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I would like to be a part of the efforts if I can offer anything. Is there a plan of action? (One thing I noticed: Under "Standalone Novels" the publication date of Pirate Freedo…
04 Jul 2007, 04:01
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This is extremely helpful -- much more comprehensive than anything I've found in the archives. I hope the wiki project goes forward, because I think its value to Wolfe's readers -…
28 Jun 2007, 18:38
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The whole Soldier series is opaque to me: I enjoy the surface as I enjoy all Wolfe's writing, but I can tell there is something underneath that I can't quite perceive. Wolfe subje…
28 Jun 2007, 01:03
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I would never have picked up on that. But then I've read very little by Lovecraft. What are the clues? Couldn't let that pass without picking a nit: Wolfe's collection is "Inno…
21 Jun 2007, 20:55
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Roy asks: I now understand this story less than ever. As you observe, it seems to be the primary feature of Tracking Song that it is woven of many disparate strands. This is tru…
19 Jun 2007, 10:39
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I thought I was following the plow. What does yours look like? I hereby attest that all these facts are true: Nashhwonk's chair really is a chair, just as Mimmunka's polearm real…
18 Jun 2007, 14:41
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Woops, sorry about that. Take "Liebling" as a sign of my affection. What sort of thing is a vizcacha, by the way? Well, that wouldn't be a first. So there is another layer there, …
17 Jun 2007, 19:09
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Actually, here is proof that Dave Liebling was the first to speculate on Cutthroat's dog nature (though I can't find the original post for some reason): http://www.urth.net/urth/a…
17 Jun 2007, 17:14
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Dave Liebling asks (nine years ago) what we are to make of "Tracking Song's epigraph (http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0007/0586.shtml<http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0007/058…
17 Jun 2007, 16:51
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Well, I think I first read it in one of alga's posts. There's lots of clever people making astute observations in those archives, if you can manage to find them, but it's not easy…
17 Jun 2007, 16:20
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On Nashhwonk's chair as his antlers, Roy writes skeptically: Yes. If you accept that the Wiggikki are a wolf tribe, you should have no trouble accepting that Nashhwonk is a moose.…
17 Jun 2007, 16:13
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We're leaving something important out of the discussion of "Tracking Song," something that Alice Turner noted a long time ago: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0007/0595.shtml …
17 Jun 2007, 06:03
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I don't think so. There are several giants in the story, and I'm convinced they all correspond to large animals. Nashhwonk is a moose (the chair is his antlers), Mimmunka is some k…
17 Jun 2007, 05:14
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On the dogness of Cutthroat, Roy writes: I don't think we're that far apart; it's just a matter of how literal we're being. Cutthroat is a dog-man in the story. I said, "Cutthroat…
17 Jun 2007, 04:27
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Roy, I'm glad you've taken up this thread as I didn't feel I was doing it justice. It has colored my view of the story for so long that it's hard to shake, and I'm not sure that i…
14 Jun 2007, 22:12
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Matthew King noted: Yes, _White Fang_ is there too, I imagine, although I haven't read it, so someone else will have to draw those connections. Someone on the old urth list specu…
13 Jun 2007, 23:06
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Just one more observation, and I hope it won't get me in trouble: It's just my opinion, but... I think Wolfe does LeGuin better than LeGuin. Way better. *runs away*…
13 Jun 2007, 00:30
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Nigel writes: Well I'm having trouble being coherent, so please bear with me through some tangled reasoning. But the big clues are: - the frozen wasteland setting (referencing Cot…
13 Jun 2007, 00:21
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It's online (if you can bear to read it on the screen), it's a quick read (straight, no puzzles), and it's very illuminating. It's easy to see why Wolfe responded to it, with its i…
10 Jun 2007, 19:02
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No, Cutthroat isn't simply a dog; but Cutthroat is to a dog as the Wiggikki are to wolves. You can even speculate on his breed.... Yes, Cutthroat has knowledge and devices from t…
09 Jun 2007, 15:31
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Thanks, Roy for taking the time to reread and post on "Tracking Song." Roy wrote: "If his "birthmark" was a mark like Cain's, then it did him little good. He was mortally wounded…
08 Jun 2007, 23:02
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Joshua writes: "Caves also pop up in Fifth Head. My memory of Fifth Head has degraded somewhat, but I think that the mythological abo (Sandwalker?) made a pilgrimage to one in "A S…
06 Jun 2007, 22:33
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"Tracking Song" questions I've recently read "Tracking Song" (_The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories_), along with Borski's blurb in _The Long and Short o…
05 Jun 2007, 22:44
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I was hoping to find some discussion of Vonnegut on the list today. It's been too long since I read Slaughterhouse Five for me to offer anything. (All I remember is "Billy Pilgrim…
13 Apr 2007, 00:19
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*thalassocrat wrote: *Somewhere early on in Long Sun, we learn that Auk once kicked a man to death. That's right -- I said earlier he kicked Chenille, but that's wrong. During th…
03 Apr 2007, 00:01
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It's been a little while since I read the books, but in The Book of the Long Sun, (Horn and Nettle write that) Patera Silk shrives Auk, and the content of his shriving is, among ot…
31 Mar 2007, 14:44
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transentient wrote: "Seems to me that you can make something of a voided cross out of four gammas, if you don't mind the arms of the cross being open at the ends." Yeah, this is t…
22 Jan 2007, 02:41
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Well, it turns out the answer was right in front of me if I'd had a little more imagination or more knowledge of heraldic crosses. I just started leafing through the Long Sun nove…
22 Jan 2007, 02:27
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This is my first post to the list. Having discovered The Book of the New Sun and developed an almost fanatical devotion to Wolfe, I quickly gobbled up The Urth of the New Sun and t…
22 Jan 2007, 00:09
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