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I had to look up where it was. It was chapter 10 of long and short of it. “Other figures named after Faustian characters include: (sic) Dr. Margotte and Megan Cartensen (both deri…
19 Feb 2018, 14:40
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When onomastics and onanism become synonymous ... at the point when he derived an allusive mythical name from another allusive mythical name using onomastics my blood pressure pr…
19 Feb 2018, 05:04
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I come across as a tyrant all the time. I am trying to change my public image, and you have to go and ask about some specific Borski theory... Whether it is widely accepted or not…
19 Feb 2018, 05:00
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*warrant it that ...…
18 Feb 2018, 15:40
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This is the issue with allusions in Wolfe - sometimes the extratextual ones are essentially external confirmation of our suspicions, but they are usually chosen around a unifying t…
18 Feb 2018, 15:40
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Rather than kill him after what he does to thecla they tell him they got him an appointment as Lictor of thrax - that’s his title there, explicitly. But thanks for the bee bit I mi…
17 Feb 2018, 19:19
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Also ... the Kikimora reputedly travel through keyholes, thus entering the trunk of Bax’s car and traveling with him even if it is not unlocked. Sweet. It would also explain who …
08 Jan 2018, 12:10
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Never appear in Bax’s letters to shell* Sent from my iPhone…
07 Jan 2018, 22:32
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All the weird things with Ieuan and Emlyn, the dwarf, and even mr black (chort/leshy and his bears and wolves) resonate with some feature of the Kikimora house spirit, who even app…
07 Jan 2018, 22:31
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I am changing to title to Sorcerer’s House: Con man conned by House Spirits…
07 Jan 2018, 20:19
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So I am going to revise this slightly to conclude that the house is conning the con man. I still think he is trying to get his brother to come and the reading of the will is a set …
07 Jan 2018, 16:33
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The question here is whether bax, who is being conned by house spirits, is guilty of setting up the man in the trunk who looks like the man who threatens iron mike in Shell’s lette…
07 Jan 2018, 13:53
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In folklore the bad Kikimora from the forest is married to Leshy, who is surrounded by wolves and bears. Bax thinks a bear might have killed the first one, but he does see wolves. …
07 Jan 2018, 13:15
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In the 23rd letter, a lot happens in Sorcerer's House. One of the biggest is the appearance of Kiki who tells Bax that someone is in the back with him. This is also the chapter we …
07 Jan 2018, 01:45
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*fee of 4700 plus Sent from my iPhone…
06 Jan 2018, 17:19
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When George finally shows up at the reading of the will, urban trelawny pulls a gun on him and George says go ahead do it shoot me. When Bax enters his basement he breaks down a do…
06 Jan 2018, 17:18
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On lake Brompton (in Canada) Bax fights the werewolves, picks up Kiki and ghostly Mary King, and sees a spectral white horse as well, giving like three or four different versions o…
06 Jan 2018, 02:33
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When Bax first comes across the younger set of twins, he makes "Emlyn" drop his light and flee through a closed window, ghost-like. Later, "Ieuan" beats him and kicks him (though h…
05 Jan 2018, 23:47
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Here is the start, for setting up that it is a scam. I still need to write the second half and make conclusions about lupine, the hound of horror, kiki, and Shell's corroboration o…
05 Jan 2018, 20:41
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I have been trying to work on all six remaining writeups at the same time but each of them has special problems. I haven't used some of the resources available but I trust my judgm…
05 Jan 2018, 20:38
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I am trying my best to present a cogent and complete writeup on Land Across. Those who read my work know I believe Wolfe is a metonymic symbolist - the red leech approaching the gr…
25 Dec 2017, 15:09
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Thanks for all of this, Gwern. I look forward to looking to looking it over soon!…
19 Nov 2017, 14:32
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I think it is supposed to be a joke, but damn it just isn’t funny. Sorry to point your attention to something so frustrating ...…
17 Nov 2017, 14:57
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Here is a kind of strange profile of wolfe at the top ... I suppose it is supposed to be a little tongue in cheek but considering that Wolfe was drafted and both my parents served …
17 Nov 2017, 13:47
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Everyone knows what I am writing, amidst other academic work. I’m teaching again and this semester I had the chance to teach world lit for science majors ... the course descripti…
16 Nov 2017, 04:57
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Thanks ... I looked at Land Across again yesterday. The problem is multifoliate - I am not entirely burnt out but I am waiting for the light of stability to hit and solidify all th…
12 Nov 2017, 17:44
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If you followed the other posts, I was getting at something else, of course: Morcaine and Arnthor (and everyone, really) are collapsing into one dream-like figure engaged in a pre-…
13 Oct 2017, 20:31
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Second volume submitted but hasn't gone through editing ... anyone's guess. When I submit the final part ( gonna be 3 - got too long) then it might be reapportioned for equally siz…
29 Sep 2017, 19:27
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Nah no shame in not knowing everything under the sun.…
29 Sep 2017, 19:24
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Yes, well known the planets were named for Norns, urth, skald, verthandi.…
29 Sep 2017, 17:24
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Yes, certainly Short Sun has that autobiographical synchronicity ... the difficulties with one in particular were quite pronounced, though I do not think it was his oldest son. In…
30 Apr 2015, 13:48
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Well, he named Eleanor Bold from the Barchester books, no? I think some of Wolfe's shorts are very much low mimesis near future SF and character driven in the basic manner of Trol…
29 Apr 2015, 18:53
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#THE MONDAY MAN "The Monday Man" first appeared in the *Readercon 3 Anthology* in 1990 and has been collected in *Innocents Aboard*. #Summary Once again, a narrator named Gene t…
29 Apr 2015, 05:15
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He has two sons. I think he only has granddaughters, though.…
29 Apr 2015, 02:18
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I need to fix that section ... it is 60010, 60011, and 60047. Wrote too much in one day. 60023 and 2/3…
29 Apr 2015, 01:37
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A few quick points which may or may not be worth anything. It seems to me that Wolfe looked at cultures with "unexplained" phenomena and saw that the Algonquin and other Northeaste…
28 Apr 2015, 23:36
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No love for the freshly hatched chick twixt Jolenta's chafing thighs? That description scarred me as a child, to be fair.…
28 Apr 2015, 18:52
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One thing that kind of confuses me is the idea of "action" and popularity. Some really popular writers bore me to tears (King, Vinge bores me a little (wheel of time though? Sweet …
28 Apr 2015, 17:25
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Home Fires is good once you realize Skip kills Zygment and is actually the person trying to sabotage everything, but it is too subtextual and subtle, and the voodoo section (in whi…
28 Apr 2015, 16:58
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One more thing I wanted to briefly reiterate, which I have said in part in my videos, but I DO think some of the criticism aimed at Wolfe is ideological in nature. When I think of …
28 Apr 2015, 16:19
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Some of the puppies justly venerate Wolfe. I tried to comment on that martin post and got labelled as spam ... oh well. Yes, difficulty has kept Wolfe from winning, but in my mi…
28 Apr 2015, 15:37
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Sorry - accidentally sent this to the wrong email. I really like this story, for what it's worth…
28 Apr 2015, 14:57
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Here is the Hour of the sheep for volume 2 ...…
28 Apr 2015, 14:55
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#THE HOUR OF THE SHEEP "The Hour of the Sheep" first appeared in *Fast Forward 1* in 2007 and has never been collected. ##Summary At the suggestion of the President-Protector, T…
28 Apr 2015, 14:53
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Well, as soon as I hit send, I realized what the three in the sky was that the grandfather was referring to --- it was the three in the title, which Wolfe had traced in the sky. W…
28 Apr 2015, 03:51
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#HOW I GOT THREE ZIP CODES AND KID SISTER/INTRODUCTION TO PHOENIX "How I Got Three Zip Codes" first appeared in *The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II* in 1999 and has not been col…
28 Apr 2015, 03:49
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#SIGHTINGS AT TWIN MOUNDS Inverting the usual order of things, “Sightings at Twin Mounds” was first collected in Wolfe's 1988 collection *Storeys from the Old Hotel* — though it…
27 Apr 2015, 20:09
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It was still supposed to be a tight fit even if it was a gate ... the point is you can't get through if you are encumbered with stuff ... maybe that preacher needs some reading com…
27 Apr 2015, 17:33
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#THE CARD "The Card" first appeared in the March 2005 edition of *Asimov's Science Fiction* and has never been collected. ##Summary An unnamed narrator (who enjoys telling stori…
27 Apr 2015, 16:53
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Sure thing ... it seems as though it has generated a lot of social media activity for Wolfe, which is awesome ... I am actually surprised how much word in the right place can sway …
27 Apr 2015, 04:37
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