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Reply: Item #6599662 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# John, "Gene Wolfe's THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER" graphic novel in six issues by Innovation, 1991. Innovative Corp., Wheelin…
18 Jun 1997, 20:45
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Reply: Item #6089883 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Deborah, Hello there and welcome aboard! In truth, the Urth list is really sort of "everything by Wolfe except for THE BOO…
16 Jun 1997, 03:47
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Reply: Item #0140781 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Jason, Well "sinister" could also be non-Weer related; like the (al-)chemist who helps turn normal people into circus freak…
12 Jun 1997, 20:57
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Reply: Item #2522919 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Jason, FWIW, in that recent People Online Chat, Wolfe seemed to say that Weer was not a mass murderer. Which would appear …
11 Jun 1997, 14:11
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Reply: Item #2076850 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Nutria, "Michael" is one of the masks that Russario, fiendish imp, dons when I'm not looking. "Bluesberry Jam" is in SPACE…
09 Jun 1997, 06:21
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Reply: Item #7958559 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# (Note to Ranjit: the original message quoted by Ron Crown and Charles Dye [raster] never arrived in my mailbox [to best of …
01 Jun 1997, 19:10
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Reply: Item #6419145 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Ron Crown, Welcome aboard! Good points re: voided cross (especially since I agree with you!). I'm happy to learn that …
30 May 1997, 19:53
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Reply: Item #5008537 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# cephalothorax, Thank you for your interest in "GURPS Book of the New Sun"! As for how it is going as a project, the two easy…
28 May 1997, 19:43
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Reply: Item #5505781 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# cehphalothorax, I think your number two is closer. But by "hierodule's ship" you seem to be referring only to the flying…
18 May 1997, 21:51
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Reply: Item #3615878 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Reef and Tercel, Got the questions. Thanks. =mantis=…
15 May 1997, 22:47
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Reply: Item #4926427 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, To tell true, you made me laugh that first time--I mean, isn't the first typo on the toc?! But still, as a micro…
15 May 1997, 22:47
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Reply: Item #9272096 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Jason, Well no, I haven't solved all the mysteries. And as you've probably noticed, the "solutions" I do have tend to be p…
15 May 1997, 05:37
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Reply: Item #4900689 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Joel, Yep, that sounds about right. <g> (But "earliest days of humans on Urth" should be "earliest days of White Fountain …
14 May 1997, 22:01
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Reply: Item #8567332 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Nutria, Re: Broken Mirrors and typos. While not denying what you wrote, we are to cut some slack for BM because: (1) it r…
14 May 1997, 21:49
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Reply: Item #9662929 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# M. Gallo, LETTERS HOME is just that--the letters Gene Wolfe wrote home while he was in Korea during the Korean War. Some w…
14 May 1997, 05:42
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Reply: Item #9570055 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Jason Voegele, Welcome aboard! Re: Wolfe's "solipsistic tendency," I'm pretty sure I know what you mean (even though I'll …
12 May 1997, 15:12
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Reply: Item #7420072 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Joel, Re: your notes on the mechanics of augury ("ars augurium"?), you've opened a can of worms--good stuff. That is, I a…
09 May 1997, 17:58
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Reply: Item #5191086 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# bee, The F&SF (Oct/Nov '96) story is "The Man in the Pepper Mill," which IMHO harkens back to "The Island of Doctor Death a…
08 May 1997, 16:38
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Reply: Item #0985746 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# (Whoops. I said "TO LOVE FOREVER" was listed in front of PLANET OF ADVENTURE; I was mistaken--it is listed in Vance's mos…
08 May 1997, 16:04
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Reply: Item #0568605 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Vance, I haven't re-read PEACE recently, these are just things off the top of my head that I recall PEACE-niks going on abo…
05 May 1997, 05:24
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Reply: Item #9843335 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Good work, vizcacha! We have some overlap that agrees (like "marhaba" and some of the names) but you've found a lot of stuff…
01 May 1997, 04:19
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Reply: Item #7172613 from RASTER at HIGHFIBER.COM@INET# Raster, First of all, we both agree that the words seem to be used interchangeably as a synonym for "phantom." And I'll bet…
18 Apr 1997, 04:49
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Reply: Item #5599352 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Ranjit, I agree with you--that Betel is a puzzler. She was a sibyl at Sun Street and might have been senior sibyl when Ma…
15 Apr 1997, 15:30
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Reply: Item #7472654 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Lasrach, A certain amount of resentment that Silk killed one (or two?) of her "babies" might help to explain some of Muc…
14 Apr 1997, 16:42
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Reply: Item #1489788 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Ranjit, Re: "It Was All A Dream." I agree with you entirely. And likewise with the way you link the dream sequences to t…
11 Apr 1997, 20:29
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Reply: Item #0548146 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# viscacha, Yay! Mysteries! Lists of things! You are off to a good start, IMHO. I was thinking you might want to re-orga…
11 Apr 1997, 16:28
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Reply: Item #4804845 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Patrick, You are right: cat' and bird get best lines! (Yes, to the unspoken question: I do think the talking animals are …
07 Mar 1997, 21:22
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Reply: Item #2848746 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# vizcacha, Re: "Starcross," frankly I thought it was better than RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA. Maybe because of the interactive natu…
26 Feb 1997, 05:15
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Henry Rathvon, Re: the limits of knowledge explored in Wolfe's work, I agree with you most emphatically. There is also the "Roshamon" quality of multiple versions of events, ofte…
13 Feb 1997, 15:26
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Reply: Item #6681520 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Re: Hindi stratum to Trivigaunte society. "Calde'" is to Spanish as "Rani" is to Hindi (although the ranks are as differen…
01 Feb 1997, 04:22
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Reply: Item #4834984 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Re: Aloe, "a pious woman of the Sun Street quarter" (III, list). ("Agalloch" is the same thing, not used in the text, but n…
01 Feb 1997, 03:21
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