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Grateful thanks to Jonathan Laidlow for organising, and to the English Department of the University of Birmingham for hosting, Saturday's Gene Wolfe Symposium. It was a fascinating…
28 Aug 2000, 11:15
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Currently reading the Narnia books to my younger daughter as bedtime stories, I've been struck several times by vaguely Lupine echoes or, at least, "prefigurings" in Lewis' narrati…
27 Jul 2000, 19:11
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Hi Corncrake! Did you hear the reading of "In the Heart of the Sea" on Radio 4 recently? It was their "Book of the Week" about a month ago and was absolutely excellent - really gr…
25 Jul 2000, 19:14
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It arrived today. Hooray! Finally, I've got my own copy of IGJ. Thank you, Amazon... Given that, as well as apparently being half a dozen other people, Horn is in some sense Odyss…
25 Jul 2000, 19:14
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Timothy Reilly asks: one point of detail - how do we know Hari Mau was searchoing for Silk on the Whorl? - my impression is that he was doing so on Blue …
08 Jun 2000, 20:15
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At the risk of being even more irritating than usual, I offer the following Latin riddle to all those eagerly awaiting the next instalment of The Book of the Short Sun. Ae…
06 Jun 2000, 19:46
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On holiday in West Sussex last week, I was surprised, driving around the Chichester ringroad, to come across a large road sign apparently directing me to "Terminus Est". A further…
06 Jun 2000, 19:18
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Alga wrote... <Click!! > (What was that? Oh no, it was the sound of Nigel switching into Mindless Pedantry Mode...) Nothing to do with Crowley, and even less to do with Wolfe, …
08 May 2000, 19:36
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Um...is it OK if I point out that back on the 14th of March, I wrote to this list to say: Has anyone else suggested yet that "One-Two-Three for Me" is in some rat…
08 Apr 2000, 19:44
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And while I'm back in contributory mode again, however, briefly, I thought that you might like this pleasantly inane extract from my recent correspondence with my faithful friend J…
13 Mar 2000, 19:54
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"Talarican" wrote... Sorry, I haven't been concentrating for the last, um... well, about nine months, I suppose. Has anyone else suggested yet that "One-Two-Three for Me" is in s…
13 Mar 2000, 19:54
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I have only ever read the first of the Oz books, and really must get round to reading some of the later volumes in the series. Motifs from these works seem to have entered Wolfe's…
04 Jul 1999, 17:58
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Welcome aboard, Josh Smith! Interesting discussion - but on another tack completely... Has anybody else ever noted or commented on the following (entirely unremarkable and certai…
03 Jul 1999, 20:04
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Oh, Mitchell, wonderful - I loved this posting! Do I count as an Urthling if I've got drives on my network named after characters and places in the Urth Cycle? My C: drive is "Co…
20 Jun 1999, 16:02
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Following the recent discussion on the this list, I decided that it really was time I got round to reading the copy of James Blish's "A Case of Conscience" that has been sitting on…
09 Jun 1999, 19:11
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"Could resist"? Couldn't resist, and clearly couldn't proof read at that time of night either! Nigel "Carry On Torturer": Joan Sims IS Dorcas…
07 May 1999, 04:00
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#Addendum 1 Meant to mention, in connection with Wolfe's use of Dickens and his imitation of Dickens' realism, the interesting story "Our Neighbour by David Copperfield", which is…
06 May 1999, 20:35
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Having accidentally achieved notoriety through featuring in the subject heading of one of Jonathan Laidlow's more controversial recent postings to this list, I thought that I would…
06 May 1999, 19:59
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As punishment for the dreadful video that I sent him (and various other oddities, including a copy of William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land" - didn't Hodgson get a mention round h…
06 May 1999, 19:59
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This was drafted as a personal e-mail response to Jonathan Laidlow's recent contribution to the list on Wolfe's Modernism. He suggested I post it on the list, so here it is... …
29 Apr 1999, 11:16
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Let me offer a deeply obscure and probably irrelevant footnote to the recent discussion of alzabos and hyenas. In searching through my copy of the Longman edition of Spenser's "Th…
09 Mar 1999, 19:15
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In the first volume of Lexicon Urthus "Additions, Errata, &cetera", Mantis refers to a "Tale of a Man Who Sold His Shadow", and comments: "Master Ash seems to be talking a…
18 Dec 1998, 19:31
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(Sorry, there is some lupine comment in this posting, but there's a bit of scene setting to be got through as well first...) I recently sent off to America for Mantis' splendid co…
16 Dec 1998, 19:29
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In reply to my verbose speculations on the possible scriptural connotations of the name of Severian's sword, Terminus Est, Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Yeah, bummer isn't it? Definitely …
30 Nov 1998, 17:04
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Half wishing now that I'd opted for the subscription option whereby I would get each message as it came out, rather than waiting for each evening's digest of the day's corresponden…
26 Nov 1998, 06:56
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Greetings, fellow Lupines... Mantis comments... OK, I'm new to the list, so I've no idea what might be the connection between all this and Gene Wolfe, but the inscription is take…
25 Nov 1998, 18:50
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