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Reply: Item #4687542 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Was there a comment before about some spot in the text that says inhumi are only as intelligent as dogs? I think I remembe…
17 Jun 1997, 21:31
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Reply: Item #8302641 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, Sounds interesting--get to work! =mantis=…
17 Jun 1997, 02:20
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Reply: Item #2233021 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# cephalothorax, Welcome back. Let's see, you wrote: "Wolfe's women do seem to have a kind of limited repertoire: the Stand…
16 Jun 1997, 20:13
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Reply: Item #7331328 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# alga, Thanks for that interview with Hartwell! Yikes, it is interview city for Gene Wolfe--on Friday he was slated to b…
15 Jun 1997, 17:38
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Here they are, the Answers to the trainload of questions. Without any further preamble -- 1. "Who or what is Oreb?" Oreb is a night chough. 2. "What is his [Wolfe's] attraction…
14 Jun 1997, 21:15
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Reply: Item #5308829 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# If I remember right, Father Brown has a criminal sidekick for a few early stories, named Flammbeaux or something like that (a…
14 Jun 1997, 00:01
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Reply: Item #0907478 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Geoff, IMHO it isn't a stupid question, but yeah, it is hard not to feel stupid in asking almost any question. Wolfe's a…
12 Jun 1997, 21:20
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Reply: Item #9645979 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Rostum, The "light outside" is LAKE ch. 10, last page. "Craning his neck to look behind him, he saw a thin crescent of bl…
11 Jun 1997, 00:47
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Reply: Item #4728612 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Michael Richman, Yes, the restarting of the long sun was at maximum power, which is what set the fig tree on fire . . . or…
09 Jun 1997, 06:37
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Reply: Item #5437321 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, "Urth-Man Extraordinary" (a working bibliography of Gene Wolfe) is available in Canada (and her renegade souther…
07 Jun 1997, 14:44
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Reply: Item #0562550 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Rostrum, Welcome aboard! I'll try to answer a few of your questions, let's see . . . Re: light of ship's engines. Hmmm. …
06 Jun 1997, 16:34
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Reply: Item #6824766 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Michael Richman, What you say about =Quetzal's= repairs of =Hammerstone= seems odd (since I mainly remember Auk using the …
06 Jun 1997, 06:14
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Transcript of the fabled People Online chat . . . Yay! Finally! I got mine--neat stuff--waiting for everybody else to get their own! =mantis=…
04 Jun 1997, 14:31
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Reply: Item #4111204 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Ron Crown, I'm happy to have helped out and find myself quite impressed that you already possess the artifacts (after al…
02 Jun 1997, 21:15
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Reply: Item #2671081 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# cephalothorax, Needlesstosay, I'm quite pleased that you are enjoying the Lexicon. You asked about Sev Sleeper waking up th…
30 May 1997, 19:53
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Reply: Item #5934954 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Matthew Freestone, Ah, you caught the NOVELTY that I missed. I thought of it only after I'd sent, thought of sending an…
27 May 1997, 20:22
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Reply: Item #4579959 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Lasrach, Re: the alien vampire critters, as we are told there is a "hooded" variety (cobra-like) there is also the suggest…
26 May 1997, 17:49
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Reply: Item #0244852 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# All right--Geoff comes through! (Somebody from "here" got through to "there" and came back.) Re: Timeline of 1000 to 2000 yea…
23 May 1997, 21:34
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Reply: Item #1294106 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# cephalothorax, Yes, I was just thinking I ought to post something about the questions that went out. 1. Re: Oreb, Patric…
18 May 1997, 21:51
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Reply: Item #0292489 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Jason, The Chinese Egg, huh? Hmmm. That's interesting and leads to subtle interpretations. I myself was thinking more of…
17 May 1997, 23:44
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Reply: Item #0241435 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# alga, I was just over at the People Online area and it looks like transcripts are available from there, to answer your questi…
17 May 1997, 20:42
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Reply: Item #7482131 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Hey wow! Wolfe himself online! How long are they going to keep him there, I wonder--how many questions can he answer in a…
17 May 1997, 18:54
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Reply: Item #1140034 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Yikes, all these last minute dashers! Shall we officially start up the next list of questions, in order of questions receive…
17 May 1997, 03:25
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Reply: Item #2253913 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Attention! Attention! The train has left the station. Last onboard was alga, overloaded with boxes--I won't say yet whic…
16 May 1997, 17:47
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Reply: Item #8311763 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Joel, Slow down a second. You've truncated my point: I didn't write "earliest days of the White Fountain," I wrote "earlie…
16 May 1997, 01:07
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Reply: Item #2110674 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Rick Marx, Welcome aboard and thanks for the question! (Heh-heh . . . this =is= going to be fun.) =mantis=…
15 May 1997, 23:06
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Reply: Item #3409186 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# vizcacha, Re: aquastor question, oh good! <g> Re: Gene Wolfe's whiskers. I first saw 'em at World Fantasy Con in Balti…
14 May 1997, 21:49
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Make that three questions (if we count the four as one <g>). I was so busy laughing over "cephalothorax" that I lost track of things. =mantis=…
13 May 1997, 20:43
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Lasrach, Good question--we'll count it as one. Patrick, You're right of course, the question is like a haiku. Plus, if you expect Gene Wolfe to answer, "He's a Bird. Next," the…
13 May 1997, 19:53
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Reply: Item #5465735 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Patrick, Thanks for the first question! (I suspect Gene Wolfe might answer this question as worded by just mentioning the…
13 May 1997, 02:35
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Attention ladies and gentlemen, lurkers and larkers, et cetera, et ali, and all ships at sea. In my regular correspondence with Gene Wolfe I asked him if he would have the time fo…
12 May 1997, 20:30
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Reply: Item #0435467 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Welcome aboard, Joel. Gee, tons of stuff here. I don't think I'll have the ergs to (try to) answer them all. Yes, our al…
07 May 1997, 23:59
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Reply: Item #0776694 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Joel, Interesting point re: Fitzgerald as cited source of quote. I never noticed that, but of course you are right and it do…
07 May 1997, 19:03
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Reply: Item #0057628 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# vizcacha, I agree with your model except for the part about Viron being in the middle--don't you think it is closer to the…
05 May 1997, 05:24
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Reply: Item #6034925 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Nutria, Whoops! I just realized that you (probably) logically suppose that I think that Thecla was born offworld, hence he…
23 Apr 1997, 15:21
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Reply: Item #3438330 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Anybody else out there see this great French science fantasy movie in the cinema a year or two ago, or recently see it on vi…
23 Apr 1997, 01:34
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Reply: Item #3438330 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Nutria, If your Urth is "flipped" in such a way as to include Cygnus in its zodiac, then we are no longer talking about the…
23 Apr 1997, 01:19
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Reply: Item #9534187 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Newt, Speaking of fin-de-siecle aristocracy, I think that Thecla's birth sign is a pointer towards Proust. Specifically,…
22 Apr 1997, 17:42
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Reply: Item #1385914 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Dave W, (You sure you want "newt"? A politico chosen by the prosimians?) As I see it, it still boils down to the source/…
21 Apr 1997, 17:11
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Reply: Item #9810555 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# As usual, or perhaps moreso, none of these points are unarguable. (Which makes me wonder why I bother putting them up.) Exu…
21 Apr 1997, 17:11
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Reply: Item #6714097 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Re: linear measure, FWIW: "In this book, _league_ designates a distance of about three miles" (THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATO…
20 Apr 1997, 14:28
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Reply: Item #3759208 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# (Q&D count down: 11 remaining) Raster makes some good points. The question, as he interprets it, becomes one of comparing an…
18 Apr 1997, 17:24
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Reply: Item #5549632 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Mystery no. 2: Given the case of Bobby Black and also the ghost of the warehouse, did narrator actively murder many (most/al…
16 Apr 1997, 22:10
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Reply: Item #9341815 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Vance, I'm glad to see that you thought of "Twin Peaks" as you read CASTLEVIEW, since I did, too! PEACE . . . whoa boy. Tha…
16 Apr 1997, 18:03
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Reply: Item #4417036 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# (Q&D count down: 11 remaining) Xury, Silk in time corridors, that would be after surgery on Hieraxday, 30 Nemesis. Whoops,…
16 Apr 1997, 17:48
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Reply: Item #5601061 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Lasrach, Well, the witches' table artifact isn't in the Lexicon, so I'll tell what I know and what others have said. You r…
15 Apr 1997, 04:02
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Reply: Item #3929797 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Re: Nessus, fwiw I agree with much of what Scott Dalrymple writes. That is to say, the great strength of alga's map is symbo…
14 Apr 1997, 16:43
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I know that many people think Q&D must be sold out by now, but I still have 16 unreserved copies looking for good homes. (D. Alexander of acad.drake.edu: I've tried e-mail but can…
13 Apr 1997, 20:03
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Reply: Item #1785979 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Keith, Well, you =can= have Keef, but by the definition you gave it is a girl's name--and Vironese guys-with-girl-names (l…
13 Apr 1997, 19:38
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Reply: Item #7907001 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Thanks for the ad copy, Patrick! (It is great having an ad guy on tap like this!) And hey, I've still got around twenty c…
12 Apr 1997, 03:53
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