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sorry for all the typos in the quotes. Should look back before hitting send. Anyway, even though it is conceivable to me that some "they" (vanished gods?) brought the inhumi to o…
08 Feb 2011, 18:18
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This passage is important but it is contradictory, at the very end of RTTW: p 384-395 ""I was was thinking about the whorl you described ... about the whorl we visited ... We of t…
08 Feb 2011, 18:08
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Yeah, that too. His examples are just off the wall to me all around. Picking out probably the most lyrical SF guy, comparing him to a guy who was never regarded for prose but for…
07 Feb 2011, 02:50
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I guess. But then you know there are these grants and stuff, like Vollman getting 50,000 tax free for five years, for, as you said, creating a made up story. Just reeks of ... in…
07 Feb 2011, 01:04
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Just writing to grumble that the comments are closed on this article on SF at the cusp of breaking into consideration for the Booker Prize. Someone mentions Wolfe in the comments …
06 Feb 2011, 23:53
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Just had a chance to read Circus of Dr. Lao this week, and was shocked by how much of the stuff has at least some resonance with Wolfe. The Hound of the hedges is a chlorophyl dri…
31 Jan 2011, 22:18
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I came across a forum title Book of the New Sun and why it is the best thing ever. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3248039 Never heard of the hosting si…
31 Jan 2011, 21:51
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doesn't that seem too easy, though? especially considering the fact that older is the illogical description of it, instead of just, you seem like another me, or a sister. A larger…
20 Jan 2011, 21:04
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As far as Agia goes, Sev sees her naked with her brother, even though she is like the only woman in the book Sev does not actually have intercourse with, right? Yeah, don't the Pe…
20 Jan 2011, 20:46
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I will try not to shut up then. There are so many ambiguities that are so much less clear cut than some of that stuff though. I even think there are some weird little asides that…
20 Jan 2011, 20:22
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I was under the impression Ascian's would be more like the descendents of North America, but I hate bringing up interview points against the text. Gene said something about how pe…
20 Jan 2011, 19:57
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yeah, and this is the kind of statement you can ignore if nothing else supports it, but when you really look at it were she says "you're REALLY my OLDER sister", she isn't just say…
20 Jan 2011, 19:43
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and its funky quotes like that that beg for a more literal explanation than just, hey, she's taller and Mint feels sisterly towards her! These are the kind of asides that indicate…
20 Jan 2011, 19:17
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Yeah, I have no comment. Let's be honest though everything with family is all f-ed up beyond belief in Long Sun. on page 353 of Litany Maytera MINT says Chenille is her older si…
20 Jan 2011, 19:02
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Just a few quick points I wanted to make before shutting up for a while. There are things that I am sure I should be able to prove logically by lining up a few quotes, and things…
20 Jan 2011, 18:48
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--- On Thu, 1/20/11, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote: You guys have great far fetched takes. I will try. What is ulimately of course very frustrating is that …
20 Jan 2011, 18:10
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The fact is the mouth of Mamelta utters those words, and I think it is Mamelta, and you think it is Mucor. Not only is it evidence that Silk is recognized. You ignore everything …
20 Jan 2011, 16:23
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Since you asked, and then I will leave you alone. If, as the dreams says, she is the goddess of love, and consort of the father of the gods, this hammers home that connection if M…
20 Jan 2011, 07:30
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--- On Wed, 1/19/11, Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote: , Agia's relentless pursuit This, at least, does not seem to be a great mystery, he killed her brother an…
19 Jan 2011, 20:17
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I disagree for the most part on this. Some of them might be, but I feel like there is always some interpretive work that makes sense of it (for example, outside of Wolfe, one of B…
19 Jan 2011, 19:23
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Oh yeah, as far as Mucor goes ... are those dogs she gives birth too the gods of the tunnel or are they different? Because if she gave birth to the gods that seems to create a bit…
19 Jan 2011, 19:04
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Yes, and this is listed as why he was included as an embryo on the whorl. I think all the evidence, SAYING Kypris is mother OUTRIGHT, not even interpretationally, is ridiculously …
19 Jan 2011, 19:00
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And you know for a certainty it is Mucor speaking at that point, that there is no subconscious bit of Mamelta influencing her? Remember that she told Silk that she is saving herse…
19 Jan 2011, 18:50
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Well, to me Kypris definitely takes an interest in Silk, and he definitely seems to be more aligned with the vanished Pas than, say, Echidna or Scylla, in their reactions to him. …
19 Jan 2011, 15:44
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No, this has little to do with Silk being suicidal, it is the small lies and betrayals of the people and things he thought he could trust. (Marble not really being Molybdenum unles…
19 Jan 2011, 15:35
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The problem is that negation is a value judgement, Gerry. James sees the face of Silk on Pas as confirmation of genetic contiguity with Typhon, I see it as a symbol of succession …
19 Jan 2011, 03:43
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--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Mr Thalassocrat <thalassocrat08 at gmail.com> wrote: ?Apart from anything, I keep dreading the appearance of the next deli sandwich. I think Wolfe has fin…
19 Jan 2011, 03:33
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There's a point of diminishing returns once the evidence is laid out, I think, James. We tried. No sense frustrating each other. heh heh. FWIW, I had a REALLY hard time accepting…
19 Jan 2011, 03:10
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Greatest opening line ever! Giant floating head from the sky: "The gun is good, the penis is bad. The penis shoots seed, the gun brings death." I paraphrase. Starring Sean Conner…
19 Jan 2011, 02:59
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Gerry, wait, put these quotes from the book together. Look at what you wrote. Never hinted at? "The monarch had wanted a son to succeed him." "Kypris, who was Hyacinth and Mothe…
19 Jan 2011, 02:38
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And I have to say this, after reading that interview where Gene was acting all surprised, you KNOW Gene wanted to mess with us in a major way when he made those freaking planets Bl…
19 Jan 2011, 02:19
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I don't want to harp, but I think an individual writer's overwhelming tendencies are going to penetrate regardless of the genre they are writing in, especially for a fine artist li…
19 Jan 2011, 02:08
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James, could you explain in slightly more detail what you mean by Silk's upload strengthening Pas? I think he is taking his place in the same way Jesus kind of stole Jehovah's o…
19 Jan 2011, 01:57
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--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote: Thanks for the article. "But people seem to look at mine and expect to find hidden fingerprints under t…
19 Jan 2011, 01:47
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--- On Tue, 1/18/11, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote: I can't imagine what you would have wanted I normally try to add something at least nominally important in my posts,…
19 Jan 2011, 01:37
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--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote: But frankly, I would Oh come on Gerry some of the stuff I say is useful! heh heh.…
18 Jan 2011, 21:13
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And anyway, how cool is it that Wolfe made his conciliator figure slaughter humanity and his Satan figure preserve it not only in the whorl but possibly contributing his genetic st…
18 Jan 2011, 21:11
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Well, again, I think Wolfe likes to leave out stuff at times so there is something to "figure out" and piece together. If you look at statements like "the monarch wanted a son" an…
18 Jan 2011, 20:58
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In anything, the biggest most devastating knock out blow has a better chance of ending the conflict decisively. Just as in Boxing, sometimes that large blow can be more merciful t…
18 Jan 2011, 17:53
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With the massive tripe and nonsense on tv, every middleschooler has been exposed already to countless acts of not only artistic violence but senseless violence, sexual and otherwis…
18 Jan 2011, 17:20
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Lemur is a machine, his body is based off of something else, probably the Monarch, I would imagine, with his rich baritone. According to him, Silk is going to succeed the prolocut…
17 Jan 2011, 22:50
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Also, always confused by Tick. Does he have blue eyes? His catachrest speech seems like we should do something with his name. It slides rather easily to both Auk and Silk, I thi…
17 Jan 2011, 22:25
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Now THIS is something I did want to comment on, below the quote: I do think there is an important connection between Silk and Auk that is complicated by Auk's possession. Why is …
17 Jan 2011, 22:16
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This is why I tend to lean Silk more as a son to succeed him than exactly identical to Typhon,(previously mentioned in the text at least three times, Typhon's desire for an heir to…
17 Jan 2011, 21:48
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Fair enough, James. It can't hurt to consider it, I just don't like Tussah as a clone of Typhon because of the pages of puzzling Horn does about how Chenille does not in any way s…
17 Jan 2011, 20:29
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The creator can't be a demiurge? My bad. I thought it was somewhat synonymous with Creator even though in Christianity he is not significantly divorced in substance from son and h…
17 Jan 2011, 19:38
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Sorry James, I am out of my element even commenting here, all that cosmic stuff gives me a headache, but by the end of Urth Sev had become the Oannes of his people, their fish god,…
17 Jan 2011, 19:06
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And Pas just seems more benevolent than the guy Sev catches: Echidna or Scylla (sorry not sure which) has a love which traps and continas, Pas is said to have a love that sets free…
17 Jan 2011, 19:02
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I think we have to agree to disagree about his style. He elides habitually. He just does it, he isn't a concrete straightforward writer and these cryptic little visions operate a…
17 Jan 2011, 16:28
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But the daughter of Tussah's body Chenille has dark eyes, and her body type is one more like Auks, according to Horn. I can't see that Tussah is a clone of Typhon at all, because S…
17 Jan 2011, 01:43
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