Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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Oh my god how could I leave off the changeling? Probably my favorite Wofe story, I just assumed it was in the first one without thinking about it.…
16 Oct 2014, 17:56
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This is off topic, but your call for suggestions on a more equitable way to run the system evoked a snicker from me. When I was teaching college, my students never realized how inn…
16 Oct 2014, 17:31
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There's an irony here: my understanding of tail chasing is that it describes one being lost in self-absorbed subjectivity - the claim that we can only know the self, falling into t…
15 Oct 2014, 14:43
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I have it on kindle. The metaphor for short stories vs novels Wolfe uses is colorful, sweating in the dark with no bed against a more romantic consummation. At the Nebula Dinner i…
15 Oct 2014, 13:56
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That particular version of the azoth seems problematic to activate inside the whorl as well.…
14 Oct 2014, 16:03
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Anything manly or combative is under Latro's provenance, since he is closely associated with Pleistorus and Ares. In the texts I think much was made of "Latro" meaning simply somet…
12 Oct 2014, 18:46
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Since you asked, I do not limit God by human understanding. The Bible cannot circumscribe him, nor can any theology adequately describe a being for which all powers are conceivabl…
12 Oct 2014, 12:46
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I've for the most part stayed out of this, but I wanted to bring up some Wolfe stuff here. It seems there are several points where nature and free will are vital to his narratives…
11 Oct 2014, 18:00
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In addition, this is reinforced in the idea behind the name Ash - the last man of the Ragnarook future who is actually the first man in Norse mythology, brought to life from a tree…
10 Oct 2014, 10:42
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Also, these two symbols show HOW the mystical change occurs - for human or animal to floral, it requires the spilling of blood and possible death (for Horn this death is not perman…
10 Oct 2014, 10:38
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That should be "the Christian and pagan references show what is happening" and later its rather than it's, of course. Sorry.…
10 Oct 2014, 09:54
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He may not be referring to new sun specifically. In short sun the Eucharist with Silk is observed (he is in a clearing surrounded only by trees). It represents the transformation…
10 Oct 2014, 09:51
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Your assessment fits my understanding of American roman Catholicism in general (I am Catholic). The catechism has a clause that says one need never have heard of Jesus to be saved,…
09 Oct 2014, 14:10
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Gaiman is Wolfe's friend, and one with a legion of fans. His insight into the stories and his advice for reading Wolfe is useful primarily in acknowledging Wolfe's cleverness and g…
09 Oct 2014, 14:05
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oh my. a rescheduled time. Perhaps I meant to look up the "our" it was rescheduled for and simply forgot. As a result of this change in schedule, there is no room, and they must…
08 Oct 2014, 16:03
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Thus the paradox of dualism, to which Wolfe definitely adheres.…
08 Oct 2014, 15:20
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Gene was an engineer. AN ENGINEER. Engineering is not a soft science. Angles, physical properties, stress analyses, knowledge of quantifiable variables, structural integrity whic…
08 Oct 2014, 15:17
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It is the one cited at the very end by Jill niemark, "J Richard Gott on life, the universe, and everything"…
07 Oct 2014, 21:17
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Wolfe makes the same statement in Seven American Nights about the forward/backward temporal nature of protons and electrons but I think the interview is cited at the bottom of that…
07 Oct 2014, 20:56
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I feel bad that you have received no response ... I have no idea, but sometimes the archives are delayed a bit. I don't know. Off topic, your input on volksweapon from a few mont…
07 Oct 2014, 20:27
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No problem. I just didn't want meaning to be confused. [And now it is indeed you, too, who have said that the ghost of Hamlet's father is not an alien, and our disjunctive posts …
07 Oct 2014, 15:08
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At the end of Chapter 13 I believe, though I don't have my book of Exodus in front of me at this time, when Silk is dining: "At that moment I burst into the room..."…
07 Oct 2014, 15:03
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"Marc used a math problem"?????????????????????????????? I feel like I am arguing with myself here, where everyone misattributes who said what. At least this way I know I will sur…
07 Oct 2014, 14:40
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I've corresponded with him for about 14 years now ... he thinks dropping the definitive answer is cheating, but once upon a time he was sure to correct me on a very important point…
07 Oct 2014, 14:37
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And inevitably some readings will be closer to authorial intention, some further away. Wolfe knows if his shadow children are parasites and the relationship, if any, between the A…
07 Oct 2014, 13:48
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Are you attributing what I said with with what Lee said?. I believe they are objective, Lee that they are entirely subjective.…
07 Oct 2014, 13:27
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Well, Lee, let me give you an example of a misreading. In "Look at the Evidence", Clute mentions a theme anthology of British literature in which the editors note collections of t…
07 Oct 2014, 05:22
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Yes - one in being/consubstantial with God the father ( the book of the new sun even goes as far as saying the increate IS the New Sun - orthodox as it gets)…
06 Oct 2014, 18:16
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The idea that all humans are equal is a fairly recent philosophical development of the enlightenment and post enlightenment, not the same at all as the idea that all humans are inf…
06 Oct 2014, 17:47
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Probably most clearly fictionally expressed in "Queen" with the fictional exploration of an assumption. (I think that was the story). The same as most Catholics, I am sure. Reve…
06 Oct 2014, 14:19
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Whoever explains the most narrative events and patterns without resorting to misprision is right. Some people are better at logic puzzles than others. Thus, the Wolfe wiki analysi…
06 Oct 2014, 14:08
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Scientific reproducibility lurks under all of his fictions. For example, in doctor of death island, every time someone dies the three fingered doctor shows up. Borski notices thi…
06 Oct 2014, 02:41
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Yes, I am quite sure Wolfe subscribes to the whole "one in being with the Father" creed - Christ is fully human and fully divine (a similar paradox to the whole three in one, one i…
02 Oct 2014, 14:52
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This is obvious, but for me the miracles make him pretty explicitly a Judeo-Christian wonderworker/savior with a little sin and torture thrown in for good measure (bleeding from th…
02 Oct 2014, 13:47
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Seal of pas - Number codes need a key. The talus says the opening code is "Thetis" and I tried to use a cryptologists decoding from that rotating key but I don't know enough about…
23 Sep 2014, 20:16
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Certainly the repose of Cilinia/Scylla in what could be Sev's mausoleum is at least one plausible bit of possibly coincidental evidence for Don's position (for all that some people…
20 Sep 2014, 20:14
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"presumptuous", of course - sorry. And I never gave any credence to Jolenta's possibility as a sibling. At all.…
20 Sep 2014, 14:01
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Changed my mind about the mine thing. The man apes serve the autarch and guard his treasure there, as the pandours in the wall at the Piteous Gate do, built as defense against the …
20 Sep 2014, 13:59
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One thing I wanted to mention is Wolfe's reliance on Remembrance of Things Past ... some of the greatest lines "time turns our lies into truths" "love is the only divinity" " the r…
17 Sep 2014, 18:29
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I rather fancy that what Wolfe was doing there is related to the metaphor of the Amphisbaena related by Ossipago et al. The head of creation is being worried and eaten by the head…
17 Sep 2014, 15:32
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Of course in the Ash/Ask myths, he was the first man rather than the last.…
17 Sep 2014, 14:17
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Another thing from Eschatology and Genesis that strikes the reader is that the Autarch is confused with God by Meschia. I think this is definitely part of the confusion between Ch…
17 Sep 2014, 14:11
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I think sometimes Wolfe likes making clich?s come to life in not so obvious ways. (green men, silk purse of a pig's ear for Silk in Pig, etc.)…
17 Sep 2014, 13:57
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Speaking of Hercules .... Romulus and Remus (Frog and Fish) are in one story fathered by Mars and in another by Heracles, by the way, which might tie in to Nessus - in every versi…
17 Sep 2014, 13:55
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I agree Kathrin - a fully scripted life right out of the brown book. I think his whole life is a model "reenactment"and he plays the part in the mirror. Thanks for the kind words…
16 Sep 2014, 22:39
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That Green Man might be a damn Martian ...…
16 Sep 2014, 15:33
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He does manage to beget a sun, though.…
16 Sep 2014, 15:24
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In the story, Early Summer lies to her husband and tells him that Spring Wind is his son, when in fact he is born of the red flower without a thorn. Perhaps the Green Man is parti…
16 Sep 2014, 15:21
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Anyway, as I think Andrew Mason surmised long ago, the half vegetable Spring Wind is Mars/March, son of Early Summer/June/Juno, Bird of the Wood is Rheas Silvia (whom Mars begets R…
16 Sep 2014, 15:02
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Hethor the perverted and debased sailor who keeps his little sex doll in the closet and is manipulated by Agia, always motivated by a terrible need for revenge, is not a good chara…
16 Sep 2014, 13:39
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