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Look at Silk's conversations with the kids right after the game. He's so preoccupied with his enlightenment he's barely paying attention when they try to talk about the game. Hor…
06 Apr 2001, 12:00
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I'm sure Nettle put that stuff in about Horn in _Lake_ over his strenuous objections. Also, see the archives for my argument that the bit about catching the ball and winning the g…
06 Apr 2001, 09:58
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You misunderstand. Vizcacha is not saying that Incanto has any of Typhon downloaded into him. Incanto is 0% Typhon. But "Pas," as he exists now on the Whorl, is at least partial…
05 Apr 2001, 08:59
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Too late! I recant. I'm convinced that vizcacha's interpretation is correct: Incanto means that since "Pas" now refers to Pas+Silk that "Pas" is present because Silk is present (…
04 Apr 2001, 09:01
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I can't find it in the archives, but I could have sworn there was someone complaining about Horn going on and on about corn genetics at the beginning of OBW. I'd forgotten all abou…
03 Apr 2001, 16:23
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Could it be that when Horn talks of the secret returning the inhumi to the vermin they once were that he is speaking metaphorically? Humans currently view the inhumi as intellig…
03 Apr 2001, 16:02
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The simplest explanation seems to me that Nettle was interested in the Whorl, so Horn talked a lot about what happened in the Whorl amongst his family but very little about the eve…
02 Apr 2001, 09:36
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I should also point out, in the part you quote above, I was referring to the downloaded mainframe version of Silk, aka Passilk. I didn't mean to say that the human Silk had consum…
01 Apr 2001, 16:49
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If it weren't for the passage you quote, I would have said there is no Pas in the Narrator. Pig probably has some Pas because he's been posessed by the Mainframe version of Silk, …
01 Apr 2001, 16:43
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Is there more than one Silk-god in Mainframe? Is there a Silk-alone god (Silver/Silent Silk) as well as a Pas+Silk god? I find that hard to accept, since we don't know of any oth…
29 Mar 2001, 15:04
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Several people have mentioned the "surprise" twist at the end of RTTW, some even disparaging it as Hollywoodesque. But why is this a surprise? In every other case of a spirit in…
28 Mar 2001, 21:11
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Chagrin at Wolfe being hard on himself was what I was really getting at. I didn't literally think he was talking to me. I was just a little sad that he felt the need to spell al…
28 Mar 2001, 20:54
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My impression was a weak psi-ability that doesn't influence what people see so much as encourage them not to look too closely and to ignore the flaws in the physical disguise, but …
28 Mar 2001, 20:43
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When we sent off a list of interview questions to Wolfe about the Long Sun books, mine was about whether Horn and Nettle had to make up some of the scenes that they wouldn't have h…
28 Mar 2001, 10:09
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There is an idea in Christianity (with parallels in other religions, I imagine) that one must not cling too tightly to one's own desires and expectations, lest one miss the good th…
28 Mar 2001, 09:50
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Folks have complained that Horn's children wouldn't write that way, that it is implausible that they would write a narrative that deliberately hides the protagonist's identity unti…
28 Mar 2001, 09:24
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Yay! Finally finished RTTW and wading through the archives and can post some of my thoughts. Y'all can put me in the camp that thinks this series is fabulous--I don't know if I c…
28 Mar 2001, 09:11
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I'm also reminded now of Catholic veneration of relics. If a leg bone of a saint is venerated and can be a source of miracles, then it implies that something of the saint's "perso…
21 Mar 2001, 13:56
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There is some diversity of opinion on this, but I think Catholic theology teaches that while the soul can have some kind of existence apart from the body, that a person isn't fully…
21 Mar 2001, 09:07
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My reading of this scene: 1. Terzo notes that Horn's attention seems divided and asks what's up (note Terzo asks "Can you hear something I don't" not "Do you hear what I hear?"). …
02 Mar 2001, 00:23
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Yeah, I should have credited you. I was replying to all the more recent posts wondering if Horn was travelling forward/back in time as well as through space (of course a lot of ph…
01 Feb 2001, 08:22
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As I posted before, there's no reason to think Silk would even remember anything about catching the ball and winning the game - at the time he was preoccupied with his enlightenmen…
31 Jan 2001, 16:23
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Nice to see the theme continue from Nightside's "You were their best player. It wouldn't have been fair to them if you hadn't played your best." and OBW's "I have snatched the bal…
31 Jan 2001, 14:27
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I think I've made it through all the archives now, having at last finished IGJ (and recovered from my amazement at how good it is), and I can't believe no one has mentioned this so…
31 Jan 2001, 14:19
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I may have missed your post in the archives, but most of the discussion I saw assumed it had something to do with Silk's personality influencing Horn, whereas I was pointing out th…
31 Jan 2001, 14:04
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Not only is the cover illustration for IGJ aesthetically displeasing, it has several details wrong. Horn never has a staff on Green. And he didn't have long white hair when he me…
31 Jan 2001, 13:57
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I think Free Live Free is easily Wolfe's funniest book. In fact the phrase "madcap adventures" comes to my fingertips. It's also got a humdinger of a puzzle to fit everything to…
31 Jan 2001, 08:21
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If Silk was used to fasting and eating very lightly all his life, then Horn/Silk would probably get sick if he tried to eat as much as Horn was used to eating. Thus all the fuss a…
29 Jan 2001, 23:59
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I'm guessing that the secret has something to do with how Horn seems to have given Jahlee a human soul. Or that all of the inhumi whom Horn has shown kindness to have found themse…
29 Jan 2001, 14:54
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Horn telling us that he licked the dew from every inch of the ground and as high on the walls as he could reach was more detail than *I* needed to hear. <shudder> -Rostrum…
24 Jan 2001, 08:21
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Reading "A Story," I got the impression that the field was hiding St. Anne from an already-settled-by-humans St. Croix, not shielding the whole system from Earth. In the story, th…
23 Jan 2001, 08:52
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Wasn't "Marsch" originally arrested in connection with Number Five's murder of his "father"? Even if, after they arrested Number Five, they continued to hold "Marsch" because they…
22 Jan 2001, 08:45
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I just finished reading this book a second time and really enjoyed it. I thought of it at Christmas when I heard "Good King Wenceslas" (I'll never hear that carol the same way aga…
06 Jan 2001, 23:15
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Dick's _The Man in the High Castle_, and _The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch_ are even better, in my opinion. _High Castle_ is just plain beautiful. The book features the I C…
21 Dec 2000, 15:48
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It's a joke. It's just not clear whether Weer is making the joke or Wolfe is. Or Weer could be just complaining to himself that he, as a dying old man, should get priority over…
12 Dec 2000, 22:15
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When Weer says he's dying and the nurse says the others are ahead of him, he takes her to mean (perhaps knowing she doesn't really mean) that Ted and Sherry are closer to dying tha…
11 Dec 2000, 08:04
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Yes Alex, I was thinking of you when I mentioned that. Sorry...I think it was an Adam/Alex confusion. -Rostrum…
08 Dec 2000, 23:23
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Oh, come on. Is there anyone who doesn't get a shiver when they first connect the two elm tree passages? That's too good to be an accident. Maybe it's a Weer getting a Ghost of …
08 Dec 2000, 16:35
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No, no, no. The author who threatens the hero in "Wonder Story" is just another character, he's not Gene Wolfe himself. It's a story about a writer whose story gets away from him…
08 Dec 2000, 16:11
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As much as I like this idea, I don't think it's the book Wolfe wrote. I've seen a couple interviews with him about it and he always talks about the joke of Morgan seeking an heir…
08 Dec 2000, 14:10
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My point was to disagree with your claim that we couldn't evaluate possible readings of PEACE by arguing which reading is aesthetically better. You say the reading Wolfe intended i…
07 Dec 2000, 11:43
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I immediately thought of Castleview when I read Adam's post. I'd love to see you're "straightforward" summary of how it ends. I remember one reviewer writting something like "Gen…
07 Dec 2000, 10:39
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I'm not ashamed of scifi covers, I just don't think the artwork on the Short Sun books is very good. The multi-legged thing on the cover of IGJ just looks dumb. And Babbie looks …
06 Dec 2000, 08:53
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You see this as if it were a negative thing, but I think this is the most interesting way to talk about a book. If PEACE is a more coherent book and more asethetically satisfying …
04 Dec 2000, 14:09
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[...] No, he's fallen asleep on a ceramic pillow! And and his Aunt is waking him up to go play at the picnic with Bobby Blake... -Rostrum…
04 Dec 2000, 09:29
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"hush.og"? Looks like a website for librarians. I suppose that's supposed to say "hush og"? And I guess you mean that the orignial word was 'hushog' (one 'h' in the middle) pron…
04 Dec 2000, 09:19
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Oops. OK, so what I really should have said was that I found OBW far more satisfying on its own than Shadow or Nightside, but I have no idea why. Maybe it's because OBW is real…
21 Nov 2000, 15:55
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I just finished reading OBW and haven't started IGJ yet, but I couldn't resist reading through the archive discussions of the first book and posting a few responses. I'd appreciat…
21 Nov 2000, 14:45
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OK, you've got me all interested. How and when are the papers read at Jonathan Laidlow's Wolfe Symposium going to be published or otherwise made available for the rest of us? -Ro…
01 Sep 2000, 08:15
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Good point. I left off "Horn embellishing" from my list of possible explanations for the dreams/prophesies. That whole ambiguity regarding Horn's role as the storyteller is one o…
21 Jun 2000, 16:28
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