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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Olive. Any plant of genus Olea, especially Olea europaea. Produce olives. Also a first name. A sleeper. Oont. From Hindi uut, from Sanskrit ustr…
29 Jul 1998, 22:55
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Nettle. Any species of prickly or stinging plants of genus Urtica or family Urticaceae. Horn's wife. Coauthor of the Book of Silk. Newt. A small …
29 Jul 1998, 22:17
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Macaque. Any species of genus Macaca. Monkeys that usually have short tails and long feet. Boy at the palaestra. Magnesia. Any one of several for…
29 Jul 1998, 22:07
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Lemur. Latin for ghost, spirit. The lemur was given this name because it is nocturnal. The animal is any species of family Lemuridae, especially th…
29 Jul 1998, 16:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Feist. Also fist or fice. Shortening of fisting dog (that is, a dog that breaks wind). A small mongrel, cur. Also a person with a bad temper, or a…
29 Jul 1998, 15:17
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Kalan. Any species of the genus Calanus (Kalanus) of the family Calanidae (Kalanidae). Red marine copepods of the northern oceans that are a major f…
29 Jul 1998, 15:12
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Jerboa. Any species in family Dipodidae. Desert-dwelling rodents with long legs and feet used for jumping long distances. Long thin, sometimes furr…
29 Jul 1998, 13:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Incus. Plural incuses or incudes. Latin for anvil. The middle bone in a chain of bones in the ears of mammals (the others are malleus (plural malle…
29 Jul 1998, 13:04
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Hadale. Arabic word that I don't know. In French, it is the feminine form of the adjective meaning hellish, abysmal (from Hades) which usually is us…
29 Jul 1998, 12:54
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Galago. Any species in the Galago genus of the Lorisidae family , especially Lorisidae Galago senegalensis, also called the lesser bush baby. It's r…
29 Jul 1998, 10:36
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Feather. A light shaft with many thin barbs protruding from it along one (imaginary) plane that contains the shaft. Biological, used by birds, usual…
29 Jul 1998, 08:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Elodia. Probably Elodea, a genus of water herbs in the family Hydrocharitaceae. Gelada's former mistress, so the name is probably meant to be unsavo…
29 Jul 1998, 08:19
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Echidna. Greek for viper or adder. Name of a mythological monster. She was described as a creature that is part beautiful woman, and part serpent. …
28 Jul 1998, 17:31
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Dreoilin. Irish for wren. Iolar's favorite daughter. In irish it is spelled with an accute accent mark over the second i. Dace. From Latin darsus.…
28 Jul 1998, 16:48
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Cassava. One of the species of the genus Manihot. Roots used to make tapioca. An old woman on Sun Street. Cavy. A species in the family Caviidae,…
28 Jul 1998, 16:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Continuing the name list: Bittersweet. The poisonous plant in Eurasia (Solanum dulcamara). A weed with purple flowers and red berries. It has a bi…
28 Jul 1998, 14:41
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Continuing the name list: Babirousa. Also babirusa or babirussa. (Babyrousa babyrussa is the scientific name). Malay, from baabii (hog) and ruusa …
28 Jul 1998, 12:44
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). It's fairly clear in the Long Sun books that the names of the characters are meant to have some allusional significance, like the Councillors having t…
28 Jul 1998, 11:58
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I can think of a number of ways that a genealogical line of Autarchs could fail. The Autarch's children may not be near enough to eat his brain befor…
20 Jul 1998, 17:24
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Concerning the geography discussion, Michael Andre-Driussi's (mantis') _Lexicon Urthus_ has an excellent map illustrating my points in the previous po…
20 Jul 1998, 03:51
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Yet another piece of evidence that Aunt Jeannine in _The Fith Head of Cerberus_ is really an abo impostor. On page 52 of the Orb edition, No. 5 descr…
20 Jul 1998, 03:49
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I just wanted to put down a few minor miscellaneous points I have in my mind about _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_. Today I saw a show about Neanderthal…
20 Jul 1998, 00:05
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I think that in _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ the junior officer who reviews VRT's case is actually David. First, David is known to have gone to the c…
19 Jul 1998, 23:39
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I don't agree with the theory that the first Autarchs made Urth self-sufficient by seeding the planet with animals. Typhon, according to the doctor w…
16 Jul 1998, 22:53
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note: forwarded msg attached. Oops. Looks like I sent this to the Urth list first.…
15 Jul 1998, 17:22
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Rostrum, I'm always happy to elaborate. All the gods/monsters from Greek mythology which I said had names that aren't Greek words had their names bor…
15 Jul 1998, 17:15
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Thanks, Dan. I also found a large site at www.mygale.org/~lemonon/Teur/teur.html, if anyone's interested in seeing it. prion…
15 Jul 1998, 12:03
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). What is the address of the French page about Gene Wolfe? I think it's named something like La Teur du Second Soleil. Are there any other sites like …
14 Jul 1998, 12:22
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note: forwarded msg attached.…
14 Jul 1998, 01:15
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Did Robert Borski have a theory that some of the prostitutes in the Maison du chien in tFHoC were aborigines? Well, when I reread the book, the first…
13 Jul 1998, 23:53
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I was just wondering about the names of the cities in the Whorl and their meaning. Viron: Latin for a circle, center. Viron is surrounded by other …
13 Jul 1998, 23:43
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). When I looked over the Whorl Archives here, I was amazed to learn that Blood's father was Patera Pike. I also read the discussion of clues in the tex…
13 Jul 1998, 23:39
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I just read Wolfe's short story "The Green Rabbit from S'Rian." I noticed that the protagonist's name, Tev Noen, is actually Neon Vet backwards. Is …
13 Jul 1998, 23:31
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Has anyone noticed that the Autarch Appian's name is a homophone for apian (bee-like)? Any connection with the Honey Steward? Also, most bees are st…
13 Jul 1998, 23:29
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). When I looked through _Castle of the Otter_, I noticed that the names Ossipago, Barbatus, and Famulimus were mentioned, but that Wolfe said he had los…
13 Jul 1998, 20:30
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). When I was thinking about Borski's idea that Aunt Jeannine from _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ is an abo (which I believe), I remembered another point t…
13 Jul 1998, 20:07
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Mantis, when I looked through the _Lexicon Urthus_ and the Errata Sheet, I noticed that on the sheet you put the correction that Tokoloshe are from Af…
10 Jul 1998, 10:26
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). When I looked back over the archives, I found some comparisons of Silk to Moses, but I don't think the similarity of Silk fighting Blood to Moses and …
09 Jul 1998, 22:16
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). As I looked over the Whorl archives, it seemed to me that not everyone agreed that the planets Blue and Green were part of a double planet system, but…
09 Jul 1998, 22:09
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I've just finished reading The Book of the Long Sun, and thought I'd give some of the thoughts I had after reading the Whorl archives. The use of the…
09 Jul 1998, 21:40
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I recently looked through a book called _Myths and Legends of the Sioux_ by Marie L. McLaughlin to try to find insight into the story Tracking Song, a…
08 Jul 1998, 17:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I know that a while back it was a fairly big point of contention about the intelligence of the animals of Urth. Severian barely interacted with any a…
06 Jul 1998, 09:40
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Quite a while ago there was some discussion about how much energy was available from the planet Urth, and how much Abaia could get, as opposed to the …
04 Jul 1998, 10:21
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). In the Lexicon Urthus, mantis wrote that Apheta means starting place. It also is an astrological term for the giver of life. Another word that would…
03 Jul 1998, 08:52
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I'd like to thank William Ansley for the compliment. You know the old saying, "He who comes last works hardest." Actually, your idea about the Shado…
02 Jul 1998, 23:41
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Just an odd little thought about technology in the story Tracking Song. Cim, who's like a mink, has a mysterious rod (endieva) that probably uses ele…
02 Jul 1998, 22:37
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). In Tracking Song, the planet apparently relates to Mars, as many people have said (such as it's like the old pulp comics that always happen on Mars). …
02 Jul 1998, 22:24
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). In the Urth of the New Sun, when Severian goes back in time to the time when he becomes Apu-Punchau, I believe that when he is following the Brook Mad…
02 Jul 1998, 22:08
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I have always had the feeling that the wooden plane in Free Live Free is the same as the ship Tzadkiel. Why? Well, they both are made of wood (thoug…
02 Jul 1998, 20:17
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I just had the thought that perhaps the struggle (and possible eventual union) between the Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals is parallelled by action or ch…
02 Jul 1998, 20:10
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