Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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You have to explain away the death of the cat, the death of the boy, the presence of two alien species, the presence of Veil's hypothesis, believe that number five dreams of abos b…
24 Aug 2014, 18:58
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It takes about three days for Marsch to be reborn on Easter Sunday from the bite as something different - his body undergoes a harrowing over that period of time. The existence of…
24 Aug 2014, 16:52
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Well well well ... looks like I was taught a "false theology" according to this article. http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=13621 In America, however…
24 Aug 2014, 16:35
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24 Aug 2014, 16:29
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Marsch the infected kills his own eventual killer, the cat, who had an empathetic association with Victor (and passed this to Marsch), and places the cat at Victor's dead feet. Th…
24 Aug 2014, 16:26
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Given Inire's proclivity for children and taking them to places in his mirrors via the reflection and intensification of light, I actually have to agree that there are some paralle…
22 Aug 2014, 14:45
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22 Aug 2014, 14:42
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The water/death/resurrection imagery is in several scenes, like Dorcas' appearance where she hands him Terminus Est, like the breaking of terminus est at the lake against Baldander…
22 Aug 2014, 09:57
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Marco wrote: "The succession of sacraments follows the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church rather than the Roman Catholic Church (where Eucharist is very close to Confirmation…
22 Aug 2014, 09:51
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And to some degree the conciliator redeems the diabolical Eucharist - Thecla is brought to genuine life not only because of the analept of the alzabo, but because of who is consumi…
22 Aug 2014, 09:31
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I like it, but there is and always has been a syncretic symbolism in new sun between water, healing, and death that undercuts this baptism imagery a bit. It's not just baptism, it…
22 Aug 2014, 09:25
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Yeah there is a scene in new sun when thecla's childhood friend (domnina?) is shown the mirrors by Inire and Inire says they have almost hooked the fish reflected into existence. I…
21 Aug 2014, 05:20
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I think a part of this message was lost in draft form, sorry. More charitably, perhaps wolfe wants to allow some freedom of interpretation, so we can walk away at a certain point …
19 Aug 2014, 17:03
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We could go back and forth, the three of us, for a million years. We should just accept we get different things out of the text, and will never convince the other. However, the r…
19 Aug 2014, 16:56
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Conversely, it could be an outsider's vision of the oubliette under the Matachin Tower, as well, though there seems to be mud rather than sand there.…
19 Aug 2014, 13:22
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For a narrator in Wolfe to be actually stretching truth, there's usually a reason. Ignorance and lack of self understanding in short sun, denial in Peace, suppression in Suzanne D…
19 Aug 2014, 12:18
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Gerry, someone took Marsch's place, that's why the officer nodded at the handwriting, it just wasn't who is commonly perceived to have taken Marsch's place. Marsch is not the same …
18 Aug 2014, 13:50
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Gerry only the one guy was a shadow child infection. Everybody else is an abo mimic in port mimizon. Marsch and number five are the odd man out. That's why it's port mimizon, ju…
18 Aug 2014, 13:45
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I understand why you won't accept them, but it would be impossible for me to make those kind of connections to specific repetitive descriptions (staff/stork/heron-like/leg injuries…
17 Aug 2014, 17:16
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Okay, but Rue d'asticot, staff like and stork like legs on the girls on st croix and a heron like walk to Abos, the name port mimizon (sounds like mimicry) Which just happens to b…
16 Aug 2014, 23:54
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I should stop, but I just can't. The story also tells us Victor falls to his death ... I actually believe what the story tells me there. You see how you have to admit that some …
16 Aug 2014, 20:08
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... believe themselves to be the other, Sandwalker and the Landers. That ending probably makes more sense grammatically.…
11 Aug 2014, 19:03
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The end of "A Story" hinges on a very ambiguous switch: indeterminacy between Lander and aboriginal, indeterminacy between Eastwind and Sandwalker. Though of course in the final a…
11 Aug 2014, 19:02
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It is Marsch's origin story overlain on the historical tale. There is a wonderful scene where the cat is running around trying to bite him in the third novella and he narrowly esc…
11 Aug 2014, 18:59
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And that's exactly what has happened and the reason there are no new buildings in Port Mimizon - progressively worse imitations. The inutile hand of the abos is represented by the…
11 Aug 2014, 18:34
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I have always been sensitive to religious allusions, especially ones that are similar to the almost voodoo Catholicism of my rather uneducated (but not ignorant) grandmother, and t…
11 Aug 2014, 03:16
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Some asked him about how much of an impact or influence Dune had on him and his writing, referring to the praxis of religious thought with the Freman (all these prophecies and gene…
07 Aug 2014, 12:55
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I always wonder at how much is direct reference and how much is zeitgeist. Wolfe almost never mentions Dick as an influence, and once, because of the religious forces at work in Du…
07 Aug 2014, 12:21
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Then again. the only thing more difficult than interpreting some of Wolfe's more obscure stuff is deciphering the lyrics to Louie Louie by The Kingsmen/Richard Berry - maybe this s…
07 Aug 2014, 00:47
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I have a vague feeling he might be more like an appliance, like a sentient microwave or oven or something, but I have no real reason to believe this.…
07 Aug 2014, 00:34
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I wrote this step in the exegesis just for you, Gerry ;) 1) That an extraordinary event actually could be forgotten, so that he can’t be trusted to reliably remember it. If he cou…
06 Aug 2014, 13:07
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The shadow children become the things they infect. That's how one can be shot, like the creatures Marsch shoots. Before you mention that.…
06 Aug 2014, 13:00
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It exists. It's just that plant leaves aren't what you think they are- they have microorganisms on them that produce the effects of communion. The same reason you ignore the deat…
06 Aug 2014, 12:59
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As I said, I think the theme is that the sins of the past come back to bite you, but that the ability of humanity to repress things is infinite and extraordinary.…
06 Aug 2014, 00:48
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they also ride up in air currents in the third part, "in the foams and the bubbles from the springs". Isn't that a little bit suspicious and a bit small right there? It is also s…
05 Aug 2014, 18:41
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are these leaves the Shadow Children chew from the carapace corpse trees of the aborigines in the final stage of their life cycle? If that is the case, perhaps the aboriginal cells…
05 Aug 2014, 17:28
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eastwind has no testicles but survives - the life cycle of the shadow children does not involve sexual reproduction. I also know Eastwind is an abo, but he SYMBOLIZES the shadow c…
05 Aug 2014, 17:25
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my mistake, replaced, supplanted. I KNOW he was bitten by the cat, Gerry. Why even say that? Victor is only a part of the equation because the cat had a kind of affinity for Vi…
05 Aug 2014, 17:23
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and in VRT the officer reading the documents bathes the girls saliva off "prophylactically" or something of the sort - odd choice of words.…
05 Aug 2014, 17:14
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It also seems to me that brides involve a method of propagation and reproduction, you know? like the life cycle involves them somehow. But like I said, I really don't want to arg…
05 Aug 2014, 17:12
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they say the white creatures they chew and spit out are their "brides." - seems like an organism to me. As I said, the associations are symbolic rather than literal, so proving it …
05 Aug 2014, 16:59
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Seeing as how I view Shadow Children as psychically gifted and "empathetic" and capable of rising up in the draft of currents from the ground and take seriously the idea that even …
05 Aug 2014, 13:54
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During the fuller award ceremony, santoro's speech was much my favorite in appreciation of Gene, talking about how Gene is a great man because that's just how he is, regardless of …
05 Aug 2014, 01:56
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Thanks Fernando. When I started it I imagined it as a bit more interactive than it became (but I also think I got better at it) - the insights posters like Craig had on the metap…
03 Aug 2014, 17:37
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A quick note and public thank you to Matthew King for putting me in touch with a publisher willing to consider the work - the basic idea is to split the book in twain, stopping at …
03 Aug 2014, 02:29
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Wait wait ... The twenty year difference between priest and Marcella and between Betty and Kevin Malone must resonate ... The guilt of Kevin is assumed by his namesake but Priest …
02 Aug 2014, 21:55
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And as I was showering, a great and terrible fear overcame me that I had written Kefka instead of Kafka once again. Final Fantasy's Kefka's influence on Wolfe would problematize r…
02 Aug 2014, 12:46
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My first thought was something dramatic like "between the light and the shadow: the fiction of Gene Wolfe" (implying the undistorted object itself, but without resorting to "sun" i…
02 Aug 2014, 12:14
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The novels are discussed with fairly short essays and have some of my best observations - latro as ares, Skip as sleeper assassin, Number Five as the only human, Marsch as shadow c…
01 Aug 2014, 16:31
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Yes, that was the whole volume, Last Drink Bird Head. I will look up the individual story title. I had never heard of Dumpster World before, a mock review of his own fiction, but …
01 Aug 2014, 16:27
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