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“Melting” first appeared in 1974 in Orbit 15. Melting? is one of my favorite Gene Wolfe stories on the strength of its marvelous last line: a dismissal of all but the irate ego, po…
24 Apr 2014, 20:41
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The Rubber Bend “The Rubber Bend” first appeared in 1974 in Universe 5 (according to the copyright page on Storeys from the Old Hotel, anyway ? ? ?). This is a sequel to “Slaves o…
23 Apr 2014, 19:42
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Looks like in addition to losing Gabriel Garcia Marquez recently, we have lost sometimes Urth contributor and Nightlands editor Andy Robertson. I was sad to read about it - a littl…
22 Apr 2014, 07:33
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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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???????????? MISCELLANEOUS SYMBOLS AND SPECULATION “Many of the embedded tales in Peace reflect back on the life of Weer, but there a few points that seem cryptically unsatisfying…
17 Apr 2014, 06:25
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Motifs in Gene Wolfe's Peace: Fairy Tales from the Emerald Isle, Cultural Displacements, and the Resurrection Egg Marc Aramini ????Gene Wolfe’s work has summoned diverse responses,…
17 Apr 2014, 06:22
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Just sent a HUGE Peace write up, but looks like I will have to send it in two parts. Lots of work on that, BUT I still think it needs one more breakthrough relating the carnival to…
17 Apr 2014, 06:21
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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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PART II: Trees that eat Trees : Corn to grow on And yet it seemed irrational that so vast a quantity of vegetable matter should go to waste. Pas, who built the Whorl, would have …
12 Feb 2014, 15:48
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12 Feb 2014, 15:46
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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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I am not sure if I have already posted about this quote from the fictional Marvells of Science from Peace: Hell is a country of marshes — and that no two devils are of the same sha…
05 Feb 2014, 16:36
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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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I am almost done with my Peace write up, and there was one thing that bothered me a bit. While la llorona famously drowns her children, most gaelic banshee myths don't involve a w…
22 Jan 2014, 19:07
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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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Well, as we all know, Peace references Lang's Green Fairy Book, Ludwig's biography of Napoleon, some of the fictional literature mentioned in Lovecraft like the Cultes des Goules, …
05 Jan 2014, 19:09
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As I was researching what every family name in Peace meant, I came across MacAfee's origin, a rather strange one. Associated with the clan Mac Dubh-Sithhe - the dark one of peace, …
05 Jan 2014, 17:31
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I normally don't share much personal correspondence with Mr. Wolfe here but I was happy to learn in an email today that he has been writing a lot recently and hopes to "soon" have …
05 Jan 2014, 04:44
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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, now that I consider it, the stag at bay and weer's father taking the dog boy to hunt resonates with the imagery of the deer skin that the women write the treaty for the land …
02 Jan 2014, 04:12
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In addition, the banshees of Ireland normally wear a green dress, and Margeret Lorn wears a green dress at Olivia's wedding when den is reminded of a princess in a tower "like my a…
02 Jan 2014, 04:00
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Many of the embedded tales in Peace reflect back on the life of Weer, but there a few points that I have never been satisfied with. In the story of mr. Tilly's death and Julius sm…
02 Jan 2014, 03:39
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Tried to send this message a few times but it hasn't gone through. Still looking up references in Peace, at one point Lois Arbuthnot says that Weer's sword is not like Jurgen's. (i…
24 Dec 2013, 17:29
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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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also, it occurred to me that there are two points where five years can easily "swing" in Peace - at the opening of the book when he first goes to Van Ness, his age is 45 or less, k…
21 Dec 2013, 16:24
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One of the biggest problems with making the story of the dog boy fit with the majority of Peace is of course the age of the child Doris, the carnival stepdaughter?- she is old enou…
21 Dec 2013, 16:09
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http://www.siriusfiction.com/peacetimeline.html That is a timeline for Peace roy lackey and Michael Andre driussi put together. I have a slight five year shift to throw around: T…
21 Dec 2013, 01:27
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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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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, 23:51
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