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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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-----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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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One point in favor. :) This is correct but it's a corrupt symbolism. Neutral point. : / The BotNS has considerable evidence that genetically engineered animals predate Typhon's…
16 Aug 2003, 09:03
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Don replies: I think that these "inconsistencies" that you bring up may very well point to another motive for the existence of the Whorl. In some perverse way, I think Typhon i…
15 Aug 2003, 03:42
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On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 10:50 AM, Chris wrote: [lots of snipping] (Don isolates this part) But you see, writing isn't profitable as it is. Harlan Ellison had to work …
15 Aug 2003, 03:16
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Don agrees. He finds this a most likely scenario, the Whorl as a corruption of Tzadkiel's ship. Or perhaps a lesser imitation since he is suspicious of the "holiness" of the Hi…
14 Aug 2003, 05:11
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Don muses: Technology will change this, I think. Just like with the music industry, it is becoming less and less expensive to do things yourself with a good degree of quality. …
14 Aug 2003, 02:57
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Thanks for the suggestion. On looking back, I see that you brought up Hamlet's Mill to Crush. So double thanks. God only knows when I'll get to all this stuff. I need a perso…
09 Aug 2003, 03:59
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I've never read any Delany, but isn't it interesting how he ends up figuring prominently in Harlan Ellison's post? It sort of ties two divergent topics together don't you think?…
31 Jul 2003, 02:49
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I agree completely.…
31 Jul 2003, 02:42
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Don wholeheartedly agrees with this, however . . . I too understand. This place (bay area) is a little like the Balkans sometimes or maybe more like "Gangs of New York" with BMW…
30 Jul 2003, 03:38
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Don rejoices, That was beautiful. A long time ago, I took Harlan Ellison as my writing inspiration, if not in style and content, for his single minded determination to do thing…
30 Jul 2003, 03:10
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Brilliant! I feel however, that you must soon go mad. Perhaps then you will see that Ymar is the first Severian. hahahahahahahah...ahem.…
29 Jul 2003, 07:12
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On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 11:15 PM, maa32 wrote: "You have a wonderful idea here. Don butts in with two maybe three comments: Having never read anything you've written I wo…
29 Jul 2003, 07:04
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No doubt. Then when I self published I'd put it on page three and a big "Introduction by Gene Wolfe" on the cover. ; p…
27 Jul 2003, 05:36
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Don pipes in: I'm in Santa Cruz. That's two. But this place is mondo expensive, even to visit. Merging this idea with a convention sounds ideal.…
26 Jul 2003, 20:36
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