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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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THREE FINGERS “Three Fingers” was first published in New Constellations in 1976 and is included in T*he Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.* SUMMARY: …
10 Jun 2014, 03:28
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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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I just went through that whole huge write up looking for typos, but where did the "g" go in my title? Oh well.…
08 Jun 2014, 18:22
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TRACKING SONG This was published in 1975's* In The Wake of Man* and is included in *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.* Before we begin, we might as …
08 Jun 2014, 18:20
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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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I just sent a rather lengthy write up on Free Live Free with a pretty typical academic thesis .. the second to last major section lists the important differences between the Ziesin…
21 May 2014, 17:56
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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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I noticed that Wolfe used a voice actuated transcriber in two stories from the 70s with the brand name voisrite, connecting "the blue mouse" and "silhouette", but just noticed that…
13 May 2014, 07:43
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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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Sorry - that should be Mongo hordes, not hoards, of course.…
12 May 2014, 19:21
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“When I Was Ming the Merciless” is copyright 1975 and appeared in *The Ides of Tomorrow*. It is collected in *Endangered Species.* SUMMARY: The narrator is interrogated after an…
12 May 2014, 18:53
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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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The Hero as Werwolf “The Hero as Werwolf” appeared in 1975 in The New Improved Sun and is reprinted in *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories*. SUMMARY: …
09 May 2014, 19:16
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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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So ... I am trying to articulate my thoughts about Forlesen, a story where the theme is clear but the actual mechanism of Forlesen's life is a bit ... difficult. When Emmanuel For…
05 May 2014, 06:12
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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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“Straw” first appeared in *Galaxy* (the table of contents of Storeys from the Old Hotel says in 1974, but other evidence indicates it was the January 1975 edition of the magazine).…
01 May 2014, 18:44
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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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* "Forlesen", number 60 needs a bit more polish but I will finish it. I am skipping ahead temporarily. Also testing this new email - hope it is not spammed. “Civis Laputus Sum…
29 Apr 2014, 18:33
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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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Gene indicated "A Borrowed Man" has been accepted by Tor and he is working on a probably related something called "The Labyrinth in the Library."…
28 Apr 2014, 05:32
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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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