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A ring that remains textually unidentifiable unless it is somehow the original ring that should have been on Green is the main reason I have always felt that Auk must have repaired…
14 Jul 2013, 22:37
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How can they have intellectual rights to something as general as freezing time, a fantasy of probably just about everyone who has ever lived? Absolutely ludicrous. Gene Wolfe mi…
14 Jul 2013, 19:24
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Off camera, in my opinion. A ring, auks ghost, a big woman high on something victimized by Jahlee, after which she looks like chenille, and a lander all near Dorp match up with st…
13 Jul 2013, 20:47
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The scene on dorp when Jahlee is mistaken for Chenille also has two other weird things - the presence of auks ghost and it is where Oreb brings a ring that changes to look like Hor…
12 Jul 2013, 12:58
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Yes she has had it pretty severely for years now. 8000 a month? Sweet lord. He said the bills were bad but I didn't realize they were that bad. Sent from my iPhone…
26 Jun 2013, 17:41
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Perhaps it is England. Yet the presence of st. Agnes well/fountain which is a tourist stop near Prague and the hints that the tales of Baba Yaga chicken footed hut refer to mother …
23 Jun 2013, 23:12
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Yes, originally I wrote just that Latro and Aphrodite made it and did not put page numbers for the references, but Nigel made a few of the references more explicit and reader frien…
17 Jun 2013, 13:35
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Ah ha. Coleman Baum is Chet burton. The loyalty and love skip feels for him, the senior partner, and the memories he has of him - no doubt his boss in every sense of the word. T…
10 Jun 2013, 14:47
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--- On Sun, 6/9/13, Stephen Hoy <stephenhoy at yahoo.com> wrote: From: Stephen Hoy <stephenhoy at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: _Home Fires_, 1982 ro…
10 Jun 2013, 01:08
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Here is the quote I was talking about -?Chelle says: "Tante Elise said there were seven people there. Remember, Mother? I think she thought any gun-". Skip had his finger to his …
07 Jun 2013, 16:34
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Well, we do get to see four of the guns (the one Vanessa chooses). So we see four guns and two are never displayed. Tante Elise does not need one. I think the six guns stand for th…
07 Jun 2013, 16:10
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thanks Stephen. Right now I am simply not sure if the body Vanessa possesses should be counted as a person (Edith Eckhart?) in that scene. since she?Vanessa is dead already, " Tant…
07 Jun 2013, 16:06
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One more detail- Rick Johnson the cyborg with Susan, Skip's secretary, is tall, lanky, and wears a tweed jacket. The description of whoever stabbed Chelle's mother at the restaura…
07 Jun 2013, 13:52
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Also, skip forgets about meeting "Charles Blue" on page 191 and at the start of chapter 4 and keeps trying to place him every time he meets him (he also keeps forgetting the last n…
07 Jun 2013, 13:40
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Also, on page 282 it is revealed zygmunt, skip's investigator, is dead and two women are missing. On page 285 skip hands some people we have never heard of weapons and a "leader" …
06 Jun 2013, 17:21
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The old man who sells Vanessa the furniture and the suicidal shaving knife wears some interesting clothes. Skip says " I have forgotten the old man's name; I remember everything e…
06 Jun 2013, 17:00
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Ah yes - I think this is important. Skip has a vision early of a garden with pink or red flowers and a working fountain, then comes across a fountain matching that description whe…
06 Jun 2013, 16:53
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The alias coalman Baum that mr white-blue uses does have some interesting associations. Skip ponders that the first name is a color game for black. Baum is a surname used to indic…
06 Jun 2013, 03:42
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Also, couldn't figure out where boswash was off the top of my head - a megalopolis coined in the sixties or so along the New England coast from Boston to Washington. Vanessa is im…
06 Jun 2013, 02:34
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--- On Wed, 6/5/13, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: Between the third-person point of view, Wolfe intersperses Skip’s (and later Chelle’s) first-person me…
06 Jun 2013, 01:51
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Chelle recognizes her mother in another body but does not recognize skip, claiming it is just age. But is it? Sent from my iPhone…
05 Jun 2013, 18:48
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But there is some subtext that it is not him at all. He says he never gives to beggars, then after the first chapter he always gives to beggars. His opening statement about wakin…
05 Jun 2013, 18:33
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Some old posters were published authors, but haven't seen them in a while. Michael andre-Driussi, yves meynard, patrick o leary, Borski- (some of his criticism might be wild enoug…
15 May 2013, 00:33
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Am I confusing the ship with the Hyperion Cantos, or is there a sense of the Yggdrasil world tree as a ship? does that story at all come into reference in Urth of the New Sun? Been…
08 May 2013, 20:36
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The book does say that number five doubts his father is capable of the feat of human cloning at one point. Of course, he is. Sent from my iPhone…
06 May 2013, 15:17
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The unhatched chick between Jolenta's legs. Anyway, we know something of number five's first cloning efforts. He takes unfertilized frog sex cells and doubles the chromosomes, pr…
06 May 2013, 13:24
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Definitely, his work on Fifth Head is top notch. I am trying to remember if he did much with all the crazy colors associated with names in Peace ( blue ribbon around a little coff…
01 May 2013, 13:03
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Borski is hit and miss- imaginative but often way too tenuous and nontextual in his leaps. Believe it or not I wait for the text to at least legitimately hint at something befor…
01 May 2013, 00:31
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The proper answer to all questions is yes, no,no, yes, no, yes, no. Maybe. Sent from my iPhone…
30 Apr 2013, 16:34
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I will answer those questions if elected, but I will not eat his brains. Even with analept of alzabo. Sent from my iPhone…
30 Apr 2013, 16:32
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Interesting. I really love his work on the Wright books in terms of color and content, especially "Shadows of the New Sun". Alas, my lack of interest in landscape has always kept …
24 Apr 2013, 19:32
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I would have to say Silk is more like a pedant or preachy fellow than a jerk, and Latro more like a heroic dupe. Obviously this is pretty subjective stuff we are talking about. …
22 Apr 2013, 15:23
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Horn is very resentful towards Nettle for getting pregnant in some of his flashbacks -?there is something spoiled in many of his recollections. There is such vast and deep irony in…
19 Apr 2013, 19:59
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Sent from my iPhone Really quickly because I think it is something readers overlook. Horn is a jerk. He thinks about his wife in obw because that is the effect of being mixed wi…
19 Apr 2013, 14:28
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Anyone who has read his interviews on Peace knows that a few words create a pattern of conclusiveness. Mrs porter is miss bold across two hundred pages because she is blond, prett…
14 Apr 2013, 05:32
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If one is not in favor of the maggots explanation, rue d'asticot might perhaps be another allusion to a "mythical street" in London named Grub Street. Which was renamed Milton Stre…
12 Apr 2013, 02:53
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And sandwalker actually dreams of being a wormlike being at one point. I do think phylogeny recapitualting ontogeny is a very valid theme that shed light on House of Ancestors as w…
11 Apr 2013, 18:58
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Perhaps, or at least a tendency toward an impediment to easy mobility. Her name, Seven Girls Waiting, kind of does imply that some girls will just be waiting around, though Cedar B…
11 Apr 2013, 18:55
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And the other theme is that successful mimicry involves erasing consciously erasing one's origins in favor of a fabulated story to make the mimicry "valid". I don't see any themati…
11 Apr 2013, 18:53
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--- On Thu, 4/11/13, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: From: DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> Subject: Re: (urth) fifth head owlet- wolf? To: "The Urt…
11 Apr 2013, 18:47
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I actually wanted to involve Gerry's opinion of the scene in question here, when Seven Girls Waiting and Sandwalker first meet. There is a mysterious dialog between them, with him …
11 Apr 2013, 18:11
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definitely an outcrossing with Jeanine. whether she is still Jeanine as born or not is exacerbated byVeil's hypothesis and the odd statement that she must stay away from the man re…
11 Apr 2013, 17:55
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How is that for being a spin doctor? Hey, four people left on ushas, believe it or not everybody dying is all good ;) don't believe me? Read this narrative!! Sent from my iPhon…
11 Apr 2013, 16:33
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Sent from my iPhone I still fancy there is something in the Chanticleer type story in which the Angels are still infinitely far from the increate and only guess what he desires fr…
11 Apr 2013, 16:29
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A man could produce a daughter clone from his sex cells if random assortment or doubling was done according to the technique number five describes in fifth head (in theory)- a woma…
11 Apr 2013, 15:25
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Fairly interesting - Ackroyd seems to have made his career by riffing on famous literary figures - Wolfe does the same thing but in a less obvious and more allusive way, though of …
11 Apr 2013, 14:00
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On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> I really enjoyed your post Lee; just had to comment on this part. I would love to agree with this egalitari…
11 Apr 2013, 13:07
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And the narrative thrust of both mimicking aboriginal and possibly, according to the interview, replacing empathic shadow child, would be to convince others of their humanity in an…
11 Apr 2013, 12:31
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Your post has some good points that are well laid out, but I will only say that to me, a shape shifting or metamorphic species could very well have multiple stages to its life cycl…
11 Apr 2013, 12:28
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No it is uppercase I am just a sloppy typer with my phone. Could be a typo though. I will look at the original hardback but I suppose the later versions should be more definitive…
11 Apr 2013, 12:16
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