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Reply: Item #7558985 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Nutria (aka JBJordan), I'm curious as to the text wherein Vodalus said that the Urth has flipped on its axis--where would …
18 Mar 1997, 00:01
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Reply: Item #5705130 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Tercel, I think I agree with you, since I've been working on the idea that Orchid's "profaned" manteion is actually not so…
15 Mar 1997, 04:00
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Reply: Item #8250075 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Dear Mr. Jordan, Please call me mantis (or Michael if that's too silly). Yes, people keep telling me there are mistakes in …
13 Mar 1997, 22:07
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Reply: Item #8972481 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Not that I want to dictate the direction of conversation or anything like that, but as this is a democracy, I would like to r…
12 Mar 1997, 02:02
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Reply: Item #4804845 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Patrick, You are right: cat' and bird get best lines! (Yes, to the unspoken question: I do think the talking animals are …
07 Mar 1997, 21:22
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Reply: Item #5703701 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Quill, Welcome aboard! Last things first. Re: what is rust? Well, it is a highly addictive drug that makes the user hap…
07 Mar 1997, 02:08
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Reply: Item #8070375 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# "Piaton" Oxford Dictionary/Saints: none. OED: "piation," expiation, atonement (from Latin "piation-em") Latin: just like OED …
27 Feb 1997, 15:22
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Reply: Item #2848746 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# vizcacha, Re: "Starcross," frankly I thought it was better than RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA. Maybe because of the interactive natu…
26 Feb 1997, 05:15
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Reply: Item #1194454 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Protean `R,' Re: "Orphans of the Sky," wasn't the two-headed mutie giant just the second in command? I.e., the hero's "To…
25 Feb 1997, 03:29
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Reply: Item #5061570 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# vizacacha, Whoops! You are right, of course. Since I brought up sleeping, can I modify "sleeping gods" into, er, "locall…
24 Feb 1997, 22:36
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Reply: Item #3492356 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Patrick, Yep, that Neil Gaiman is very talented, very productive, and a big fan of Gene Wolfe's, with all sorts of great i…
24 Feb 1997, 05:12
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Reply: Item #8427414 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Hello there, Patrick O'Leary! (Author of DOOR NUMBER THREE which has been getting great reviews.) Good to see you here--now …
23 Feb 1997, 18:04
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=Articles on Gene Wolfe [post-1990, incomplete]= "A Closer Look at the Brown Book" by Michael Andre-Driussi NYRSF #54, 2-93 "The Death of Catherine the Weal and Other Stories" by…
22 Feb 1997, 22:04
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Reply: Item #8204225 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Vizcacha (!wow!), I agree with you re: psychic fragments contaminating gods and mortals alike. This is one vector I can see…
21 Feb 1997, 02:55
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Reply: Item #2273241 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Rana, I should get in the habit of including chapter numbers in citations. (I do have a table of hardcover pagination by c…
20 Feb 1997, 05:05
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Reply: Item #5049313 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Rana, (Distantly related to Peeper, no doubt? <g>) Re: adding Mint to the Marble Rose. Start (IV, 313). Then (IV, 380). …
19 Feb 1997, 04:17
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Reply: Item #3960884 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Xury, Not to be mean or too flip, but we don't know the real name of a lot of characters and gods (sure, Pas is Typhon, bu…
18 Feb 1997, 15:44
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Reply: Item #1485046 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# alga, Well, to be honest about my motives and partisanship, I'm pretty sure (hedgeword) that I like your Tartaros Rex theory…
18 Feb 1997, 04:54
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Reply: Item #5456872 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Dr. Gouvea, I love Wolfe's short stories, but I confess that on those occassions when I have read an entire collection t…
15 Feb 1997, 15:29
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Reply: Item #0885661 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Dave, Re: PANDORA, oh yeah. And I keep meaning to write an essay on that one, too. (Maybe once I get this current thing ou…
15 Feb 1997, 03:14
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Reply: Item #3607705 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Henry Rathvon, So when are =you= going to write a critical essay on Wolfe? <g> I'm grinning, but I'm also serious. Go on, …
14 Feb 1997, 02:50
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Henry Rathvon, Re: the limits of knowledge explored in Wolfe's work, I agree with you most emphatically. There is also the "Roshamon" quality of multiple versions of events, ofte…
13 Feb 1997, 15:26
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Reply: Item #0807072 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Dave, No, you don't have to come up with a list of Silk's mistakes. I just mentioned the first one that came to hand, won…
12 Feb 1997, 05:09
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Reply: Item #1628475 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Tercel, Great work on the fliers! (I can't tell you how much searching I did . . . how close I got . . . ) Thanks! Bu…
11 Feb 1997, 02:53
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Reply: Item #2740464 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Plato's Allegory of the Cave (beginning of Book VII in the REPUBLIC) imagines humankind as living in an underground cave wh…
07 Feb 1997, 19:52
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Reply: Item #8055175 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Dave, My apologies if the text originated with you. (Still, algae should have caught it rather than being caught up with …
07 Feb 1997, 19:52
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Reply: Item #0696786 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Xury, Interesting new twist on Blue/Green. My impression is that they are separate worlds (like Skuld, Verthandi) rather …
07 Feb 1997, 05:07
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Reply: Item #9024562 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# <<Spoiler Warnings>> Talon, Good tracking re: Horn's horning in, tooting his own horn, etc. I also get the feeling he's …
05 Feb 1997, 06:55
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Reply: Item #7542240 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Turn back! Save yourself! Oh, now you've done it. Re: aloe's list of Theophanies and Possessions. Nice work! (In the pos…
04 Feb 1997, 05:11
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Reply: Item #7573938 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Whoops! Right, there's also "The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Is The Sun," which mentions Skuld in the text. This alone pl…
01 Feb 1997, 18:10
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Reply: Item #4986522 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Michael Bowman, Hello there! Glad to read about how your appreciation for Long Sun has developed. I think the same sort o…
01 Feb 1997, 17:49
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Reply: Item #6681520 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Re: Hindi stratum to Trivigaunte society. "Calde'" is to Spanish as "Rani" is to Hindi (although the ranks are as differen…
01 Feb 1997, 04:22
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Reply: Item #4834984 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Re: Aloe, "a pious woman of the Sun Street quarter" (III, list). ("Agalloch" is the same thing, not used in the text, but n…
01 Feb 1997, 03:21
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Reply: Item #3486022 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# David, Re: what is it about sacrifice that attracts the attention, I've been puzzling over that one, too. In "fantasy" te…
31 Jan 1997, 16:00
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Reply: Item #2207153 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# <I've tried posting this twice already over the last few days--will the third try be the charm?> Hello there everybody. I…
31 Jan 1997, 02:51
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