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Here is the list compiled from the wolfe wiki with doubled stories removed and with a few missing ones added in. X Easter Sunday X1951. The Case of the Vanishing Ghost X1951…
01 Aug 2014, 14:21
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Thanks for the support, guys!…
01 Aug 2014, 14:18
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Thanks Greg I appreciate it!…
01 Aug 2014, 05:13
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Yes I realized grit went to bring the escape pod to the hydroponic module, but it isn't clear if she is in it at the end. Do time quanta exist? Light certainly emits photons, and…
29 Jul 2014, 19:59
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On looking at Grit's disappearance again, it seems that she actually has gone to get the escape tender and bring it to the hydroponic jungle for the Captain and Johann so that the …
29 Jul 2014, 12:14
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The rather hallucinatory scene where Erik believes he has come to the middle of the Ocean standing on a pier seems to me one of the most important thematic repetitions in the story…
29 Jul 2014, 11:57
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As I said, if there is any physicist who can help with the time quanta paragraph, that would be great. It seems that the overmonitor is saying existence is dependent on the emiss…
29 Jul 2014, 06:25
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Doesn't have to be a lie if something else can explain it. "Nope, whole scene is fabricated." Why two species of alien if both won't be used? Wolfe likes very elaborate games or th…
28 Jul 2014, 20:54
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The tree reaching out for him - sorry for several typos below.…
28 Jul 2014, 18:33
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The questioner Pontin conflates VRT with a shadow child in the question erroneously. VRT is "variance reduction techniques", an engineering term for approximation. When Ultan's …
28 Jul 2014, 18:31
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Fernando said: It's a very interesting interview, much less cagey than usual for Wolfe. The straightforward "He's a ghost" about Weer, and even more the statement that Marsch "kno…
28 Jul 2014, 15:29
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Also note that the House of Enid does not start to creak and rumble until Todd gives the visitor a drink of the harder spirits, which are probably seasoned with the white/green wor…
24 Jul 2014, 17:43
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Two more little things that I think are kind of neat. Why Halloween? The "things" are dressing up as comfortable houses to attract their pollinators: to Lily the house is a safe,…
24 Jul 2014, 16:51
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That one was a bit more involved than I planned it to be ... oh man. Hope you guys enjoy it. There was almost no commentary on it.…
24 Jul 2014, 02:13
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Lil abner's father was named lucifer, by the way. I suppose that post should be "his being in the 7th grade..." ... Possessive pronouns with gerunds and gerund phrases ...…
21 Jul 2014, 17:12
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Him being in the seventh grade explains why he isn't in the picture- his perceptions were altered by wrestling with his changeling. It seems mysterious but can be rationalized if w…
21 Jul 2014, 17:03
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Sometimes the eureka moment would hit me after I made the post, like Mountains Like Mice, where the purple dye he paints himself with is the purple dye of an in vivo science experi…
19 Jul 2014, 00:09
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Did you read the posts I made after my initial one that accounted for the three missing years? Pete Palmer was an actor who played Lil Abner, born in 1931 like Gene Wolfe (Lil Abn…
19 Jul 2014, 00:07
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I don't think the geography is more like hell than any atmospheric warming, post nuclear war society would be, but I agree with the hansel and gretel resonance... Wolfe has echoed…
18 Jul 2014, 05:57
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In any case, you understand that I am saying basic plot and story matter in Wolfe, and the framework is ultimately discernible.…
17 Jul 2014, 17:10
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On rereading that last sentence I feel as if I created a mixed construction. Perhaps the last word should be "indiscernible", since we are talking about what Wolfe's stories DON'T…
17 Jul 2014, 17:07
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Would temp change the balance though? If mercury expanded or contracted.…
16 Jul 2014, 22:13
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I have to thematically disagree with that assessment, Jeffery. The astronaut is called a knight, the Latin is mistranslated ... New things get old names, but sometimes old things …
16 Jul 2014, 18:33
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Marginally off topic, having said all that and been rather smug in my dismissal of "popular" entertainers, if you hang out in Las Vegas boxing gyms you will meet an amazing number …
13 Jul 2014, 23:59
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Of course, I am a Wolfe fan first and an SF one second (or third) but even though I preferred the Fuller Ceremony because it was all about Gene, I can't recommend the Nebula Awards…
13 Jul 2014, 23:53
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The stressful and long decline of rosemary is concerning. This might be the most depressing analysis ever undertaken on urth list. I have felt myself to be very fortunate in my ch…
13 Jul 2014, 23:22
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I mean this really depends how tangential and desparate you want to get. Like Silhouette, which I am almost finished writing up, clearly has no wolves, as there are no animals on …
07 Jul 2014, 21:57
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I need to look at the story again, but a few quick things I don't necessarily agree with the connotation of the details above - the two hunters there might cause more damage than …
03 Jul 2014, 21:45
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BUT if our narrator is hungry for public attention and wants to make it seem like he has stumbled upon a great realistic mystery, then he has motive for killing: a guy no one will …
22 Jun 2014, 17:16
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let me just address point 2 specifically first: the frame is the story because it is culled together from second hand sources: we never actually see our Wendigo/victim before he is…
22 Jun 2014, 17:00
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22 Jun 2014, 16:55
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Further examples of slight prevarication through ignorance are rife in Short Sun. At one point the narrator says the ring Oreb brought the same ring Horn had, at another point he …
22 Jun 2014, 14:51
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Just a few quick responses: he follows the unnatural and unexplained, and his collection of such occurences is consistent with someone who follows up on odd stories and does not ne…
22 Jun 2014, 14:33
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Anathem is my least favorite of Stephenson's by a good stretch. I found the metaphysical implications of New Sun far more personally compelling than the "history of philosophy" exe…
15 Jun 2014, 16:27
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As far as I can tell, the Wicked Queen of Snow White, Grimeheld, has five digits on each hand and doesn't wear gloves, and is distinct from the villain of Sleeping Beauty, Malefice…
10 Jun 2014, 16:34
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So do you guys think he bites a finger off at the end? The yellow bonbon becomes a red jelly bean in his mouth, the glove is white/red. Do we not count thumbs as fingers? Any othe…
10 Jun 2014, 16:29
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Also, the mineral Kluy flowers underground are a bit mysterious - decoration for Cutthroat's approach or actually useful for some purpose? They are only found on the wet street.…
08 Jun 2014, 23:36
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As far as I can tell, these inventions include the cooking bag with the heated firerocks for traveling cooking, the club-bow, the man-sinew reinforced chair weapon that Nashwonk us…
08 Jun 2014, 23:33
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Interestingly enough "Silhouette", published the same year, has this quote"...Pleasureworld. That was the first leisure satellite, and because they didn't know what to do with tha…
08 Jun 2014, 19:17
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Well, there isn't a crime if the Indian Tribe is "following him" after the contact ... the part that we have to trust the narrator on is that the Indian girl and Robakowski, when t…
29 May 2014, 03:46
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Okay I read it through twice ... The ambiguous subtext is " I had a day to kill", "murder would appear to have taken place" and "no doubt I should not have done what I did" talking…
27 May 2014, 23:04
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I will keep it in mind when I read it again but usually the unreliable narrators in Wolfe have legitimate narrative reasons beyond being pathological liars to be so - they are igno…
27 May 2014, 22:19
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It is under the section titled "revisions" of my post earlier today located here http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2014-May/054808.html ... But as I said don't read it …
22 May 2014, 02:09
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I think I accidentally mixed up the names John and James in my write up - of course John implies the Beloved Disciple, not James. Sorry about that. Another reason I really don't l…
21 May 2014, 19:08
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*Uncle Sam'l “Free” Whitten as America and Its Dream and the Mad Electro-Magnetic Darkness of the Modern World: Free Live Free* Marc Aramini In between Gene Wolfe’s labyrinthine …
21 May 2014, 17:47
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Yes I think the tor version is the one to go with as the final draft. There are a few scenes which are shorter in that version and one chapter taken out that changes stubb's char…
20 May 2014, 05:22
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Also, some subtextual clues have been layered into the tor version like the sounds of an airplane when free is just sitting there watching tv, etc. which will make sense as a deta…
14 May 2014, 00:04
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There are a few differences like chapter headings - "selling weather" becomes "four roomers of war" in the first chapter a man named Norris identified by his first name comes in lo…
13 May 2014, 23:56
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Sure, but in "Monster" it does have the trademark sign next to it though (not in the earlier texts, however). In "The Blue Mouse" I have never been confident about whether the fo…
13 May 2014, 16:32
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Yes, I see that you are right - that it is the raped women who supposedly liked it who wanted to join. The unclear pronoun reference in Wolfe - Fifth Head and Long Sun make an art…
13 May 2014, 03:17
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