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Originally the Shadow Children were saying they were from earth, more or less. After the percentage shifts to a 1 to 1 ratio, they were saying they weren't sure if Sandwalker's peo…
29 Mar 2013, 13:42
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And the story ends with one brother killing the other. Sent from my iPhone…
29 Mar 2013, 13:19
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One more thing - David stresses humanity relies on a descent from Adam , then qualifies this by saying descent from terrestrial stock at least. Something about the statement the s…
29 Mar 2013, 13:16
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Success in the hunt, of course. I still think the scenery is not entirely without sentience. Sent from my iPhone…
29 Mar 2013, 13:06
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Another image that has bothered me is the way Cedar Branches Waving , the mother, is described as deflated and empty after the births, and the way that lack of food and success in …
29 Mar 2013, 13:04
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It says it is lost in the stones and that it shifts and turns. Metaphorical language or not? Perhaps related to the perceptual screen that hides st. Anne; the entire landscape is…
29 Mar 2013, 12:55
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Why on the third day without the sleeping place result in death/the sleeping place being gone forever? Also, any ideas about why the Shadow Children suddenly accept Sandwalker as a…
28 Mar 2013, 19:22
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pg 100 - "Pink butterfly is his daughter ... he likes having her here"? referring to the tree she sleeps under. --- On Thu, 3/28/13, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:…
28 Mar 2013, 16:21
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because Wolfe likes to multiply entities. Everything is doubled. And those trees she sleeps under are "jealous" to some degree. Occam's razor need never apply to Wolfe when the the…
28 Mar 2013, 16:18
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This why it is called the land of shifting stones, I finally consciously recognize. It also says on the third day that sleeping place is then gone forever and the unsuccessful h…
28 Mar 2013, 13:44
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One more mention at least tangential to owl- at the start of "a Story" Sandwalker hunts the owl mouse and eats its young like shrimp and chews the seeds it has stored there, but mo…
28 Mar 2013, 13:41
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--- On Wed, 3/27/13, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote: Sandwalker's 'tree' grows large when he sleeps with Seven Girls Waiting. The Marshmen steal boy children from the…
27 Mar 2013, 15:48
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And no sooner had I posted that, with the claim that Wolfe's normal mode of transposition of seemingly unrelated things implied a connection, when I looked again at the section whe…
27 Mar 2013, 12:55
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I was thinking about this little clip at the beginning of 5th Head of Cerberus from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, wondering if the dream in which Number Five and his father are …
26 Mar 2013, 17:32
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The opening quote, about the ivy tod being heavy with snow and the owlet whooping to a wolf below that eats the she wolf's young, has always seemed a bit ambiguous. The opening sc…
26 Mar 2013, 04:41
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I assume he could have bought that volume more cheaply on St. Croix than transporting it; the only difference would have been his ballistic scrawls.…
25 Mar 2013, 15:32
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-Jeff Wilson said: I believe the book in question, the Field Guide to the Animals of St. Anne, was a volume distinct from the journal of Marsch and was an independent publication …
25 Mar 2013, 15:31
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Of course, I was only saying the two planets share similar features, so similar gravity is not beyond the realm of thematic possibility. Also equally likely thematically is that M…
25 Mar 2013, 14:57
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Yes. Marsch's journal shows him hunting but there is no sure indication that the ballistic chart is a rifle conversion for st. Anne or st. Croix from the earth values Marsch was u…
25 Mar 2013, 12:55
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Well ... Wasn't Thomas Moore the main character in lafferty' s past master? Then I say, sure, sounds right!! Sent from my iPhone…
25 Mar 2013, 03:07
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I quite forgot to mention that the stagnation prevalent in number five's creation is highly ironic - he is raised in a whore house where sex is a commodity, not an agent of recombi…
24 Mar 2013, 16:51
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Most of the fifth head discussion is way back in the old list, in another century, between Micahel Andre-Driusi and Borski. There is a discussion of the ballistic chart on the back…
24 Mar 2013, 15:26
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Really quickly I realized I forgot to mention that the government of St Croix is a bit bizarre- guys are arresting Marsch who all seem to have a very similary face, and they say th…
24 Mar 2013, 15:06
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PETER WRIGHT AND COLONIAL THEORY: Wright stresses the inability to differentiate between colonizer and colonized in his essay “Confounding the Skin and the Mask: ?Disappointingly…
24 Mar 2013, 05:22
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus I felt odd moving past 1972 without at least some mention of Wolfe’s first successful long volume, The Fifth Head of Cerberus; the titular novella was p…
24 Mar 2013, 05:21
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I am perusing some secondary sources, and the take on political colonialism and imperialism I find to be exagerrated in importance - the real theme at stake is that a man contradic…
20 Mar 2013, 19:02
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Two other quick things - once again external witnesses know more than subjective first person narrators - right away Marsch looks at number five and says, you are a clone. In the …
20 Mar 2013, 13:36
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As many of you know, I was trying to make a chronological effort at analyzing or even just pointing out cool things more or less chronologically in Wolfe's short fiction. The nice …
20 Mar 2013, 12:37
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Thanks, David and Antonin. Two of the most memorable recent anthologies like this were Vance's Songs of the Dying Earth and Bradbury's Shadow Show, both well worth the investment. …
02 Mar 2013, 15:10
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I was in the enviable position of seeing an advance copy of the upcoming Wolfe Tribute Anthology, Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe, edited by J.E. Mooney and …
02 Mar 2013, 14:05
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--- On Wed, 2/6/13, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: From: DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Silk/Horn in the Matachin Tower To: "…
06 Feb 2013, 18:47
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Okay. I found Long Sun slower and less engrossing than Short Sun, and had way more fun parsing it, but the lack of consensus on even what happened in the books leads me to believe …
06 Feb 2013, 17:54
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Just thought I would throw this out there - Gene will be receiving the grandmaster award in San Jose, California?(probably on May 18th if the awards are distributed on a Saturday) …
06 Feb 2013, 17:44
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I always say, stop, Marc, you know how this ends ... but anyway, I can't. Way more mysteries in Short Sun. The transmogrification of liana into inhumi, the presence of the vanishe…
06 Feb 2013, 15:29
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HOUR OF TRUST First published in 1973 in Bad Moon Rising, this story is in line with the didactic and social critiques Wolfe was writing in the early 70s, but this has a more diff…
27 Dec 2012, 06:31
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How about a general question for him? - Do you feel that if America should fall from its global relevance as an affluent and influential nation that English would topple from its …
18 Dec 2012, 18:09
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The new ones that I have looked at, like Castleview, are drm free. I don't know about the ones that were up before, like the best of gene wolfe, if they have been converted. Sent…
18 Dec 2012, 16:15
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I have about a a decade and a half worth of correspondence with Wolfe but would not feel comfortable taking on a task like that. Biography doesn't interest me as a writer, and much…
17 Dec 2012, 17:18
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--- On Sun, 12/9/12, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote: From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> Subject: (urth) Silkhorn as Blue god To: "urth at urth.net" <u…
10 Dec 2012, 14:04
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Of course they are. They are flying, as?Yggdrasil the world tree no doubt floats between worlds, somehow. --- On Thu, 11/29/12, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: …
29 Nov 2012, 15:29
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Surely you mean Kim Stanley Robinson? I was not aware he was catholic, but yes, deadly deadly boring. Not worth looking into his beliefs, really. Sent from my iPhone…
29 Nov 2012, 01:26
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Sent from my iPhone…
29 Nov 2012, 01:24
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I figure they are more like Earth and Mars. Actually, the size of Blue is implied somewhere (ten times the size of the whorl in diameter?) I don't remember exactly where. I always …
28 Nov 2012, 17:28
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Interestingly enough, Hour of Trust is where my short story survey has stalled for a few months, but it will be back on track soon. I have some problems with that one and I have pu…
28 Nov 2012, 17:23
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Yes the inhuma are liana as is the narrators staff. This has been my position since about 2001. Sent from my iPhone…
27 Nov 2012, 22:35
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the secret of the inhumi is that they are all that is left of humanity, a vestigial parasite that can no longer breed without a fresh infusion of human blood. For all intents and …
26 Nov 2012, 15:34
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Also, in regards to the below, one of the girls is equated with hyacinth in the dream. Together they certainly reach back to talk to hy, with much the same mechanism that inhuma a…
26 Nov 2012, 00:58
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It's not, or at least not in mine. Neil has always been extremely useful as a mouthpiece and trumpeter - I don't honestly expect much new from his afterward, but it will still prob…
21 Nov 2012, 15:26
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Going to the Beach This was first published in Showcase in 1973, and has not been recollected. SUMMARY: The story begins “Seventeen years ago, Miss Hiteecher his high school teache…
01 Oct 2012, 11:18
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--- On Sun, 9/30/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: I actually don't know anything about this. Without necessarily getting into details, what's the broad s…
30 Sep 2012, 19:37
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