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Open the Floodgates of Urth! As I mentioned somewhere else, "Additions, Errata, &cetera: volume III" is taking shape in the magic mirror. There's a paperback chapter page citatio…
12 Apr 1997, 02:13
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Reply: Item #2173915 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# viscacha, Re: Mucor waking the gods. Just a guess, based partly on her waking up the Sleepers, and the fact that shortly …
11 Apr 1997, 16:06
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Reply: Item #5536428 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Hey Everybody, Here is a fat puppy compilation of three messages I sent that were lost in the Bermuda Triangle. They're a…
11 Apr 1997, 01:14
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Reply: Item #2545266 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Here's the latest from Gene Wolfe: "Your own THE QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE TO THE LONG SUN WHORL has been very valuable to me …
10 Apr 1997, 20:15
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Whoops--in my previous message, "coo coup/fish & fowl," I used the word "eidolon" when I should have used "aquastor" (even though I think that they might be used interchangably by …
10 Apr 1997, 16:07
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Reply: Item #7776624 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# alga, Re: Thecla/half-sister Thea(/Catherine?--if she's a khaibit of one or the other) coo, good point. Re: Church of the…
10 Apr 1997, 00:56
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Reply: Item #3383473 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Excellent work, Agent Raster (aka Charles Dye)! Quite substantial, providing much food for thought. (And very little room…
09 Apr 1997, 01:07
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Hey Gang, Here's the first comment from Gene Wolfe on "The Quick & Dirty Guide to the Long Sun Whorl"--and lookee, it's about a map! "The sketch map on the back [cover] is right …
08 Apr 1997, 20:12
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Reply: Item #1627691 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# While I myself don't much believe that Severian the Great (or more properly, Severian the Sleeper of Ushas) is the Outsider…
07 Apr 1997, 19:41
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Reply: Item #2027307 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Dr. Gouvea, (That Cap'n Kirk quote makes me smile!) Yep, Silk is remembering the Writings, so the Outsider possessing a…
04 Apr 1997, 17:35
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Joseph Campbell, in THE MASKS OF GOD: OCCIDENTAL MYTHOLOGY, quoting Freud's MOSES AND MONOTHEISM: "We cannot escape the impression that this Moses of Kadesh and Midian, to whom tr…
04 Apr 1997, 04:15
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Reply: Item #4863076 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, (Glad to see a message here--especially one as well informed as your own <g>--it has been so quiet . . . taxes, …
04 Apr 1997, 00:08
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So, Mamelta continues to elude us? <Sigh.> In the meantime I've managed to find a few of the words used as the aristocratic language of the Trivigauntis. Trivigaunte Terms "bora…
01 Apr 1997, 14:31
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Reply: Item #1625602 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# (Q&D count: down to 25.) Technically (and in response to no one in particular), I think that "bufe" is the cant term, "g…
26 Mar 1997, 20:32
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Reply: Item #7628847 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Patrick, There you go! See, it isn't so hard or time consuming--we'll get an essay out of you yet! Good point, re: Scyll…
25 Mar 1997, 18:06
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Reply: Item #3244542 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# A number of people have recently ordered LEXICON URTHUS through Amazon.com and are becoming concerned about the amount of t…
25 Mar 1997, 17:33
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Reply: Item #1304611 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# "Another folk tradition holds that [King] Arthur lives on in the form of a bird. Cervantes tells us that the English belie…
25 Mar 1997, 14:57
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Reply: Item #7012232 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# vizcacha, Great work! (All those child sacrifice threads find a very nice grounding in Jerboa-as-one-of-the-old-timers-wh…
24 Mar 1997, 17:53
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Reply: Item #9056575 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Speaking of deadlines . . . This is a little advertisement to announce that I've come up with a booklet titled "The Quick…
24 Mar 1997, 17:13
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Reply: Item #2818749 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Wesley Parsons, Re: Mattak, hey, that's great! Not quite as "close to the bone" as I feared! <g> Still . . . dried wha…
21 Mar 1997, 18:50
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Reply: Item #2252230 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Wesley Parsons, Thanks for the tip on Oosik. No, I'd never seen this one! Now we're on the look out for an Inuit lexicon…
20 Mar 1997, 15:05
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Reply: Item #2737207 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# R., Is Chace the origin point for that wonderful piece that appears in newspaper columns and folklore books from time to t…
19 Mar 1997, 21:51
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Reply: Item #1349908 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Lasrach, I've been puzzling over the numerals in the Seal of Pas for a few years now and have yet to come to any conclusion,…
19 Mar 1997, 03:14
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Reply: Item #4788907 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Nutria, OTOH we know (from interviews as well as Wolfe-written articles) that Gene Wolfe read and deeply admired Jack Vanc…
18 Mar 1997, 03:32
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Reply: Item #7558985 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Nutria (aka JBJordan), I'm curious as to the text wherein Vodalus said that the Urth has flipped on its axis--where would …
18 Mar 1997, 00:01
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Reply: Item #5705130 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Tercel, I think I agree with you, since I've been working on the idea that Orchid's "profaned" manteion is actually not so…
15 Mar 1997, 04:00
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Reply: Item #8250075 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Dear Mr. Jordan, Please call me mantis (or Michael if that's too silly). Yes, people keep telling me there are mistakes in …
13 Mar 1997, 22:07
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Reply: Item #8972481 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Not that I want to dictate the direction of conversation or anything like that, but as this is a democracy, I would like to r…
12 Mar 1997, 02:02
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Reply: Item #5703701 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Quill, Welcome aboard! Last things first. Re: what is rust? Well, it is a highly addictive drug that makes the user hap…
07 Mar 1997, 02:08
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Reply: Item #8070375 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# "Piaton" Oxford Dictionary/Saints: none. OED: "piation," expiation, atonement (from Latin "piation-em") Latin: just like OED …
27 Feb 1997, 15:22
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Reply: Item #1194454 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Protean `R,' Re: "Orphans of the Sky," wasn't the two-headed mutie giant just the second in command? I.e., the hero's "To…
25 Feb 1997, 03:29
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Reply: Item #5061570 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# vizacacha, Whoops! You are right, of course. Since I brought up sleeping, can I modify "sleeping gods" into, er, "locall…
24 Feb 1997, 22:36
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Reply: Item #3492356 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Patrick, Yep, that Neil Gaiman is very talented, very productive, and a big fan of Gene Wolfe's, with all sorts of great i…
24 Feb 1997, 05:12
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Reply: Item #8427414 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Hello there, Patrick O'Leary! (Author of DOOR NUMBER THREE which has been getting great reviews.) Good to see you here--now …
23 Feb 1997, 18:04
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=Articles on Gene Wolfe [post-1990, incomplete]= "A Closer Look at the Brown Book" by Michael Andre-Driussi NYRSF #54, 2-93 "The Death of Catherine the Weal and Other Stories" by…
22 Feb 1997, 22:04
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Reply: Item #8204225 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Vizcacha (!wow!), I agree with you re: psychic fragments contaminating gods and mortals alike. This is one vector I can see…
21 Feb 1997, 02:55
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Reply: Item #2273241 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Rana, I should get in the habit of including chapter numbers in citations. (I do have a table of hardcover pagination by c…
20 Feb 1997, 05:05
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Reply: Item #5049313 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Rana, (Distantly related to Peeper, no doubt? <g>) Re: adding Mint to the Marble Rose. Start (IV, 313). Then (IV, 380). …
19 Feb 1997, 04:17
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Reply: Item #3960884 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Xury, Not to be mean or too flip, but we don't know the real name of a lot of characters and gods (sure, Pas is Typhon, bu…
18 Feb 1997, 15:44
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Reply: Item #1485046 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# alga, Well, to be honest about my motives and partisanship, I'm pretty sure (hedgeword) that I like your Tartaros Rex theory…
18 Feb 1997, 04:54
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Reply: Item #5456872 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Dr. Gouvea, I love Wolfe's short stories, but I confess that on those occassions when I have read an entire collection t…
15 Feb 1997, 15:29
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Reply: Item #0885661 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Dave, Re: PANDORA, oh yeah. And I keep meaning to write an essay on that one, too. (Maybe once I get this current thing ou…
15 Feb 1997, 03:14
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Reply: Item #3607705 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Henry Rathvon, So when are =you= going to write a critical essay on Wolfe? <g> I'm grinning, but I'm also serious. Go on, …
14 Feb 1997, 02:50
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Reply: Item #0807072 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Dave, No, you don't have to come up with a list of Silk's mistakes. I just mentioned the first one that came to hand, won…
12 Feb 1997, 05:09
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Reply: Item #1628475 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Tercel, Great work on the fliers! (I can't tell you how much searching I did . . . how close I got . . . ) Thanks! Bu…
11 Feb 1997, 02:53
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Reply: Item #2740464 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Plato's Allegory of the Cave (beginning of Book VII in the REPUBLIC) imagines humankind as living in an underground cave wh…
07 Feb 1997, 19:52
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Reply: Item #8055175 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Dave, My apologies if the text originated with you. (Still, algae should have caught it rather than being caught up with …
07 Feb 1997, 19:52
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Reply: Item #0696786 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Xury, Interesting new twist on Blue/Green. My impression is that they are separate worlds (like Skuld, Verthandi) rather …
07 Feb 1997, 05:07
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Reply: Item #9024562 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# <<Spoiler Warnings>> Talon, Good tracking re: Horn's horning in, tooting his own horn, etc. I also get the feeling he's …
05 Feb 1997, 06:55
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Reply: Item #7542240 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Turn back! Save yourself! Oh, now you've done it. Re: aloe's list of Theophanies and Possessions. Nice work! (In the pos…
04 Feb 1997, 05:11
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