Posted from 3 addresses as Kevin J. Maroney, Kevin Maroney
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I read it, quite recently. I thought it was lovely and, for Wolfe, surprisingly anti-Royalist, but then on examination not surprising at all. I like this observation tremendously…
28 May 2011, 18:17
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I haven't read it yet--it's next on the pile--but I love the character list. The entire novel is addressed to the narrator's brother (at least, I think it's the brother), and the…
22 Jan 2003, 20:51
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What do you feel is specifically Middle Eastern about them rather than Hellenic?…
23 Oct 2002, 19:14
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<delurk> Alga Alice just encouraged me to post this observation I made to her off-list: It's pretty clear to me that Wolfe didn't have the Short Sun in mind when he started Long…
23 Oct 2002, 00:54
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Wolfe is enough of an engineer that he dislikes hugely impractical ideas. Pas might want to impose base 9 on the inhabitants of the Whorl, but Gene Wolfe wouldn't let him. :-)…
15 May 2002, 04:04
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They are, in fact, making mistakes no matter what base the calculations are in. You are asking us to assume that they're getting some of it correct and some of it wrong in one un…
12 May 2002, 07:11
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I agree with this, and have been using it as such for the last 15 years. It is neither Wolfe's best nor worst, nor his "most typical" (is there such a thing for Wolfe?), but if s…
12 Apr 2002, 03:16
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Safe in my burrow. I never made it into Manhattan today.…
11 Sep 2001, 19:02
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I had missed William Ansley's mention of this back in April, and I thought that other people who might find it of interest had missed it, too. There is a Yahoo! Clubs mailing lis…
24 Jul 2001, 14:15
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Credits are in the IMDB--<http://us.imdb.com/Title?0197154>. Zoe Wannamaker was Clarice.…
02 Jul 2001, 14:47
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That sounds like a very probable guess. Throw in a dash of "anything must be better than Harry Potter" and you're probably 99% correct.…
29 Jun 2001, 12:01
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Robert Borski has said that Wolfe does intend to resume the Latro series, possibly as his next work after _The Wizard Knight_.…
23 Jun 2001, 11:29
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Oops. You're right. Because you seem to be veering towards using "admirers of" as a five-syllable perfect synonym of "fan", which it isn't. That's why I said "yes"--they are adm…
21 Jun 2001, 18:44
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I'm not sure what point this table is making. You're being too compressed again. Actually, they've read _The Book of Silk_, but I mostly agree with your characterization of it a…
21 Jun 2001, 16:32
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It's Old English for "elf-land". I don't know if that makes you feel better or worse about it....…
21 Jun 2001, 15:08
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In my classical readings, I've come across references to pseudipigraphia which are outside of the Jewish and Christian traditions--much later works attributed to Virgil and suchl…
21 Jun 2001, 11:36
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"Fanfic" is not the same thing as "fiction written by fans"; "fan" is not the same thing as "admirer of"; "biography" is not the same as "fiction".…
21 Jun 2001, 11:33
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"A Mary Sue is a character who is smarter than Spock, braver than Kirk, and more compassionate than McCoy, and sleeps with all three."…
20 Jun 2001, 12:15
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I don't think so. It's different from the core fanfic of the early Trek fandom, but everything and everyone gets pulled into the broader sweeps of fanfic. Well, Jolenta/Dorcas i…
20 Jun 2001, 12:14
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I'm not certain I'd agree with that. The point of fanfic is to create works which fulfill a need that the original author's work doesn't fill, whether that desire is to see Kirk …
19 Jun 2001, 15:26
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Not that we're loading up with judgmental terms here, no, no. "Mary Sue". But your basic point is right; whatever Hoof and Hide are doing, it's not "fanfic".…
19 Jun 2001, 13:38
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And it's really, really good.…
14 Jun 2001, 21:40
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Ahah! The Wolfe Seminar! We could all get pink, red, grey, and black balls and vote on whether Severian is his own mother....…
02 Jun 2001, 13:17
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The SULFNBK.EXE warning is not accurate. There *is* a virus/worm which propogates through corrupted copies of the SULFNBK.EXE file. However, this file is a standard part of the W…
29 May 2001, 20:10
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I agree with all of that, but the last time I checked, Adam was not God. The major theological distinction between the Abrahamist religions and the religion of Mani is at the level…
24 May 2001, 11:23
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There is nothing distinctively Manichean about having a Completely Good Thing and a corresponding Completely Bad Thing. That idea shows up in all sorts of places, including all of …
23 May 2001, 15:14
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Long-awaited third volume in the "Latro" series (_Soldier of the Mist_, _Soldier of Arete_).…
11 May 2001, 16:28
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According to Robert Borski, Wolfe's next project is a complete-in-one-volume Big Fat Fantasy Novel (around 1100 pages) with the title _The Wizard Knight_. That is literally all I k…
11 May 2001, 13:07
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Good summary, with one thing omitted: That every person contains within himself (or herself) the spark of the divine breath. The point of "the knowledge" and the self-abnegation is…
01 May 2001, 13:53
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I am often inclined to agree, but not universally. I was in a discussion recently about Pamela Dean's _Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary_ where I took your position--the malign charac…
01 May 2001, 13:24
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Alice almost certainly has more detailed information on this than I do, but at this year's ICFA, Crowley assured people that the fourth book was coming, relatively soon (he strongl…
29 Apr 2001, 11:31
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"Travel to Green; kill all the humans and sentient inhumi there" might also do it. That would be a very heavy weapon indeed, because it would require mass slaughter of sentient, in…
26 Apr 2001, 12:53
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Though it is worth noting that though Quetzal does not kill Teazel (I think that's her name), he has fed off her more than once and she is near death when Silk treats her. Quetzal …
26 Apr 2001, 12:44
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My understanding is that the number of human attacks from crocodilians is very low. They're much like wolves that way--feared as human predators all out of proportion to the actual…
25 Apr 2001, 14:51
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I wondered about that. Do Horn's sons ever initiate travel on their own? If not, then I've already given a reason why the Narrator would have a Neighborly ability that no other h…
20 Apr 2001, 17:44
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Sounds like the Great Gazoo to me.…
20 Apr 2001, 16:01
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That's what I've always assumed--that the Neighborly process of transplanting Horn's spirit into Silk's body infused the resultant person with some degree of the Neighbor's unhuman…
20 Apr 2001, 14:31
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If Pig is 22 feet tall, it's hard to imagine that one of Silk|Horn's eyes would fit into his eye sockets.…
20 Apr 2001, 13:36
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An interesting theory, all in all, but with potentially fatal problems: Krait tells The Secret to Horn, and the narrator refers to The Secret in _Blue_. But the narrator does not…
20 Apr 2001, 13:32
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Does anyone believe the latter? Silk's body is healthy, but his spirit/soul is dying, implies the Neighbor.…
20 Apr 2001, 13:27
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In an earlier post, I pointed out this (in somewhat different words): In _Return to the Whorl_, Jahlee tells Nettle a secret about the inhumi, which, because of the structure of …
19 Apr 2001, 14:52
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That seems contrary to the idea of "small godlings". If the Narrator is indeed thinking of Pig a small godling, it seems odd to call him that when he's only slightly larger than a …
19 Apr 2001, 14:46
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I misremembered what I had read. Crowley says in his interview with Alice Turner that it is a book with very different ambitions (though it too deals with the powers and grea…
17 Apr 2001, 08:40
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Oh, absolutely. At least 30 messages this week.…
13 Apr 2001, 12:46
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Patera Nutria makes some good points, which I've snipped to get to the point that I wish to disagree with: At 02:29 PM 4/11/01 -0500, you wrote: [Alga Alice said: Well, yes. Al…
11 Apr 2001, 15:46
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The climax isn't the "revelation", since that fact is clear to a reader who is paying *any* attention at all during _Green_ or _Return_. The climax is the narrator's *acceptance* o…
11 Apr 2001, 11:10
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It's true in _Long Sun_, too. Silk-as-detective, Silk-as-warrior (he defeats an entire Trivigaunte airship with his bare hands!), Silk-as-genetic-superhero. It's easy to overlook b…
29 Mar 2001, 11:43
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I actually think I was the original advocate of the "inhumi as projective telepaths" theory, but I could be wrong on both counts. It's clear that the inhumi do physically deform …
28 Mar 2001, 16:26
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I still tend to interpret this as a profound grief to the verge of death rather than actual suicide. But.... ... this is stronger. I'm not sure why this isn't proof, but it still …
27 Mar 2001, 19:42
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"What was Typhon's purpose in lanunching the Whorl and was the Blue/Green system the intended destination?" Knowing Typhon as I do, he probably had at least half a dozen purposes;…
12 Mar 2001, 19:02
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