Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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The unhatched chick between Jolenta's legs. Anyway, we know something of number five's first cloning efforts. He takes unfertilized frog sex cells and doubles the chromosomes, pr…
06 May 2013, 13:24
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Definitely, his work on Fifth Head is top notch. I am trying to remember if he did much with all the crazy colors associated with names in Peace ( blue ribbon around a little coff…
01 May 2013, 13:03
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Borski is hit and miss- imaginative but often way too tenuous and nontextual in his leaps. Believe it or not I wait for the text to at least legitimately hint at something befor…
01 May 2013, 00:31
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The proper answer to all questions is yes, no,no, yes, no, yes, no. Maybe. Sent from my iPhone…
30 Apr 2013, 16:34
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I will answer those questions if elected, but I will not eat his brains. Even with analept of alzabo. Sent from my iPhone…
30 Apr 2013, 16:32
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Interesting. I really love his work on the Wright books in terms of color and content, especially "Shadows of the New Sun". Alas, my lack of interest in landscape has always kept …
24 Apr 2013, 19:32
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I would have to say Silk is more like a pedant or preachy fellow than a jerk, and Latro more like a heroic dupe. Obviously this is pretty subjective stuff we are talking about. …
22 Apr 2013, 15:23
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Horn is very resentful towards Nettle for getting pregnant in some of his flashbacks -?there is something spoiled in many of his recollections. There is such vast and deep irony in…
19 Apr 2013, 19:59
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Sent from my iPhone Really quickly because I think it is something readers overlook. Horn is a jerk. He thinks about his wife in obw because that is the effect of being mixed wi…
19 Apr 2013, 14:28
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Anyone who has read his interviews on Peace knows that a few words create a pattern of conclusiveness. Mrs porter is miss bold across two hundred pages because she is blond, prett…
14 Apr 2013, 05:32
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If one is not in favor of the maggots explanation, rue d'asticot might perhaps be another allusion to a "mythical street" in London named Grub Street. Which was renamed Milton Stre…
12 Apr 2013, 02:53
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And sandwalker actually dreams of being a wormlike being at one point. I do think phylogeny recapitualting ontogeny is a very valid theme that shed light on House of Ancestors as w…
11 Apr 2013, 18:58
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Perhaps, or at least a tendency toward an impediment to easy mobility. Her name, Seven Girls Waiting, kind of does imply that some girls will just be waiting around, though Cedar B…
11 Apr 2013, 18:55
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And the other theme is that successful mimicry involves erasing consciously erasing one's origins in favor of a fabulated story to make the mimicry "valid". I don't see any themati…
11 Apr 2013, 18:53
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--- On Thu, 4/11/13, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: From: DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> Subject: Re: (urth) fifth head owlet- wolf? To: "The Urt…
11 Apr 2013, 18:47
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I actually wanted to involve Gerry's opinion of the scene in question here, when Seven Girls Waiting and Sandwalker first meet. There is a mysterious dialog between them, with him …
11 Apr 2013, 18:11
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definitely an outcrossing with Jeanine. whether she is still Jeanine as born or not is exacerbated byVeil's hypothesis and the odd statement that she must stay away from the man re…
11 Apr 2013, 17:55
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How is that for being a spin doctor? Hey, four people left on ushas, believe it or not everybody dying is all good ;) don't believe me? Read this narrative!! Sent from my iPhon…
11 Apr 2013, 16:33
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Sent from my iPhone I still fancy there is something in the Chanticleer type story in which the Angels are still infinitely far from the increate and only guess what he desires fr…
11 Apr 2013, 16:29
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A man could produce a daughter clone from his sex cells if random assortment or doubling was done according to the technique number five describes in fifth head (in theory)- a woma…
11 Apr 2013, 15:25
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Fairly interesting - Ackroyd seems to have made his career by riffing on famous literary figures - Wolfe does the same thing but in a less obvious and more allusive way, though of …
11 Apr 2013, 14:00
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On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> I really enjoyed your post Lee; just had to comment on this part. I would love to agree with this egalitari…
11 Apr 2013, 13:07
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And the narrative thrust of both mimicking aboriginal and possibly, according to the interview, replacing empathic shadow child, would be to convince others of their humanity in an…
11 Apr 2013, 12:31
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Your post has some good points that are well laid out, but I will only say that to me, a shape shifting or metamorphic species could very well have multiple stages to its life cycl…
11 Apr 2013, 12:28
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No it is uppercase I am just a sloppy typer with my phone. Could be a typo though. I will look at the original hardback but I suppose the later versions should be more definitive…
11 Apr 2013, 12:16
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Wolfe was mad about the shift to third person when I told him about it, and did not know of the change. That was years ago, though. Sent from my iPhone…
11 Apr 2013, 02:47
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Which reminds me of two other infamous textual variations in wolfe. The omnibus of long sun changes Horn's first person declaration from and I came in the room to and then Horn ca…
11 Apr 2013, 02:45
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I just had to say, my 1981 ace printing of fifth head says "the girl is many pink butterflies" on page 99. Typo or not 8 don't know. Changed to Mary later?…
11 Apr 2013, 02:25
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One last comment to Gerry and I will let it drop - to me, Wolfe's scientific mind creates patterns and repeated phenomena that lead to hypothesis - it is repeatable phenomena that …
10 Apr 2013, 18:04
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And yes, Wolfe does kind of repeat the same imagery over and over, his symbolism is not a one off. SandWALKER'S feet always dropping down to the ground, described as sure footed, d…
10 Apr 2013, 17:35
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You assume the author is wrong when it is convenient to your surface reading. Maggots are the early stages, trees the matured metamorphosed possibly "ghostly" lifecycle, thus pre…
10 Apr 2013, 17:26
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And in a novel with a street named after larva or maggots in French, how can we ignore a name like pink butterflies, when butterflies are a symbol of a larval stage that transforms…
10 Apr 2013, 16:01
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--- On Wed, 4/10/13, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote: Hm. My impression was that all the serious negativity found in the Neighbors was a product of their encoun…
10 Apr 2013, 15:51
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How about this mystery then? "Sandwalker" is the name used to identify the one who survives. Later, Eastwind is said by Trenchard to meet the French landers. — You have to use othe…
10 Apr 2013, 15:37
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Oh Gerry - because he is cryptic by nature. Notice that no mention is made of that second space faring race using their hands at all. Gene is an engineer who loves mysteries, sci…
10 Apr 2013, 15:32
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Yes, the context of the first novella, written first, would of course not have the shadow child interpretation available in that last line - it would have to be a retrofit, though …
10 Apr 2013, 14:11
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Holy crap the mother of cedar branches waving plants her daughter after the birth so that the sun drenched sand energies get to her on the second page of "a story", brushing the su…
09 Apr 2013, 02:48
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Just had a little thought if Marsch was a shadow child. The ending lines of the first novella. " she had the child with her. Someday they'll want us." If this is the shadow ch…
09 Apr 2013, 02:43
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Pay attention to the trees and lianas, please. And read my tree corn silk horn and the whorl word riddle of short sun essay. That Eucharist scene is vital to my interpretation. …
08 Apr 2013, 22:29
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I have always maintained it is the transformation of vegetable matter to blood quite literally, the watchers behind silk being the vanished gods, the trees, who will eat of flesh a…
08 Apr 2013, 22:21
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Also, the transformation of wine to blood is a definitely a bit more literal in one of those communion scenes than the other, diabolical one. Though they are both , how should I s…
08 Apr 2013, 17:57
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And making them move around and reach out and mate, just using them as removable carapaces? I think the subtextual presence of keeping the trees satisfied and expecting greetings …
07 Apr 2013, 20:51
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Certainly we have all noticed the chronic leg injuries of many of Wolfe's characters. I honestly don't like putting biographical stuff into interpretation unless it is very clear o…
07 Apr 2013, 15:25
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One more quick thought. Everyone dreams of being surrounded by columns or trees. In Number 5's dreams, eventually these columns are revealed to have words that are rubbed off (the …
07 Apr 2013, 13:59
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Yes I see- ephemeral and illusory promises instead of reality. I think it is Wolfe's dualism that creates so many interpretational tangles for some, and that the things you menti…
05 Apr 2013, 18:44
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Let us rephrase that, shall we? How religion affected the masses. The enmity between communism and Christianity has always been a bit of a mystery to me, though i suppose it is…
05 Apr 2013, 18:26
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Pound seems to have had a beef with religion as well, perhaps stemming from institutional hypocrisy and its affect on the masses. I guess I like my old stereotyped ideas; I hear a…
05 Apr 2013, 18:12
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I can see presenting it at a formal academic presentation. " beckett's unnameable . . . is a wiener." Then sitting down. Sent from my iPhone…
05 Apr 2013, 18:03
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I agree with Ross that Wolfe is profoundly modernist. Pound was certainly a fascist; I will have to research his spiritual proclivities. There is a kind of very benevolent authori…
05 Apr 2013, 17:49
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I agree- new criticism (and historical criticism for valid context most of the time) are the most sound and applicable techniques. I feel like the new critical approach would get …
05 Apr 2013, 16:42
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