Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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Yeah, the best villainous fellows are captured in film: Kronos in highlander with his distorted musketeer mentality, breeding a virus to nonsensically destroy everything, or someon…
05 Aug 2011, 21:28
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--- On Wed, 8/3/11, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote: From: Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Round 2 of NPR top 100 sci-fi books of all time To:…
04 Aug 2011, 04:49
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You know, I liked a lot of these but inexplicably I absolutely hated Anathem, i honestly thought it was one of the worst books I ever read, and I liked Snow Crash, Diamond Age, and…
04 Aug 2011, 03:26
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I meant the gathering OF its subtle but sinister loss below, and, of course, Avram Davidson. Sorry.…
03 Aug 2011, 01:56
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It's funny, you named all my least favorite authors there except Bradbury, his summoning of innocence and the gathering its subtle but mature sinister loss always interested me. n…
03 Aug 2011, 01:50
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A whole lot of 70s SF feels dated, from the artistic efforts of Samuel Delany on down, in the same way modernism seems a bit musty lately, or those socially conscious novels of the…
02 Aug 2011, 19:50
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You could read Long Sun before New or Short Sun, but starting at Short Sun just ruins so many little cool things, like the whole "I caught the ball, I won the game" thing at the en…
24 Jun 2011, 22:02
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supposedly, according to an online source, Wolfe had a childhood encounter with polio, but the permanence of that would certiainly be in question with his young career in the milit…
16 Jun 2011, 03:08
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I feel like you've known me all my life. That Bruce Lee Halloween costume was sure easy work for many many years.…
25 May 2011, 15:34
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But what do we really know about this Marc Aramini fellow, throwing around terms like that? hmmm he's a suspicious one, isn't he? Anybody read Wolfe's new story Josh in Al Sarra…
25 May 2011, 03:17
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but one more thing: any bible thumping type would immediately associate Dorcas with resurrection as soon as they heard the name, that's just the way it is in the bible and the way …
24 May 2011, 05:26
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Right, I got you, but I think he does that obvious answer stuff a lot too ("kypris who was hyacinth who was mother" type stuff, or "Garsceg who was Setr" (not sure if I remember th…
23 May 2011, 03:43
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Just a real quick point, I think Cas as dorcas is such a huge part of wolfe's typical technique I am surprised it is considered non-wolfean: IDENTITY reveals plot deatils over and …
22 May 2011, 20:26
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not even the tip of the ice berg. I think the first time I read these I was in the fourth or fifth grade and missed it until later, too, but that recognition makes the later little…
21 May 2011, 21:45
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The truly strong arm swings where it wills, and by the strength of that swing convinces other arms of its rightful rotational reign.…
01 May 2011, 17:02
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--- On Sat, 4/30/11, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote: I have to wonder whether it can be problematic for a writer to feel like that - does it lead to an obsessive conce…
30 Apr 2011, 14:32
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Some of Wolfe's interviews are priceless for that quality. "Looking for the thumb print under the lily"? Oh, it was a lily, huh? Anybody read his contribution to Last Drink Bi…
29 Apr 2011, 20:43
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--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote: From: Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) 'King Rat' and the abuse of women in Gene Wolfe's s…
19 Mar 2011, 23:51
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wow, so you can just buy the rights to everything he wrote? Insane. It would peeve me no end if I had a wealthy acquaintance that I despised in life buying up my life's work, just…
07 Mar 2011, 20:38
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Which reminds me of the wisest thing I ever took from Star Trek: Having a thing, is not nearly so pleasing a thing, as wanting a thing. The episode is probably not quite as good a…
23 Feb 2011, 18:35
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This perspicuous language they speak, where one meaning corresponds to one word (how could present be now and gift?), is the height of irony in regards to Severian and his tale, an…
19 Feb 2011, 17:11
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Just wanted to also add very quickly that the proliferation of theories in attempts to explain basic elements of the story indicates Wolfe is NOT straightforward. These kind of di…
15 Feb 2011, 15:49
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I don't want to always incite words between Lee and Gerry, but Gerry, when I read something that I think is interesting or confusing, I like to write down a few quick thoughts and …
15 Feb 2011, 14:50
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trees are just as important to me as vines, my bad I couldn't find it when I was writing the stuff last night. sorry about the title. The idea of two black horses that are broth…
15 Feb 2011, 13:03
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I was browsing over the first volume of long sun last night and I have to admit it made me feel a little ill. Here is Wolfe's dedication to Lake of the Long Sun: To Dan Knight, w…
15 Feb 2011, 05:43
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Oh, and for my interpretation to work, Pleistorus and Ares have to share this realization of disgust at murder and war, for there is one poem where it says (I paraphrase)? "and A…
13 Feb 2011, 22:10
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13 Feb 2011, 22:02
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Let me just flesh that out in two quick paragraphs, but I really am not prepared to argue it now, its been a long time since I read the soldier books and I'm not sure if Ares was p…
13 Feb 2011, 20:40
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Heh heh. Good point!…
13 Feb 2011, 20:13
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I think those vanished people went the same place the hiero whatever guys did, whether that be through the brook Madregot or into a higher level of existence, the difference is tha…
13 Feb 2011, 19:26
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Okay, just a quick note. Sure, the Outsider is the cause of the Enlightenment, but there usually is a mechanistic explanation in Wolfe to match the symbolic one. The tent of the …
13 Feb 2011, 19:17
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I don't want to comment too much, because it looks like we all have vastly divergent views of Long Sun, even though the first time through it didn't seem very ambiguous. The Sil…
13 Feb 2011, 19:13
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sorry for misspelling your name, Gerry. Must have been the cartoon influencing me.…
11 Feb 2011, 19:07
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Sigh, no one is saying Hyacinth is his adoptive mother, Jerry. Just that the term mother is ambiguous even if capitalized (he, like Baby Huey, is the luckiest duck in the world, h…
11 Feb 2011, 19:05
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Oh yeah, and the timing of everything got all screwed up, the seal of Pas was disturbed, those sleepers and embryos were not yet supposed to be grown, and Pas got deleted premature…
11 Feb 2011, 17:38
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Another thing that frustrates me about the book itself is that Olive scene. He doubts her name is Mamelta, looks at Olive's name on the tube (remember Aunt Olivia?), then THINKS a…
11 Feb 2011, 17:35
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This is the thing, if you can make every event in the dream literally true, it fits. From dream logic, Kypris-mother-hy-chenille-mamelta. hy and chenille possessed by kypris CHEC…
11 Feb 2011, 17:29
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But it SHOWS four parents to us, and Silk recognizes them to some degree, and says he found out the truth of how he came to be in the tunnels, and it outright says in his visions h…
11 Feb 2011, 07:53
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I've posted the evidence that Kypris and Pas are his mother and father multiple times, the evidence, both back in like 2003 or so and in the past month again recently, don't expect…
11 Feb 2011, 07:51
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I guess what I see as inscrutable is the relationship between the game and the reality. Is there a "real" society outside the allegory of the game? Because its pretty harsh to ju…
10 Feb 2011, 20:40
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I can't reconcile what is going on in this story with a lot of Wolfe's other themes. We see chivalry and bravery to some degree, but once a leader is exalted and enshrined to new …
10 Feb 2011, 19:54
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Yeah. I don't know that I have much insightful to say, I need to re-read it. On one level I think it speaks of how any combat is just an accident of allegiances, but that's a wei…
10 Feb 2011, 19:33
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Gerry, I have argued over and over that Pas wanted a worthy heir to succeed him. He doesn't want to take him over AT ALL. No where in the text is this idea presented, except some v…
10 Feb 2011, 18:12
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A real quick point I wanted to make. Typhon is definitely, to Severian, a personal tempter, analagous to the devil. However, I think the ACT of creating a world so painstakingly ga…
10 Feb 2011, 15:14
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Yeah, exactly, that is pretty much my argument, too, and Lemur says as much, Pas was not happy with his other heirs. I agree completely with this. --- On Wed, 2/9/11, Ashley Crill…
10 Feb 2011, 15:02
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--- On Wed, 2/9/11, Ashley Crill <ash_crill at hotmail.com> wrote: I think that Silk is the child of Piaton because he is intended to be a new host for Typhon. Throughout…
10 Feb 2011, 05:45
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--- On Wed, 2/9/11, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote: But why would Typhon send an embryo of his son to occupy himself? Why not another Piaton, if that's what he plans to…
10 Feb 2011, 05:09
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--- On Wed, 2/9/11, Ashley Crill <ash_crill at hotmail.com> wrote: Also, I don't think that Silk is a clone at all. He is Typhon's son. Yeah, exactly what I believe, but no m…
10 Feb 2011, 05:05
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Now that I think about it I guess the weird ship of pandours the guy ran into was from the moon or something (not brown faced pandours). (top of page 400, bigger men than Sev or th…
09 Feb 2011, 13:58
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You know, I've never been really sold on the idea that the soldier Miles or whatever is really a returned Jonas, and yesterday for the first time in a long time I was reading the e…
09 Feb 2011, 13:45
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