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Whereas I believe in the absolute authority of the author and the terrible lies and misdirections of his interview habits. What a dilemma!…
05 Sep 2018, 16:20
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I have several textual reasons to really not like part of the interview with Jordan where Wolfe goes all in on this previous cycle explanation. One is the universe has Lewis Carro…
05 Sep 2018, 15:36
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Well, as “fully human” I think it implies that Christ is also capable of making human mistakes - Adam had, at least according to the most orthodox position, everything he needed to…
04 Sep 2018, 23:36
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Also, I find wolfe’s setup of the problem of evil and death to be overwhelmingly orthodox in its theodicy, but readers raised on Naturalism rather than Augustine tend, for whatever…
04 Sep 2018, 04:28
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Well, this scene is so allegorical that it seems to be highly predicated upon the thematic implications of the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. Much like the adversary in Jo…
04 Sep 2018, 04:24
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I accidentally sent the following only to Ab, but I think it is relevant to the whole list, as I came to a realization. Able runs through the green tube where Mag's letter is suppo…
02 Jul 2018, 13:52
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Definitely a tough one - my last name has more syllables if I say it right ;) I’m happy with this essay but just like all the ones in which I try to be as precise as possible no do…
01 Jul 2018, 13:19
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I think he repurposed this use pretty thoroughly but he is definitely using the Triple Goddess again too - the moon through the windows and on the triannulis in various phases and …
02 Jun 2018, 04:14
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Typed in “rivermen philostratus” in google - clicked on first link and on that ebook page guess what was being discussed? keat?s Lamia.…
23 May 2018, 10:55
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In this “retelling”, Apollonius (Ambrosius in the text) never figures it out and gets killed. Bax never sees through the illusion, and that’s why the ghost is crying at the end. He…
23 May 2018, 10:30
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One other disturbing (or potentially confusing) thing involves how the first letter of Millie arrives ... her name is Millicent Kay Dunn (m k?) ... she advises bax not to trust Dor…
10 May 2018, 22:33
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Also she is the fish who yields a ring (two different types of bass and an entirely different fish with the ring in it - later he will get two black fish dishes, one covered in ori…
10 May 2018, 22:15
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Also the chapter with Mary king and skotos, letter 21, should be later, so 22 and 23 should be 21 and 22.…
10 May 2018, 22:06
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Well ... if we are looking at this as mirrored halves, it would seem to me that would imply Mary king and Kiki are the same around the fulcrum of the dinner - both have shrouds etc…
10 May 2018, 22:06
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The one breasted amazon is also ambiguous in gender: is it doris who thinks it is male? The jeweler insists it is female. Mary King has a name which could imply a doubled royal gen…
10 May 2018, 19:34
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Hi Robert. I am including my revised almost done but not quite done write up as a link here, only good for one month: https://pastebin.com/Jrf5eazs Basically everything Bax prese…
10 May 2018, 19:17
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Thanks for responding Jeffery. Finn also means "fair," which could be contrasted with Skotos (Darkness), Murrey (dark purple almost black) and Mr. Black. In my opinion Wolfe becam…
09 May 2018, 16:05
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autocorrect and poor typing may cause some confusion there - triannulus was replaced by triangle, Bax always auto-corrects to Bad. Sorry.…
04 May 2018, 14:18
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I haven't, but I just got in on Kindle. Didn't even know it was out - haven't read Vollmann in a few years. I like how he put the negative reviews on the cover of Argall.…
23 Apr 2018, 21:00
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Cool - one of his early novels felt very SFnal (You Bright and Risen Angels) - I've read that and what he released of his Seven American Dreams (but I can't get into his work on pr…
23 Apr 2018, 16:49
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http://web.archive.org/web/20140725102806/http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html Let’s try that one. I am not really certain - he is not quick to answer correspondence …
03 Apr 2018, 13:58
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It's actually in an interview with James Jordan here http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html *GW:* Not tremendously. It was just at the time I was planning a third book …
03 Apr 2018, 03:13
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Normally I would try to apply this dream strictly to understanding something about the plot of borrowed man. That gestalt beast through the door, for example.…
29 Mar 2018, 13:46
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Of course - blue was always referencing barsoom anyway ;)…
29 Mar 2018, 13:44
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The memories in America which precede Able's time in aelfrice are still difficult to deal with, though the moment Able plants a seed in mythgarthr, he sees his adult form looking a…
29 Mar 2018, 13:31
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oh yeah - the name of the two headed giant - orgalmir and borgalmir (O and B), whom Able jokingly suggests killed Gilling (when Toug (I think - need to check and make sure it isn't…
29 Mar 2018, 13:18
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It occurs to me as I re-read the start of the essays that Wolfe, as Milton did before him in "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" (and is a quite common trope of earlier poetry as…
26 Mar 2018, 14:24
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Red herring (drum roll groan)…
21 Mar 2018, 03:14
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Cognitive dissonance incoming from the fasciest of textual fascists (me): ideally people should be able to engage the text on the level they feel comfortable with (even if they are…
20 Mar 2018, 17:51
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I agree. But that’s okay because lord knows I have snickered at academics quite a bit. (Present company excepted; redeemed by interest in Wolfe)…
18 Mar 2018, 02:09
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He also says that attempting to explore the symbols creates more textual insecurity (something I wholeheartedly disagree with - sometimes the only closure is symbolic, and wolfe’s …
17 Mar 2018, 16:26
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I just ordered the Kindle version of the Palgrave History of SF and am glad that Wolfe takes up so much space. I love what he has done with Wolfe because it creates a rich discours…
17 Mar 2018, 15:44
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James Wynn noted that wolfe pronounced it Will Rise. Did you finish all of Latro Robert? I have been tinkering with my 80 page Wizard Knight writeup this week trying to decide how …
16 Mar 2018, 23:07
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Eric, I wouldn't mind hearing it if you wouldn't mind being quoted by name, unless you didn't want it repeated. In which case I still wouldn't mind hearing it. Robert Pirkola wrote…
07 Mar 2018, 16:37
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I think my editor will have time to get volume 2 ready to go in May, but I am not sure. I haven't pressed because my pace on these last six essays has been glacial. You would thin…
07 Mar 2018, 16:14
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I don't want to start a round of Short Sun stuff (please, please, please) but here is my take on what he may or may not be talking about: some time after Horn falls into the pit on…
06 Mar 2018, 23:41
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I don't think having Ossipago and Famulimus being born of Apheta is implied by the text - there is a whole scene in Urth on the ship that implies they were "raised" from an aquatic…
19 Feb 2018, 15:45
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*helen a sexualized object…
19 Feb 2018, 14:42
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I had to look up where it was. It was chapter 10 of long and short of it. “Other figures named after Faustian characters include: (sic) Dr. Margotte and Megan Cartensen (both deri…
19 Feb 2018, 14:40
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When onomastics and onanism become synonymous ... at the point when he derived an allusive mythical name from another allusive mythical name using onomastics my blood pressure pr…
19 Feb 2018, 05:04
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I come across as a tyrant all the time. I am trying to change my public image, and you have to go and ask about some specific Borski theory... Whether it is widely accepted or not…
19 Feb 2018, 05:00
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*warrant it that ...…
18 Feb 2018, 15:40
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This is the issue with allusions in Wolfe - sometimes the extratextual ones are essentially external confirmation of our suspicions, but they are usually chosen around a unifying t…
18 Feb 2018, 15:40
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Rather than kill him after what he does to thecla they tell him they got him an appointment as Lictor of thrax - that’s his title there, explicitly. But thanks for the bee bit I mi…
17 Feb 2018, 19:19
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Also ... the Kikimora reputedly travel through keyholes, thus entering the trunk of Bax’s car and traveling with him even if it is not unlocked. Sweet. It would also explain who …
08 Jan 2018, 12:10
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Never appear in Bax’s letters to shell* Sent from my iPhone…
07 Jan 2018, 22:32
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All the weird things with Ieuan and Emlyn, the dwarf, and even mr black (chort/leshy and his bears and wolves) resonate with some feature of the Kikimora house spirit, who even app…
07 Jan 2018, 22:31
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I am changing to title to Sorcerer’s House: Con man conned by House Spirits…
07 Jan 2018, 20:19
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So I am going to revise this slightly to conclude that the house is conning the con man. I still think he is trying to get his brother to come and the reading of the will is a set …
07 Jan 2018, 16:33
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The question here is whether bax, who is being conned by house spirits, is guilty of setting up the man in the trunk who looks like the man who threatens iron mike in Shell’s lette…
07 Jan 2018, 13:53
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