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Reply: Item #4596281 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, Since Joan Gordon wrote that stuff and I read it years ago, even though I didn't remember it at the time, I also owe …
08 Aug 1997, 20:45
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Reply: Item #7307956 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# alga, Re: NYRSF, reprint time is always cause for celebration. When PEACE came out again just a few years ago there were a…
08 Aug 1997, 05:39
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alga, Back to the story "Tracking Song." Re: what is humanity; as you glancingly noted, there are clues that the Great Sleighers are not mere humans such as ourselves at all, rat…
06 Aug 1997, 16:49
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Reply: Item #5046303 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Patrick, Pneumonia is bad--here's hoping for a speedy recovery for your wife. Reading Gene Wolfe stuff is good--might even e…
06 Aug 1997, 13:55
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Reply: Item #0311931 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# alga, By "Pamiguka" as gophers, I believe you are thinking of "Pummanga" the burrowing animal who is only seen or referred …
04 Aug 1997, 21:23
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Reply: Item #9835448 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# alga! Wow, great stuff. First off, to add to your notes: Re: Ice Age, it seems that the Great Sleigh-ers (heh) are involv…
03 Aug 1997, 20:11
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Reply: Item #5559522 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# So Auk's Hy-napping is still more "odd" ("mysterious," "wrong") than Auk's pushing Silk off a =cliff=?! Contributing to Si…
01 Aug 1997, 01:34
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Reply: Item #1324261 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Nutria, I've been reading TBOTNS again, gathering up all sorts of strange new threads . . . But to get back to your words …
28 Jul 1997, 16:33
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Reply: Item #1342015 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Nutria, The "dead man" of "The Changeling." I just can't shake the feeling that Wolfe was telling Knight about PEACE rather …
27 Jul 1997, 00:10
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Reply: Item #0837456 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# "Clean up at dairy section, aisle of death. Clean up at dairy section, aisle of death."…
24 Jul 1997, 14:01
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Reply: Item #8527059 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# John Bishop, Ah, but since Holly "catches" a criminal . . . (is there any "rye" around when she does it?) That it was just y…
23 Jul 1997, 22:09
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Reply: Item #3748604 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, I think you've already stated all the pieces that made me guess Peter's last name as Pan. First the ending sugge…
23 Jul 1997, 14:26
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Reply: Item #5064841 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# More about "The Changeling": Ernie Cotha is the character who picks up the narrator while hitchhiking. He also appears in th…
22 Jul 1997, 22:02
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Reply: Item #8166952 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Ron Crown, The connections between PEACE and "The Changeling" are definitely two-way; both are set in the same imaginary to…
21 Jul 1997, 16:25
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Reply: Item #8744137 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Matt Freestone, Interesting point, and it is true that I seem to have taken the crazy Pete passage out of (spaghetti-like) …
20 Jul 1997, 23:51
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Reply: Item #3567343 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Ron Crown, Uh, wouldn't "Mariolatry" be more connected to daughter Mary rather than mama? (Or is mama's name also Mary? I…
19 Jul 1997, 22:28
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Reply: Item #8855844 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, "The Changeling" is collected in GENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYS and CASTLE OF DAYS. Under "Homecoming Day." =mantis=…
16 Jul 1997, 15:45
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Reply: Item #1856700 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# I finally found some of my old notes and present them here with hardly a dusting off. RETREAD NOTES ON "The Changeling": Fir…
16 Jul 1997, 15:40
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Reply: Item #0156759 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, The PEACE/Proust aspect of "Suzanne Delage" is probably the fact that the narrator is sitting/lying in the old ho…
15 Jul 1997, 14:00
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Reply: Item #7414904 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Kevin McGuire, Well the contexts (being a polite intercity telecom service unit versus being the controling intelligence for…
15 Jul 1997, 13:45
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Reply: Item #9864569 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# alga, Yeah, that Suzanne is cryptic. Talk about embedded! Talk about sneaky! (Who knows--maybe the German-language versio…
15 Jul 1997, 03:57
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Reply: Item #5222338 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Ron Crown, Without rereading the stories I'll try to bolster it a bit anyway. `It' being how they remind me of "All the Hue…
14 Jul 1997, 14:20
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Reply: Item #2458908 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# David Langford, LOL! Yes, but while you gnash over Quetzal not being Pike's ghost, I'm relieved because that level of "sc…
13 Jul 1997, 20:14
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Reply: Item #8155535 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# alga, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY She spoke to me of myself, my family, my social background. She said: "Oh, I know your parent…
13 Jul 1997, 20:14
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Reply: Item #5920451 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# David Langford, (Yes, LOL on one answer, teeth gnashing on another--I'm sure that most of us are in the same boat. Differ…
12 Jul 1997, 15:04
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Reply: Item #7660783 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Ask Gene Wolfe #2 16: Kieran Mullen writes, "It's pretty broadly indicated that Silk was gestated from a frozen embroyo a…
12 Jul 1997, 01:50
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Hey Everybody, The bad news first--this was the last question train. Gene Wolfe doesn't want to answer any more. But he =did= answer the last questions . . . 16. Please thank …
11 Jul 1997, 00:05
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Reply: Item #2461657 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# FWIW, "All the Hues of Hell" (1987) reminds me a great deal of three other Wolfe starship tales: "Alien Stones" (1972), "Sil…
11 Jul 1997, 00:05
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Reply: Item #3809949 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Kieran Mullen, Re: your tech solution. Interesting point! It would seem to require a group that is to biotech as the bla…
03 Jul 1997, 23:55
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Reply: Item #0023002 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# vizcacha, Another hint re: Blood's father is when Marble/Rose is talking to Silk about Mint: "Mint . . . was so shy that s…
02 Jul 1997, 21:56
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Reply: Item #1388846 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# bee and r., The line in question: "The ribbons that held your mask," I said. "They're still there." We are taking this as li…
02 Jul 1997, 14:00
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Reply: Item #2197133 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Speaking of strange thoughts (rana--I =do= know what you are talking about, I've just never been able to come up with an ans…
01 Jul 1997, 22:45
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Reply: Item #6323607 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Tercel, Re: "shaggy," that's it on the nose, in coarse slang according to OED. Verb and workhorse-of-all-modifiers. FWIW…
01 Jul 1997, 20:02
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Reply: Item #3107202 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Rich Horton, Ah yes, the Kalevala. I was thinking of Emil Petaja's sf version. No doubt there are others--has Ian Watson …
01 Jul 1997, 16:01
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Reply: Item #6198742 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# David Langford, Hello there and a hearty welcome aboard! Thank you for the cant terms--I'll put up another wanted list af…
01 Jul 1997, 14:01
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Reply: Item #0471995 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Nutria, Re: Cant, as a matter of fact, Talon compiled a list of cant terms used in THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN and I'm still …
01 Jul 1997, 00:44
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Reply: Item #2453278 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# "Is there a sister in the text? A father? A mother? "We are told that 'Severian' is a name usually given to one of a p…
30 Jun 1997, 17:38
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Reply: Item #6730944 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Re: non-Christian Religion in SF. Well, before I look at the encycopedia, DUNE obviously. And Zelazny stuff, like LORD OF L…
30 Jun 1997, 01:16
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Reply: Item #5821128 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Sacre Bleu--it's Sarcos!! =mantis=…
30 Jun 1997, 01:16
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Attention! Attention! The second train has left the station. Ask Gene Wolfe #2 16. Kieran Mullen, re: Silk's engineered enhancements. 17. Peter Cash, re: airship incident. 18. …
27 Jun 1997, 20:02
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Reply: Item #7726106 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Ron Crown, Sure, that's a fine one, you're on the train. Thanks! (We'll fold in Rock's quicky since it is on the same top…
27 Jun 1997, 01:36
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Reply: Item #0457038 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, Ah, my mistake--which is why I will henceforth stick to my guns and not allow =any= first train questioneers until t…
26 Jun 1997, 01:27
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Reply: Item #0419205 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Rory, Welcome! Interesting, re: nunnery. (Quick! Let's look in the bound OED before alga has a chance to dazzle us wit…
25 Jun 1997, 23:11
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Without much effort we might see TBOTNS as containing strong elements of Mormonism. If we take Severian as Christ-like; if we assume Apu-Punchau (Severian in a different time fram…
25 Jun 1997, 21:09
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Reply: Item #7644128 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Rostum, Got it, thanks. Number 21. =mantis=…
25 Jun 1997, 16:51
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Reply: Item #5927412 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Nutria, Wow, that =is= a lot of grist there! Re: Witches' Keep as perverse convent of nuns. Possible, of course, but sinc…
25 Jun 1997, 16:51
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Reply: Item #9998278 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Ranjit! Sorry I missed your question in my lame round up of late entries--thanks for bringing it up again! Okay, you are …
25 Jun 1997, 02:27
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Reply: Item #7269253 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# alga, True, further questions might help. And multiple choice would narrow it down. Since Wolfe wrote "it wasn't machine…
24 Jun 1997, 21:14
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Reply: Item #5017229 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Everybody, The next batch of questions for Gene Wolfe. Train leaves in one week, on Friday 27. People who didn't ask a q…
20 Jun 1997, 15:14
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Reply: Item #2682162 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Cephalothorax, Well obviously I'm at a loss if you decline to answer my specific questions (about men and women) regarding …
19 Jun 1997, 21:13
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