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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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there is that "thing" sleeping in the mine with the ape men, that Severian says he might "now" know what it is - related to tectonic movement? What is down there? Does a throwaway …
08 Sep 2013, 13:56
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Cues was first published in 1974 in The Far Side of Time. Summary: A young (but not really so young) man is in conversation with what appears, to him, a bowling ball from Deneb (or…
08 Sep 2013, 13:54
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06 Sep 2013, 14:02
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And to Chelle, those guns represent moral authority more than the Saints would, with her almost completely secular understanding of the world. ________________________________ …
04 Sep 2013, 16:08
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I do think there is something slightly more atavistic and tutelary about Catholicism than many other Christian denominations, and that this sensitivity to representation and symbol…
04 Sep 2013, 16:00
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Horn had that attachment to sea wrack, but silk confused this with hyacinth in his mind. He was programmed, I think, to love Mother and listen to her. For what it's worth I see…
03 Sep 2013, 19:59
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I do think Long Sun Silk is ever so slightly idealized by Horn in light of that final decision to leave everyone for Hyacinth. I also think Horn's idealization of Silk and the pos…
03 Sep 2013, 15:13
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Infinite reproducibility certainly, as a name can be written over and over, but can it be effectively erased, as when Scylla vacates Oreb, or the fragments of Pas are retrieved in …
03 Sep 2013, 13:51
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Characterization also changes in the two books: while he IS mixed up in OBW, the preachy "it is best to go to your marriage bed clean" seems like hypocrisy on the part of Horn, but…
01 Sep 2013, 16:25
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Also, some sublime irony in OBW when Horn wishes Silk where there to help him and he thinks how Silk would never, ever lie to himself like Horn does, then Silk winds up doing it fo…
01 Sep 2013, 16:20
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In OBW, the character index indicates Horn is the protagonist. In IGJ, he is no longer listed as such, though Incanto is called the former Rajan of Gaon. Silk is capable of EXTREM…
01 Sep 2013, 16:17
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Lee, I have posted my scheme of their respective "percentages" of Horn and Silk several times, so I won't do it again in full, but the first book of long sun ends with Horn imitati…
30 Aug 2013, 14:00
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Actually one of the darker scenes that recurs several times in Wolfe is a guy perceived as harmless kicking someone to deat (Blue Mouse, Silk and Jahlee, pretty sure Auk did it) an…
28 Aug 2013, 18:34
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________________________________ From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> To: "urth at urth.net" <urth at urth.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:33 AM Subject: (urth)…
28 Aug 2013, 18:10
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________________________________ In addition to what has already been posted about dogs as gods, I tend to take a meta-interpretation of it in addition to the other suggestions. …
28 Aug 2013, 16:10
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I almost feel as if Wolfe was very interested in metafiction in the early to late 80s and then gradually lost interest in it, reverting back to more traditional narrative in the 90…
28 Aug 2013, 16:06
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all of which begs the question, I suppose, of what we are to make of the authorial voice in the afterwords to the New Sun books ... part of the fictional allusive text or just a ra…
28 Aug 2013, 16:02
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________________________________ From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> To: "urth at urth.net" <urth at urth.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:58 AM In addition to w…
28 Aug 2013, 15:59
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If anybody ever gets around to reading the Wolfe tribute anthology with my story, the last line in my story seems chopped up (at least in the kindle edition I just looked at). I as…
28 Aug 2013, 02:47
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Silk is the shepherd who puts others first, Severian the culler and the butcher whose salvation leaves only himself standing alone. I am still thinking that Typhon did more good fo…
28 Aug 2013, 01:43
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Severian is a tricky case as far as free will and determinism goes - a WAY more ambiguous guy than Silk. The whole might makes right attitude he shows in taming eata and the exter…
28 Aug 2013, 01:39
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Last post this morning - the intro to Enangered Species and several other essays indicate a vague hostility to an academic environment that promulgates the cult of dead authors. Y…
27 Aug 2013, 13:48
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"Things weaker than our words for them" - I have found this quote actually quite invaluable in approaching Wolfe. Words have meanings - Wolfe often implies all of those meanings d…
27 Aug 2013, 13:42
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One of the oddest moments in New Sun comes when Severian reflects on how the language he uses is perspicuous, with one word having only one meaning, when the wording of every state…
27 Aug 2013, 13:26
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Gerry, I agree on the blasphemous inversion of mere dogs being called gods, but I think that too is a symbol of the presumptuous sleeping men who were called gods. That blind fell…
27 Aug 2013, 13:19
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27 Aug 2013, 13:07
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Yes silk doubting the outsider is, I think, because he has come to doubt some feature of his enlightenment or its sincerity( in addition to no doubt questioning how so many bad thi…
27 Aug 2013, 03:08
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"By now everyone know I actually think Wolfe creates symbols and "metaphors" that are actually extremely literal. Thus, Shadow Children riding Marshmen is the same as Shadow Childr…
24 Aug 2013, 15:52
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By now everyone know I actually think Wolfe creates symbols and "metaphors" that are actually extremely literal. Thus, Shadow Children riding Marshmen is the same as Shadow Childre…
24 Aug 2013, 15:45
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The only significance it had in ww2 as far as I could see was that Ethiopian ruler in exile there and the heavy damage it suffered, but I have absolutely no knowledge of the banki…
24 Aug 2013, 13:59
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As far as I can see the only two changes before the story starts are that Germany focused on economics instead of military might after the Great War, and that Churchill's career ne…
23 Aug 2013, 20:24
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“How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion” appeared in Analog in 1973 and is reprinted in Castle of Days on page 79. SUMMARY: In a letter composed o…
23 Aug 2013, 20:20
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Thanks Aaron. The criticism is correct in one thing - the solar system's state has to be extremely altered by something for it to be the future. I have read that piece, Ma…
23 Aug 2013, 15:03
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I came across this little new/long/short sun discussion thread - the first post starts off linking to my old Short Sun paper (I wrote that a LONG time ago when I was a much younger…
23 Aug 2013, 04:55
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also, Sims was a research scientist (physicist?) and made an officer super fast - clearly an important person to some. Perhaps this is why Skip feels so compelled to have Chelle, b…
21 Aug 2013, 01:43
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I will repost some things to address your questions. on page 282 it is revealed zygmunt, skip's investigator, is dead and two women are missing. On page 285 skip hands some people…
21 Aug 2013, 01:40
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I made a lot of comments in June http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2013-June/thread.html? You might want to take a look at a few of the speculations there under the …
21 Aug 2013, 01:32
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Some points I picked up I think mostly from this list: I'm not sure at all that this Charles Blue is Chelle's father. The old one was a fat, easily controlled man. This one is thi…
21 Aug 2013, 01:30
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Originally I wanted to make a case that the guns in the voodoo ceremony represented certain characters. I am certain now the officers gun Chelle chooses indicates that Jane sims i…
21 Aug 2013, 01:21
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Brian said "Mostly about things that I think are not working. 1) that whole "suicide club" thing---did it come out of nowhere in a confusing way, or was it properly (or even with…
20 Aug 2013, 00:53
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