Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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I mean this in the loosest possible way - he's not Joseph's biological child but something more mysterious God swooped in the womb. Let's wipe it out then - but we should consider…
05 Apr 2012, 18:26
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So in light of Peter Palmer aka Lil Abner being born in 1931 the same year as Gene Wolfe, I favor the "swapped at birth" scenario where someone has removed Peter Palmer from his or…
05 Apr 2012, 16:52
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Yes Gerry, my summary sections are intended to be verbatim and as "objective" as possible for those who cannot or do not have time to re-read the entire story, then I go into comme…
05 Apr 2012, 15:03
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It is clear that Finch cuts the crap out of the troll from Garth's account, but the point does not ever "tell", matchiing the details of his spirit battle: "When I woke again the …
05 Apr 2012, 02:00
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The troll is wounded, it just wasn't pierced with the tip of a sword. I think to ignore that these guys have to band together to beat him and defeat the "I" ego theme would be vio…
04 Apr 2012, 22:54
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The blood is of course the traki's. It is on Finch because Finch used the sword to kill him. There are slashing wounds on the troll but no "piercing" stabs because the tip of the…
04 Apr 2012, 15:32
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Thanks for the comments Ed. There is a point where Finch WANTS to kill the traki, but knows that he cannot (previously he mused on what "ego": "my body seemed a cast, an almost in…
04 Apr 2012, 03:36
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on second thought, maybe some of the thoughts about "obeying" and duty and order in Severian's philosophy, but I just don't think it is definitely an outgrowth of Aurelius, but the…
02 Apr 2012, 17:35
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A while ago. eh, they are quoted sometimes directly in the Chrasmological Writings so I'm sure Wolfe has read them, but I don't think they relate much to the actual cosmology of N…
02 Apr 2012, 17:30
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There is one incomplete sentence in previous super long post, where the troll gives Finch the option to leave, but Finch "would rather stay with his friend". I forgot to finish …
01 Apr 2012, 18:58
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Yes Daniel, I mean spritual in the second, vague sense you refer to, and by dualism I mean the idea body and spirit are both "real" - and sometimes independent, sometimes operating…
31 Mar 2012, 23:17
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Yes, I agree, especially looking back now?to a time without easy access to the internet; it is pretty easy for me to look up the terms in a general database and find references - G…
30 Mar 2012, 13:20
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Yes, and KNOWING what the names actually mean instead of just having the scientific knowledge is key, so I think the totality of human knowledge is shown to be invaluable to surviv…
30 Mar 2012, 00:17
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Unanswered question on this: What is the nature of the alien half dome with the green wall and the alien "rational" intelligence? Is it important that it formed during the carbine…
29 Mar 2012, 16:01
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Lee this is philosophically interesting to me ... I think there is a turning away from meaty flesh in that and away from carnality and decay into something more immutable and less …
29 Mar 2012, 13:12
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sorry all did not realize I was responding to the list. :)…
29 Mar 2012, 13:09
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Hi Steve. I will forward the stories to you. 1 and 2 were online, and the links are at the start of my first post on them. In two minutes I will forward all the stories I have d…
29 Mar 2012, 13:05
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I highly doubt that there is a correlation between "losing technology" and true spiritual advancement in Wolfe, or entities like Jonas and the chems would not be portrayed so human…
28 Mar 2012, 22:39
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I was driving to work and I had a DOH! moment. Of course with the dominant metaphor of Mountains Like Mice (actually it's a simile, huh?) I should have realized WHY the main chara…
28 Mar 2012, 14:30
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--- On Sun, 3/25/12, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote: From: Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> Just a few things. The Brahmin is described in the beginning as *…
27 Mar 2012, 15:37
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I love Shadows of the New Sun for the story of the Polish man who spoke broken English and throughout his entire life in America people struggled to understand him. His son was so …
26 Mar 2012, 23:34
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And for what it's worth "Shadows of the New Sun" totally redeems the slightly narrow materialistic interpretive scheme of "Attending Daedalus" - a wonderful collection of essays. …
26 Mar 2012, 15:19
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--- On Sun, 3/25/12, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote: Absolutely right about the last two paragraphs being the first to go in later Wolfe. Instead, we might have …
26 Mar 2012, 02:02
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I agree - there is a certain parallel between their self-involvement - while the devil does not seem truly evil, DOBSON can't recognize the devil because he is so wrapped up in ban…
25 Mar 2012, 17:56
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According to commentary I once read on the Master and Margarita on oil being rubbed into someone's knee, the injured leg of Satan is commonly attributed to his fall from heaven ...…
24 Mar 2012, 22:04
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Excellent. I think so too, especially for the works that are long out of print and generally unavailable. when (or if, but I fancy when) we get to 1999 then I will perhaps stop a…
24 Mar 2012, 19:19
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I quoted some facts from shoofly pie, this is what it said: Shoofly pie is a fluffy molasses pie considered traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch and also known in Southern coo…
24 Mar 2012, 16:56
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Cool. I do think there is a relationship between filo dough and the pie though (thus Philo Queen and the homosexual from Sho Fli Pi who dies in shame that his tea is inferior). I…
24 Mar 2012, 16:50
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Oh, I am pretty sure he converted to Catholicism to marry Rosemary circa late 1950s, so he would have been more like a lax Protestant at this point - ie - perhaps interested in rel…
24 Mar 2012, 15:56
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--- On Sat, 3/24/12, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote: From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Short story 2: The Case of the Vanishing ghost To: "…
24 Mar 2012, 15:53
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Once more note on this story that is probably obvious but worth mention. I think I misascribed the magazine of publication to University of Texas, The Commentator was from Wolfe's…
24 Mar 2012, 13:20
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Also, one more bit of word play I neglected to mention. The introductory material says "The characters of this mystery have become so familiar to the reader that I shall neglect…
24 Mar 2012, 12:11
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I thought I would try an apocryphal Wolfe from 1951 to begin the project and see what sections I should include in the opening. Easter Sunday is from the first published year of W…
24 Mar 2012, 00:29
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Sure thing Mo. From my own perspective, grab whatever you think is useful or post it wholesale if I wrote it. Consider this a blanket permission for anything I wrote, past or fut…
21 Mar 2012, 19:14
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Sure Craig. Right now I am fancying something chronological, with Bibliomen as a whole that might be put off until later. So something like this, with Bibliomen entries and Fifth…
21 Mar 2012, 18:57
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--- On Mon, 3/19/12, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote: From: Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) summer project i…
21 Mar 2012, 01:29
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I was talking to some list members this weekend, and a very common repetitive theme was that Wolfe's short fiction has recieved short shrift on the list. SO ... since I will have …
19 Mar 2012, 22:23
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I am at the hotel in Chicago now getting everything ready for my flight back to Vegas, and I noticed a little computer in the lobby (my phone is low tech - for calling) so I figure…
18 Mar 2012, 12:13
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There are comments like the few extant builings surviving so many centuries of futurity in the afterwords that at least indicate the fictional GW did not know if was from the past,…
12 Mar 2012, 19:15
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--- On Sun, 3/11/12, Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote: From: Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) The Wizard To: "The Urth Mailing L…
12 Mar 2012, 02:41
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Sorry if I misquoting above, I believe the pertinent question above is by Gerry - a history with Islam but without Christ. I agree fully with him, especially in light of those two…
11 Mar 2012, 17:07
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I agree, as I said earlier, there is something very priestly about giving up things and donning black to become a torturer of men. Especially in light of Gene's statement that one …
10 Mar 2012, 17:12
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This past year I defended Wolfe's elisions and "uncertainties" by talking about the fact that he is truly a spritual/mysterious writer: in reality, the most important information, …
10 Mar 2012, 17:10
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--- On Fri, 3/9/12, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote: From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> Subject: Re: (urth) The Wizard To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists…
09 Mar 2012, 16:09
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Daniel, I meant women of power as "goddesses" or beings of worship (apheta, Kypris, Laura, Disiri, etc) not all female characters. However, perhaps Scylla and Sphigx count and are …
06 Mar 2012, 21:36
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--- On Tue, 3/6/12, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote: From: Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) The Wizard To: "T…
06 Mar 2012, 19:12
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--- On Tue, 3/6/12, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote: From: Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) The Wizard To: "The Urth Mailin…
06 Mar 2012, 19:04
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I never dug those too much - maybe it's the emphasis on landscape instead of people and action, I don't know. Something about the colors, too. I actually like the Maitz ones better…
05 Mar 2012, 19:30
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Pretty sure that most low god is lying - it is improper worship which is the problem, kind of like a Pilgrim's Progress morality. People worshipping those lower in the chain are me…
27 Feb 2012, 21:46
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I was re-reading Fifth Head of Cerberus a long time ago and there were two things that really struck me in terms of how I think the dynamic between trees / Silkhorn / life on Blue …
22 Feb 2012, 19:30
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