Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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My good looks and penetrating intellect, of course. The aura of Aramini. I call it Marcissism.…
05 Sep 2018, 17:39
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My nuclear hot take on the solar cycle: Severian doesn’t lie; Wolfe almost does - but not to me. I just can’t imagine Wolfe would take out the most important person in history and …
05 Sep 2018, 16:28
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Who is that criminal on the scaffold in Silk’s enlightenment? Besus, the Sumerian protochrist? (Gilgamesh joke, sorry)…
05 Sep 2018, 16:21
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Whereas I believe in the absolute authority of the author and the terrible lies and misdirections of his interview habits. What a dilemma!…
05 Sep 2018, 16:20
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I have several textual reasons to really not like part of the interview with Jordan where Wolfe goes all in on this previous cycle explanation. One is the universe has Lewis Carro…
05 Sep 2018, 15:36
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Well, as “fully human” I think it implies that Christ is also capable of making human mistakes - Adam had, at least according to the most orthodox position, everything he needed to…
04 Sep 2018, 23:36
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Also, I find wolfe’s setup of the problem of evil and death to be overwhelmingly orthodox in its theodicy, but readers raised on Naturalism rather than Augustine tend, for whatever…
04 Sep 2018, 04:28
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Well, this scene is so allegorical that it seems to be highly predicated upon the thematic implications of the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. Much like the adversary in Jo…
04 Sep 2018, 04:24
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I accidentally sent the following only to Ab, but I think it is relevant to the whole list, as I came to a realization. Able runs through the green tube where Mag's letter is suppo…
02 Jul 2018, 13:52
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Definitely a tough one - my last name has more syllables if I say it right ;) I’m happy with this essay but just like all the ones in which I try to be as precise as possible no do…
01 Jul 2018, 13:19
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Here is my essay on Wizard Knight. I opted for exhaustiveness in the second to last section rather than brevity, so that the patterns become, hopefully, obvious.This was one writeu…
01 Jul 2018, 06:51
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I think he repurposed this use pretty thoroughly but he is definitely using the Triple Goddess again too - the moon through the windows and on the triannulis in various phases and …
02 Jun 2018, 04:14
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This was tough. Late Wolfe is way trickier than I would like him to be for my peace of mind. I suggest readers who want a head start on this and have not stayed up to date on my po…
02 Jun 2018, 02:07
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Typed in “rivermen philostratus” in google - clicked on first link and on that ebook page guess what was being discussed? keat?s Lamia.…
23 May 2018, 10:55
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In this “retelling”, Apollonius (Ambrosius in the text) never figures it out and gets killed. Bax never sees through the illusion, and that’s why the ghost is crying at the end. He…
23 May 2018, 10:30
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I was hung up on who Goldwurm was ... Wolfe did a number on us. There are three spirits with three manifestations. The Kikimora, Knecht Ruprecht (Robin Goodfellow/The Devil) and ..…
23 May 2018, 01:05
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So there are a few things that didn’t add up in the conclusion of the sorcerer’s house. One is the funeral of skotos with three guests - one of them is Mr Black, who Bax concludes …
21 May 2018, 15:29
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One other disturbing (or potentially confusing) thing involves how the first letter of Millie arrives ... her name is Millicent Kay Dunn (m k?) ... she advises bax not to trust Dor…
10 May 2018, 22:33
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Also she is the fish who yields a ring (two different types of bass and an entirely different fish with the ring in it - later he will get two black fish dishes, one covered in ori…
10 May 2018, 22:15
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Also the chapter with Mary king and skotos, letter 21, should be later, so 22 and 23 should be 21 and 22.…
10 May 2018, 22:06
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Well ... if we are looking at this as mirrored halves, it would seem to me that would imply Mary king and Kiki are the same around the fulcrum of the dinner - both have shrouds etc…
10 May 2018, 22:06
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The one breasted amazon is also ambiguous in gender: is it doris who thinks it is male? The jeweler insists it is female. Mary King has a name which could imply a doubled royal gen…
10 May 2018, 19:34
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Hi Robert. I am including my revised almost done but not quite done write up as a link here, only good for one month: https://pastebin.com/Jrf5eazs Basically everything Bax prese…
10 May 2018, 19:17
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Thanks for responding Jeffery. Finn also means "fair," which could be contrasted with Skotos (Darkness), Murrey (dark purple almost black) and Mr. Black. In my opinion Wolfe becam…
09 May 2018, 16:05
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autocorrect and poor typing may cause some confusion there - triannulus was replaced by triangle, Bax always auto-corrects to Bad. Sorry.…
04 May 2018, 14:18
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So ... I am almost done with the Sorcerer's House writeup, but Gene has doubled down on obscurity here. As those who have read the book know, a spectral horse appears in the same c…
04 May 2018, 14:11
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I haven't, but I just got in on Kindle. Didn't even know it was out - haven't read Vollmann in a few years. I like how he put the negative reviews on the cover of Argall.…
23 Apr 2018, 21:00
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Cool - one of his early novels felt very SFnal (You Bright and Risen Angels) - I've read that and what he released of his Seven American Dreams (but I can't get into his work on pr…
23 Apr 2018, 16:49
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http://web.archive.org/web/20140725102806/http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html Let’s try that one. I am not really certain - he is not quick to answer correspondence …
03 Apr 2018, 13:58
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It's actually in an interview with James Jordan here http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html *GW:* Not tremendously. It was just at the time I was planning a third book …
03 Apr 2018, 03:13
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Normally I would try to apply this dream strictly to understanding something about the plot of borrowed man. That gestalt beast through the door, for example.…
29 Mar 2018, 13:46
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Of course - blue was always referencing barsoom anyway ;)…
29 Mar 2018, 13:44
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I also believe that Wolfe's works are self-contained and separate for the most part, but as I was trying to work through the significance of a dream in "A Borrowed Man" I think per…
29 Mar 2018, 13:37
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The memories in America which precede Able's time in aelfrice are still difficult to deal with, though the moment Able plants a seed in mythgarthr, he sees his adult form looking a…
29 Mar 2018, 13:31
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oh yeah - the name of the two headed giant - orgalmir and borgalmir (O and B), whom Able jokingly suggests killed Gilling (when Toug (I think - need to check and make sure it isn't…
29 Mar 2018, 13:18
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I am still working on the Wizard Knight writeup because I am striving for the optimum organization in order to be as convincing as possible. I will set this up far more carefully i…
29 Mar 2018, 13:00
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It occurs to me as I re-read the start of the essays that Wolfe, as Milton did before him in "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" (and is a quite common trope of earlier poetry as…
26 Mar 2018, 14:24
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Here are the write-ups for Latro in the Mist and Soldier of Sidon. They are very long because they are meant to serve as annotated commentaries in the absence of annotated editions…
24 Mar 2018, 20:11
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Red herring (drum roll groan)…
21 Mar 2018, 03:14
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Cognitive dissonance incoming from the fasciest of textual fascists (me): ideally people should be able to engage the text on the level they feel comfortable with (even if they are…
20 Mar 2018, 17:51
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I agree. But that’s okay because lord knows I have snickered at academics quite a bit. (Present company excepted; redeemed by interest in Wolfe)…
18 Mar 2018, 02:09
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He also says that attempting to explore the symbols creates more textual insecurity (something I wholeheartedly disagree with - sometimes the only closure is symbolic, and wolfe’s …
17 Mar 2018, 16:26
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I just ordered the Kindle version of the Palgrave History of SF and am glad that Wolfe takes up so much space. I love what he has done with Wolfe because it creates a rich discours…
17 Mar 2018, 15:44
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James Wynn noted that wolfe pronounced it Will Rise. Did you finish all of Latro Robert? I have been tinkering with my 80 page Wizard Knight writeup this week trying to decide how …
16 Mar 2018, 23:07
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Eric, I wouldn't mind hearing it if you wouldn't mind being quoted by name, unless you didn't want it repeated. In which case I still wouldn't mind hearing it. Robert Pirkola wrote…
07 Mar 2018, 16:37
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I think my editor will have time to get volume 2 ready to go in May, but I am not sure. I haven't pressed because my pace on these last six essays has been glacial. You would thin…
07 Mar 2018, 16:14
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I don't want to start a round of Short Sun stuff (please, please, please) but here is my take on what he may or may not be talking about: some time after Horn falls into the pit on…
06 Mar 2018, 23:41
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One of the neat things about Wolfe involves his precise use of symbolism. In Sorcerer's House Bax notes that when he lines up three symbols which resemble fish on the triannulus, a…
19 Feb 2018, 19:58
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I don't think having Ossipago and Famulimus being born of Apheta is implied by the text - there is a whole scene in Urth on the ship that implies they were "raised" from an aquatic…
19 Feb 2018, 15:45
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*helen a sexualized object…
19 Feb 2018, 14:42
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