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I finished "The Sorcerer's House" last week and I really enjoyed it. First, it has an engaging story that is more transparent than, oh "Peace" or "The Fifth Head of Cerberus…
24 Mar 2010, 19:02
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Please pardon this test message. I've sent four messages to the mailing list and none have appeared. I am trying a different computer. Kieran Mullen…
23 Mar 2010, 16:01
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FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned "The Sorcerer's House" "hermetic" and "like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and pleasure to all but a few aficion…
10 Mar 2010, 22:40
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Cassie as Pavlatos, multiple Reis's, Margret as a werewolf.... Argh!? I thought that there is more to AEG than I thought, but sometimes I wonder if we are indulging in unc…
07 Oct 2009, 21:46
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As a Catholic research physicist, theological science fiction has long been an interest of mine. I have toyed with teaching a course on the topic but am not sure if I am comp…
22 Sep 2009, 20:34
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Sorry to omit previous discussions.... I don't think Wolfe jumped the shark with Pirate Freedom. I thought that it was an interesting story as well as an exploration of …
14 Apr 2009, 17:06
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Just for fun you might check out the trailer for the movie 2012 (e.g. at imdb.com) . I know nothing about the movie, but the trailer made me think about the BotNS and what wo…
08 Apr 2009, 17:15
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(I have sent this in several times and I never saw it on the list or on the webserver. I am resending it. I apologize if it appears more than once.) A very good friend of…
03 Nov 2008, 17:59
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On Wednesday night I read: And I immediately thought: "Eye suppoze ewer rite. If ewe can sea watt peephole are saying itz knot raleigh kneaded two poynt out tooth em t…
14 Aug 2008, 04:08
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The epigraph is from a sonnet: Sonnet 144 Two loves I have, of comfort and despair Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better…
27 Jun 2007, 16:42
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"The Friendship Light" is, I believe, a Lovecraft mythos story. It's in "Innocents Abroad." You do have to read a bit between the lines, though. Kieran Mullen…
21 Jun 2007, 19:24
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I am not David, but I can write why I find the story disturbing: an innocent young girl is brutally murdered in order to salvage one mentally disturbed adult male, drive an i…
16 Oct 2006, 19:25
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Umm... At the risk of being repetitive, there already is an (under-used) Wolfe wiki. I set one up at: http://www.nhn.ou.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~kieran/wiki/wolfe?FrontPage It's n…
27 Jun 2006, 22:30
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I promised to enter a few of my favorite Wolfe quotes. The sources are obvious, so I'll omit them :-) "I destroyed the Dream-Master as He has been sacrificed so often, de…
05 Jun 2006, 22:34
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One thing I love about Wolfe is his prose. His choice of words, their cadence, their compact power. OTOH, I can't think of many quotes off the top of my head. I am not sure W…
19 May 2006, 20:08
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On May 18, 2006, at 7:39 PM, Message: 8 Wasn't that in our long discussion about the Professor/Dr. Talos parallel and the theory about how the undines kept everyone from es…
19 May 2006, 19:50
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There is a wiki on the Wizard-Knight that died from lack of activity. I started it at: http://www.nhn.ou.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~kieran/wiki/wolfe?FrontPage I would be happy to…
03 May 2006, 18:54
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The original is: A. Einstein, B. Podolsky and N. Rosen, “Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete”, Phys. Rev. 47 (1935) 777-780. There are…
11 Apr 2006, 20:45
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Begin forwarded message: It is this sort of postmodern meta-analysis that I find most annoying. First, Gnostic is such a syncretic and malleable tradition that it is po…
24 Jun 2005, 14:33
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Begin forwarded message: What color is Severian's skin? I always thought it was quite dark, but maybe I've been mistaken all along... Kieran Mullen…
16 Jun 2005, 12:38
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Well, as a Catholic and a reader of Wolfe I have found this thread to be rather odd. Your point seems to be that any change in the future of Urth that causes the death of anyon…
31 Mar 2005, 15:30
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My favorite answer to this was the one provided by Dan Simmons in the Hyperion novels. One of his characters claims that actually Abraham had to go through with this because h…
22 Mar 2005, 09:43
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At the risk of being rude, I pose the above question. Of late I find very little discussion of Wolfe and lots of thoughts on distantly related topics. Perhaps I am the only …
21 Feb 2005, 14:43
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Hmmm... I'd recommend that you work with your pharmacist until they get the dosages right. Sure, the colors may no longer be as bright, but I think the payoff in ability to f…
25 Jan 2005, 14:23
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I put this on the FrequentlyAskedQuestions page at the WolfeWiki (http://www.nhn.ou.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~kieran/wiki/wolfe?FrontPage): What is the significance of the name "Art…
13 Jan 2005, 15:15
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When do we stop worrying about spoilers? Extra space for those who are worried about such things. Dum dee dee..... Ok. Able heals Berthold at the end. Wolfe…
13 Jan 2005, 10:11
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Ok. Let's see if this works. I started a Wiki page on my machine. The URL is ugly, so if you like it, bookmark it. *Please* read the instructions on how Wiki works. http://ww…
12 Jan 2005, 15:17
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Is it worth setting up a Wiki page for a FAQ on the Wizard Knight books? For those of you who don't know, Wiki is a system which allows the viewers of the webpages to edit a…
11 Jan 2005, 12:34
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Is this the right venue for discussions of The Wizard-Knight series? Very minor spoilers: A small note about the ending of "The Knight." Able/Art ends up with…
11 Jan 2005, 11:57
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No doubt half a hundred people will write to you that the definition of echidna: echidna \E*chid"na\, n. [L., a viper, adder, Gr. ?.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) A monster, half maid a…
09 Apr 2000, 15:12
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I don't think that is correct. Imagine two cars circling a race track. If one catches the other every six laps, then that means it is going 7/6 (1.16) times as fast. If one we…
03 Apr 2000, 16:27
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Oh, MAN is that a badly written review. "But Severian himself has much to hide, and the text of his "confession" has become a honeypot for puzzle-solving readers." (S…
05 Nov 1999, 11:46
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Hmmm... As a scientist myself, let me throw in a word or two. The "scientific method" may still exist after a fashion, but one critical aspect is missing: publication. By tha…
02 Nov 1999, 13:44
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One data point would be the size of whales. They don't seem to be working on the evolutionary edge of lung capacity, since they can stay submerged for long periods of time. (That…
17 Oct 1999, 11:18
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In one of the postscripts Wolfe speculates that there is only one ship like Tzad's. I always sorta thought that Jonas and Hethor came from the same crashlanding. However, we don'…
02 Jun 1999, 11:40
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No, absolutely not. That is unconditional love. It is *not* predestination. Predestination would be "the Outsider had assured him that the future was crystalline, never t…
06 Apr 1999, 12:51
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Will someone post/put on the web this second theory? Mark it with spoiler warnings if necessary. I'd really like to see it. Kieran Mullen Kieran Mullen …
02 Mar 1999, 14:26
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Oops! Sorry. I forgot that you had said you were limiting your analysis to Oz stuff in these posts. My apologies. Yep :-) I don't agree. It may not be exceptionally wel…
19 Feb 1999, 12:13
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[Deletia] This is Christic imagery, too. From the temptation in the desert, where the Devil quotes scripture about angels bearing up the messiah if he should fall. IIRC, Tib …
18 Feb 1999, 10:44
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I get the exact opposite feeling. After all, they could have gone back and rearranged time/history for *any* failed autarch. I think Sev1 succeeded. Then, since he is the one wh…
12 Feb 1999, 12:14
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Well, it's got the standard storytelling structure-of-three. The first thing it made me think of was the Prodigal Son, who was willing to eat the garbage, the food of the ... oops…
10 Feb 1999, 00:41
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Has anyone heard the Wolfe audio tapes? Can you recommend them? Kieran Mullen…
13 Jan 1999, 16:33
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I've been incommunicado due to a misunderstanding between my computer and the listserver. Someone asked about _Bibliomen_ a while back. I tried to post the following review: ===…
07 Jan 1999, 01:51
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Hello? Hello? I've been unable to post for over a month. Does this work now? Testing.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- …
06 Jan 1999, 19:02
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(1) Is it worth pestering SJ Games? If they perceive fan interest, it might help. (2) Would you sell copies of your manuscript? Kieran Mullen Kieran M…
20 Nov 1998, 17:20
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Has anyone seen the GURPS guide to TBotNS? (GURPS is a point-based role-playing game.) If so, is it any good? Kieran Mullen…
19 Nov 1998, 17:03
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Of course Neil (or someone like him) *does* appear in TBotNS in one of Rudesind's paintings. :-) Kieran Mullen *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of th…
31 Oct 1998, 20:47
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[deletia] Well, she is beautiful and passionate, a combination that is pretty attractive. If you want a more literary interpretaion, I figured that it was related to the allego…
31 Oct 1998, 17:26
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The classic example is the "Black Easter" series by James Blish. It's brilliant. One candidate is "Godstalk" by P.C. Hogdell. In it the "heroes" are superhuman warriors (sort…
19 Oct 1998, 13:08
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Sometimes. Hmm. Latest Nobel prize in physics (fractional quantum Hall effect) was not based on theoretical predictions, but pushing the experiments to a different regime of pa…
14 Oct 1998, 23:59
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