Index · 1185 messages in 1092 threads · 31 Jan 1997 – 07 Sep 2003

Michael Andre-Driussi

Goodreads · Sirius Fiction

Posted from 4 addresses as Michael Andre-Driussi, m.driussi

• opened Rostum & NutriaWhorl
  Reply: Item #7943197 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Gentlemen! I don't want to sound alarmed, but I think you are both needlessly painting yourselves into antagonistic corner…
  08 Sep 1997, 19:22
• opened tens and ninesWhorl
  Wombat, Re: Marble's slipped decimal as ringing bells. Well, I know what you are talking about, I just haven't found any way to incorporate it into the timeline I've developed! …
  08 Sep 1997, 16:24
• opened Welcome WombatWhorl
  Reply: Item #1260418 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Wombat, Re: Whorl flight time. It appears to have been 332 years subjective time (III,173) and 1000 years objective time (I…
  07 Sep 1997, 22:31
• opened Grab Bag
  Reply: Item #9830350 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# alga, Today I'm thinking that this "Tracking Song" and "Tale of a Boy Called Frog" is strong enough to bring us back around…
  07 Sep 1997, 22:31
• opened Digest urth.v004.n0
  Reply: Item #2008450 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# alga, Jeez, how many names does ol' Leatherstocking have, anyway?! And looting historical names, as well . . . all in the …
  29 Aug 1997, 16:53
• opened alga's digesteon
  Reply: Item #7729604 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Re: 7AN (oo, alphanumeric!) perhaps not being tied in to any particular tale from 1k1AN. Right, I won't be too disappointed i…
  28 Aug 1997, 00:31
• opened Chin gesture of TS
  Reply: Item #6846283 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Ron Crown, I kept meaning to bring up that "touching one's chin" gesture since it is repeated, it seems to be a culture clu…
  27 Aug 1997, 19:18
• opened Hero As Werwolf
  Reply: Item #2489873 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Photon, Right, "loup garou" is French for werewolf. Re: seven American nights as being along the lines of ARABIAN NIGHTS' …
  26 Aug 1997, 23:27
• opened Novensiles diviWhorl
  Here's an odd tidbit, recently turned up in Latin dictionary . . . I was looking up something else, as so often is the case, when I saw a couple of entries. "noveni -ae, a, _nine…
  26 Aug 1997, 18:58
• opened memorable lines
  Reply: Item #4965290 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Since I can't remember where everybody's favorite line (which goes something like "we are like children who, looking at a wo…
  21 Aug 1997, 16:21
• opened J.Crowley tangent
  Reply: Item #2685608 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# (Re: last time we chatted about Crowley, in the meantime I =did= manage to find NOVELTY and would argue that the whole thing…
  19 Aug 1997, 19:16
• opened New Sun! Apu-Punchau
  Reply: Item #2152520 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Xury, Re: motives for Hildegrin attacking Apu-Punchau. We have to guess. He claims to Severian that they're going to conta…
  17 Aug 1997, 17:34
• opened NYRSF No. 95
  Reply: Item #6626423 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Re: "Seven American Nights," heads up! There is a good essay on this and a couple of other Wolfe stories in "New York Review …
  16 Aug 1997, 01:38
• opened New Sun! New Sun!
  Reply: Item #5828452 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# . . . but just to show that I am still being chant caught, vatic in the vortex, consider the appendix to CLAW. Wolfe says …
  14 Aug 1997, 23:01
• opened Digest whorl.v007Whorl
  Reply: Item #8520349 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Kieran Mullen, Re: Dorcas as gazelle. Ah, so sorry--you must have thought I was being wooly and mantic. Nope. Not to …
  14 Aug 1997, 22:25
• opened What is the Law?
  Reply: Item #0239562 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# alga, I understand what you are saying re: dietary taboos being modifications rather than radical vegetarianism. (And it i…
  10 Aug 1997, 21:38
• opened Tracking dust
  Reply: Item #0925298 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, Re: dreams, I got what you got, maybe less. Re: Sleigh vs. Cave, as Nutria pointed out (and maybe you did too), Cutt…
  10 Aug 1997, 17:12
• opened Peach scarf, scentedWhorl
  Hey, alga and Talon (and anybody else who might have been tracking this curious bit of clothing accessory)! You will =never= guess where I just stumbled upon a woman's scarf, peac…
  10 Aug 1997, 04:05
• opened alga onto something
  Reply: Item #7307956 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# alga, Re: NYRSF, reprint time is always cause for celebration. When PEACE came out again just a few years ago there were a…
  08 Aug 1997, 05:39
• opened Mud for AEther
  alga, Back to the story "Tracking Song." Re: what is humanity; as you glancingly noted, there are clues that the Great Sleighers are not mere humans such as ourselves at all, rat…
  06 Aug 1997, 16:49
• opened Digest urth.v003.n
  Reply: Item #5046303 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Patrick, Pneumonia is bad--here's hoping for a speedy recovery for your wife. Reading Gene Wolfe stuff is good--might even e…
  06 Aug 1997, 13:55
• opened Tracking mud
  Reply: Item #0311931 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# alga, By "Pamiguka" as gophers, I believe you are thinking of "Pummanga" the burrowing animal who is only seen or referred …
  04 Aug 1997, 21:23
• opened Hy-jinxWhorl
  Reply: Item #5559522 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# So Auk's Hy-napping is still more "odd" ("mysterious," "wrong") than Auk's pushing Silk off a =cliff=?! Contributing to Si…
  01 Aug 1997, 01:34
• opened Dead Man
  Reply: Item #1342015 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Nutria, The "dead man" of "The Changeling." I just can't shake the feeling that Wolfe was telling Knight about PEACE rather …
  27 Jul 1997, 00:10
• opened Messy head cheese
  Reply: Item #0837456 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# "Clean up at dairy section, aisle of death. Clean up at dairy section, aisle of death."…
  24 Jul 1997, 14:01
• opened Pandora/Catcher
  Reply: Item #8527059 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# John Bishop, Ah, but since Holly "catches" a criminal . . . (is there any "rye" around when she does it?) That it was just y…
  23 Jul 1997, 22:09
• opened Why I Think Pan
  Reply: Item #3748604 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, I think you've already stated all the pieces that made me guess Peter's last name as Pan. First the ending sugge…
  23 Jul 1997, 14:26
• opened Ernie Cotha
  Reply: Item #5064841 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# More about "The Changeling": Ernie Cotha is the character who picks up the narrator while hitchhiking. He also appears in th…
  22 Jul 1997, 22:02
• opened Changeling Castleview
  Reply: Item #8166952 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Ron Crown, The connections between PEACE and "The Changeling" are definitely two-way; both are set in the same imaginary to…
  21 Jul 1997, 16:25
• opened Mary Bugs Names
  Reply: Item #3567343 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Ron Crown, Uh, wouldn't "Mariolatry" be more connected to daughter Mary rather than mama? (Or is mama's name also Mary? I…
  19 Jul 1997, 22:28
• opened RETREAD Changeling
  Reply: Item #1856700 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# I finally found some of my old notes and present them here with hardly a dusting off. RETREAD NOTES ON "The Changeling": Fir…
  16 Jul 1997, 15:40
• opened Monitors, Landers, GreWhorl
  Reply: Item #7414904 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Kevin McGuire, Well the contexts (being a polite intercity telecom service unit versus being the controling intelligence for…
  15 Jul 1997, 13:45
• opened more Proust in Wolfe
  Reply: Item #9864569 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# alga, Yeah, that Suzanne is cryptic. Talk about embedded! Talk about sneaky! (Who knows--maybe the German-language versio…
  15 Jul 1997, 03:57
• opened 3 *ship Yarns
  Reply: Item #5222338 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Ron Crown, Without rereading the stories I'll try to bolster it a bit anyway. `It' being how they remind me of "All the Hue…
  14 Jul 1997, 14:20
• opened gnash vs. aspirinWhorl
  Reply: Item #2458908 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# David Langford, LOL! Yes, but while you gnash over Quetzal not being Pike's ghost, I'm relieved because that level of "sc…
  13 Jul 1997, 20:14
• opened Defending QuestionsWhorl
  Reply: Item #5920451 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# David Langford, (Yes, LOL on one answer, teeth gnashing on another--I'm sure that most of us are in the same boat. Differ…
  12 Jul 1997, 15:04
• opened ThoseQuestionsAgainWhorl
  Reply: Item #7660783 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Ask Gene Wolfe #2 16: Kieran Mullen writes, "It's pretty broadly indicated that Silk was gestated from a frozen embroyo a…
  12 Jul 1997, 01:50
• opened Answers Already!Whorl
  Hey Everybody, The bad news first--this was the last question train. Gene Wolfe doesn't want to answer any more. But he =did= answer the last questions . . . 16. Please thank …
  11 Jul 1997, 00:05
• opened Ships of Hell
  Reply: Item #2461657 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# FWIW, "All the Hues of Hell" (1987) reminds me a great deal of three other Wolfe starship tales: "Alien Stones" (1972), "Sil…
  11 Jul 1997, 00:05
• opened BloodTechWhorl
  Reply: Item #3809949 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Kieran Mullen, Re: your tech solution. Interesting point! It would seem to require a group that is to biotech as the bla…
  03 Jul 1997, 23:55
• opened Pike at SeaWhorl
  Reply: Item #0023002 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# vizcacha, Another hint re: Blood's father is when Marble/Rose is talking to Silk about Mint: "Mint . . . was so shy that s…
  02 Jul 1997, 21:56
• opened What Clute Said
  Reply: Item #2197133 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Speaking of strange thoughts (rana--I =do= know what you are talking about, I've just never been able to come up with an ans…
  01 Jul 1997, 22:45
• opened CanticonWhorl
  Reply: Item #0471995 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Nutria, Re: Cant, as a matter of fact, Talon compiled a list of cant terms used in THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN and I'm still …
  01 Jul 1997, 00:44
• opened Train's A RollingWhorl
  Attention! Attention! The second train has left the station. Ask Gene Wolfe #2 16. Kieran Mullen, re: Silk's engineered enhancements. 17. Peter Cash, re: airship incident. 18. …
  27 Jun 1997, 20:02
• opened Ron Crown's QuestionWhorl
  Reply: Item #7726106 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Ron Crown, Sure, that's a fine one, you're on the train. Thanks! (We'll fold in Rock's quicky since it is on the same top…
  27 Jun 1997, 01:36
• opened Nunnery!
  Reply: Item #0419205 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Rory, Welcome! Interesting, re: nunnery. (Quick! Let's look in the bound OED before alga has a chance to dazzle us wit…
  25 Jun 1997, 23:11
• opened Wolfe as crypto-Mormon
  Without much effort we might see TBOTNS as containing strong elements of Mormonism. If we take Severian as Christ-like; if we assume Apu-Punchau (Severian in a different time fram…
  25 Jun 1997, 21:09
• opened Rostum's RequestionWhorl
  Reply: Item #7644128 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Rostum, Got it, thanks. Number 21. =mantis=…
  25 Jun 1997, 16:51
• opened Grist!
  Reply: Item #5927412 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Nutria, Wow, that =is= a lot of grist there! Re: Witches' Keep as perverse convent of nuns. Possible, of course, but sinc…
  25 Jun 1997, 16:51
• opened Next Train a-loadingWhorl
  Reply: Item #5017229 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Everybody, The next batch of questions for Gene Wolfe. Train leaves in one week, on Friday 27. People who didn't ask a q…
  20 Jun 1997, 15:14

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