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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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Hi everyone, Andrew's post whipped me back to something that has been on my mind for a while: Typhon's nature. It is pretty well established I think that he is not a product o…
16 Aug 2003, 03:12
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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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Hi all, Unfortunately, I have woefully little to contribute to the understanding of these great books, but I've found the discussion going on here quite helpful. I just picked…
09 Aug 2003, 03:18
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Be careful what you wish for Crush: Sp'cifikly mythikly, our man James (not Keenan) Wynn he reads the Wolfe's words deciphers their meanin' (bows in false modesty, fruit misses by…
09 Aug 2003, 02:59
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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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It's a good idea in theory. I would imagine there would have to be some really strong ground rules to keep Mr. Wolfe from being overwhelmed, and there's the question of where it…
26 Jul 2003, 20:31
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Don replies: Yeah I know. I was just angry, which is why I labeled it a rant in forewarning. It sounds like something good might spring from this though. I hope that at leas…
26 Jul 2003, 19:32
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That is utterly unbelievable. What a pathetic lot of juvenile, ungrateful, UNKNOWING, clueless idiots. I don't even know where to start. How about why bother to take a writin…
26 Jul 2003, 03:34
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To be honest, I don't particularly like the idea of Silk even resembling Malrubius. That suggestion was more one of those from my brain to the keyboard kind of things. My only …
23 Jul 2003, 01:32
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Don (referring to himself, as pleases him, in the third person) replies, I think you mean Palaemon rather than Malrubius. I don't think Wolfe forgot to have Severian mention the…
22 Jul 2003, 01:52
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All of this talk about Silk (the man who doesn't eat) put me back on the track of a question that's been nagging me. How does the Green Man repay Severian for setting him free? …
20 Jul 2003, 01:25
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Don repeats, possibly unnecessarily: Why can't the Malrubius eidolon simply be Sev's memory of Silk? This is a much cleaner and more consistent explanation than having Silk gu…
20 Jul 2003, 01:05
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Don pops up. (whack him! quick!) I see no reason to doubt your conclusion since Silk/Malrubius appears to Sev before the aquastor. Besides, if Silk can travel through time as w…
20 Jul 2003, 00:59
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It was written: How extensive is the Library again? My impression is that it contains every book written. It's meant to be Borges' infinite library. Probably Father Inire ha…
11 Jul 2003, 01:48
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This regards the significance of the name Horn: Etymology: AL HEEKA bull’s southern horn In Arabic, hakka is to scratch or gore. Hebrew HaKHaH is a fishing hook, and, of course, …
10 Jul 2003, 06:50
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Don rushes in, I'm fool enough to recklessly speculate on this question, but only on the understanding that I've still only read Long and Short Suns once each and your post is t…
09 Jul 2003, 08:23
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Don believes that the skull might or might not be Severian's. Don however is certain that Severian leaves out many things when it suits him as both the Book of the New Sun and t…
09 Jul 2003, 07:56
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Don (I am not the first Don) replies, All writing is copying of some sort, and crassness isn't always a shortcoming. You could submit your article to Ultan's Library. I don't …
09 Jul 2003, 07:36
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Don repies, and then replies, I agree with this in general. Regardless of whether Ymar is the first Severian (and I am unshakeable in my own belief in this) the original "Sever…
06 Jul 2003, 20:32
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Don replies, When I first read UotNS, before I read BotNS the second time and before delving much into Graves I did think that Severian was the original Conciliator and the ori…
05 Jul 2003, 08:16
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Don materializes from his past, or your future, or the future of our past present. Something. It's an appealing theory Marc, but I don't think it works. For one thing, It is t…
04 Jul 2003, 06:27
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Though we tend to disagree on most things involving this series Roy, I value your point of view and I'm constantly amazed that you anticipate the stream of my arguments. This is…
16 Mar 2003, 00:32
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-----Original Message----- Don (not Lisa) writes: First off, sorry for the double posts, I don't know what's going on with that. I don't know what thematic reasons Roy put forth…
15 Mar 2003, 02:46
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Don offers his opinionated opinion: It is relatively easy to see Graves in Wolfe because of his relative unorthodoxy regarding myths and their connections. I'm not saying that …
15 Mar 2003, 01:56
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Aw contrail mon friar, My assertion that Severian is the son of Typhon has very little to do with the KJ parallel. I think the story of Frog establishes pretty well the identit…
12 Mar 2003, 06:29
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Don replies: Though I've been guilty of relying too heavily on Graves for my arguments in the past, I think that these latest claims are based pretty solidly on clues within the …
12 Mar 2003, 06:19
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Don replies quickly as his wife wants to go walk and Latro awaits: The Typhon Herod connection is in King Jesus in that Herod wants to revive the cult of Set/Typhon which involve…
11 Mar 2003, 06:31
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Howdy y'all. It seems like my brain is on fire today. One of the arguments I have been expecting against my theory that Valeria is Severian's sister is the fact that Fish in t…
09 Mar 2003, 00:26
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I have two things to say here and the are more musings out loud than anything. The first is this: If Green is Urth (or Ushas) what does that say about Quetzal's dying intention…
08 Mar 2003, 23:47
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Don replies, Thank you both for these important considerations. Without a second reading of the text, I don't have enough to work out my theory the way I would like to. Another…
08 Mar 2003, 23:21
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I realized that I didn't quite reply to your question. When I said that Hierax perhaps recognized Silk, I meant that he recognized him as Typhon, not necessarily as Pas. The ot…
08 Mar 2003, 17:14
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To which Don replies: This has occurred to me, and here is my solution. The Gods in mainframe are not actual visual representations of their scans but archetypal god figures, u…
08 Mar 2003, 17:08
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Hi everyone, Don again. This obviously needs a lot of work and support, but the ideas are sound, I think. The Book of Typhon part two: Silk as Typhon This segment is more spe…
07 Mar 2003, 04:56
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Hi everyone, Don here again (not Lisa though I suppose that's appropriate to the gender bending discussions of late :)) Below is what I've been contemplating in my abscence. En…
07 Mar 2003, 04:51
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Hi everyone, Don here. I'm back from a long hiatus and I thought I'd throw out a few odds and ends in no particular order of importance. First in my head, first from my fingers…
06 Mar 2003, 06:28
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I Don replies: Sorry Roy, but that dagger just don't cut for me. Silk's opinions on the origin or age of the Neighbor's are just as likely to be wrong as right. He's an unreliabl…
22 Dec 2002, 04:25
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----- Original Message ----- No pardon necessary since these I believe are Jeff's comments rather than mine. I mean, I know they're not mine and I think they're Jeff's. We are i…
19 Dec 2002, 06:12
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Hi everyone, I'm no ethicist (no jab intended Crush) but Gene Wolfe is a wiley intelligent 70 year old man and he certainly knew that if he told Marc something there was a chance …
18 Dec 2002, 03:10
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