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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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The focus of _Carnage and Culture_ is on the nature and development of Western military prowess, so the chapter on Salamis is not directly relevant to _Soldier of the Mist_. A…
08 Aug 2006, 21:36
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I misread that web page. Hanson is the author of the book in question, which means I'm about to go buy it right now. The Peloponnesian war, I should note, takes place well afte…
08 Aug 2006, 16:10
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The author of this review (Victor Davis Hanson) wrote a chapter about the naval battle of Salamis in his book Carnage and Culture. Salamis is the name "translated" by Latro …
08 Aug 2006, 16:07
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Could this be a Lupine elaboration on the double-agency in Chesterton's nightmare "The Man who Was Thursday"? The Autarch would be Sunday, with Severian as Thursday. I don't …
25 Jul 2006, 15:37
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In this situation, perhaps a wiki should treat the Urth archives as an established body of secondary sources, a nascent critical apparatus. If we excluded controversial topics a…
03 Jul 2006, 17:22
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That is definitely Trip, Trap from _Storeys_. IIRC, that is also the story Wolfe is referring to when he says Damon Knight grew him from a bean.…
02 Jun 2006, 19:43
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Someone did a GoogleFight on this: http://www.geegaw.com/archives/0210.shtml#000922 In b sharp's context, I think I would go with "gods from machines", which would be _dei ex ma…
26 May 2006, 18:31
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The domain names lupiverse.com and lupiverse.net do not appear to be registered at this time. Does the community have an interest in grabbing one or both?…
20 May 2006, 01:47
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For those who don't immediately recognize the source, the quote is from the Wizard Knight. That's even scarier out of context than it was in.…
20 May 2006, 00:35
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Severian could get around the time reversal problem by planning (and then remembering) to tell the Hierodules everything important on his meeting/their farewell day. Then they…
19 May 2006, 00:03
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I retract my suggestion in favor of Dan'l's…
13 May 2006, 01:51
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A punny name based on a two-bit word Wolfe uses in Shadow of the Torturer: Urticate Sometimes, after reading a contentious thread in this list, I feel like I've been urticate…
13 May 2006, 01:25
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With the right information for each version, it shouldn't be too hard to put together an approximate-page-reference-translator. Does anyone know of a convenient compilation of e…
05 May 2006, 19:35
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More evidence that we need a wiki. Bless Google, but I can't find things in the archive when I need them. The paracoita does seem more important than a mere fembot, if only b…
05 May 2006, 17:39
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"What kind of men could do as they have done - thieves, false friends, betrayers, bad shipmates, no shipmates, murderers and kidnappers." This appears to be a string of epithets…
05 May 2006, 16:17
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I will gladly use a wiki to take notes as I re-read everything.…
03 May 2006, 22:57
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As Karl Popper tells it, David Hume had already reached this conclusion way back in the eighteenth century. Hume, in trying to justify inductive reasoning, proved it to be log…
18 Apr 2006, 19:32
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Primary referent would be Castleview, but I recall there being several short stories where fairies are identified with aliens. Enough so that on the last one of these I read, …
04 Apr 2006, 21:13
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8. The gods will turn out to be fairies, a.k.a. extraterrestrials…
04 Apr 2006, 20:28
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The whistling bit reminds me particularly of the Knight of Faith in Kierkegaard's _Fear and Trembling_. I don't recall any exact analogues, but a specific passage does come t…
04 Apr 2006, 17:08
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