Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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OK guys. I just don't understand. All these myths of Quetzal, cobra-like, climbing up a tree, clinging like a liana, planting a "parent tree" in front of his little palace, and…
19 Nov 2002, 22:12
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Of course, in talking about perceptions of the Claw's mutability, I was talking about my perceptions as I read it. It has nothing to do with textual rightness or wrongness; you c…
18 Nov 2002, 15:57
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Well, several readers believed that the tall creature in the pit may have been Severian on their first reading of OBW way back before 2000. Then, the spider reference made it cl…
17 Nov 2002, 21:51
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I got a real kick out of Michael Straight's post on the necessity of giving Pas two heads - especially the highlander reference. Any other Highlander fans out there? Do you hate…
15 Nov 2002, 22:06
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Thanks Don. I'm glad you give some credit to my theories. In any case, there was one other bit of evidence that many dismissed out of hand - Fr. Inire's mirrors and the Big fles…
15 Nov 2002, 15:33
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Roy stated that the time travelled by the Samru was accounted for by Silk before he returned. I say that the DISTANCE was accounted for - he needed to be in the same place to re…
12 Nov 2002, 18:53
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Hi Don. Welcome! It was very nice to hear your theories. I think that if you posit that Silk is Typhon cloned and that Severian is Ymar cloned, then Silk is genetically Sever…
11 Nov 2002, 15:56
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I was pleased and surprised to see Dick's Valis brought up in the past two days - I just read those a few weeks ago and was intrigued by the "double time" that Horselover experie…
29 Oct 2002, 18:41
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my only small point - the ripe olive signifies a dead and rotten (ripe) Aunt Olivia, wrapped in the basket by a blue (peacock) thread. As I said, a ripe olive-ia. hey hey hey. …
29 Oct 2002, 14:39
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I am a bit surprised that no one mentions the most obvious hint that Peacock is going to kill Olivia. We know that most of the names of the text (gold, black, "olive-ia", peacoc…
28 Oct 2002, 14:44
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Maybe I'm more juvenile than the rest of you, but I always assumed Napoleon was trying to foster an erection all of the time because of his well-documented impotence. "In the 19…
17 Oct 2002, 17:42
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Just a short note based off an old point made by James Jordan: he claimed that Wolfe would never have a protagonist with homosexual encounters. However,there is some evidence tha…
13 Sep 2002, 04:28
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A couple months ago I posted on the evidence for a male hyacinth, and I was taken aback to discover that someone else thought that up independently - it was kind of a joke. Let …
02 Sep 2002, 08:29
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I had always assumed that the victim in the coldhouse prank was Sherry Gold's brother, who was not on the best of terms with his parents and wanted to move out (as I recall from …
24 Aug 2002, 00:29
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Hi Steve. In response to your statement that you liked the narrator of IGJ and RTW, but not the one of OBW, I totally agree that they are actually different people. I have expl…
02 Jul 2002, 17:30
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Mr. Borski has recently made the point that Typhon's name is mythological, implying that he should be of alien stock rather than simply of "other", urthly origin. However, aren'…
20 Jun 2002, 17:35
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Hey guys, I thought you might find this interesting. I asked Mr. Wolfe how he felt about guys proposing absurd readings of his texts (I might have myself in mind more than most …
07 Jun 2002, 23:26
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Well, this revelation/renewed appeal has happened for me with a ton of Wolfe's stuff. I'll be honest: I didn't get Peace or the Fifth Head of Cerberus or The Book of the Short S…
28 May 2002, 16:20
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I'm not sure if anyone was confused by Apple Blossom's statement in "Underhill", but when she says "there is also my chop-my seal perhaps?" she is first talking about saving her …
14 May 2002, 23:20
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Say, I haven't been following the discussion of 5th Head too closely, but doesn't anyone think that the officer reading the repot is an abo? He makes that women who services him…
01 May 2002, 05:59
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Hey Jerry - if you like Nabokov's Pale Fire, check out Boyd's "Pale Fire - The Magic of Artistic Discovery" - he says that both Shade and Kinbote are equally inspired by the same…
28 Apr 2002, 06:56
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Adam, you mentioned that you didn't get the autarch joke: it means he knew what was going on all the time, and the irony is that he, ruler of all, is never allowed under the bed …
23 Apr 2002, 17:38
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This post exists to ask a question rather than to posit another unsubstantiated theory: I haven't read 5HC in a long time (and I've only read it once, a terrible sin I will recti…
23 Apr 2002, 06:33
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A few things I wanted to say that are probably already obvious. One of them is that the Severian's parallels with Christ are painfully painfully obvious, but the one miracle tha…
20 Apr 2002, 16:09
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This is a very inane post on my part, but here are a few random comments: I managed to play that Castlevania game with Terminus Est in it. It rips off all kind of fantasy litera…
17 Apr 2002, 19:58
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Hey Jerry, I wish you had never given me that link to that google group "griping about Wolfe". I read most of the threads because I wasn't used to so many people blatantly sayin…
17 Apr 2002, 05:58
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So sorry about the geritol comment - Silk just comes off in the last two books as a little bit older than I know he is - mainly that advice he gives those young girls - it seems …
16 Apr 2002, 04:39
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It was mentioned that the reasons Pandora by Holly Hollander was an unenjoyable reading experience seemed undiscernable to some on the list. For me, I think Wolfe's one weakness …
15 Apr 2002, 06:28
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A bit off any discernible topic, I was home last weekend and read an interesting article in Reader's Digest entitled "Word Sleuth", which details the literary forensics of the ma…
14 Apr 2002, 23:39
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I was going to comment on the inclusion of Fifth Head of Cerberus in Mr. Gevers' fine article as well, Blattid, but then I decided against it. Since you brought it up, I am als…
11 Apr 2002, 03:36
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Well, Blattid, since you put it so succinctly, the choice is easy. Of course the 30,000 league figure is incorrect! Which means that Green might only fluctuate a tiny amount fr…
10 Apr 2002, 04:29
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Hey Roy. Nice point about the narrator being the one for whom only two years "may" have passed. It was still fun to think about all those time bending impossibilities, kind of.…
09 Apr 2002, 21:30
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I (half in levity, I admit) yesterday said something about sending horn a year into the past into Silk's body to finish up the healing, possibly leaving his home on Blue and Silk…
09 Apr 2002, 17:21
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One more thing: when Pig is in the woods and he doesn't get touched by trees, isn't it because he can hear them? He is using something like Sonar, and while I know that Horn can…
09 Apr 2002, 05:22
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Hey Roy, that was the big thing I was asking before: Three years have passed for the narrator, but only two have passed for the people on Blue ( I think). If we want to, we can s…
09 Apr 2002, 05:20
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Mark, As far as the distance, we want to believe it is pretty close because the einhumu have to travel between the two whorls. It's odd - so many of the claims I've made have be…
08 Apr 2002, 14:53
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Roy, no big deal, but there IS a scene when he actually is looking at the moon and commenting: "Green came up, bigger and brighter than we ever see it on Blue. Or want to, eith…
07 Apr 2002, 04:40
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Roy, unfortunately, you are missing the small detail at the end of Return to the Whorl where Hoof looks up in the sky and claims that Lune (he calls it "Green") is much bigger th…
06 Apr 2002, 06:01
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Well Blattid, I would love to assimilate the Cummean into the status of an inhumu, but (alas) I think Wolfe said she was an "alien". I'm not sure exactly what that means, but he…
03 Apr 2002, 22:00
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Roy commented that the pale face under water in chapter 6 might have been seawrack. Wasn't he already with Seawrack by then? Is that a flashback? He should know that she plumbs…
31 Mar 2002, 22:13
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Roy, there was one more thing I wanted to comment on about the wording of the dust quote. It says: "there could be little point in creating us in one place and creating us again…
30 Mar 2002, 07:01
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in my immediately previous post I said something about the tone of the statement that the dust could "scarcely" be the same dust. I mean that there is some ambiguity in that for…
30 Mar 2002, 06:02
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Well, I have proposed that the vanished people sprang up from the dust, literally. And our creation story has something to do with a big tree, too. (but not in the same way - th…
30 Mar 2002, 05:56
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Dan'l asked why the scheme I have proposed for trees must include blue as urth. For me, it makes better use of the trees: they serve as creators instead of shadowy figures that j…
30 Mar 2002, 02:55
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I don't know if many people have thought about Horn's life story as a semiotic system that Silk uses to reconstruct himself, but if you want to make a case about the universal ap…
30 Mar 2002, 00:26
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This is primarly for Blattid ( or whoever asked me about "sentience" in conjunction with the trees).In response to proof that the trees eat things: I can't find it right now (my …
29 Mar 2002, 17:05
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I thought I'd just throw this out here at you guys. I believe I owe this information to Mantis, so thanks! We all agree that the play Eschatology and Genesis closely echoes what …
28 Mar 2002, 06:12
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Here is a quote that at least links the mirrors of Fr. Inire from Shadow of the Torturer with In Green's Jungles: "The vanished People are like that at times, a single individual…
26 Mar 2002, 23:31
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Here is something that I think is interesting: the Caesalpinia sappan that Severian runs into in the Jungle garden is described as "Lianas half obscured the entrance, and a great…
26 Mar 2002, 22:36
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Here is one more thing that bugs me: has the Short Sun narrator been gone TWO YEARS or THREE YEARS? you can't get the same number in the text. Conjunction has happened. More ti…
26 Mar 2002, 17:53
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