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I guess I am now very interested in the life cycles of the various creatures on st. Anne. I find it no coincidence that one of the streets on st. Croix is named after maggots. VR…
01 Apr 2013, 13:55
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Interesting. Even if it wasn't an inspiration still an interesting bit of history to know. Sent from my iPhone…
01 Apr 2013, 02:23
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I become increasingly certain that most mysteries in Wolfe are engineering or mechanistic in their set up. If that relaxation principle is at all written into the text, the somewh…
30 Mar 2013, 17:04
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Can the object of a preposition be replaced by a pronoun? Sure. I think Wolfe intentionally uses ambiguous pronouns that way a lot. Sent from my iPhone…
30 Mar 2013, 15:40
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The them pronoun is ambiguous in reference to the songs of the second people. In any case, the second people are changed by the first, who do use their hands to take. No referenc…
30 Mar 2013, 15:29
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Once there was a people using their hands (first) ... Only to take. There came another (second) who crossed from star to star. Then it was found that the first ... Sent them (the…
30 Mar 2013, 15:26
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Also, Gerry, I wanted to reiterate these are the kinds of discussions I envisioned when I started the short story project. Thank you for your input, and Tony, too. The difference…
30 Mar 2013, 14:57
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And the copy of a copy resonates pretty well with number five being a copy of a copy. Also, the talk of engineering relaxation at the end of the first story- solving by repeated …
30 Mar 2013, 14:53
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But the star faring species in this passage did not use their hands. I think this is the ancient occurrence of interacting with humanity confused by a later interaction on another…
30 Mar 2013, 14:49
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Sorry, I will slow down now that I have finally wrapped my head around some of the weirder quotes. I think the pertinent feature is on page 138 of A story where the old wise one t…
30 Mar 2013, 13:32
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Now I think there is some "Peritonitis" type imagery going on with the perceptions of the shadow children - they have abandoned their normal ambitions to be the "god" and environme…
30 Mar 2013, 13:13
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Also, the shadow children vomit their "wives" when they are "white" - the maggots that grow from the pink egg seeds in the leaves ( compare with the street of maggots in fifth hea…
30 Mar 2013, 13:07
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Also, there is one more bit of planting imagery in the pit at the end. Cedar branches waving says that there was a time when Sandwalker did not sleep near her and she would get up…
30 Mar 2013, 12:58
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There is a whole conversation about shapechangers and sandwalker's people near the tale end of A Story, page127 in my copy, where the old wise one remembers the names of Atlantis a…
30 Mar 2013, 12:44
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One more thing - after Sandwalker digs up the honey and the the hive to feed Seven girls waiting, her belly is described as round like a melon, and he says dont lean on him too muc…
30 Mar 2013, 12:33
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This is kind of the stuff I was hoping for, thanks, Tony. Because of the "fruit of the knowledge of good and evil" connotations of those seeds ("then he is like God"), I don't vie…
30 Mar 2013, 12:26
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Also don't forget the little quote in a story that says children are engendered by the trees of Sandwalker's home but not the orange tree he sees at the source of the stream " he s…
30 Mar 2013, 02:51
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Really quickly, two refracted images I wanted to explore- when Flying Feet is drowned in Sandwalker's dream: he says he would pretend to be still and then arise, but Eastwind defea…
29 Mar 2013, 18:10
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Well, the Dollo's law reference is just saying that humans could theoretically evolve to become like abos, (lose the ability to work with their hands) and then have to find another…
29 Mar 2013, 16:27
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I apologize, I can't spell this morning. Sea, fabric. I suppose I fancy the idea that the Shadow Children and Hill men are different because of a convergence of evolution rather th…
29 Mar 2013, 15:45
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or conversely, I suppose, are there no more humans on St. Anne, though it seems clear Trenchard can make tools (I still don't understand that whole aboriginal tool replica stuff, b…
29 Mar 2013, 15:39
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--- On Fri, 3/29/13, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote: From: Marc Aramini Yes. Yes. Even before that, with three Shadow Children left, the OWO becomes confused beca…
29 Mar 2013, 15:35
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Originally the Shadow Children were saying they were from earth, more or less. After the percentage shifts to a 1 to 1 ratio, they were saying they weren't sure if Sandwalker's peo…
29 Mar 2013, 13:42
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And the story ends with one brother killing the other. Sent from my iPhone…
29 Mar 2013, 13:19
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One more thing - David stresses humanity relies on a descent from Adam , then qualifies this by saying descent from terrestrial stock at least. Something about the statement the s…
29 Mar 2013, 13:16
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Success in the hunt, of course. I still think the scenery is not entirely without sentience. Sent from my iPhone…
29 Mar 2013, 13:06
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Another image that has bothered me is the way Cedar Branches Waving , the mother, is described as deflated and empty after the births, and the way that lack of food and success in …
29 Mar 2013, 13:04
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It says it is lost in the stones and that it shifts and turns. Metaphorical language or not? Perhaps related to the perceptual screen that hides st. Anne; the entire landscape is…
29 Mar 2013, 12:55
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Why on the third day without the sleeping place result in death/the sleeping place being gone forever? Also, any ideas about why the Shadow Children suddenly accept Sandwalker as a…
28 Mar 2013, 19:22
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pg 100 - "Pink butterfly is his daughter ... he likes having her here"? referring to the tree she sleeps under. --- On Thu, 3/28/13, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:…
28 Mar 2013, 16:21
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because Wolfe likes to multiply entities. Everything is doubled. And those trees she sleeps under are "jealous" to some degree. Occam's razor need never apply to Wolfe when the the…
28 Mar 2013, 16:18
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This why it is called the land of shifting stones, I finally consciously recognize. It also says on the third day that sleeping place is then gone forever and the unsuccessful h…
28 Mar 2013, 13:44
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One more mention at least tangential to owl- at the start of "a Story" Sandwalker hunts the owl mouse and eats its young like shrimp and chews the seeds it has stored there, but mo…
28 Mar 2013, 13:41
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--- On Wed, 3/27/13, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote: Sandwalker's 'tree' grows large when he sleeps with Seven Girls Waiting. The Marshmen steal boy children from the…
27 Mar 2013, 15:48
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And no sooner had I posted that, with the claim that Wolfe's normal mode of transposition of seemingly unrelated things implied a connection, when I looked again at the section whe…
27 Mar 2013, 12:55
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I assume he could have bought that volume more cheaply on St. Croix than transporting it; the only difference would have been his ballistic scrawls.…
25 Mar 2013, 15:32
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-Jeff Wilson said: I believe the book in question, the Field Guide to the Animals of St. Anne, was a volume distinct from the journal of Marsch and was an independent publication …
25 Mar 2013, 15:31
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Of course, I was only saying the two planets share similar features, so similar gravity is not beyond the realm of thematic possibility. Also equally likely thematically is that M…
25 Mar 2013, 14:57
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Yes. Marsch's journal shows him hunting but there is no sure indication that the ballistic chart is a rifle conversion for st. Anne or st. Croix from the earth values Marsch was u…
25 Mar 2013, 12:55
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Well ... Wasn't Thomas Moore the main character in lafferty' s past master? Then I say, sure, sounds right!! Sent from my iPhone…
25 Mar 2013, 03:07
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I am perusing some secondary sources, and the take on political colonialism and imperialism I find to be exagerrated in importance - the real theme at stake is that a man contradic…
20 Mar 2013, 19:02
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Two other quick things - once again external witnesses know more than subjective first person narrators - right away Marsch looks at number five and says, you are a clone. In the …
20 Mar 2013, 13:36
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Thanks, David and Antonin. Two of the most memorable recent anthologies like this were Vance's Songs of the Dying Earth and Bradbury's Shadow Show, both well worth the investment. …
02 Mar 2013, 15:10
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--- On Wed, 2/6/13, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: From: DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Silk/Horn in the Matachin Tower To: "…
06 Feb 2013, 18:47
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Okay. I found Long Sun slower and less engrossing than Short Sun, and had way more fun parsing it, but the lack of consensus on even what happened in the books leads me to believe …
06 Feb 2013, 17:54
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I always say, stop, Marc, you know how this ends ... but anyway, I can't. Way more mysteries in Short Sun. The transmogrification of liana into inhumi, the presence of the vanishe…
06 Feb 2013, 15:29
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How about a general question for him? - Do you feel that if America should fall from its global relevance as an affluent and influential nation that English would topple from its …
18 Dec 2012, 18:09
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The new ones that I have looked at, like Castleview, are drm free. I don't know about the ones that were up before, like the best of gene wolfe, if they have been converted. Sent…
18 Dec 2012, 16:15
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I have about a a decade and a half worth of correspondence with Wolfe but would not feel comfortable taking on a task like that. Biography doesn't interest me as a writer, and much…
17 Dec 2012, 17:18
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10 Dec 2012, 14:04
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