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To be clear, I was NOT suggesting that Puppies couldn't understand Wolfe. I was pointing out, tongue-in-cheek, that they talk more about "fun" writers like Butcher, who I'm actuall…
29 Apr 2015, 16:30
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Never read it (re: New Republic blog). Sriduangkaew has been called out rather publicly, and by a woman feminist no less. http://laurajmixon.com/2014/11/a-report-on-damage-done-by…
28 Apr 2015, 17:32
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Given that we don't know the extent of the supposedly overzealous editing on the book, it's hard to say what the full chess implications are. I find the book more interesting for i…
01 Jul 2012, 04:20
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"The crazy right-wing politics. There’s the North American Union, with its single currency. There’s the European Union, where thieves get their hands cut off because of sharia. The…
10 Apr 2012, 01:35
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Fred Kiesche: "The back of the book does not say much about Wright, but the name rings a bell. The only other credit they list is a book on British TV...did he write/co-author a b…
26 Mar 2012, 22:54
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Craig Brewer: "Doh! I'll get my subgenius card revoked. " You could always become a Discordian pope.…
25 Mar 2012, 22:50
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Craig Brewer wrote: "But Vulcan never had that seething resentment." Actually, in the myth where it is Hera who throws down Hephaestus for being ugly, he reacts by imprisoning he…
25 Mar 2012, 18:07
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Gerry Quinn: "Enjoyable enough albeit a bit obvious. But why does the Devil have a limp? Is there a tradition here I am unaware of? No doubt Lee will chime in to point out that…
25 Mar 2012, 16:32
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Prayer beads and knotted cords etc. existed before Christianity. Silk’s I'm sorry. I did not mean to suggest that mithraists used rosaries. I was referring to the Far East. Rosa…
11 Mar 2012, 18:56
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The cross dates back to the stone age. Rosary beads are not native to Christianity. They were borrowed from the East. Most symbolism in Christianity can be traced directly to Mithr…
11 Mar 2012, 01:05
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Something that I've been thinking about lately is Dionysus' journey to the East. There is an obvious connection here between Wolfe's own life and the protagonists of the Urth cycle…
18 Nov 2011, 19:50
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Jeff Wilson: Apollo not a hunter? God of the bow, stalker and slayer of the python, You may be overstating your point. Apollo's the god of archery. Wikipedia is as far as you nee…
12 Nov 2011, 22:42
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Gerry Quinn: I guess it’s interesting that the argument is tending in a similar Are you saying you're a New Critic?…
12 Nov 2011, 16:41
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Ant?nio Pedro Marques: He's said this, yes. Such deep connections exist, however, and some are intended: Catherine, for example. I have wondered if Kim Lee Soong is just a random…
08 Nov 2011, 03:51
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No problem, Marc. I cited you in the paper, after all. Technically, you've appeared in print: http://www.nicholasleegoodman.com/pdf/holly%20hollander.pdf It's been a while so I s…
07 Nov 2011, 23:05
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Here's something else. I assume Wolfe has read Ovid. If we look at the Metamorphesis, we see several characters that Wolfe, or our "translator," has appropriated: Typhon, the Sybi…
07 Nov 2011, 22:31
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Maybe. You remind me of those fundamentalists who read their sacred text, arrive at one interpretation of it, and then call other interpretations heretical. To be fair, I've shar…
07 Nov 2011, 22:15
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Gerry Quinn: That’s because you don’t pay attention to the text. His mode of time travel is to walk or run through the Corridors of Time. The shackle binds him in time no less t…
07 Nov 2011, 18:14
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Considering what the other hieros look like, he would at least need a mask. Vertumnus doesn't necessarily shapeshift, either. In the myth of Pomona, for example, he wears a wig. I …
07 Nov 2011, 02:58
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Just taking a quick look through New Sun, I'd say pg. 77 of Shadow and Claw is the only plausible one, unless Severian is mistaken or the Rajan lying to him on the other occasions.…
07 Nov 2011, 02:45
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Dionysus was also known as the "logos" or "word." There are more ways in which he "is in every book ever written," but they aren't germane to this discussion. "Free Live Free" isn…
06 Nov 2011, 23:45
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When do the Green Man or Inire display their shape-changing ability? Are I should have been clearer. It is Vertumnus who is known as a shapechanger, being the god of seasons and c…
06 Nov 2011, 23:01
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And probably an incorrect one. I should have said "almost," though even that is a hard sell. The Sun Books, Peace, and The Sorcerer's House are easy to prove. Free Live Free is not…
06 Nov 2011, 22:47
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The Green Man is Vertumnus, the "changing one." "Vert" also happens to mean "green." I think The Green Man may actually be Inire, which makes sense as they both are known to chang…
06 Nov 2011, 17:45
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Sorry I'm a little late to this part of the discussion. If "Silver" refers to "Silvanus" then this might be one of Wolfe's etymological jokes: "argentum" is silver while "ager" is…
05 Nov 2011, 18:56
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You may be looking in the wrong place. By far my favorite cover of Wolfe's work, from a Japanese edition of Claw: http://www.elevenland.com/amano/viewA.php3?picImage=tlaClawOfTheCo…
25 Oct 2011, 23:33
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It's no surprise you haven't read any of those books. They're new books (all from 2011) NPR is suggesting we read this summer. It's not the "Best Of" List.…
06 Jul 2011, 15:11
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It is proving difficult to condense my ideas here. I just wrote 85 pages on this subject, and duplicating the rhetorical effect is impossible. From: Lee Berman <severiansola at ho…
28 May 2011, 19:24
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He has three. This fits nicely between Quadrifrons' four and Typhon/Pas's two. To clarify, I meant Return to the Whorl, not UotNS -- a bit of aphasia on my part. The discussion Pat…
26 May 2011, 05:26
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Certainly the tale of Mars, Romuls, and Remus, lends a lot to "The Tale of the Boy Called Frog." I don't know whether or not Andre-Druissi first came up with this bizarre derivatio…
25 May 2011, 19:08
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Logic: A Pragmatic Approach*. I'll also take this opportunity to clarify, as I think I might have been unclear on one point. Dan'l Danehy-Oakes seems to think others in this threa…
02 Dec 2010, 16:16
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Wolfe wrote about a species of mechanical life forms early in his career. The story appears in the collection The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories. The name …
27 Sep 2010, 19:46
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