Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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The interesting thing about a lot of these Dickinson poems to me is that they always seem to have that old hymn rhythm: a thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone shor…
09 Aug 2005, 10:25
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We know that after an inhumi feeds on a human, it is not only their child that assumes some of that essence, but themselves as well for a brief time. A few years ago, I had posi…
09 Aug 2005, 10:19
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I'm sure this is nothing new, but I noticed that the list of names that Able hears at the end of "The Knight" is explained. After he slays Bymir in Chapter 67, Able hears "The win…
12 May 2005, 21:44
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I know that we have dwelled at length upon Able's dream visions of the dying and the sick, some of which seem to be from "our" earth, and have in most cases attributed it to the si…
08 May 2005, 22:13
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All this talk of Abraham and his son has enticed me to post again after my silence through the Skinner, et al. posts. As a child, I always thought about why Jesus had to suffer f…
22 Mar 2005, 20:51
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Hrmm - my argument that the editors had no real insight into the character of the ambiguous protagonist has been turned against me. Let me rephrase it - the editors are working …
14 Jan 2005, 21:55
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Chesterton is worthy of discussion on the list primarily because his writing clearly influenced Wolfe. Some authors are trickier than others. I once wrote a sample argumentativ…
11 Jan 2005, 11:57
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Hmmm - here is my attempt to provide textual evidence. This is chapter 18 of Return to the whorl, the first couple of pages (I have the SFBC edition with me, so the page numbers ar…
10 Jan 2005, 18:47
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I never implied that Silk or Pig would be downloading anything from eye to eye. In Book of the Long Sun, Silk speaks with Chenille about possession, and how it always leaves somet…
09 Jan 2005, 16:17
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I only have about 36 more messages to read before I'm caught up, so forgive me if someone has said this. It seemed pretty clear to me at the end of the Wizard Knight that Able is …
05 Jan 2005, 21:38
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I am still about fifty posts short of catching up, so perhaps some of this was covered, but I wanted to respond to a few things i read before I forgot. A)Wizard Knight: I find it …
05 Jan 2005, 21:14
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Certainly Gene's parents survived until after the Korean war, as indicated by Letters Home, which are letters Gene's mother saved. His father probably died before his mother. The…
07 Dec 2004, 07:18
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I have about forty pages left to read in Wizard. The last 200 pages seemed better than the first 200. I wanted more of the story to be set in Skai rather than Jotunland with the …
05 Nov 2004, 08:01
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Some random points I wanted to reiterate before everybody finished the Wizard. Remember how we grafted the family relatinship between Able, Bold, Mag, and Gerta to the one with …
30 Oct 2004, 15:52
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Interestingly enough, I was just talking with my girlfriend the other day about Wolfe's portrayal of women. She says that Thecla influences how Severian treats (and writes about…
10 Sep 2003, 06:03
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Hey guys. So parallelism has finally led the question "Who are the long and short suns, if Severian is the New sun?" to appear on the list. And strangely enough, we have an ans…
06 Sep 2003, 05:15
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I think I mentioned the whole "mother's mother" thing with Latro in the dream palace of lions on the list a few months ago. My best guess at the time was that Sphinx had become …
05 Sep 2003, 05:40
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One quick note on the Beckett bit: I think Mahood and the Worm are different characters only insofar as the multiple personality disorders of Malone are different: when the penis …
26 Aug 2003, 20:48
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This message is going to seem random, but oh well. Hopefully the well-read literary types will answer my question in the last paragraph. First comment - it seems to me that when…
26 Aug 2003, 07:10
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Gadzooks! Upon perusing my last message, I was confronted with ten billion typos and omitted words. My apologies. When I try to quote from a book, there is no room on my compu…
22 Aug 2003, 20:09
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There is a reason I always paraphrase quotes instead of looking them up. I get distracted, especially in Short Sun, and then you guys have to suffer for it. More Green is Urth …
22 Aug 2003, 18:13
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Roy brings up Silk's clean plate. I suppose I should have been more precise - the fact that Silk eats very little and gets sick in winter seems important somehow. And he does s…
22 Aug 2003, 16:15
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One more thing, since you asked about the Typhon scene. There has been a lot of disagreement over that scene. I think that Typhon does in fact recognize Severian, others believ…
19 Aug 2003, 06:43
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Hi Benjamin. Of course there are plenty of indications that Severian is the conciliator all over the place in BOTNS. First off, there is mention of him as the Dark Sun (sev's fu…
19 Aug 2003, 06:25
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I was just finishing up Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and was caught off guard by how many of my favorite Wolfe quotes come from book six (The Fugitive, in my translation)…
18 Aug 2003, 22:38
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I've been having a problem looking up the Urth archives today, so forgive me if any of this is repetitive. I just got back from a trip - ran into Mr. Wolfe. He told me that he …
15 Aug 2003, 04:56
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I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but I thought it was a weird repetitive image. In the Chapter entitled Carnifex after the duel of flowers in Shadow of the torturer, a dog…
01 Aug 2003, 07:26
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I had to comment on one statement that was made - that Wolfe might think that Borges and Delany are better writers than him? I have the suspicion that Wolfe doesn't like Delany's…
29 Jul 2003, 06:15
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Blattid implies that "Little, Big" never captured his imagination. I have to say I agree. If you look at the cards and the characters and follow the path of the stork, then the…
28 Jul 2003, 05:20
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A few on the list claim they would be interested in getting Mr. Wolfe to participate in a workshop type review. I am a teacher at the high school and community college level, an…
26 Jul 2003, 22:53
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A quick question for the list. If anyone wants to respond to me, they can do so privately at maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu. I understand that Wolfe wrote a short story called "Mute" fo…
20 Jul 2003, 05:01
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Well, I have always favored the idea that Silkhorn is the proto-green man, eaten (but spit out) by a tree and reconstituted with chloroplasts in his blood so that he never has to…
20 Jul 2003, 05:00
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It was stated that "when [Merryn and Severian] meet in Sword, they meet as strangers." I don't think that's right. The first recorded confrontation should be at the end of Claw…
19 Jul 2003, 20:05
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Just one more thing that I forgot in our recent discussion of whether or not Silk could pass for Malrubius in the astral travel scenes of Return to the Whorl: in the comments fo…
18 Jul 2003, 05:16
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Andrew points out that Triskele must have been around for more than a week if the time between Dorp and Silk's two visits are contiguous in time. Of course you know my position:…
16 Jul 2003, 04:39
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Just an offhand comment that many here will already know: The mistake in identification between Drotte and Roche, coming early in the narrative, seems unlikely to be a mistake by…
12 Jul 2003, 06:15
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Severian goes to some length during writing Book of the New Sun to address his readers personally, which means that he expects to have some. Yet at the opening of Urth of the N…
11 Jul 2003, 05:59
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Two brief points: I believe Nutria asked me to clarify why I stated that the author of Urth of the New Sun was different than the Severian of Book of the New Sun. Note that the…
10 Jul 2003, 05:57
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I don't expect that everyone will agree with me on this one, but I think it justifies Severian's CONTINUAL claims of perfect memory a bit. First off, let's think about Severian's…
09 Jul 2003, 05:54
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One thing has always bothered me about Sev's meeting with Juturna in Urth of the New Sun: she doesn't know about saving him, but indicates that now that she has been told, she wi…
08 Jul 2003, 20:21
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So there is some disagreement over the skull. I tried to emphasize that perhaps the Severian we knew was just a copy, as the Apu-Punchau who rises over his body is just a copy. …
08 Jul 2003, 19:47
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The recent discussion has prompted me to look once again at the end of Urth of the New Sun. I think we can all agree that the skull that Severian finds at the bottom of the lake…
07 Jul 2003, 05:53
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Boy, this is weird. Have you ever felt like you had an original idea, thought about it a little, got excited, and then realized that you had already posited the same idea long a…
05 Jul 2003, 07:28
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In response to Don's comments, I have a brief question about synchronicity. So you don't think Severian is really the original Apu-Punchau? See, I always saw him as both the or…
05 Jul 2003, 07:02
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All right guys. I was writing an off-list message when a weird thought struck me. It has already been posited here that perhaps some strange doubling occurred, allowing Green t…
03 Jul 2003, 06:59
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Thanks for the encouraging words, Mooncalf. Yes, I believe at one point I posted that the huh-huh-huh sounds were Horn trying to say his own name to his son, who didn't recogniz…
02 Jul 2003, 07:01
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Latro has very selective amnesia - note that he is able to perform the wrestling moves with perfection once he is reminded of basic strategy. He needs a reminder - he doesn't kn…
23 Jun 2003, 05:57
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I don't know if this is worthy of posting, but oh well. If we accept that the minor gods of the pantheon can immerse themselves in human flesh for a time, Latro's great fighting…
19 Jun 2003, 20:16
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Here is a question from Crush about Seven Lions' Paste- perhaps you could help us out - I have only the vaguest conception that it reminds me of the scene in the movie Gladiator …
09 Jun 2003, 05:47
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This months Weird Tales has a new Wolfe story, "My Name is Nancy Wood" I read it quickly in the bookstore, so here are some spoilers s p o i l e r s It is a first person account…
01 Jun 2003, 06:05
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