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