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Reminiscent of the "sign of the belly of the whale" line in On Blue's Waters, which is itself a reference to the "sign of Jonah" line in Matthew 12.…
14 Dec 2007, 21:44
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Do you mean the Protector-breeder origin of humans?…
07 Dec 2007, 18:22
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You find the same emphasis on number and size of guns in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels. I think it is better to take a naval commander's obsession with gunpower at …
01 Dec 2007, 16:24
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Other than there being a man in the Caribbean with the name Christopher, what evidence from the book suggests Columbus? I cannot think of any. A third time travel jaunt would…
28 Nov 2007, 15:47
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This suggests to me that the ship represents the catholic church. Having thought that, I was sure that Nutria must have said something similar, and I found this in the archive…
28 Nov 2007, 14:52
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Odysseus did not care whether Eumaeus actually believed his king was still alive, so long as Eumaeus remained loyal.…
27 Nov 2007, 21:32
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Yikes. I can smell the brimstone fuming from Brunians's next missive already. I can agree with this statement insofar as it parallels the idea of Turing-completeness in progr…
27 Nov 2007, 21:06
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Nephesh and ruah, sure. I meant to refer to the distinction between the terms "soma psuchikon" and "soma pneumatikon", not the distinction between psuche and pneuma, which is …
27 Nov 2007, 20:32
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Summary from http://templetongate.tripod.com/genewolfe.htm of a relevant bit from _The Castle of the Otter_ (which I own, but don't care to run upstairs for): Wolfe reports, …
27 Nov 2007, 19:05
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Ship-head makes me think of Lt. Scheisskopf in Catch-22. Juvenile, yes.…
27 Nov 2007, 18:47
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This may relate to 1 Corinthians 15:44, where Paul describes the resurrection body as "soma pneumatikon", as opposed to the "soma psuchikon" that we are born with. English tra…
27 Nov 2007, 18:45
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This raises the question of what happens when you are given the flesh and blood of the Most High God.…
05 Oct 2007, 15:15
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Have any of the po-mos written about the evolution of the idea of the third person?…
27 Sep 2007, 21:03
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It's Kulili's fault, isn't it? The dragons should worship Kulili. I forget who was the driving power behind the war against Kulili, but everything else I remember makes me th…
25 Sep 2007, 22:17
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And _The Wizard Knight_ is that letter, natch. Wolfe's disbelief in the third person voice provides the constraints within which his genius flows.…
25 Sep 2007, 19:25
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In the opening of The Knight, Abel mentions seeing Ben by the fire on the battlefield, with no further explanation. The explanation only comes in the closing scenes of the Wiz…
25 Sep 2007, 18:08
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But Bill, the hero of "Golden City Far", does not begin acting like Able when he becomes powerful. The relationship between the two may clinch the case for Wolfe portraying Ab…
21 Sep 2007, 19:28
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Here's an odd thought: the story of Disiri and Able is directly parallel to that of Lara and Green in _There Are Doors_. The resemblance is strong enough that I think Wolfe …
20 Sep 2007, 15:44
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Compare with the movie "Mean Girls". Wait, did I just admit to watching that?…
18 Sep 2007, 21:09
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Here is the introduction to Lafferty that hooked me: http://greatsfandf.com/AUTHORS/RALafferty.php Lafferty is never "realistic." However ordinary his settings may seem when fi…
26 Jul 2007, 14:43
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Or Able, or the father from "Ziggurat", or Latro on his better days. If I'm remembering rightly, the protagonist of Memorare also spoke like that.…
27 Jun 2007, 01:16
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Perhaps we are supposed to use this pattern to determine the name of the narrator.…
26 Jun 2007, 21:49
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If I hadn't known the story was by Wolfe, this sentence would have revealed it: ?I’m going to pry, Roberta. I’m going to ask you about things that are none of my business. I ho…
26 Jun 2007, 21:13
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The Robinsons are fleshly: "Either the Robinsons could not have a child of their own, or were unwilling to undertake the travail and expense of a real child."…
26 Jun 2007, 21:12
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The first time I read "La Befana", I thought: "That is freaking stupid". I immediately re-read the story and realized that I was freaking stupid. The Peter Pan story is "The C…
21 Jun 2007, 18:48
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I think I may love you.…
21 Jun 2007, 02:21
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_An Evil Guest_ is, according to a Sci-Fi Channel article, set in the same world as the recent novella "Memorare" http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=40135…
20 Jun 2007, 23:20
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Let's pretend for the sake of discussion that we already have MediaWiki installed, and now we're deciding how to configure it. 1) Should the wiki be editable by anyone? Should…
20 Jun 2007, 20:40
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mp3 compression is very tunable, and you can get especially low file sizes when working with spoken word recordings. Case in point, I just now finished preparing an mp3 recordin…
14 Jun 2007, 21:59
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This resembles the arc of _White Fang_ more than _Call of the Wild_. I haven't read either since I was twelve, so my recollection of the details is fuzzy. But I do recall speci…
13 Jun 2007, 14:00
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Your comment was well-launched and worthy of attention. I would even pervert it into a principle: Because Wolfe delights in the appropriation of people, places, and things, w…
06 Jun 2007, 18:49
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Knowing (or guessing) the connection to the Aeneid doesn't help in the interpretation of Peace unless Wolfe borrowed much more than just an elm. Peace is packed so full of fra…
06 Jun 2007, 18:19
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Then he would clone a series of David Hartwells, and send them off on slowships to found colonies where SF could thrive.…
01 Jun 2007, 17:01
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These reviewers aren't equipped to read fiction in the way that we read Wolfe. I wasn't so equipped when I began, and I'm still far too impatient to be much good at it. Why d…
29 May 2007, 16:08
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Is the article illuminating for long-time readers of Wolfe? Decidedly not. I do think it has worth, merit, or value, and is useful. At a minimum, the article introduces Wolf…
29 May 2007, 16:00
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The Arma Virumque blog has an interesting note on KV's passing, from which: Surely I'm not alone in having spent much of middle and high school reading Kurt Vonnegut and then …
13 Apr 2007, 16:54
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To people who enjoy stories. "Stuff happened" is much inferior to "Someone made stuff happen" Matthew…
13 Apr 2007, 15:37
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From the Urth archives: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0029/0212.shtml…
12 Apr 2007, 14:39
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The backwards trick would pose very different problems if used with the Latro stories, but I can imagine it used to great effect with some plot threads. The Pharetra story cou…
10 Apr 2007, 14:55
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It is in the Wolfe-devoted April issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. All of the other Wolfe material is available online, but you have to purchase the mag for the s…
06 Apr 2007, 14:46
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Wolfe is apparently writing a novel in the same "milieu" as Memorare: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=40135 (Mark Lewin previously posted the same link w…
04 Apr 2007, 16:52
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I wondered if anyone else would think the statue was of Wolfe. Is the GW in Memorare the first head of Cerberus? That seems like too much of a closed circle. Matthew…
04 Apr 2007, 15:20
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That does seem to be what Wolfe described in the Q&A. If a gamma can be considered to have _a_ point, then I take that to be the right angle. Matthew…
22 Jan 2007, 16:23
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Some of the interesting posts on this topic in the archive: Referencing a Wolfe Q&A session: http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0007/0528.shtml The full Q&A post, since I have t…
22 Jan 2007, 05:03
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Count me interested. I've worked with Mailman, run a Linux VPS, and develop web apps during the day. Matthew King…
10 Nov 2006, 19:04
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In _Songmaster_ you might say the main character is psychologically castrated: part of the training of the Songbirds is a conditioning against orgasm, resulting in some sort o…
18 Oct 2006, 15:22
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Maintaining this kind of structure with an off-the-shelf wiki might be difficult. Are there any Ruby on Rails developers on the list who would like to collaborate on a custom …
23 Sep 2006, 04:00
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I take this to be a reference to Matthew 5:39 (and parallel passages), the famous "turn the other cheek" instruction. Wolfe's statement above could be seen as a repudiation of M…
07 Sep 2006, 20:28
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A name that occurred to me last week: urthandskai.com (or .net or .org; they're all available. Org domains are difficult to transfer, though.)…
06 Sep 2006, 13:20
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Not when we're discussing Able's narration, or that of the Horn twin who contributed to Return to the Whorl. matthew…
02 Sep 2006, 16:37
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