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I appreciate the feedback on my post and as always there's something edifying to be found, but I feel the need to clarify myself. I'm suggesting that Wolfe might have been influen…
03 Jun 2005, 19:30
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We'll have to agree to disagree on the cross, I think. As I said, your definition is technically more correct, but I'm not sure that means much with Wolfe. I don't have my new su…
16 May 2005, 21:25
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How serendipitous, that someone should bring up the voided cross just as I'm slowly rereading the LS. I'm just beginning chapter 2 of Calde and that voided cross has been on my mi…
16 May 2005, 16:43
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-----Original Message----- I thought of another reason why this is probably not possible. Scylla remains trapped in Oreb all that time. If she could have transferred out eye-to-ey…
08 Jan 2005, 15:16
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"I'm not sure that Garvaon's sacrifice would have been appreciated by Idnn had she known of it. In fact, I'm pretty confident she would find it reprehensible and offensive." That…
04 Jan 2005, 11:58
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This is a paradox. Garvaon sacrifices his knightly honor to benefit Idnn, something not even Able is willing to do. Don His murder of Gilling, in knightly terms, is a deeply sel…
04 Jan 2005, 11:10
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I think this also has a connection to Kulili. She is a composite creature made from worms, and acording to Able's accounting of the creation of the worlds, the lower are made from…
04 Jan 2005, 11:01
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I think he is linking them thematically to the undines of Urth. The giantesses' ancestors are the Giants of winter and old night, who GW makes clear are from deep space. Don I al…
04 Jan 2005, 10:57
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Gilling is a particularly large giant, so this may have something to do with it as well. Don But back to the witch-ghost's nasty little vision of giant-human conubials: it could …
04 Jan 2005, 10:51
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Hey everyone, I'm moving to a new apt. so I'm posting early. I'll probably check my mail at the library but I don't know how much I'll be posting for a few weeks. There's plen…
28 Dec 2004, 16:39
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I just finished the Wizard an hour ago. Very interesting. Hard to decide if it's great or just very good as it's hard to separate it from Wolfe's other works. I look forward t…
16 Dec 2004, 10:49
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I believe he is at long last, the Silk of LS (or "The Book of Silk" if you will), a character who never truly existed until Horn made him. Don…
11 Dec 2004, 23:22
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Not allowing a language to change is the surest way to make it irrelevant. That's why all the moaning about the death of the english language makes me laugh. IMO it's as vital …
06 Dec 2004, 08:09
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At the risk of diving in over my head and, worse, adding nothing useful to this interesting discussion, I'd like to share an epiphany I had while reading above. In a universe th…
05 Dec 2004, 12:33
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It's an interesting typo, though. Oddly appropriate. Don…
05 Dec 2004, 11:48
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You know, I haven't read any Mieville, but for all the talk of him being hack-ish, there's a certain purity of feeling in these quotes that make me curious now to check out at le…
02 Dec 2004, 10:06
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Verhoeven's not satirizing Nazis. He's satirizing the Bush One (and scarily enough, Bush 2) administration and mocking the filmgoer at the same time. I've said it to many peopl…
01 Dec 2004, 21:58
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Don (who's still a kid I suppose) tosses in his coppers: I like this a lot. Ahab vs the white whale. Quinn vs the shark. Maybe they should've stayed on shore and opened a bait…
30 Nov 2004, 11:29
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Having just started the Wizard and having just read Pullman's trilogy I feel I can safely say that, as much as I dug the characters in HDM, Wolfe could have fit the entire story…
29 Nov 2004, 19:27
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Don pipes in: Yes, I think an argument can be made that LotR isn't even fantasy in the way it's understood now. You might as well ask about the system of grain distribution in …
29 Nov 2004, 19:13
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Don says I'm for that. I'll have it finished earlier, but it's nice to let it sit for a bit and settle.…
03 Nov 2004, 21:11
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Hey everyone, I just finished The Amber Spyglass last night and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the entire trilogy. The only review I read of it was backhandedly c…
14 Oct 2004, 17:08
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Don replies, It's a very enjoyable book. The many footnotes, far from being distracting, really add to the richness of the story. Still, I felt it was anticlimactic for such a…
05 Oct 2004, 17:22
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Don replies: I highly doubt the cover art was approved by Wolfe. The cover for RttW (besides being hideous) is the result of a misreading of the passage where Silkhorn is pick…
03 Oct 2004, 20:26
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Hi everyone One of the benefits of my soul killing job (it's not quite that bad) is that I have time to think of things like this. If Urth's sun has a black hole in the center …
11 Sep 2003, 03:40
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We're just on opposite ends here. I love counterfeit history/religious documents. I want to write one myself someday. Something with Elvis I think. To each his own though. T…
11 Sep 2003, 03:32
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Indeed. It's easy for me to slip into generalities when I just pound out a reply on the old demon box. I blame a lifetime of television, something I plan to spend the last two …
11 Sep 2003, 03:26
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On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 10:48 PM, Roy C. Lackey wrote: I think it Don adds: I think Roy is right but not quite in the way he intended. Typhon did cause the black…
09 Sep 2003, 01:25
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Let me rephrase and hopefully not bumble: They are different aspects but the Son is God, not of a lesser order and there are not two Gods, or three including the Holy Spirit. It…
09 Sep 2003, 01:15
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And yet this is exactly what happens when the Alzabo eats Severa or Severian eats the forebrain of Appian. This is also what happens with the Inhumi when they feed on humans or …
08 Sep 2003, 02:11
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Don chimes in (am I the real Don, or an eidolon?): While I don't doubt this is true - and isn't Abaia as the Naviscaput an ogre - I think it is a mistake to identify tBotNS solel…
07 Sep 2003, 19:07
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Oooh, elaborate please. I know nothing about any of this stuff. I was just intrigued by the table of contents. If it's too much bs for the list send it off list. curiously Do…
07 Sep 2003, 01:41
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From http://216.239.41.104/ search?q=cache:vSmsO6PtHs0J:digital.library.upenn.edu/women/edwards/ pharaohs/pharaohs-4.html+ka-arms&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 : "Now, the Ka is a very inter…
07 Sep 2003, 01:38
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http://www.catastrophism.com/cdrom/pubs/books/saturn/ All this site shows is the table of contents and a synopsis but I'd bet dollars GW has read it. Anyone know anything about …
07 Sep 2003, 01:20
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Hey everyone, I just want everyone to know that I'm having a damned entertaining time reading Herodotus. I'm beginning book three and I don't know if it's the translation (U of…
07 Sep 2003, 00:22
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Like the moon being made of green cheese in tBotNS. irrelevantly yours Don…
06 Sep 2003, 23:29
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Which brings me to a bizarre question, but not irrelevant: Could Baldanders be Abaia? This is not as ridiculous as it first seems. Under the tutelage of the Undines it is pos…
06 Sep 2003, 23:26
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Yes, I think it really is hard to ignore. I agree with this but I do believe that in addition to Silk, it makes perfect sense for Typhon to have placed his family on the Whorl in…
06 Sep 2003, 23:16
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Yes, but (according to orthodoxy) the Father and the Son are the same. As I pointed out, by making Silk a clone of Typhon he is both Typhon (genetically) and his son ("born" t…
06 Sep 2003, 22:49
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If Silk and Typhon are the same it would only be necessary for Quetzal's mother (or do I have the morphology wrong?) to have fed on Silk. Or his mother could have fed on Typhon …
05 Sep 2003, 07:17
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One explanation, only slightly satisfying, I've seen is that Silk is tall and I assume Horn falls short. That's my two cents. Don…
05 Sep 2003, 01:17
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Yes, but in a work that is set up as a puzzle archetypal cue and clues should not be (and I think are not) carelessly placed. Don…
05 Sep 2003, 01:00
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Yes, but Quetzal is the only inhumu who is a Sun archetype, Dionysus. This singles him out as being somehow related to Typhon and Silk (and Severian) imo. According to Graves t…
05 Sep 2003, 00:28
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My bad, A Tamarind tree grows is South America. Tamarind the spice/fruit is from India. Still it doesn't change my basic premise. Don…
04 Sep 2003, 05:22
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Well, let me be the first to welcome you! Maybe the virus problems have knocked a few people down for awhile (I'm on a mac) or maybe everyone moved to a new site without telling…
04 Sep 2003, 05:14
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Howdy Earlier last month or the month before a few people were speculating that Latro might be a Tarquin. If that's the case wouldn't that make him a descendant of Aeneas? A lo…
04 Sep 2003, 05:09
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http://www.levity.com/alchemy/caezza3.html http://www.theoi.com/Tartaros/Kholkian.html I was thumbing through the glossary of my copy of Apollonius' Argonautica when I stumbled…
04 Sep 2003, 04:57
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Hey, anybody out there?…
04 Sep 2003, 03:49
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As I recall, Severian goes hungry quite a lot, a small touch I found quite impressive. Don…
21 Aug 2003, 04:45
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I love dredging up this subject: A while back Crush (I think) brought up the fact that according to Graves, Gaia and Trivigante are the same. They shift their aspect from one t…
16 Aug 2003, 09:21
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