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I am in 1974 on Wolfe's fiction ... If you want I can write a fairly comprehensive essay by the end of November on 1975's Peace along with a general "metonymic reading" strategy fo…
12 Nov 2013, 16:52
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There are questions scattered in that beastly write up, but I thought I would mention the two points in the story that are most fractured. At one point Nick describes to Diane the…
12 Nov 2013, 11:19
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Thanks, pg 73 of my Orb copy of Endangered Species has a typo then, attributing Thag to Continuum 5. I thought about putting 4 anyway, but I really had never seen the originals.…
12 Nov 2013, 03:36
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?When I do the write up for The Dark of the June stories, it has not escaped my attention that paper is particularly important to a novelist and in those stories from the very open…
10 Nov 2013, 15:49
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Of course, a man named Wolfe, very interested in names, married to a woman named Rosemary, is going to play around with that a bit as well, I think. There is an essay in Castle of …
10 Nov 2013, 15:00
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On Saturday, November 9, 2013 1:14 PM, Darrell Burgan <darrell.burgan at gmail.com> wrote: I'm going to have to wrap my head around this complex family tree. I still haven't even …
09 Nov 2013, 23:16
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Just for the sake of putting them here, here are the textual quotes. This is from an old post Gerry responded to with his belief Kypris and Mamelta are not a good fit, and that th…
09 Nov 2013, 13:18
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The seal of pas was disturbed quite portentously, almost as if a commandment had been broken. To paraphrase, carry out my plan and don't disturb my seal. Mucor gravitated back to…
09 Nov 2013, 12:49
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It is no coincidence than when silk looks at the origin of mankind out there and realizes he is in an artificial structure on seeing the bright stars, he glimpses mamelta's naked l…
09 Nov 2013, 05:53
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Of course, silver silk does wind up in mainframe with kypris. (And mortal silk with the fragment of kypris left in Hyacinth, too)…
09 Nov 2013, 05:49
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That whole lovers thing is something I think relates to the dream identification of kypris with mamelta and mother. (And hyacinth and chenille because they were possessed by Kypr…
09 Nov 2013, 05:34
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The pamphlet could also appear by apportation, for what it's worth. Sent from my iPhone…
24 Oct 2013, 03:40
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I am pretty sure this is the method of making his story known to every child even into the seventh generation : that strange d?j? vu pseudo possession of the future. Apportation …
24 Oct 2013, 03:32
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I would not give out his email or address, but there are two public ways you should be able to contact him- either through tor books or his public facebook page, which shouldn't be…
16 Oct 2013, 13:52
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This one will always be my hobgoblin no matter how many other of my readings are seen as plausible, probably from the heaps and heaps (and heaps) of abuse it garnered circa 2002. …
11 Oct 2013, 12:26
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Of course there is time travel or the rajan and Oreb would not show up in the past stories so frequently as themselves so obviously. Before they go to Urth the first time the narra…
11 Oct 2013, 12:08
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Once again though, Gevers suborned Wolfe's statement out of me before I received Gene's permission to share it, confronted Wolfe about it, mocked it as a joke, and behaved very une…
11 Oct 2013, 12:01
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This time line is exacerbated by the decimal slip in maytera's thoughts at one point in long sun. You know, 300 years, 3000 years, whatever. I think Wolfe intended the relations…
11 Oct 2013, 11:58
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I think the yesodi's did something catastrophic, but the lack of nutrients on blue and it's coldness lead me to believe it is a completely different planet. It's biotic system doe…
10 Oct 2013, 18:25
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Breed There, sorry. I think the planets are symbolized by the fava and her friend (switcheroo on who is inhuma) and the ring: seems like two rings because it changes size and colo…
10 Oct 2013, 18:21
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Asked - stupid phone. I will blame it Sent from my iPhone…
10 Oct 2013, 14:18
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Yeah all problematic. The whorl is visible from green and blue but I am pretty sure it is much much smaller than the moon - a longtime ago I asks if a satellite could be called an…
10 Oct 2013, 14:17
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And when I mention the Eucharist scene as the opposite of Hyacinthus' story, I mean that in terms of the Catholic ceremony itself: bread and wine made from grapes transform into fl…
10 Oct 2013, 13:43
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And of course there is a rough estimate of the relative sizes of the whorl and blue - I believe off the top of my head that blue was ten times the size of the whorl, but I don't…
10 Oct 2013, 13:32
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I still think them pretending to be human in their mating ritual is just ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny. Even though the inhumi are a debased branch (heh heh) that cannot maint…
10 Oct 2013, 01:15
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Mechanism is missing. I was looking for a way that different time could pass between rigoglio leaving urth and showing up midstream at sev's time, but it wasnt there because wolfe…
09 Oct 2013, 20:32
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I remember the fond days when I would bounce my ideas off Gene and he would write me return letters on the back pages of his original short sun manuscript. He is a lover of games. …
09 Oct 2013, 03:01
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You know it, Green is urth. Typhon's ark didn't wind up going anywhere. ;) quetzal sneaking into the whorl whenever is no problem. This is the fate of people. Sent from my iPhon…
09 Oct 2013, 02:35
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Just wanted to clarify my biological scheme for inhuma and neighbors one more time in light of the tree on the whorl being called a "parent". The trees are vanished gods, differen…
08 Oct 2013, 14:10
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Of course there is a pretty big correlation between windcloud and typhoons, or at least a conceivable one. Sent from my iPhone…
08 Oct 2013, 06:24
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Since the last chapter of obw. Autocorrect on phones is terrible for this kind of posting. Sent from my iPhone…
08 Oct 2013, 06:18
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I need to look at it again but I think this is a silk, horn, and windcloud kind of hus sharing. Eventually it's just Horn in there but the hus is a nice intermediate house for dis…
08 Oct 2013, 06:16
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The house might be a hus Sent from my iPhone…
07 Oct 2013, 02:35
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The vanished gods do what gods do and create the vanished people, who have mostly left, when they can, but some of the gods remain, planted on both Green and in the form of the her…
05 Oct 2013, 13:41
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Native is such a difficult word when you are talking about hybrids. Components from here, components from there. As the inhuma said after seeing the red sun whorl: "we are everywhe…
05 Oct 2013, 13:39
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Being eaten isn't the end; it's very far from the end. ;) Sent from my iPhone…
27 Sep 2013, 21:29
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Never mind you addressed that Sent from my iPhone…
27 Sep 2013, 20:47
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It is pretty clear Oreb is possessed by Scylla at the time of "the night chough" from some hints that didnt make sense then .... Not sure where that story fits in chronologically t…
27 Sep 2013, 20:47
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And the frosty unit kind of just shows up without payment etc. etc etc i like the story more in hindsight than the first time through .... But maybe a fair portion of Wolfe is like…
23 Sep 2013, 16:19
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Because this refrigerator is less frosty than the heart of our main character, Roy, but is sent to soften that hard and cold heart. It really is a good, Wolfean title, I agree. A…
23 Sep 2013, 16:17
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I have often wondered about the moment of possession by Oreb, but that glimpse of "Pike" in his calotte with Oreb floating down always seemed to me similar to Silk and Oreb showing…
13 Sep 2013, 19:38
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Score!? As I said, the swords are missing from our Bowling Ball's mountebank's description, and according to an aquarian age site, "The Celestial Sword may be seen in the constella…
13 Sep 2013, 18:05
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Both Deneb and the Coalsack nebula are part of the Cygnus constellation, the swan, which does most resemble a cross. Interesting. ________________________________ From: Marc A…
13 Sep 2013, 17:52
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Finally something clicked just a little bit here. The bowling ball reaches into his imaginary pocket to grab a card, and then he talks about how the man missed the mountebank deali…
13 Sep 2013, 16:27
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Thanks so much, Aaron!? I appreciate it. I am getting to the portion of his short fiction in the mid 70s where Wolfe produced most of his superb but super dense novellas - Forleson…
12 Sep 2013, 05:24
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11 Sep 2013, 19:59
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I can imagine writing something and then winding up with one of those awful rustic Jordan covers where the people aren't even proportioned like people. Literary main stream book d…
09 Sep 2013, 16:44
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I agree in general. Puertas is so much better than "there are doors". Have you seen the Japanese covers? While not accurate there is some interesting stuff going on in those one…
09 Sep 2013, 16:33
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Curious Gerry, do you have an extensive physics background? I have a biochem degree and I really love math to the more concrete calculus but physics was always one of my least fav…
09 Sep 2013, 13:58
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I've made a ton of science - biological claims about Wolfe ... But his interest as a symbolist always seems to me to keep the science at that level - it's representation rather tha…
09 Sep 2013, 13:42
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