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Conversely, it could be an outsider's vision of the oubliette under the Matachin Tower, as well, though there seems to be mud rather than sand there.…
19 Aug 2014, 13:22
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We all know how sev's dream of the little boy with a sword fighting the wooden man with a cudgel parallels what happens in the story, including flooding and the breaking of terminu…
19 Aug 2014, 13:14
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For a narrator in Wolfe to be actually stretching truth, there's usually a reason. Ignorance and lack of self understanding in short sun, denial in Peace, suppression in Suzanne D…
19 Aug 2014, 12:18
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"At the Point of Capricorn" first appeared as a chapbook in 1983. SUMMARY: Visitors from all ages and places come to an icy cave at the end of the world, where an old woman entert…
19 Aug 2014, 02:42
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Gerry, someone took Marsch's place, that's why the officer nodded at the handwriting, it just wasn't who is commonly perceived to have taken Marsch's place. Marsch is not the same …
18 Aug 2014, 13:50
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Gerry only the one guy was a shadow child infection. Everybody else is an abo mimic in port mimizon. Marsch and number five are the odd man out. That's why it's port mimizon, ju…
18 Aug 2014, 13:45
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I understand why you won't accept them, but it would be impossible for me to make those kind of connections to specific repetitive descriptions (staff/stork/heron-like/leg injuries…
17 Aug 2014, 17:16
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The story for Date Due appeared in the introduction to *Gene Wolfe’s Book of Days* in 1981 and “The Death of the Island Doctor” first appeared in *The Wolfe Archipelago* in 1983, c…
17 Aug 2014, 17:05
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One more note about The Green Rabbit from S'Rian: the name of the first mate, Oueni, through the welsh Owen, is related to Eugene and might be a play on Genie, though, except for …
17 Aug 2014, 12:29
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“The Green Rabbit from S'Rian” appeared in the shared world anthology *Liavek* in 1985, and the sequel “The Choice of the Black Goddess” appeared in its sequel *Liavek: The Players…
17 Aug 2014, 07:07
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Okay, but Rue d'asticot, staff like and stork like legs on the girls on st croix and a heron like walk to Abos, the name port mimizon (sounds like mimicry) Which just happens to b…
16 Aug 2014, 23:54
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I should stop, but I just can't. The story also tells us Victor falls to his death ... I actually believe what the story tells me there. You see how you have to admit that some …
16 Aug 2014, 20:08
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Procreation Procreation first appeared in its entirety in 1985 in The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction and is recollected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: Section I: Creatio…
15 Aug 2014, 10:38
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Checking Out “Checking Out” first appeared in 1986 in *Afterlives* and is collected in *Storeys from the Old Hotel.* SUMMARY: A nameless protagonist is awoken by the slam of a do…
14 Aug 2014, 14:33
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“Love Among the Corridor” first appeared in *Interzone* in 1984. It is collected in *Storeys from the Old Hotel*. SUMMARY: A female embodiment of love walks through a palace of sta…
13 Aug 2014, 15:08
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Wow, I almost completely misread that one. I started the write up with the idea that both governments were somewhat altruistic, and only as I started writing did I realize the mut…
12 Aug 2014, 21:09
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“The Peace Spy” first appeared in *Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine* in 1986 and is reprinted in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: Sonja Aralov invites “Charles C. Percival” i…
12 Aug 2014, 21:07
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The Nebraskan and the Nereid “The Nebraskan and the Nereid” first appeared in *Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine* in 1985. It is collected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY:…
12 Aug 2014, 18:06
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Well, on second thought Doyle surely refers to a folktale, though I haven't found it. One folk tale that is almost exactly like cabin on the coast is "twenty years with the good p…
12 Aug 2014, 01:04
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At one point Daniel the faerie king says that twenty years of service is short enough, "like Doyle's wife" and the only Doyle I can think of is Arthur Conan Doyle, who had a weird …
11 Aug 2014, 23:15
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“A Cabin on the Coast” first appeared in *Zu den Sternen* in 1981 and is collected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: In his father's cottage, Tim Ryan Neal plans to elope with Lis…
11 Aug 2014, 21:17
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... believe themselves to be the other, Sandwalker and the Landers. That ending probably makes more sense grammatically.…
11 Aug 2014, 19:03
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The end of "A Story" hinges on a very ambiguous switch: indeterminacy between Lander and aboriginal, indeterminacy between Eastwind and Sandwalker. Though of course in the final a…
11 Aug 2014, 19:02
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It is Marsch's origin story overlain on the historical tale. There is a wonderful scene where the cat is running around trying to bite him in the third novella and he narrowly esc…
11 Aug 2014, 18:59
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And that's exactly what has happened and the reason there are no new buildings in Port Mimizon - progressively worse imitations. The inutile hand of the abos is represented by the…
11 Aug 2014, 18:34
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I have always been sensitive to religious allusions, especially ones that are similar to the almost voodoo Catholicism of my rather uneducated (but not ignorant) grandmother, and t…
11 Aug 2014, 03:16
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“The Detective of Dreams” first appeared in *Dark Forces* in 1980. It is recollected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: A man identifying himself as Herr D?enters the narrator’s of…
11 Aug 2014, 02:59
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Well, in my write up I speculated whether Wolfe would be aware of the origin of the Bluebeard story with Conomor the supposed werewolf and st. Gildas, who restores his wife to life…
09 Aug 2014, 03:45
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The Last Day “The Last Day” first appeared in *Speculations* in 1982 and is collected in *Storeys from the Old Hotel*. SUMMARY: The emotional power of the story is found in the c…
08 Aug 2014, 12:30
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“Redbeard” was first published in *Masques* in 1984 and is recollected in *Storeys from the Old Hotel.* SUMMARY: A man moves with his wife Mara and son John to a small Texas comm…
08 Aug 2014, 05:58
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Some asked him about how much of an impact or influence Dune had on him and his writing, referring to the praxis of religious thought with the Freman (all these prophecies and gene…
07 Aug 2014, 12:55
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I always wonder at how much is direct reference and how much is zeitgeist. Wolfe almost never mentions Dick as an influence, and once, because of the religious forces at work in Du…
07 Aug 2014, 12:21
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Then again. the only thing more difficult than interpreting some of Wolfe's more obscure stuff is deciphering the lyrics to Louie Louie by The Kingsmen/Richard Berry - maybe this s…
07 Aug 2014, 00:47
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I have a vague feeling he might be more like an appliance, like a sentient microwave or oven or something, but I have no real reason to believe this.…
07 Aug 2014, 00:34
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Since most of the technology seems to be wavelength based in The God and His Man, I was wondering if anybody knew anything in light or microwave science that corresponded to that k…
06 Aug 2014, 19:22
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“From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton” was first published in 1983 in *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction* and is reprinted in *Storeys from the Old Hotel*. SUMMARY: The …
06 Aug 2014, 18:28
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"The Last Thrilling Wonder Story? was published in *Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine* in 1982 and is republished in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: The author Gene Wolfe tel…
06 Aug 2014, 18:27
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The God and His Man “The God and His Man” first appeared in *Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine* in 1980. SUMMARY: “Once long, long ago, when the Universe was old, th…
06 Aug 2014, 18:26
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I wrote this step in the exegesis just for you, Gerry ;) 1) That an extraordinary event actually could be forgotten, so that he can’t be trusted to reliably remember it. If he cou…
06 Aug 2014, 13:07
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The shadow children become the things they infect. That's how one can be shot, like the creatures Marsch shoots. Before you mention that.…
06 Aug 2014, 13:00
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It exists. It's just that plant leaves aren't what you think they are- they have microorganisms on them that produce the effects of communion. The same reason you ignore the deat…
06 Aug 2014, 12:59
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As I said, I think the theme is that the sins of the past come back to bite you, but that the ability of humanity to repress things is infinite and extraordinary.…
06 Aug 2014, 00:48
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It's been a long time since I thought about New Sun, but as I am near that point in Wolfe's career where I am going to have to do some of the short fiction related to the books, I …
06 Aug 2014, 00:47
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they also ride up in air currents in the third part, "in the foams and the bubbles from the springs". Isn't that a little bit suspicious and a bit small right there? It is also s…
05 Aug 2014, 18:41
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are these leaves the Shadow Children chew from the carapace corpse trees of the aborigines in the final stage of their life cycle? If that is the case, perhaps the aboriginal cells…
05 Aug 2014, 17:28
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eastwind has no testicles but survives - the life cycle of the shadow children does not involve sexual reproduction. I also know Eastwind is an abo, but he SYMBOLIZES the shadow c…
05 Aug 2014, 17:25
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my mistake, replaced, supplanted. I KNOW he was bitten by the cat, Gerry. Why even say that? Victor is only a part of the equation because the cat had a kind of affinity for Vi…
05 Aug 2014, 17:23
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and in VRT the officer reading the documents bathes the girls saliva off "prophylactically" or something of the sort - odd choice of words.…
05 Aug 2014, 17:14
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It also seems to me that brides involve a method of propagation and reproduction, you know? like the life cycle involves them somehow. But like I said, I really don't want to arg…
05 Aug 2014, 17:12
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“Suzanne Delage” was first published in Edges in 1980 and is reprinted in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: As the narrator is reading a book, he is struck by the idea ?*that every m…
05 Aug 2014, 17:02
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