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I think Pynchon is decidedly more postmodern - when things fall apart they tend not to come together again. Scatophages(i?), giant octopi, erections summoning death from above ...…
20 Aug 2013, 00:22
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Critiques of New Sun in particular are almost universally asinine. Later Wolfe lacks the universal appeal but is still great, but the balance in New Sun between theme, atmosphere, …
19 Aug 2013, 17:06
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I do mention that a reader could easily be critical of a ruler who sits in luxury leaving his people in a slum and offering to help them only indirectly (ie not at all) but I think…
19 Aug 2013, 12:24
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David Duffy wrote: ??? Because he is a tricksy Modernist. Joyce had to put the chapter headings back in _Ulysses_, otherwise it was too hard, he was told. Similarly - in a respo…
19 Aug 2013, 04:50
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After so much research the past year to do these little short story write ups, there are a few things that struck me that I really think needed to be examined overtly - Wolfe's eng…
19 Aug 2013, 03:10
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Wolfe is still Wolfe - my favorite parts of home fires were the first person sections. There is clearly still a patterned and discernible plan behind it (even if it is as vague as…
17 Aug 2013, 18:32
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“La Befana” first appeared in Galaxy in 1973. It is reprinted in The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories on page 55. SUMMARY: On an alien planet, expatriate …
15 Aug 2013, 18:10
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???I spoke of the west wind in the bible making the plague of locusts dissipate into the red sea, and the east wind bringing so many travails and scorching hardships, but I failed …
15 Aug 2013, 14:03
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“Westwind” appeared in Worlds of If in 1973. It is collected in Storeys From the Old Hotel on page 86. SUMMARY: The story begins with an image of the ruler on the wall of a dirty i…
14 Aug 2013, 17:37
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One more thing that just struck me is the nature of this self referential myth making - Deepdelver is a hero from his perspective and the point of view of his fellows, but his succ…
14 Aug 2013, 14:20
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How much harder would this story have been if Wolfe had named it "Deepdelver and the Everdark" or "Greylock's Last Story"? I feel like in the 90s he might not have given us the int…
14 Aug 2013, 13:14
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Yes I got the impression that the tears were way more common after Singer was captured- I agree with that feeling. Depression might have made her more susceptible to a simple bacte…
14 Aug 2013, 13:12
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Peritonitis originally appeared in Tomorrow’s Alternatives in 1973. It is collected in Endangered Species on page 279. In this rather straightforward allegory, secondary narrator G…
13 Aug 2013, 20:06
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Wolfe outside the text doesn't portray that attitude very much? - it's more like, if you were paying attention, there are no secrets. (Our vice is failure to observe what is import…
12 Aug 2013, 17:51
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Not too much information - the last several years have been interfering to some degree with Wolfe's ability to write without distractions. Legal issues over his wife's care situati…
06 Aug 2013, 16:27
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Well ... I really like Andre-druissi. His lexicon urthus is great. My issue with gate of horn is pretty simple - while Borski goes way too far and ignores theme in ephemeral conc…
05 Aug 2013, 19:33
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Publishing has also slowed down considerably in the last few years save for sure thing name sales. Land across is in November and Wolfe is working on A Borrowed Man, about checkin…
05 Aug 2013, 18:15
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Not to be all negative, and not that a title can't have two connotations, but there is a pretty explicit rumination on that shadow that comes from the hand of the secular authority…
05 Aug 2013, 15:37
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There are some interesting things in thinking of the generation of aquastors here. I haven't read new sun in a long long time, but the idea of Katherine as an eidolon is kind of i…
01 Aug 2013, 16:52
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Lee wrote: "Given Jeff's consideration of Wolfe's assessment of the reality of pagan gods, this re- combining theme makes Wolfe's personal theology very interesting with regard to…
31 Jul 2013, 14:38
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Yeah the trauma is only the most superficial touch of realism- gods and the wellsprings of human faith are as real as they can be in those books, but the religious scheme is syncre…
30 Jul 2013, 00:30
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Yeah his last is a bit cropo-mucophagic. Delany is a good writer who writes about some nasty stuff. Not sure if his later output is worth the effort, but Dark Reflections was at …
25 Jul 2013, 14:52
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A ring that remains textually unidentifiable unless it is somehow the original ring that should have been on Green is the main reason I have always felt that Auk must have repaired…
14 Jul 2013, 22:37
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How can they have intellectual rights to something as general as freezing time, a fantasy of probably just about everyone who has ever lived? Absolutely ludicrous. Gene Wolfe mi…
14 Jul 2013, 19:24
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Off camera, in my opinion. A ring, auks ghost, a big woman high on something victimized by Jahlee, after which she looks like chenille, and a lander all near Dorp match up with st…
13 Jul 2013, 20:47
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The scene on dorp when Jahlee is mistaken for Chenille also has two other weird things - the presence of auks ghost and it is where Oreb brings a ring that changes to look like Hor…
12 Jul 2013, 12:58
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Yes she has had it pretty severely for years now. 8000 a month? Sweet lord. He said the bills were bad but I didn't realize they were that bad. Sent from my iPhone…
26 Jun 2013, 17:41
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Perhaps it is England. Yet the presence of st. Agnes well/fountain which is a tourist stop near Prague and the hints that the tales of Baba Yaga chicken footed hut refer to mother …
23 Jun 2013, 23:12
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The Devil in A Forest Published in 1976, only a few years after the inordinately confounding and unclear “The Fifth Head of Cerberus”, The Devil in a Forest seems completely straig…
21 Jun 2013, 23:00
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Yes, originally I wrote just that Latro and Aphrodite made it and did not put page numbers for the references, but Nigel made a few of the references more explicit and reader frien…
17 Jun 2013, 13:35
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Jonathan Laidlow and Nigel Price of Ultan's Library have been conducting a few interviews with the authors involved in the Gene Wolfe tribute anthology, and the first two interview…
11 Jun 2013, 16:38
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Ah ha. Coleman Baum is Chet burton. The loyalty and love skip feels for him, the senior partner, and the memories he has of him - no doubt his boss in every sense of the word. T…
10 Jun 2013, 14:47
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--- On Sun, 6/9/13, Stephen Hoy <stephenhoy at yahoo.com> wrote: From: Stephen Hoy <stephenhoy at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: _Home Fires_, 1982 ro…
10 Jun 2013, 01:08
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Here is the quote I was talking about -?Chelle says: "Tante Elise said there were seven people there. Remember, Mother? I think she thought any gun-". Skip had his finger to his …
07 Jun 2013, 16:34
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Well, we do get to see four of the guns (the one Vanessa chooses). So we see four guns and two are never displayed. Tante Elise does not need one. I think the six guns stand for th…
07 Jun 2013, 16:10
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thanks Stephen. Right now I am simply not sure if the body Vanessa possesses should be counted as a person (Edith Eckhart?) in that scene. since she?Vanessa is dead already, " Tant…
07 Jun 2013, 16:06
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One more detail- Rick Johnson the cyborg with Susan, Skip's secretary, is tall, lanky, and wears a tweed jacket. The description of whoever stabbed Chelle's mother at the restaura…
07 Jun 2013, 13:52
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Also, skip forgets about meeting "Charles Blue" on page 191 and at the start of chapter 4 and keeps trying to place him every time he meets him (he also keeps forgetting the last n…
07 Jun 2013, 13:40
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Also, on page 282 it is revealed zygmunt, skip's investigator, is dead and two women are missing. On page 285 skip hands some people we have never heard of weapons and a "leader" …
06 Jun 2013, 17:21
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The old man who sells Vanessa the furniture and the suicidal shaving knife wears some interesting clothes. Skip says " I have forgotten the old man's name; I remember everything e…
06 Jun 2013, 17:00
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Ah yes - I think this is important. Skip has a vision early of a garden with pink or red flowers and a working fountain, then comes across a fountain matching that description whe…
06 Jun 2013, 16:53
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The alias coalman Baum that mr white-blue uses does have some interesting associations. Skip ponders that the first name is a color game for black. Baum is a surname used to indic…
06 Jun 2013, 03:42
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Also, couldn't figure out where boswash was off the top of my head - a megalopolis coined in the sixties or so along the New England coast from Boston to Washington. Vanessa is im…
06 Jun 2013, 02:34
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--- On Wed, 6/5/13, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: Between the third-person point of view, Wolfe intersperses Skip’s (and later Chelle’s) first-person me…
06 Jun 2013, 01:51
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Chelle recognizes her mother in another body but does not recognize skip, claiming it is just age. But is it? Sent from my iPhone…
05 Jun 2013, 18:48
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But there is some subtext that it is not him at all. He says he never gives to beggars, then after the first chapter he always gives to beggars. His opening statement about wakin…
05 Jun 2013, 18:33
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Just wanted to share a quick note about the Nebula Awards for everybody - it went very well, though it was not quite as unforgettable as the March Fuller award dedicated solely to …
20 May 2013, 20:04
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Some old posters were published authors, but haven't seen them in a while. Michael andre-Driussi, yves meynard, patrick o leary, Borski- (some of his criticism might be wild enoug…
15 May 2013, 00:33
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Am I confusing the ship with the Hyperion Cantos, or is there a sense of the Yggdrasil world tree as a ship? does that story at all come into reference in Urth of the New Sun? Been…
08 May 2013, 20:36
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The book does say that number five doubts his father is capable of the feat of human cloning at one point. Of course, he is. Sent from my iPhone…
06 May 2013, 15:17
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