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Reply: Item #4734471 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Gordon, Welcome aboard! Re: the ballgame of Viron as being more Aztec than basketball. Well, yes and no. The Aztec ball…
26 Oct 1997, 16:54
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Reply: Item #8438872 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Re: "two dead heroes are okay, three or four are obsessive" or whatever the numbers were, heh-heh, not to be too much of a m…
23 Oct 1997, 21:06
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Reply: Item #2695614 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# John Bishop, Re: analogous location of land in TS (India vs. anywhere else), you raise good points. But also there is the te…
23 Oct 1997, 00:15
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Reply: Item #0184328 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Talon, Re: Wolfe's convention schedule. The last one this year was (probably) CONTEXT X in Columbus Ohio (Oct 3-5). Next …
22 Oct 1997, 16:03
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Reply: Item #8093828 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Eric, Okay, so we're saying that to get a reduction from 1 g-sim to an arbitrary 0.5 g-sim, all we have to do is drive "so…
11 Oct 1997, 21:10
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Reply: Item #3745432 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# The artificial orange drink product (ala "Tang") in PEACE is made from potatoes . . . another tie to Ireland? As the factor…
10 Oct 1997, 16:01
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Reply: Item #9713026 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Uh, make that "moving =against= the direction of rotation rather than with it." That is, if I understand it correctly, the…
08 Oct 1997, 05:38
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A few more thoughts-- "Zero Gravity" is experienced by the jumping child at apogee; by the cannonball at apogee; by the passengers of the infamous "vomit comet" astronaut trainer …
08 Oct 1997, 02:33
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Reply: Item #7581861 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Nope, the idea that the whorl was carved from an asteroid (rather than being built up from beams and ship plate) did not ar…
08 Oct 1997, 01:19
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alga, On behalf of Soldier series readers past, future, and present, allow me to extend thanks and appreciation for your notes on History, Goddesses, and Geography. =mantis=…
04 Oct 1997, 15:43
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Reply: Item #9690381 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Michael Bowman, Re: the different editions, from Clute's STROKES: "Even the limited edition of the book [FREE LIVE FREE] .…
25 Sep 1997, 00:59
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Reply: Item #7562733 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Michael Bowman, From URTH-MAN EXTRAORDINARY: "B15. FREE LIVE FREE "Ziesing (hb) 1-8, 12-84, 496pp, $45.00 . . . " …
24 Sep 1997, 20:27
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Reply: Item #9100176 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, The Neuri are certainly in my Herodotus, the juiciest bit in book four, just before the Amazons: "there is a story cu…
21 Sep 1997, 22:04
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Reply: Item #7613260 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Rostrum, Re: Soldier series as your favorite, you are not alone--I've met others who feel the same way, but also a number o…
16 Sep 1997, 20:53
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Reply: Item #7223192 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Xury, His real name is Lucius; he is a Latin; he was cursed by the Great Mother Goddess for messing up her temple during a …
16 Sep 1997, 13:49
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Reply: Item #9051512 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Gene Wolfe may have put inventive thought into these uninvented stone age tools, but due to the narrative structure of the s…
15 Sep 1997, 19:12
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Reply: Item #0283114 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Wombat, It is almost as if we are coming up with a "course reader" or two--one a collection of articles by and about Wolfe…
12 Sep 1997, 16:24
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Reply: Item #2372125 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# (Rostrum, FWIW I'd go along with vizcacha's Cordwainer Smith reading plan, 100%.) Hey, I've received a letter from G.E. Brai…
12 Sep 1997, 16:10
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Reply: Item #4917410 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# . . . and Nutria is king of Cordwainer Smith readers! (Which makes for an odd couple royale. <g>) (Those NESFA volumes ar…
11 Sep 1997, 22:42
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Reply: Item #2797678 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Rostrum, alga is queen reader of Cordwainer Smith, so she will give you the best pointers, but I cannot help myself from s…
11 Sep 1997, 19:14
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Reply: Item #8273815 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Nutria, Right, I remember that it was Gene Wolfe's responses to you that made you ditch the gnostic reading you had origin…
11 Sep 1997, 15:53
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Reply: Item #6279912 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Rostrum, These days I hold my breath and hope that more typos aren't added. <cue: ranting about omnibus of Vance's PLANET …
10 Sep 1997, 15:47
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Reply: Item #2315143 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# alga, Cainabelism, good point. Works for beasts and people! Especially for our Wolfe--most recently all that talk of hu…
10 Sep 1997, 03:19
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Wombat, Ah, you got your copies from Gene Wolfe? I got my copy of number 2 from Jeremy Crampton--he said he didn't have any copies left of number 1. Publisher's choice--maybe he…
09 Sep 1997, 22:45
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Rostrum, Of course I like the creative ambiguity of Wolfe's work, too. I mean, I actually enjoy looking at how in a certain reading Severian is closer to an Anti-Christ than he i…
09 Sep 1997, 21:30
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Reply: Item #3510806 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Wombat, You are absolutely right that these articles are copyrighted, and furthermore, they are not unavailable in their o…
09 Sep 1997, 00:01
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Reply: Item #4346774 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, Sioux as French for "cutthroat" (er, "cultellarii"?) now =that= is very interesting, since it ties in =exactly= with …
29 Aug 1997, 00:14
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Reply: Item #8145139 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Xury, Vodalus describes himself as revolutionary, but notice that his plans (and Thea's dreams) are usurpation of the thron…
18 Aug 1997, 15:50
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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
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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
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Reply: Item #9797840 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# alga, Gene Wolfe is very cagey about those n-th generation prisoners of the antechamber, the ones Jonas talks to and then k…
15 Aug 1997, 15:16
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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
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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
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Reply: Item #0962161 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# lasrach, Right, there's the tassled hem (or whatever) of the pelerines which Severian gets in the stone town (presumably gi…
12 Aug 1997, 22:16
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Reply: Item #4247449 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# alga, Oh, you're right that the scarf on the Whorl isn't given a color. The peach-color is by association with Blood's h…
12 Aug 1997, 13:59
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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
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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
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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
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Reply: Item #5721678 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Nutria, Ah, there you are! Re: "Tracking Song" and FIFTH HEAD. While I'm really =not= trying to paint TS as a miniature to …
09 Aug 1997, 22:44
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