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----- Original Message ----- The "princess and the glass hill" by andrew lang http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=LanBlue.sgm&images=image s/modeng&data=/texts/eng…
07 May 2002, 21:00
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Ah, No I did misread. The dream of mouldy bread I thought indicated a break between days (grey mould on bread - a hint of ergotomine and hallucinogenics?). Rerereading I see it's a…
07 May 2002, 17:39
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When I read the story I counted 7 Nights, so never had to try and account for a missing DAY. Unless I misread, or Americans have some other way of counting off days and nights, Nad…
07 May 2002, 17:18
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----- Original Message ----- Rab as a contraction of rabbi? Contraction of Robert? Apparently Sammon as a surname is 1. a contraction of Solomon. 2. a varient of Salmon. 3. a var…
01 May 2002, 22:46
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too? My interpretation of "A Fish Story" is about the fear and denial of the truth (the opening line points this out - "I've always been embarrassed by the truth"); and that how e…
01 May 2002, 22:25
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For more on Sallis - www.jamessallis.com Sallis started off as one of the New-Wavers when he moved to London, associated with the "New Worlds" set, and two stories in Harlan Ellis…
15 Apr 2002, 04:23
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I would post this at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johncrowleyreaders but I can't even access it, so my apologies if this is irrelevant. There's a review of "the Translator" and s…
08 Apr 2002, 19:04
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The "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" quote is from Shelley, not Auden. "Poet" in Greek means "maker", so poets _are_ the creators of our world, in as much th…
31 Mar 2002, 13:26
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I suspect the book you're thinking of is "Danny and the Dinosaur" and its subsequent follow-ups by Syd Hoff. "Petting Zoo" struck me as Wolfe working in the Ray Bradbury vein, but…
25 Mar 2002, 14:28
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Found the original reference online here: http://www.sfsite.com/fm/show.html?rw,bestof2001-jeff,1 Look at the internal clues... Most of the books he recommends are kosher but I ha…
11 Feb 2002, 16:12
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It was mentioned in one of Fantastic Metropolis's end of the year round-ups. Mike Moorcock got various authors to contribute and it was an interesting exercise, not least because q…
11 Feb 2002, 02:10
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This was mentioned on a BBC documentary on genetics a couple of weeks ago. When I mentioned this later on I had several tables of men in a gay pub all holding out their hands and c…
05 Feb 2002, 04:05
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If you want to read LOTR as one of the last gasp of anglo-catholic feudalism then you couldn't go amiss reading it alongside "Brideshead Revisted" (in fact now I remember that Hump…
03 Jan 2002, 03:05
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There's an essay by Wolfe about Tolkien in December's "Interzone": "The Best Introduction to the Mountains". It's mostly autobiographical: how he discovered LOTR in 1956, the exper…
11 Dec 2001, 19:33
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I know this is primarily a space for discussion of Gene Wolfe, but since John Crowley does seem to pop up quite regularly I though it might be a worthwhile space to test out the ob…
17 Sep 2001, 15:42
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