Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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Sorry - that should be Mongo hordes, not hoards, of course.…
12 May 2014, 19:21
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I meant to respond long ago, I apologize. This scene is one in which a sinful woman anoints the feet of the Theoanthropos (let's go with High Christology here, though we are still…
12 May 2014, 16:49
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Not the only oily thing though - oil spots under his car, etc. "He tasted the egg. It was good but slightly oily, as though a drop of motor oil had found its way into the grease i…
06 May 2014, 00:42
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Yeah it is definitely that kind of metaphor, but there are still things like the breakfast and coffee tasting like oil, the twelve types of dead, the shifting pillars, the differ…
05 May 2014, 15:19
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Or Wolfe re-read New Sun in preparation for writing Short Sun and thought shoot ... where the heck did that guard go?…
05 May 2014, 05:53
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As a side note, when I first thought of my Latro story, I was going to have Mr. Gold write a forged ending for Latro and try to sell it, but I settled on a much more supernatural p…
02 May 2014, 19:08
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Also, very briefly, Gawain stayed at Ascolot - his symbol is the pentagle, the 5 pointed star, according to some myths. (His horse is Gringolet and Gawain is careful with his hors…
01 May 2014, 19:26
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Seems right to me! Thanks Tony. Though Jeremy should strive for more accuracy; history is written by the winners!!!…
01 May 2014, 00:22
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Could be the jealousy over the idea of one favored by God (athletically) which results in murderously slaying your brother (there is a whole lot of talk in the Queequeeg/Ishmael mo…
30 Apr 2014, 18:56
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I think I am going to unsubscribe my yahoo account ... but fear not. I am with you always, to the very end of the age.…
30 Apr 2014, 16:55
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One more thing that I think is pertinent to Wolfe's criticism of academics is the obscurity of Melville during his life and his general disregard, and then a resurgence early in th…
30 Apr 2014, 16:50
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Kind of surprised the Pynchon list is so populated and busy, though it seems more like the discussions there, when I just peeped, are more "off topic" quite a bit, to literature an…
30 Apr 2014, 16:47
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Mo, I was thinking of Cain and Abel as well, since Jeremy does say that every story should begin "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth" (paraphrasing off the top …
30 Apr 2014, 16:34
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Just for you guys ;) Glad it worked. Easy to pick an email when I am the only Marc Aramini in the US, and guys in Italy are Marcos. Sent from my iPhone…
29 Apr 2014, 20:13
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It's weird a lot of the urth messages go to spam on me so I just check the archive frequently. Last week it said all the bounces were going to deactivate my account from the urth …
29 Apr 2014, 00:29
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His final oath by "lord Harry" (the devil) and the name John Edwards and the sinners in the hands of an angry god connection, though, makes me think those final words are more like…
25 Apr 2014, 00:30
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Every time they have an open call for questions .... :/ At last May's Nebulas they had a q and a and some off the wall questions from the audience. I loved how when the question …
18 Apr 2014, 16:03
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Well "each" is such a all inclusive term. Sometimes they are there, sometimes they aren't. I think a more apt rationale for this is he is obsessed with names, representations, sy…
11 Apr 2014, 14:49
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I am pretty sure I have everything save some of his essays. Certainly everything listed as fiction. Bibliomen isn't earth shattering but it's good fun. The version published lat…
17 Mar 2014, 20:53
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Just read your review and end notes on fifth head. I have a long long write up which has been submitted to Ultan's Library for about eight months on Fifth Head- It does a pretty de…
12 Mar 2014, 14:38
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Sent from my iPhone Haven't read much lately but in the middle of Musil's Man of No Qualities, in about the fifth volume of Sturgeon's collected stories, Mishima's Forbidden Color…
12 Mar 2014, 13:49
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Sorry just saw this post - I was referring to the high spot in Return to the Whorl where the stiff bird legged fellow approaches Horn on Green as a possible Sev, not to the end of …
06 Mar 2014, 16:51
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Water receded greatly over time, I assume. The whole planet had recently flooded. Sent from my iPhone…
14 Feb 2014, 13:48
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The Eucharist scene is important, vegetable matter turned to blood and flesh through consumption witnessed by the trees at his back- This is reversed at the end when the wild hyaci…
12 Feb 2014, 22:11
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Here's the whole short sun write up in a few parts. Forgive the fresh-out-of-grad-school useless Derrida quotes. Now I feel like saying 'deconstruct this ..." when I read nonsensic…
12 Feb 2014, 15:56
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wow this article is cursed. Tried to send it several times, broke it into parts. Is it really not there? Urth list crashed during an intense round of speculation on short sun back …
12 Feb 2014, 15:54
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On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:56 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote: By the way Dan'l, I just came across your review of Shadows of the New Sun like five minut…
12 Feb 2014, 08:06
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I think I will repost that later tonight - I don't think it is still up on the internet. I should revise it but too many other things going on right now - maybe someday. I would ad…
12 Feb 2014, 04:31
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My problem with blue as any form of Urth is its biotic unsuitability for the inhumi and its coldness - it is actually more hostile than the old dying sun Urth is to them, and its c…
12 Feb 2014, 03:40
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As I said, the first time I read it i understood the conciliator as contiguous with the agent of reconciliation (Christ, communion, confession) but that was the 80s and I was in th…
31 Jan 2014, 17:53
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I have always felt that the symbols in New Sun were a bit more shifty than in some of his other work - Severian's ironic thoughts of the conciliator at a costume party, healing of …
31 Jan 2014, 16:57
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There are a lot of biblical parallels (usually name references like Dorcas/tabitha) in Wolfe but that scene is probably the most direct riff he has ever done, offer for offer by Sa…
29 Jan 2014, 21:59
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I am fairly confident that English title is also playing with Gaelic fairies' designation as the people of peace / people of the mound. Shithe/sidhe --- Besides the obvious connot…
23 Jan 2014, 01:53
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Sorry - Molly comes to resemble the banshee as she ages, not Jack. Or probably not Jack. Sent from my iPhone…
22 Jan 2014, 22:14
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Green goddess dressing in that one, too. Sent from my iPhone…
08 Jan 2014, 03:47
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I think you are right from the synopsis I just glanced at, ghost of the librarian as a raven, life, death, salvation, sleeping until the end of the world, finding true life in dea…
06 Jan 2014, 01:44
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It was Professor Peacock with a car near dubary's bakery ... I think clue and peace are related a bit, with the Blacks, the Greens, and the Golds and Olivia and Professor Peacock,…
04 Jan 2014, 04:20
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The cinderella story is replayed a bit with Mrs. Mason and her daughters treating Doris so terribly that she ultimately electrocutes herself in the carnival. Some effort has been e…
03 Jan 2014, 14:44
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I was noticing a whole lot of repeating motifs and felt better about them in the final story of Peace, when they are all mentioned together. Dan French, a Doherty descedent, says …
03 Jan 2014, 04:31
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Now that I mentioned it, the names are overwhelmingly Scottish or Irish, even minor characters like Arbuthnot (Scottish) or Tilly ... Wonder if there is a distinction between those…
02 Jan 2014, 23:01
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Other reports list different colors besides green for banshees, and the banshee is merely wrapped in grave wrappings in the text, but nevertheless green is also the color of the f…
02 Jan 2014, 22:52
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Well, Roscoe is not the name of James Mcafee's father - according to Weer early in the book it was Donald Mcafee. (Who is Roscoe, then, and why has Blaine taken to calling James R…
21 Dec 2013, 23:48
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Two or three more quick things about the aged Blaine/Gold sections and bird metaphors: Blaine remembers the egg as an Ostrich egg, Weer as porcelain. Keeping in mind my bird post, …
21 Dec 2013, 17:09
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I failed to separate Blaine and Macafee below, the dinners are narrated closely together with very little interruption save the story of finn m'cool. my mistake. Sent from my iP…
20 Dec 2013, 00:17
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Lately I have made it my habit to read the majority of referenced texts in a Wolfe novel if I wasn't already familiar with them. The green fairy book by Lang Weer gets for christm…
19 Dec 2013, 23:52
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I never much cared for this kind of stuff, Jolenta as Marilyn Monroe and whatnot. Of course autobiography is in there in some way shape or form , but this kind of mapping always r…
19 Dec 2013, 16:03
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http://www.wrightandsalmon.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2354891&fh_id=10625#.UrCU9GDuKsA.facebook There is the link to her obituary - at the bottom it says donations may be…
18 Dec 2013, 21:31
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Or is it Natasha? Definitely from bulleinkle Sent from my iPhone…
13 Dec 2013, 15:33
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Yes Sent from my iPhone…
13 Dec 2013, 15:33
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Yeah it's always been obvious to me that Gene knew exactly what was going on when he wrote his work, and that he approaches it scientifically, and was clear when he wanted to be an…
19 Nov 2013, 02:05
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