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I think sometimes Wolfe likes making clich?s come to life in not so obvious ways. (green men, silk purse of a pig's ear for Silk in Pig, etc.)…
17 Sep 2014, 13:57
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Speaking of Hercules .... Romulus and Remus (Frog and Fish) are in one story fathered by Mars and in another by Heracles, by the way, which might tie in to Nessus - in every versi…
17 Sep 2014, 13:55
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I agree Kathrin - a fully scripted life right out of the brown book. I think his whole life is a model "reenactment"and he plays the part in the mirror. Thanks for the kind words…
16 Sep 2014, 22:39
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That Green Man might be a damn Martian ...…
16 Sep 2014, 15:33
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He does manage to beget a sun, though.…
16 Sep 2014, 15:24
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In the story, Early Summer lies to her husband and tells him that Spring Wind is his son, when in fact he is born of the red flower without a thorn. Perhaps the Green Man is parti…
16 Sep 2014, 15:21
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Anyway, as I think Andrew Mason surmised long ago, the half vegetable Spring Wind is Mars/March, son of Early Summer/June/Juno, Bird of the Wood is Rheas Silvia (whom Mars begets R…
16 Sep 2014, 15:02
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Hethor the perverted and debased sailor who keeps his little sex doll in the closet and is manipulated by Agia, always motivated by a terrible need for revenge, is not a good chara…
16 Sep 2014, 13:39
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COMMENTARY: The opening quote sets the ironic nature of the entire Judeo-Christian scheme of salvation — expecting a secular power to redeem the Jews in this world, the Christ who…
16 Sep 2014, 02:50
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*THE EYEFLASH MIRACLES* “The Eyeflash Miracles” first appeared in *Future Power* in 1976 and is reprinted in *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories. *Much…
16 Sep 2014, 02:49
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Yes ... it seems that Spring Wind is much more Green Man than Typhon ... and I have noted the Green Man feeds off the light of the New Sun in something I am writing up now. The st…
15 Sep 2014, 19:26
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Almost done with my "Eyeflash Miracles" write up and there is one thing that keeps bugging me about the story - the juxtaposition of the stories of Krishna and Christ in Little Tib…
15 Sep 2014, 17:01
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It's strange indeed, but the ubiquity of oil everywhere in Forlesen and the fences around the buildings as if for defense really do seem lifted from the life of Frick, the name of …
15 Sep 2014, 16:09
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Okay, all I was implying was that the undines are known as the brides of Abaia. This scene is where Sev is rescued by the undine Juturna, who casts him up, and he sees the statue …
15 Sep 2014, 15:55
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There is a very matrix feel to Forlesen after the fact but nobody wakes up from this nightmare. Especially with the black and orange machines eating the buildings at the end of the…
14 Sep 2014, 23:23
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The names Abraham, edna, Adam, and Emanuel must have some significance to the garden / fallen man imagery as well.…
14 Sep 2014, 21:07
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Well the new universe could have been created based on frick's business model. Frick has praisers in the form of sycophants. builders who move the universe could be the cloud high…
14 Sep 2014, 20:58
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THE ANSWERS OF THE EXPLAINER: Even on a first reading the final answer of the Explainer is poignant and powerful, embodying the uncertainty anyone who has spent their entire life …
14 Sep 2014, 18:11
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*FORLESEN* “Forlesen” first appeared in *Orbit 14* in 1974 and is reprinted in *Castle of Days*. SUMMARY: Emanuel Forlesen awakens knowing nothing but his name, not even what hu…
14 Sep 2014, 18:10
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I read it years and years ago ... didn't really remind me of Wolfe at all. Definitely reminded me of a bit of Beckett's Molloy trilogy/Waiting for Godot and RA Lafferty (though muc…
14 Sep 2014, 16:34
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For those of you who don't read through the long short story write ups I do, thought I would throw this out there. When Forlesen wakes up, he sees a man with a gold tooth and a mo…
12 Sep 2014, 20:52
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There is a statue of Nox/night in the second chapter of Book of the New Sun after Juturna casts him out, linking that scene directly with Abaia.…
12 Sep 2014, 18:34
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I do feel that Forlesen is a simulation in an attempt of either aliens or angels to understand human life and why it adopted this puzzling business model. It takes a preset scenar…
11 Sep 2014, 03:04
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sorry I was sending an attachment of a word document to finish working on the write up and in my autopilot state I sent it to the urth list instead of myself. A big picture for Fo…
11 Sep 2014, 01:52
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forlorn…
11 Sep 2014, 01:41
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Well.. I guess my big problem with it is the idea of no Christ in a previous iteration, because that is something that we see more clearly in The Wizard Knight - knightly medieval …
10 Sep 2014, 16:41
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Yes, we need to see the goal mankind strives toward, the real point of Severian's narrative, transcendence into something else and the yesodis. If all these characters have access…
10 Sep 2014, 13:55
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SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS “Seven American Nights” first appeared in *Orbit 20* in 1978 and is collected in *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.* OBJECTIVE…
10 Sep 2014, 06:37
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When Vodalus says that Urth has been named thus since the utmost reaches of antiquity, it is a pun on the sound. It sounds the same but is spelled differently - the same name but …
09 Sep 2014, 20:11
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Rudesind at one point says that he was "supposed" to tell Severian something but then messes it up. I don't mind the ape associations with Inire at all (how else to describe all th…
09 Sep 2014, 18:49
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Tallman's work on seven American nights is almost correct. America has a plot to be great again involving the grain merchant gollem gassem but it involves air bound spores. Nadan…
09 Sep 2014, 15:54
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Lewis Carol especially is inconceivable without the presence of Christ in history. He would have a completely different life story and his introductions are so heavily skewed by a…
08 Sep 2014, 13:51
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That section quotes Mt. Nebo and the Bible quite explicitly. Jonas quotes Lewis Caroll and knows the origin source of The Tale of the Student and his Son and as the labyrinth of Cr…
08 Sep 2014, 13:39
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What do you think of Robert and Marie and their Bible missionary work in the Jungle Hut? Cross-cyclic hijinks in the Botanic Gardens? No Christ in their bible? A trick of the mir…
08 Sep 2014, 13:37
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There is a point well before the replacement point posited by David Tallman extant on the Wolfe Wiki where the club footed American Actor playing Kreton quotes some lines about a p…
08 Sep 2014, 02:58
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hmmm ... but all the probabilities add up to .665 then ... and if he eats all six, he's GOING to eat the egg on one of those days ... sometimes I feel like probabiity is the most …
07 Sep 2014, 20:17
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Thanks. (Almost every Middle Eastern name in the text is from the Adventures of Hajji Baba, and interestingly enough, the detective sent to look for Nadan at the start of the book…
07 Sep 2014, 14:13
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I am thinking it is 1/6 every day. Second day 1/5 times chance it is still there 5/6 ... 1/6…
07 Sep 2014, 12:39
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I had a quick question but trying to articulate it to look it up independently is hard. Is there a statistically most probable day for Nadan to eat the special one of the six eggs…
07 Sep 2014, 12:34
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And to be fair the coming of the New Sun isn't really a reboot of the entire cosmic cycle, just a local rebirth for Urth into Ushas. The play connotes the end of urth shall be like…
06 Sep 2014, 15:40
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Protestant…
06 Sep 2014, 14:31
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Right, the correct time to meet Cain would have been fifty million years earlier. I think the insistence Urth is a previous iteration is a retcon of the Jordan interview to avoid P…
06 Sep 2014, 14:30
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A real quick note: it is thematically important that Alvard is dying of cancer when he is frozen - cancer is a kind of unlimited cell growth where a cell line does not stop replica…
06 Sep 2014, 13:46
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I have always felt the statement Wolfe made in the Jordan interview about urth being a previous cycle was simply to escape a Catch 22 concerning God breaking the covenant of the fl…
06 Sep 2014, 04:34
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*THE DOCTOR OF DEATH ISLAND* “The Doctor of Death Island” first appeared in *Immortal* in 1978 and is reprinted in *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.…
04 Sep 2014, 18:01
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I'm trying to remember if it was Knight or Avram Davidson who wrote a negative review of Castleview.…
04 Sep 2014, 13:47
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Having said that, I think Wolfe has "preferred" party line readings that pierce the first level - Victor replacing Marsch is obviously, with the memories Marsch has of abo life, su…
03 Sep 2014, 13:46
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Harkening back to Gerry's comment here ... Wolfe's very nature is so cryptic sometimes the final structural layer really is a trick. Face to face at the 2013 Nebulas Kim Stanley R…
03 Sep 2014, 13:28
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One more quick point - when the barrier around ste Anne falls, Sandwalker asks his mother what color his eyes are "now". Of course she answers that eyes are green, but this , coupl…
01 Sep 2014, 21:32
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Thanks Richard. It is a bleak book for sure, but one of my favorites. Ultan's library finally put up my essay on it, but you are already familiar with the thesis from here - it i…
01 Sep 2014, 21:19
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