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Just read the Wolfe interview....thanks to Dennis/Endy for the heads-up. Slightly puzzled, though, by the following.. Hides the universe? Kieran C.…
22 Feb 2002, 10:06
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Thanks for the news, Alga. You make it sound as if Crowley is thoroughly fed-up of the series. Hope he's not going to short-change us. Any more words on what the Translator is abou…
31 Jan 2002, 15:15
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Ahh, this takes me back. I'm afraid I too still nurse the sickly Blue/Green=Urth/Lune hypothesis. Poor thing, but there's life in it yet. If this idea is to have legs again, can …
08 Jan 2002, 12:57
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Tim, 'Short Sun Whorl' is a generic term. The particular SS Whorl mentioned here is the one 'that would in time become our RS Whorl', i.e. Urth. Nothing more than that, I think. …
12 Apr 2001, 10:49
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Tim, 'Short Sun Whorl' is a generic term. The particular SS Whorl mentioned here is the one 'that would in time become our RS Whorl', i.e. Urth. Nothing more than that, I think. …
12 Apr 2001, 10:49
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Yes, I've moved across the water. Thankfully, the fliers being Crew, we were spared any similar reproduction of an Irish dialect. I wonder, though, how Wolfe did his homework for P…
14 Feb 2001, 15:51
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Maybe. When Horn exhumes Jahlee, he says: Horn: "I warn you, if you will not [obey me] I am going to spread my knowledge everywhere...." Jahlee: ..."What do you want from me?"... …
21 Jan 2000, 14:51
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Carefully plucking the avern.... IS it? According to Ash, the majority of humans are eventually airlifted to safety by friendly cacogens. Creeping winter is a little more prosaic …
29 Nov 1999, 12:21
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The relevent line from OBW is: "I noticed the dried blood among the folds of the skin on the stump that had been her right arm, and understood why she had been so afraid of Babbie,…
16 Nov 1999, 10:40
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Nutria, Could you point me to that interview with Wolfe where he talks about his religious beliefs? I seem to remember a gnomic comment about Greek gods? Thanks, Kieran Cleary …
11 Nov 1999, 16:25
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This seems likely, especially given the implausability of Mucor swimming to the island on her own. Either Seawrack or some other agent of the Mother. Question is, why has Mucor all…
09 Nov 1999, 11:28
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What Clute says in his review is He's basically pointing out that Horn is writing "on the run", as it were, and so we will continue to find out what happens to Horn as he makes hi…
07 Nov 1999, 12:03
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Speaking of John Crowley, anyone got any news on 'Daemonology'? Kieran North West Labs Stephen St. Court Sligo Republic of Ireland Tel. +353 71 69441 Fax. +353 71 6945…
10 Sep 1999, 14:40
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Jonas' distress is the realization of how much time has passed on Urth since his departure. << True, and I suppose this was a dawning realisation as there probably isn't an easy w…
01 Jun 1999, 13:39
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I like that as a possibility, but for this to work, Catherine needs to get whipped back through the corridoors of time in order to meet Oeuen (sp?) so that she can conceive Sev. Wh…
13 Apr 1999, 13:39
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One word: impasse. I've always been fond of that particular hypothesis, but some recalcitrants on the list just won't have it. And I'm going to push the boat out a little: I betya …
25 Feb 1999, 09:49
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Well there's also the depiction of Pas as being two-headed in Kypris' temptation of Silk at the end of Exodus. So unless Wolfe has an undue liking for two-headed tyrants...... The…
16 Feb 1999, 15:51
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mantis, I don't have Lexicon Urthus to hand, so you probably already have this, but seeing as St. Fechin's 7th century church is in my locale, I should report that: "Legend tells…
07 Dec 1998, 15:42
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Alga said: variant of the demonic offer of world control, and Silk really is a "beautiful man." < That's assuming Silk had any choice in the matter. There's reason to believe tha…
02 Nov 1998, 14:30
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which sent historians and archaeologists into fits of sarcasm and frothing at the mouth, might be very useful to a writer like Crowley in his Aegypt series.< If I'm allowed a wee …
28 Oct 1998, 09:38
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mike: is more like it), the rounded tip is from French executioners blades< isn't the tip of TE flat? Interesting about the Chinese swords. Kieran C. North West Labs Finisklin…
19 Oct 1998, 10:32
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mantis, one of the reasons I liked BotNS so much, I think, was the sense of a compressed, palimpsest-like complexity. By the time I had joined the list, I had read BotNS about fou…
15 Oct 1998, 10:58
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lol @ bad casting. Of course, you'd need an absurdly deep-throated and portentous trailer intro: "In the Far Far Future, The Sun is Dying...The Fate of Humanity lies with the Des…
13 May 1998, 14:38
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I have to agree with Tony: the covers for the UK version are (IMHO) far better than the Maitz covers. On the other hand, the covers for the UK version of the Long Sun series are ve…
06 May 1998, 11:51
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well, <grasping at straws here> maybe the cataclysmic arrival of the New Sun shifts Lune into an eliptic orbit of Urth? Baldanders speaks of the waves of gravitation which cause th…
01 Apr 1998, 10:09
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er, well I haven't read "The Cat", so I'm not sure what the "circle" you're referring to is. I really don't think this is so. The ship's hold contains the caged apports, and in fa…
17 Feb 1998, 16:41
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mantis writes: Do we? My impression was that they lead to other locations on Briath. Jonas uses them to return to the stars, Burgandofora (?) laughs at the idea that the ship-sail…
17 Feb 1998, 14:56
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I think the reference to the humans of Sev's time having changed a good deal takes place when Sev. emerges from the mine at Saltus and chats to Jonas re the possible origin of the …
03 Feb 1998, 11:14
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[Resending this, so apologies for duplication if any] -viz wonders: How about this then: Item: The Conciliator is sometimes referred to as "Dark Sun" (or "Dark Star" can't remem…
02 Feb 1998, 14:22
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Addendum to last message: I'm mixing up my terminology somewhat. To clarify: the New Sun as an astrophysical object is the spanking brand new star which results when the White Foun…
02 Feb 1998, 12:50
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How about this then: Item: The Conciliator is sometimes referred to as "Dark Sun" (or "Dark Star" can't remember which.) Item: The New Sun itself is a White Fountain. This is desc…
02 Feb 1998, 11:14
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I would imagine that the version that Thecla & Sev read is similar to the one Dr. Talos claims to have based his play on. That is, a colourful, mythic reworking of the "facts", whi…
29 Jan 1998, 14:55
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Happy New Year everyone. Y'know, if it hasn't already been done, someone should really publish all those essays (mantis, Clute, whoever) in a single collection.... lasrach Nor…
08 Jan 1998, 11:06
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Well, as in Real Life, if someone has a vision or numinous experience, that can be interpreted as the de facto evidence that they "burst a blood vessel" or whatever. Of course, the…
09 Sep 1997, 14:51
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Cool. I hadn't really thought of that. Godly duplicity again. Seems more than reasonable, despite Typhon's apparent rehabilitation, that Silk, already accepted as Calde, would mere…
03 Sep 1997, 14:19
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Sounds good to me too. Wouldn't mind exhuming a little more Crowley. lasrach Kieran Cleary North West Labs Finisklin Industrial Estate, Sligo Tel: +353 71 69441 Fax: +353 71 694…
19 Aug 1997, 16:06
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Dear Wesley Parsons: I'm a subscriber to the whorl mailing list, and received the following message about 70 times today. ----------…
26 Jun 1997, 15:37
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This is like the three wishes problem ("I wish for infinite wishes"). I guess I'd have to ask "What was Typhon's purpose in launching the Whorl and was the Blue/Green system the …
13 May 1997, 11:43
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Hi Vance: I have to say I agree with you re Pike/Quetzal: I don't find the previous explanations satisfactory, while not having a better one myself! Many people have referred to…
09 Apr 1997, 14:55
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Perhaps someone can help me out on this one: In tBotNS, Typhon gets his head grafted onto poor Piatus's (?) body obviously in order to prolong his life and reign. Since he seems …
26 Feb 1997, 11:23
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