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Talarican's burst of 5HC questions. Right. Issues of error all put to one side: In a nutshell, I think 402 days means that the twin planets are at the outer edge of the ecosphere…
22 Jan 2001, 20:12
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Weeell . . . it ain't exactly what you are looking for, but here's "Durra." My rationale is that "green" comes from an Indo-European root that also gives rise to "grass." And the…
04 Jan 2001, 15:11
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Hello Jeff Wilson, Welcome aboard! =mantis=…
04 Jan 2001, 10:52
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Hello KaguyaHime, I saw your November 2000 review of LEXICON URTHUS on Amazon.com. Because I have no way of contacting you otherwise, I'm leaving a public note for you here in th…
04 Jan 2001, 10:51
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It doesn't seem to be possible to post reviews at Amazon.com until after the book has been released. So nothing can be done yet. =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gen…
04 Jan 2001, 10:39
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Today I've been thinking of a pattern in Wolfe's fiction, that of twins, and most specifically a thing I am calling "phantom-twins." This is the category of twin-ness that is not …
21 Dec 2000, 17:59
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Right, well that's because Kirkus says that you and your ilk are not "mere mortals"! Whoo-hoo! If such a big deal is to be made of the labor, I'm surprised the duct didn't just s…
17 Dec 2000, 13:08
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Talarican, Part of the situation here is: the C/A system had been overlooked, more distant stars explored and colonized (the planets, of course), at the time that the first French…
16 Dec 2000, 10:17
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Since nobody else is going to run with it, I must patiently point out that, much as we might like Sandwalker to be "Dopey" of the six dark dwarfs, in fact it is Dopey ("sacred" in …
15 Dec 2000, 11:31
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Talarican, Re: HARD SCIENCE ALERT! SENSITIVE PERSONS TAKE COVER! I agree with you, since I've done an investigative essay on the subject (in fact, I continue to work on it--latel…
15 Dec 2000, 07:41
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Adding to what I wrote before about the levels of organization for each of the groups, and the biomes they are restricted to; the anthropological terms are (or perhaps at one time …
14 Dec 2000, 20:43
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=Timeline for "A Story"= (13 years ago Eastwind and Sandwalker were born) Day 1: Sandwalker sets out Day 5: at noon he arrives at Thunder Always, has priest-given dream of East…
14 Dec 2000, 16:27
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Synchronicity moment, friends! "THE GOOD SOLDIER is, Eugene Goodheart claims, `one of the most puzzling works of modern fiction.' It is notoriously hard to make sense of Ford's ch…
04 Dec 2000, 12:43
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Good post, Adam! I especially like the idea that A.D. Weer was not involved in the coldhouse prank--in effect, that this is just another "ghost story" within yet another genre fra…
03 Dec 2000, 09:28
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We see three or four groups in "A Story." It is interesting that none of them exhibit flashy shape-changing (rather than denying they have this ability, it points to VRT wanting t…
01 Dec 2000, 10:10
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I know we've all been through this before, but here's a new catalogue drawn mainly from "A Story." Each group has a biome or environment that they stay in, and other biomes that t…
30 Nov 2000, 11:15
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I agree that it gets very close to "too short for JM to feel the diff"; excellent point about the equinox (I hadn't even =thought= about seasonal effects on daylight--duh!) and ugh…
29 Nov 2000, 19:43
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First, PEACE and JURGEN. Maybe another point of interest is that Jurgen himself is a very accomplished liar, and he does it by quoting or alluding to texts by ancient authors--all…
29 Nov 2000, 13:40
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Not that I want to excuse Olivia's adulteries, but still I wonder at what might pressure her to do such things. We know that she is sexually active (having sex with Peacock and Ma…
28 Nov 2000, 15:27
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So Roy, About Tilly and Smart--so what do you think Smart's middle name is: "Tilly" (or "The"<g>)? Re: the gift and the giver, in the cases of the Chinese Egg and the pearls of G…
28 Nov 2000, 13:17
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Hey vizcacha! Very nice! I mean, I agree with the argument re: 1914, and the dates all match up--but the angle I find even more exciting is the fact that we have determined that …
20 Nov 2000, 19:25
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Roy and Adam, While I'm thinking of it, here's another fuzzy factoid/episode from the "early president" period: that roadhouse where the workers go (152 for Roy; 162 for Adam). C…
18 Nov 2000, 10:39
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Adam and Roy, From how I see it, there isn't much to argue about here. First of all, Roy listed the detail about the knife under "fuzzy facts," as witness below. Each item in th…
18 Nov 2000, 10:12
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Another nail in the coffin of "Den birth year = 1920" is the fact that YEAR OF EGG HUNT = "height of China's warlord period" (which means after 1916 and before, oh, I don't know, s…
13 Nov 2000, 21:33
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Spectacled Bear wrote This has to do, I think, with the weird chthonic/cryptic linkage between the narrator of "V.R.T." and Number 5, the narrator of "The Fifth Head of Cerberus."…
13 Nov 2000, 07:54
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Technically speaking, I coined "Golden Year" for the supercluster "Den is President/Den is 50 (golden anniversary)/Pete on Island, 1963+/Sherry is 16/Lois & Gold affair" back when …
10 Nov 2000, 11:12
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I can go along with this very easily . . . =if= Den were 18 at the time of the accident! The problem is: the courtship started in high school; something pivotal happened at the pi…
09 Nov 2000, 14:15
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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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Re: the five genres of PEACE, good call Adam! It seems so self-evident after you've said it that it seems surprising that we haven't been using it as a mantra! That part is espec…
31 Oct 2000, 08:49
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No, vizcacha--you are remembering OBW. That family/editorial frametale is conspicuously missing from IGJ, which has very chilling implications (i.e., Horn didn't make it home; his…
30 Oct 2000, 12:29
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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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Hey Dachshund, Hot Dog! <g> Wow, it is coming so soon--we are so lucky! =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
27 Oct 2000, 19:55
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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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Yay, the timeline!! 1918 after May, Den, age 4 visits Dr. Black ("Liberty" magazine = anachronism) There is a bear of a problem, which might be wiggled through (but it sure ain't…
26 Oct 2000, 15:52
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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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I agree with this very much--one mode of Den I've been toying with is "King of the necropolis"; that he is, in some way, at some level, re-animating the dead around him, to ask the…
25 Oct 2000, 21:36
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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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"`For all the days until thy time be done, I will have thee serve me as the windlass serves the well or the oar the ship . . . '" I suppose "selflessly" would be better than "sile…
23 Oct 2000, 20:30
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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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