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I don't know if this is worthy of posting, but oh well. If we accept that the minor gods of the pantheon can immerse themselves in human flesh for a time, Latro's great fighting…
19 Jun 2003, 20:16
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Here is a question from Crush about Seven Lions' Paste- perhaps you could help us out - I have only the vaguest conception that it reminds me of the scene in the movie Gladiator …
09 Jun 2003, 05:47
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This months Weird Tales has a new Wolfe story, "My Name is Nancy Wood" I read it quickly in the bookstore, so here are some spoilers s p o i l e r s It is a first person account…
01 Jun 2003, 06:05
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Crush asked me to post this on Wednesday (sorry for the delay, everyone) Marc Aramini…
30 May 2003, 17:30
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Crush, excellent points about Latro's contiguity with Heracles, especially since Pindaros calls him Heracles in his little prose ending to Soldier of Arete. There is something to …
11 May 2003, 00:36
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At the end of Chapter 40 of Soldier of Arete, Latro is asked to speak a poem from memory to prove that he is a Hellene. Latro has been depressed and has thought about killing hi…
10 May 2003, 21:32
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OK, Latro offends Hera or Gaea by fighting in her temple (in the books, Gaea and Hera are blended together and oppose the triple goddess, who is Echidna(enodia)+Moon (Selene) + H…
10 May 2003, 02:51
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I was thinking about "I am your mother, and your mother's mother". One riddle of the sphinx was "Which daughter gives birth to her mother in turn?" or something like that, and t…
09 May 2003, 15:40
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Thanks for the input, Nutria. Seven Lions is an interesting character, and if anyone has a divine archetype it might be him. On another tack, had to go look up the parentage of …
09 May 2003, 15:22
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OK - if you say that the lion was the symbol of Ares, can we explain the memory house of Latro that he constructs in 28 of SoA: "What are these statues?" "Lions with the faces o…
09 May 2003, 05:01
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I had the looming thought in the back of my mind that Latro was a god, probably Ares, and then the clincher was when Thamyris starts addressing Latro as Pleistorus in Chapter 24 …
08 May 2003, 15:43
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I'm reading the soldier books for the second time and I'm about 3/4 through Soldier of Arete. So far, the major gods conspicuous in their absence are Zeus, Hermes, and Ares. Wh…
07 May 2003, 17:23
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I must speak about the Jolenta "rape" - becuase I don't think it really is one. She went on the boat with him, teasing and playing and falling asleep. She's just being coy. I …
21 Apr 2003, 20:43
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I had always assumed that the thematic implications of the botanical gardens were to demystify Severian's facility in transcending time. Of course the religious sentiments expre…
18 Apr 2003, 06:12
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Since Pale Fire came up, I thought I would share with you that for the final project in graduate school last year I wrote a paper which dealt in part with metafictional narrative…
17 Apr 2003, 06:27
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I read the ending of Three Fingers not so much as a picture of the main characters insanity but as a picture of confusion - I think he acts to bite off the finger of the villaino…
18 Mar 2003, 17:08
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Recently, the part in Urth of the New Sun where Severian kills the female torturer has been brought up as evidence that Severian is still far from being Christ, or even the perfe…
14 Mar 2003, 14:10
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I am very interested in the possibility that Silk is a clone of Typhon (or Malrubius) and that Severian and Ymar are genetically related. However, I think ascribing too much wei…
11 Mar 2003, 18:15
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Of course I agree that a lot of time had to pass in order for all of the changes to occur ... but if Blue is not Urth, then the double limbed inhabitants of Blue could have been …
21 Feb 2003, 06:23
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"Still for a thousand years" does not seem like a hard and fast date. However, this is my whole point - a whole lot of time does not have to have passed after the flooding of Ur…
20 Feb 2003, 19:52
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There is one problem with Babbie being the one whose soul is transported into the narrator - there is no mechanism. When Horn goes into Silk, there is a vanished person right th…
23 Jan 2003, 20:52
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I MUST disagree with Andrew on Babbie going into Horn - the reason that Silk surfaces in this scene is because Horn wants to leave and be done with his story - that's why he says…
23 Jan 2003, 14:27
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I have a hard time accepting that Wolfe would ever be sympathetic to a feminine point of view, especially when attempting to equate the moral stance of the novel There Are Doors …
16 Jan 2003, 18:19
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Roy has a very fixed idea of the Typhon scene in mind - and I admit I am guilty (all the time) of paraphrasing. Even in quotes. We should agree to disagree about this scene - I…
06 Jan 2003, 13:56
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Of course Typhon recognizes Severian. He says, "If you kneel before me, the New Sun will kneel before me when he comes." Right after they talk about the New Sun and the Concili…
04 Jan 2003, 23:43
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Roy claims that Typhon knows very little about the conciliator or about flooding. However, he hints at several things in his appearance in Sword of the Lictor. He claims that w…
31 Dec 2002, 18:04
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My theory in the past was argued against primarily based on the ideas that 1)Blue system couldn't be Urth system because the animals were "doubled". 2) Blue system couldn't be Ur…
29 Dec 2002, 23:58
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Just a brief comment. It is obvious that Wolfe is teasing either myself or the member of the list who confirmed that his statement was a jest. We can't say with any certainty …
24 Dec 2002, 18:11
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I was looking through the second round of stories told In Green's Jungles. I was hit by several possible allegorical interpretations - I don't know how many of you buy Wolfe's s…
24 Dec 2002, 17:56
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As far as I understand it, the oxygen given off by trees might aid in the formation of rain and in the formation of an atmosphere, right? Here is something interesting - remember…
24 Dec 2002, 15:55
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In Return to the Whorl, the narrator scales a huge cliff over the towers of the inhumu while he is being attacked. He comes to the top to see a black domelike hut, and a man wit…
23 Dec 2002, 23:46
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I relinquish my hold upon you, precious information. You will have to forgive me, guys. Please remember that I am like a kid in a candy shop when it comes to Wolfe - enthusiastic…
23 Dec 2002, 20:31
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There are some interesting comments about the mating of inhumu which might be fruitful. In the beginning of Chapter 19 of RTTW, Juganu speaks of how the inhumu must mate on Gree…
20 Dec 2002, 19:20
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If you look at Chapter 20 in In Green's Jungles, you will find that there is someone besides Rigolio there who might have been somewhere/when on the Red Sun Whorl, allowing the n…
20 Dec 2002, 18:25
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As you may know, I have insisted that Mr. Wolfe told me the truth. One member of the list, who obviously has e-mail access to Mr. Wolfe, made a bargain with me for some informat…
20 Dec 2002, 15:25
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I really must apologize for my post yesterday. Wolfe only told me because, I am sure, some of my ideas were close and there was one big one that really bugged him - but I was do…
17 Dec 2002, 23:34
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Sorry my previous message was so infuriating. There was no interview, there is nothing to cut and paste. On the back of the Christmas card that Mr. Wolfe sent me, he scrawled a…
17 Dec 2002, 14:02
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Mr. Wolfe has weighed in. I don't know if I can even post about short sun anymore. I know the truth now :( Gene Wolfe is far trickier than any of us could ever possibly imagine.…
16 Dec 2002, 23:47
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I am not convinced that the interview is a valid criticism of Blue = Ushas. I do, however, want to make the claim that the secret of the inhumi is the equivalent of rapid evolut…
13 Dec 2002, 14:09
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Recently, the interview in which Wolfe claimed that Blue and Green where the destination of Typhon was put forth, and that his purpose was returning man to the stars. I don't th…
12 Dec 2002, 13:59
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I scanned the recent message on the Urth archive with some chagrin - what has the world come to when a Wolfe mailing list is used to pull off an identity scam in Nigeria? It's k…
10 Dec 2002, 13:40
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I was thinking about the whole Patera Pike's ghost thing. Mr. Wolfe denied that it was Quetzal, and I wasn't sure whether Mainframe could project a saved image of Pike outside o…
04 Dec 2002, 18:38
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My best explanation for the cleansing of the sewers is that it is a passion play that re-enacts the story of the conciliator, just as eschatology and genesis was a passion play t…
04 Dec 2002, 14:35
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In response to Blattid's assertion as to where Pas and everybody may have heard of Sev's drowning: Well, well well - here we have it: the book of Canog is available to Typhon, ma…
04 Dec 2002, 14:07
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Here is a mechanism that we may want to look at for time travel: Remember that when Fava and Inclito's mother tell their stories, the narrator has the ability to enter their stor…
03 Dec 2002, 14:22
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Hi Dan. You suggested, in a manner I'm not quite sure how to take, Tolkien. You must miss the point of my post. It is not that I really want trees to be sentient. It is that …
02 Dec 2002, 14:03
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Here is a fascinating quote from Sword of the Lictor, which talks about a secret of the trees that is almost revealed to Severian (from the chapter entitled "The Widow's Hut": "…
01 Dec 2002, 01:37
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Here are two absurd theories that attempt to account for the time travel to that particular point in Urth's history where Silk can meet Severian as a young man. Here is one: th…
27 Nov 2002, 14:50
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A lot of discussion on whether or not inhumi were hinted at on Urth - keep in mind that they would be on Lune in a simplistic state at that time period, with perhaps a few that h…
26 Nov 2002, 14:00
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In a previous post, Don asserted that he sees little need for Dorcas to be a familial relation of Severian's. I argue that it is imperative that she be a member of his line: he…
25 Nov 2002, 14:21
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