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Reply: Item #0435467 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Welcome aboard, Joel. Gee, tons of stuff here. I don't think I'll have the ergs to (try to) answer them all. Yes, our al…
07 May 1997, 23:59
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Reply: Item #0776694 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Joel, Interesting point re: Fitzgerald as cited source of quote. I never noticed that, but of course you are right and it do…
07 May 1997, 19:03
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Reply: Item #0057628 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# vizcacha, I agree with your model except for the part about Viron being in the middle--don't you think it is closer to the…
05 May 1997, 05:24
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Reply: Item #0568605 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Vance, I haven't re-read PEACE recently, these are just things off the top of my head that I recall PEACE-niks going on abo…
05 May 1997, 05:24
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Reply: Item #9843335 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Good work, vizcacha! We have some overlap that agrees (like "marhaba" and some of the names) but you've found a lot of stuff…
01 May 1997, 04:19
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Reply: Item #6034925 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Nutria, Whoops! I just realized that you (probably) logically suppose that I think that Thecla was born offworld, hence he…
23 Apr 1997, 15:21
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Reply: Item #3438330 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Anybody else out there see this great French science fantasy movie in the cinema a year or two ago, or recently see it on vi…
23 Apr 1997, 01:34
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Reply: Item #3438330 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Nutria, If your Urth is "flipped" in such a way as to include Cygnus in its zodiac, then we are no longer talking about the…
23 Apr 1997, 01:19
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Reply: Item #9534187 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Newt, Speaking of fin-de-siecle aristocracy, I think that Thecla's birth sign is a pointer towards Proust. Specifically,…
22 Apr 1997, 17:42
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Reply: Item #1385914 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Dave W, (You sure you want "newt"? A politico chosen by the prosimians?) As I see it, it still boils down to the source/…
21 Apr 1997, 17:11
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Reply: Item #9810555 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# As usual, or perhaps moreso, none of these points are unarguable. (Which makes me wonder why I bother putting them up.) Exu…
21 Apr 1997, 17:11
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Reply: Item #6714097 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Re: linear measure, FWIW: "In this book, _league_ designates a distance of about three miles" (THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATO…
20 Apr 1997, 14:28
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Reply: Item #3759208 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# (Q&D count down: 11 remaining) Raster makes some good points. The question, as he interprets it, becomes one of comparing an…
18 Apr 1997, 17:24
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Reply: Item #7172613 from RASTER at HIGHFIBER.COM@INET# Raster, First of all, we both agree that the words seem to be used interchangeably as a synonym for "phantom." And I'll bet…
18 Apr 1997, 04:49
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Reply: Item #5549632 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Mystery no. 2: Given the case of Bobby Black and also the ghost of the warehouse, did narrator actively murder many (most/al…
16 Apr 1997, 22:10
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Reply: Item #9341815 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Vance, I'm glad to see that you thought of "Twin Peaks" as you read CASTLEVIEW, since I did, too! PEACE . . . whoa boy. Tha…
16 Apr 1997, 18:03
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Reply: Item #4417036 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# (Q&D count down: 11 remaining) Xury, Silk in time corridors, that would be after surgery on Hieraxday, 30 Nemesis. Whoops,…
16 Apr 1997, 17:48
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Reply: Item #5599352 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Ranjit, I agree with you--that Betel is a puzzler. She was a sibyl at Sun Street and might have been senior sibyl when Ma…
15 Apr 1997, 15:30
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Reply: Item #5601061 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Lasrach, Well, the witches' table artifact isn't in the Lexicon, so I'll tell what I know and what others have said. You r…
15 Apr 1997, 04:02
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Reply: Item #3929797 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Re: Nessus, fwiw I agree with much of what Scott Dalrymple writes. That is to say, the great strength of alga's map is symbo…
14 Apr 1997, 16:43
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Reply: Item #7472654 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Lasrach, A certain amount of resentment that Silk killed one (or two?) of her "babies" might help to explain some of Muc…
14 Apr 1997, 16:42
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I know that many people think Q&D must be sold out by now, but I still have 16 unreserved copies looking for good homes. (D. Alexander of acad.drake.edu: I've tried e-mail but can…
13 Apr 1997, 20:03
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Reply: Item #1785979 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Keith, Well, you =can= have Keef, but by the definition you gave it is a girl's name--and Vironese guys-with-girl-names (l…
13 Apr 1997, 19:38
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Reply: Item #7907001 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Thanks for the ad copy, Patrick! (It is great having an ad guy on tap like this!) And hey, I've still got around twenty c…
12 Apr 1997, 03:53
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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 #1489788 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Ranjit, Re: "It Was All A Dream." I agree with you entirely. And likewise with the way you link the dream sequences to t…
11 Apr 1997, 20:29
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Reply: Item #0548146 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# viscacha, Yay! Mysteries! Lists of things! You are off to a good start, IMHO. I was thinking you might want to re-orga…
11 Apr 1997, 16:28
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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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