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One last neat thing about the timeline that sets Den's birth-year at 1920 (and thus validates the "Liberty" magazine in Dr. B's office): it makes the Year of the Egg take place in …
08 Nov 2000, 09:08
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Re: the PEACE bit from "Thrust" interview. I have this item (bought it when it was new), and I had recently reviewed it myself, but I couldn't bring myself to post it--so thank yo…
06 Nov 2000, 09:32
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Well there is that Carole Lombard bit in section five, as Miss H looks at naughty Candy in sepia. Beyond that, nothing comes to mind. You already mentioned Charlie Chan. Does Buf…
01 Nov 2000, 19:20
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Back to Doris, the Cinderella electric. One of the few clues I thought we had about Doris related to the sepia And Roy pointed out the timeframe, which, together with his EZ Timl…
01 Nov 2000, 17:03
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As I was writing before about the princess bride-monster, there was a name on the tip of my tongue, and I couldn't remember what it was until I found my copy of A.S. Byatt's POSSES…
30 Oct 2000, 07:57
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One of the neat things about the visit to Urth is the way that the visitors give us a different, objective view of Nessus and the dying Old Sun. They give new figures on the ruini…
30 Oct 2000, 06:21
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Ah, didn't mean to get in your way there--and oh, look, you've done me one better by writing (more or less; or maybe more, actually!) what I was going to say about the frametale. …
27 Oct 2000, 13:57
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Roy's post on the plural pronoun (re: the dishwasher) and the cigarettes, pointing to at least one other person living in the mansion, if true, also serves to validate Den's sense …
27 Oct 2000, 09:16
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Roy quotes and writes: And two items from Roy's EZ Timeline: Ah, a coup! Teenage Doris is neither Sherry (who would be 20-25 in 1963), nor Sherry's hypothetical daughter (she wo…
26 Oct 2000, 16:19
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What a day that was for President Den: Bill Batton with his clockwork orange, er, clockwork elephant; Eleanor Bold with her rather ominous request to plant a tree on his grave ("I'…
26 Oct 2000, 09:39
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Yes, I agree: that would be one of the biggest contrasts. Den just =might= be damned, his narrative =might= be circular; Rush has no such escape potential. PEACE has a weird, dark…
26 Oct 2000, 07:27
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Oh dear, here we are again. Get it over with fast, get back on track. Julius Smart tells the tale of Mr. Tilly, who is haunted by a ghost that is trying to poison him with a chem…
25 Oct 2000, 10:22
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This is the story fragment that has all the marks of being a genuine ARABIAN NIGHTS tale: style, form, and substance. The tale erupts into the narrative flow when Den (at age 9), …
23 Oct 2000, 15:38
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Roy wrote Crafty Roy seems to be saying that the memory mansion was begun on the grounds and form of Olivia's house. Outrageous! And yet, here is another strange detail that may…
22 Oct 2000, 17:05
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Right, that is probably the strongest indicator of what I call the circular reading of PEACE: this flavor is "it was all a dream." Whether "it" in this instance is Den's life from…
22 Oct 2000, 16:47
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I can agree with at least some of these points. The relation of the fairy tale to the "realistic" version we can glimpse is rather elastic at points of fine detail, and this in th…
22 Oct 2000, 16:21
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This is the first case of a fairy tale story in PEACE that clearly and obviously relates directly to Den's life: "The Princess..." is parallel to Olivia and her suitors. In brief,…
18 Oct 2000, 16:12
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Yes, there is a Dr. Black in both. Yes, there are certain points of similarity between the two works: a big old house; a woman and her suitors; a boy who is mostly ignored by the …
18 Oct 2000, 07:21
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Let's see, now where was I . . . ? (I first tried to send this on Sep. 28th; since then I've been chatting a bit with Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, mostly about the frametale [in AD 2277; s…
17 Oct 2000, 13:54
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Yay! This is just a test. Next message I will say something about PEACE, as promised. =mantis=…
17 Oct 2000, 11:05
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Fellow Wolfe-readers, I'm going to be chatting here about PEACE. Not all at once, in one message, but over a period of time. Since I have the old Berkley paperback, that's the so…
26 Sep 2000, 14:12
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I, too, thought of Bradbury with this story . . . http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/ultan/st.htm there's not much more than that, but I provide the link anyway. =mantis=…
20 Sep 2000, 09:45
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Yay, we are on the same thought here: I was meaning to mention the limited teleport option. Limited to once in a while, spawning-run, short jaunts from atmosphere to Lagrange Poin…
05 Sep 2000, 12:48
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Oh good, I was going to mention bio-rocketry! I was also toying with making ablative re-entry shields from polar ice (ah, but this adds to the liftoff mass; a handy field of comet…
01 Sep 2000, 12:46
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First off, welcome John Clute: we honor you as "First Tracker" and "Major Inspiration"! <everybody give the big Wolfe Howl> Second, thank you Nigel Price for the symposium report.…
28 Aug 2000, 14:56
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We've done a =lot= of talking about this one--Check the archives: search under "Suzanne Delage." Happy Hunting! =mantis=…
20 Aug 2000, 14:32
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For me, this is a point built upon a pont. That is: in TBOTLS it became clear that the story was not happening 700 years pre-Severian's Reign (that is, in Year Typhon +323), but i…
20 Aug 2000, 14:30
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Well, somebody has been busy! Looks pretty good. A few almost random notes, which have no effect: 1) Among all the other more obvious ones, another reason why I peg P as 90ish i…
19 Aug 2000, 13:27
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Falcon, (Step one: you are talking about the Long Sun series, rather than the Short Sun series.) I don't know that it is "old hat," but then again I don't remember anybody else b…
17 Aug 2000, 20:28
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While I recognize that I really should not even mention it, since clearly I am in a different universe than John Crowley and possibly everybody else, yet still, I keep coming back …
16 Aug 2000, 15:56
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GENTLE-men, discussion of PEACE belongs on the Urth list, not the Whorl list. A-hem. Right, I'll agree that the librarian is more up-in-the-air as a murder victim. The icehouse w…
10 Aug 2000, 19:37
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The term "light chiliad" is my own invention. =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
10 Aug 2000, 13:39
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To expand this and add to it: 1) I think that Silk really crossed the Rubicon and slashed himself, offering his own body as a funeral sacrifice, just as I think Horn's body gave o…
09 Aug 2000, 12:55
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My sense of it is that Silk committed suicide (with knife) by himself next to Hyacinth in her coffin. =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long S…
08 Aug 2000, 10:06
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Eek, Reynard as the hero? Even more horrifying than anything I saw. <g> (Not really, I mean I saw that: just that it seems like the grimmest reading. Judas, yes; a necessary-for-t…
29 Jun 2000, 06:56
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Not that this will change alga's mind, but I'll list a few apparent contradictions or exceptions. SPOILERS for JC fiction to follow. THE DEEP: the Visitor does not do his duty.…
28 Jun 2000, 13:22
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Page 193 in a Bantam paperback. Hey, that =is= spooky! The full name on that page is "Evan S. Barnable": remind me, was his dad named Evan? Do we have evidence that his dad call…
24 Jun 2000, 19:03
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There, now see?! I did all this noodling around with the house, its four faces, the architectural styles from neo-classical to contemporary, and I was able to make some headway, o…
23 Jun 2000, 21:01
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Re: the prophecy thing. I'd like to point out that TBOTLS is a novelistic construct even within its own context. A historical novel written by Horn to capture the lost world of h…
21 Jun 2000, 12:59
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Well here's something we can talk about: In OBW, the Rajan goes over some of the same stuff we've gone over with regard to how Quetzal got onto the Whorl, that is, "in what year" …
15 Jun 2000, 12:25
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I just found out that our Wolfe-brother Joe Mayhew died on June 10th after a month long illness. Joe was a close friend of Gene Wolfe, which is pretty much how I met him. I shared…
15 Jun 2000, 11:56
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Timothy Reilly wrote Oo-oo, I can provide some parts of an answer for that one! ON BLUE'S WATERS, among other wonders, contains five distinct timeframes: Blue, Green, Whorl, Pres…
08 Jun 2000, 08:37
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Here is the beginning: ===== "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps" DIMENSION Trumps (21) Do 1969 I, 1, 22 N = 22 - I Trump (N) Trump (21) The _Universe_ includes by definit…
10 May 2000, 07:01
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FOR ROSEMARY [not United Mythologies, of Canada; but rather =Kerosina= of the UK] (1988) Kerosina. Sold in two forms: by itself (which is how I got it, at a convention I think?),…
09 May 2000, 20:10
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Hello there Ori, Happy to see you are still here! From our old friend "Urth-Man Extraordinary": The Computer Iterates The Greater Trumps "Speculative Poetry Review" 1977 THE ANT…
09 May 2000, 19:32
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Gene Wolfe's "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps" won the Rhysling Award for Best Long Poem in 1978. =mantis=…
09 May 2000, 06:19
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Adam responded: No sarcasm intended! (I can see how it might have seemed sarcastic, and I'm sorry for that, but) I only thought, wow, what if it is true, just like in GWOT: that …
08 May 2000, 20:30
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Adam, I don't think this is the first time you've asserted this, but now I have to ask: From where arises your certainty that the old fairies (now presumably on the third level) w…
08 May 2000, 16:39
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The essays that alga and I wrote about John Crowley's fiction appeared in "The New York Review of Science Fiction" no. 132, 134, and 137, available for $3.50 each. Please see http:…
06 May 2000, 17:15
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Well yes, "or nearly so." Sure. Certainly a lot closer to OS than the CC situation, that's obvious. But John Crowley is building up his timelines with these bitty little details…
03 May 2000, 06:41
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