Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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Below is an excerpt form my initial write up on The Blue Mouse. I was wondering if the social system set up in "Sonya, Crane Wesselman, and Kittee", "Remembrance to Come", "Slaves…
30 May 2012, 23:46
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sorry, the discussion of English with the voisriit system should have said uniformity in pronunciation, not uniformity in punctuation. My mistake.…
30 May 2012, 06:40
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Another thing I wanted to say about this, but somehow forget to, was that at the end, Lenor has found the Sweet Forest Maid, reached the object of her quest ... and then????? she s…
26 May 2012, 01:30
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--- On Tue, 5/22/12, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote: From: Jerry Friedman jerry_friedman at yahoo.com ... I meant to answer that one. Because Wolfe wants us…
23 May 2012, 07:35
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I knew when I saw the term "egregious ideas" bandied about my name would soon follow one way or another heh heh --- On Tue, 5/22/12, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> w…
23 May 2012, 04:09
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Wolfe thought he won. He was announced. Then it turned out there was no award that year, and he just had to sit down and smile in front of everyone. Sucks. He didn't have it, but …
22 May 2012, 13:42
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--- On Fri, 5/4/12, Darth Ed <darthed77 at gmail.com> wrote: I'm not sure anyone has quite cracked it yet, other I've never been convinced that Gaiman is necessarily a great inte…
04 May 2012, 14:41
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I agree completely. my allusion section read: ALLUSIONS: Clark Ashton Smith in such necromantic works as The Return of the Sorcerer and HP Lovecraft are channeled directly here …
01 May 2012, 23:17
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Glad you enjoyed it. The radiation in the story is responsible for the natural cycle being disrupted, and the superpowers with the nuclear weapons are overtly mentioned, as well a…
24 Apr 2012, 02:17
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--- On Sun, 4/22/12, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote: From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 21: Of Relays and Roses To: " Readi…
23 Apr 2012, 01:45
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Read it. Liked it in parts - masculine vigor is deified to some degree, and eternal conflict is idealized valhalla style. Not as deep as Wolfe, nor as soul searching, but if you li…
19 Apr 2012, 15:36
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Well, with for me the difference between Wolfe and Crowley is probably one of the underlying ethos and actual belief in the supernatural. "I myself don’t believe in fairies, or an…
18 Apr 2012, 19:03
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--- On Tue, 4/17/12, Dave Lebling <dlebling at hyraxes.com> wrote: At this point I'm reminded of Neal Stephenson as well. The Baroque Cycle is rather Wolfean and Powersian, in…
18 Apr 2012, 03:27
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Thanks Jerry! And thanks for the link! It is nice to put a face to the names. You teach physics and math? I always loved math, but I could never teach physics. I actually do c…
18 Apr 2012, 02:29
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oh my, what a difference an "i" makes…
17 Apr 2012, 19:41
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cyber stocking is even MORE sinister than cyber stalking --- On Tue, 4/17/12, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote: From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> Subjec…
17 Apr 2012, 19:19
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--- On Tue, 4/17/12, Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com> wrote: From: Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com> Subject: (urth) This is what happens when you read Gene …
17 Apr 2012, 19:17
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--- On Tue, 4/17/12, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote: Which brings me to Nabokov, who as I occasionally say is the most Wolfean writer outside sf (or Wolfe…
17 Apr 2012, 19:14
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I really like some of Swanwick's stuff but not all of it - it's been hit and miss with me. He's a super nice guy, though, I got to talk to him at the Wolfe event for a while. I li…
17 Apr 2012, 19:12
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Chip Delany? I was just about to say something about how the SF author that avoids objectifying women has a very good ingrained reason NOT to objectify them, but Delany will alway…
17 Apr 2012, 18:52
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If you can wait about thirty more write ups I will certainly address that issue at length! Should be about ... (optimistic) three weeks- four weeks.…
17 Apr 2012, 18:49
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Shouldn't be too hard if you are willing to invest about $20. My copy of the Devil is Dead was from a used book store and its got a NASTY stain on it ... until I find another I won…
17 Apr 2012, 15:22
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--- On Tue, 4/17/12, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote: And Tim Powers, two steps below Laff literarily, and?ONE BELOW?Wolfe, I think is very worth …
17 Apr 2012, 15:13
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Yes, they are very unrelated except with perhaps some eschatological ruminations. Well, they are okay, but not as good as The Devil Is Dead or Fourth Mansions - some memorable sce…
17 Apr 2012, 15:07
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Do you really have all those short stories? All the collected volumes are exorbitantly expensive except for the most common one, 900 Grandmothers. I have always wrestled with the…
16 Apr 2012, 22:41
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WOW digging that quote. The city searches the sky for a sign, but no sign shall it have but the sign from the fish’s belly. (OBW 93). Haven't read the gospels in too long. --- …
16 Apr 2012, 20:45
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--- On Mon, 4/16/12, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote: Interesting idea. One difference though is that the task of Jonah on his travels was to save Nineveh …
16 Apr 2012, 19:52
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Lafferty is in many ways the opposite of strange one hit mega-successes like "Confederacy of Dunces" - with Lafferty, so much material there but for all intents and purposes unmark…
16 Apr 2012, 14:55
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great point - I need to read Peer Gynt. I agree - it's much more like a troll king or even the Trip Trap traki (self absorbed darkness dwelling being with a problem contextualizin…
16 Apr 2012, 13:04
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--- On Sun, 4/15/12, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote: From: Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty To: "The…
16 Apr 2012, 04:33
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I foolishly passed on the Vance complete edition when it was being produced because I had read so much of his work already - if they did something similar with Lafferty I would alm…
16 Apr 2012, 02:38
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I would love for there to be a more comprehensive outlet for his short fiction - I can't imagine what it cost that guy to track down all of it. I was aware of his drinking. It's a…
16 Apr 2012, 02:31
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The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton? Yes, little dwarven derelicts/masterminds are lurking in a fair amount of Wolfe. Sometimes they are technicians like the Fliers/ Sciat…
16 Apr 2012, 02:19
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Oddly enough, short story 18, how the whip came back, deals with what to do with prisoners! The prisons in that story really do sound like hell, and Wolfe's concerns that when rel…
15 Apr 2012, 01:50
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Okay, since you asked for one more elaboration. Innocents are the exception rather than the rule with all these appeals currently in place (in the US, anyway). No justice system …
14 Apr 2012, 01:03
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Good points Lee. I am going to stop posting in this thread and get back to Wolfe short stories! I do acknowledge the different perceptions between parental vs. "equal" treatment …
13 Apr 2012, 15:34
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I just think caring about those who are boorish and guilty is a waste of effort - their punishment is to be shunted off - to hang out with their own kind. It is the criminal who m…
13 Apr 2012, 13:11
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--- On Thu, 4/12/12, Matthew Knight <jacobeiserman at gmail.com> wrote: Whoa, back up Marc! ?Even in your own tradition, many people talk about a "consistent ethic of life." ?…
13 Apr 2012, 00:15
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--- On Wed, 4/11/12, Matthew Knight <jacobeiserman at gmail.com> wrote: From: Matthew Knight <jacobeiserman at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fir…
12 Apr 2012, 14:59
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I am not going to get too involved here, as it will no doubt veer further and further from its Wolfe origins, but the claim that the death penalty is not a deterrent from further c…
12 Apr 2012, 00:38
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thanks! I just thought it was super cool how there are objective markers in a Wolfe story that, at least pre-1973, mark him as a definitively modernist rather than postmodern styl…
11 Apr 2012, 16:00
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I like how these political threads on Wolfe always get a response, so I'm going to piggyback on this back to Wolfe's short fiction. (I am trying to cope with his political takes on…
11 Apr 2012, 15:29
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Futhermore, hasn't WWII taught us that even the most sophisticated, cultured, and enlightened city or country can descend into animalistic barbarism and brutality when the right id…
11 Apr 2012, 12:26
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Now people let their leanings interfere with objective criticism, especially if the viewpoint is unpopular. As if Tristam Shandy wasn't anti-papist in its rhetoric. Yet there are…
10 Apr 2012, 13:35
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I'm with Nick on this one. pigeonholing. I can definitely see technology becoming less available to the unwashed masses (especially if my totalitarian and oppressive efforts ever…
10 Apr 2012, 02:30
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I don't watch TV anymore except for violence (boxing and whatnot) but that clip kind of cracked me up. It's like they are saying, if you read and enjoy Gene, cuneiform is no proble…
08 Apr 2012, 23:07
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--- On Sat, 4/7/12, Darth Ed <darthed77 at gmail.com> wrote: . I think Wolfe identifies with the adults more He is just showing how ridiculous and separated from their son they ar…
07 Apr 2012, 19:33
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yes ... I think I'm going to drop the publication info so these types of things don't happen in the future. I'm writing up too many at once - I've re-read like the first forty sto…
07 Apr 2012, 19:29
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I don't like Bunyan style exegesis in general for Wolfe, but every once in a while I think perhaps that is what a shorter piece is doing (much like Avram Davidson's story about a m…
07 Apr 2012, 17:27
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One more thing - the boy goes up in his treehouse on Thursday and the governor calls out the guard on Friday - so it is clear that the boy (who never really has any screen time exc…
07 Apr 2012, 14:47
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