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Reply: Item #7417663 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Nutria, Re: three universes not just two, and the direction of black holes and white holes, well, that's the word from the …
17 Feb 1998, 05:04
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Umm... If you read the recently quoted lecture Baldanders gives (V, ch. 42): Briah is neither the lowest nor the highest cotemporaneous universe (which is only a half surprise, si…
17 Feb 1998, 02:47
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Reply: Item #8864815 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Green Empire (aka Vert). The giant green face that appears in the antechamber of House Absolute. Green hair for undines. …
10 Feb 1998, 02:19
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Reply: Item #3735819 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# vizcacha, Thanks for the note on "Green Room"--I knew of it because the same (no doubt derived from the theatrical traditio…
08 Feb 1998, 18:32
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Reply: Item #2637374 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# viz, Right, that's the scene: Typhon carves the first and biggest; the autarchs that come after him, from Ymar to somebod…
07 Feb 1998, 05:00
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Reply: Item #4398743 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Carved Mountains of Urth --"grim heads . . . spangled with snow . . . eyes are as large as towns, figures whose shoulders are…
06 Feb 1998, 22:38
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Reply: Item #6546311 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Re: the Library rats. I took them as another example of creatures being shaped by their unusual environment, the most strik…
06 Feb 1998, 15:36
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Reply: Item #7943209 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Mountains of Urth, head and shoulders above the snowline. ELEVATION Ambient temperature drops about 1 degree F for every 30…
06 Feb 1998, 15:12
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Reply: Item #5381601 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# raster, Okay, your "Mal & Pal" LOL! Re: the polychrome sand, I know what you mean, but no, I don't know where it is at the m…
01 Feb 1998, 23:46
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Christopher, The Cumaean might be addressing the White Fountain in a metaphoric manner, but on the surface the real star she is talking about is the Fish's Mouth, aka Fomalhaut (o…
01 Feb 1998, 15:45
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Reply: Item #9595607 from CRCULVER at AOL.COM@INET01# Christopher, Re: the Claw as a device made by Tzadkiel? Uh, um, no. Remember, back at the metaphysical climax of Volume Four…
01 Feb 1998, 05:24
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Reply: Item #6848705 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Well gosh, Nutria, that's a helluva way to ask about something that, in all honesty, seems to me to be so blindingly obvious…
01 Feb 1998, 02:12
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Reply: Item #5531003 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Dave, Hello there and welcome aboard. The Old Sun is not dying of natural causes. I repeat, the Old Sun is =not= dying of…
31 Jan 1998, 15:37
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Reply: Item #1972270 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# vizcacha, Right. So we've got 1000 years and, as you guess, 100 carved mountains. Now then: what is a "mountain" in the U…
31 Jan 1998, 05:57
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Reply: Item #6021037 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Christopher, I admire the work you are doing here, but I disagree with some details. I theorize that Severian has Sliver-s…
31 Jan 1998, 05:26
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Wow, so much activity! Re: how many versions of THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN (the book of the church of the Conciliator, rather than the skiffy adventures of Severian), there is at lea…
31 Jan 1998, 04:49
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Reply: Item #9589850 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# newt, Right, like that. <g> Me, I like to see the Destiny balanced on a razor's edge with Free Will. Peter Wright sees it…
30 Jan 1998, 23:27
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vizcacha, Re: missing link between Amazon.Com and Serconia, try Chris Drumm Books--he is listing the more recent Clute book, LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE, in both hard and soft cover. Be…
22 Jan 1998, 15:56
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Reply: Item #4282998 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# (gee, the place is nearly dead . . . ) Ori, The Main Point of Clute's seminal Wolfe essay (1986) is that Severian's mother i…
21 Jan 1998, 02:32
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Christopher, alga is right. As for Sev's mother, I prefer using "Katharine" for the patron saint of the torturers and the role played at the feasts of the torturers, "Catherine" …
06 Jan 1998, 01:11
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Reply: Item #4968985 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Tony Ellis, Re: the five stage hero of the brown book. The shortest answer is: 1. Birth 2. Initiation 3. Reign 4. Repo…
03 Dec 1997, 18:21
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Reply: Item #6180832 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# alga, Re: Solange as stereotypical name for a maid. Onomasticly or otherwise--do you have any examples or sources? (I've …
02 Dec 1997, 17:39
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Oh, look! While looking for something else, as is so often the case, I found these notes on "Eschatology and Genesis," dating from May 1994. It appears that I called the division…
01 Dec 1997, 02:30
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=New Products from Sirius Fiction= "LS-1: Characters of the Long Sun Whorl" (1997) is the first booklet in the "LS" series, the successor to "Q&D" in examining Gene Wolfe's The B…
30 Nov 1997, 03:13
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Reply: Item #0887923 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# alga, The follow-up I promised: Yep, Solange and Lybe are saints. Solange (d. circa 880) was a poor shepherdess of the ne…
30 Nov 1997, 00:09
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Reply: Item #3050829 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# (My holiday plan was the lesser rather than the longer we had originally planned--so I'm back already!) alga, TS as a live…
29 Nov 1997, 21:08
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Dan Rabin, Yes, your list is nearly perfect. According to Wolfe, the demons are both played by Dorcas and Jolenta. Re: the missing characters, I would make a strong bet that "th…
24 Nov 1997, 16:07
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Christopher Culver, Re: the contessa, I think she represents (aside from the contessa who cameos in URTH OF THE NEW SUN) the aristocracy, yes, but also a facet of the old human ra…
24 Nov 1997, 02:34
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Reply: Item #7230818 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Tony Ellis, Re: the length of the play and the completeness of the drama we are shown. First off, please count the number of…
21 Nov 1997, 00:49
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Reply: Item #8370618 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Nutria, Glad you like the firefly--something just clicked in my head. I guess we or I (if there are such distinctions anym…
04 Nov 1997, 05:18
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Reply: Item #2052399 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# John Bishop, Re: upper-case Cim blowing among trees, but wait--those other upper-cases you mention are group names . . . so…
03 Nov 1997, 18:13
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Reply: Item #1844847 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# WHG3, Wolfe to be GoH at DISCLAVE '98, May 22-25, 1998. Membership $20 to 12/31/97; checks to Disclave 1998. Info: Discla…
31 Oct 1997, 19:41
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Reply: Item #1989349 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# I was and remain undecided whether Cim means "snow" or "pollen" or "flower/seeds" (like a dandelion's paragliders). They wo…
30 Oct 1997, 21:20
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Reply: Item #4734471 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Gordon, Welcome aboard! Re: the ballgame of Viron as being more Aztec than basketball. Well, yes and no. The Aztec ball…
26 Oct 1997, 16:54
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Reply: Item #8438872 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Re: "two dead heroes are okay, three or four are obsessive" or whatever the numbers were, heh-heh, not to be too much of a m…
23 Oct 1997, 21:06
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Reply: Item #8093828 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Eric, Okay, so we're saying that to get a reduction from 1 g-sim to an arbitrary 0.5 g-sim, all we have to do is drive "so…
11 Oct 1997, 21:10
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Reply: Item #3745432 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# The artificial orange drink product (ala "Tang") in PEACE is made from potatoes . . . another tie to Ireland? As the factor…
10 Oct 1997, 16:01
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A few more thoughts-- "Zero Gravity" is experienced by the jumping child at apogee; by the cannonball at apogee; by the passengers of the infamous "vomit comet" astronaut trainer …
08 Oct 1997, 02:33
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Reply: Item #7581861 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Nope, the idea that the whorl was carved from an asteroid (rather than being built up from beams and ship plate) did not ar…
08 Oct 1997, 01:19
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alga, On behalf of Soldier series readers past, future, and present, allow me to extend thanks and appreciation for your notes on History, Goddesses, and Geography. =mantis=…
04 Oct 1997, 15:43
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Reply: Item #9100176 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, The Neuri are certainly in my Herodotus, the juiciest bit in book four, just before the Amazons: "there is a story cu…
21 Sep 1997, 22:04
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Reply: Item #7223192 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Xury, His real name is Lucius; he is a Latin; he was cursed by the Great Mother Goddess for messing up her temple during a …
16 Sep 1997, 13:49
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Reply: Item #9051512 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Gene Wolfe may have put inventive thought into these uninvented stone age tools, but due to the narrative structure of the s…
15 Sep 1997, 19:12
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Reply: Item #0283114 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Wombat, It is almost as if we are coming up with a "course reader" or two--one a collection of articles by and about Wolfe…
12 Sep 1997, 16:24
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Reply: Item #2372125 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# (Rostrum, FWIW I'd go along with vizcacha's Cordwainer Smith reading plan, 100%.) Hey, I've received a letter from G.E. Brai…
12 Sep 1997, 16:10
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Reply: Item #8273815 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Nutria, Right, I remember that it was Gene Wolfe's responses to you that made you ditch the gnostic reading you had origin…
11 Sep 1997, 15:53
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Reply: Item #2315143 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# alga, Cainabelism, good point. Works for beasts and people! Especially for our Wolfe--most recently all that talk of hu…
10 Sep 1997, 03:19
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Wombat, Ah, you got your copies from Gene Wolfe? I got my copy of number 2 from Jeremy Crampton--he said he didn't have any copies left of number 1. Publisher's choice--maybe he…
09 Sep 1997, 22:45
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Rostrum, Of course I like the creative ambiguity of Wolfe's work, too. I mean, I actually enjoy looking at how in a certain reading Severian is closer to an Anti-Christ than he i…
09 Sep 1997, 21:30
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Reply: Item #3510806 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Wombat, You are absolutely right that these articles are copyrighted, and furthermore, they are not unavailable in their o…
09 Sep 1997, 00:01
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