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I think that I have most or all of the messages for this period. Let me know if you would like me to send them to you. Nigel…
22 Jan 2008, 23:45
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Aaron Singleton asked: at the beginning of Seven American Nights? The American on board becomes very offended when Nadan points this out to him. Any help is greatly appreciated.…
15 Jul 2007, 14:53
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No, I can't get onto Robert Borski's "Cave Canem" website anymore either. I haven't been able to contact him by e-mail or telephone, though I've tried both and I know that others h…
09 Jul 2007, 15:31
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I got my copy of Peter's book from Amazon UK a couple of weeks ago. It's a wonderful compendium of Wolfe interviews, many of which I'd read, but it's great to have them bound into…
06 Jul 2007, 13:41
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(Apologies if this ends up appearing twice. The list was offline the first time I tried to send it.) There was a review by Lisa Tuttle of a new children's fantasy anthology called…
04 Jul 2007, 16:09
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There was a review by Lisa Tuttle of a new children's fantasy anthology called "Dark Alchemy" in the Summer Books section of Saturday's Times (The Times, 30 June 2007, Books, p9). …
04 Jul 2007, 11:25
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I'm still reading "Soldier of Sidon" having just reread "Mist" and "Arete". I hope to review it for "Ultan's Library". I'm enjoying it very much but tend to agree that it seems to …
29 Jun 2007, 22:08
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Just thought it worth mentioning in the context of Wolfe's story "Unrequited Love" that P D James' novel "The Children of Men" is about a world in which human beings have stopped h…
29 Jun 2007, 21:29
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I think it's a really good short short-story. As already pointed out, there seems to be a distinct possibility that the narrator is him-, her- or itself a robot. The situation on "…
27 Jun 2007, 09:56
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Rostrum asked about Wolfe's "What I Know About Writing (in no particular order)"... I don't think that this was an essay as such. It's a list of tips and bullet points and the lin…
21 Jun 2007, 18:55
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They'll be all visiting that website now, Rostrum. ;-)> Nigel…
20 Jun 2007, 23:07
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In Roy's last post, Mantis is quoted as saying: Anyone interested can find details - though not many - here: http://www.doctorisland.com/ Nigel…
20 Jun 2007, 22:47
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Mantis gave me permission to reproduce his account of the weekend in Seattle. Wish I'd been there! Nigel ------------------------------------- Hello there Nigel, It was wonderf…
20 Jun 2007, 17:04
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Mantis has sent me a highly amusing account of his time in Seattle and his meetings with Gene Wolfe and some of the Urth list members. I've asked whether he would post it here or a…
20 Jun 2007, 09:12
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I'm feeling very stupid at the moment. I've read "The Call of the Wild", and even read it within the last couple of years, but at the moment its connection to "Tracking Song" entir…
12 Jun 2007, 14:52
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Hm... I seem to have lost the knack of posting on this list. This is my third attempt. Nothing seems to have happened so far, but apologies all round if I've actually posted this t…
09 Jun 2007, 12:26
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Yes, I am still here, though I rarely have time to read everything on the list these days, and even less time to contribute. When I have dipped into the list of late, however, it h…
27 Jan 2005, 05:35
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Turin asked: Yes, I've got a copy. It's beautifully written and very witty, in an erudite way, and I read it with a great deal of pleasure. Robert's methodology is, as ever, based…
27 Jan 2005, 05:19
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Tyreal (Welcome!) asked: OK! There are (currently!) four main works in the Urth/Sun cycle, and together they take up 12 volumes. These "four main works" are _The Book of the New …
06 Jun 2003, 21:38
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Nutria wrote concerning my recent confusion of names... You see? I even get the names of my trees mixed up. It might have been better if, suffering a similar lack, I had shared y…
15 May 2003, 22:36
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Compared with which crime, any involvement with Star Wars pales into complete insignificance... ;-)> Nigel…
14 May 2003, 15:06
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Mantis (yes, I checked, it was he) wrote... And very grateful he is too - especially for today's FCT (see below). On the subject of who-said-what, the very same Mantis also comme…
14 May 2003, 14:24
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Greeting, Alan Lewis - welcome to the Urth List. Here are some possible reasons why Nettle would want to return with Silk/Horn to the Whorl: 1) She has always admired Silk and wo…
13 May 2003, 15:17
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I thought that the "The Tree is my Hat" barrel was empty, but it turns out that there are just a few more last dry scrapings to be got out. Here goes. The shark is a hammer-head. …
13 May 2003, 12:37
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Thanks to Che Monro, Fernando Gouvea and John Barach for the alternative takes on the ending to "The Tree is My Hat" and the meaning of the story's title. Intrigued, I listened ag…
13 May 2003, 01:05
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In response to my query about the medicinal use of arsenic, Josh Geller wrote... Thanks, Josh! I thought I remembered something like that, but didn't know where to check it out. …
13 May 2003, 00:13
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Thanks to Mantis, Patera Nutria and Robert Borski for their helpful contributions to the analysis of "The Tree is My Hat". I was going to comment on their comments in detail, but …
12 May 2003, 17:59
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Curious to know more about the background to Wolfe's story "The Tree is my Hat", I dug around in the back of the upstairs storage cupboard until I finally found my long lost copy o…
12 May 2003, 14:02
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Returning for a moment to the interpretive thread which sees the demon-possessed Baden himself as the shark which attacks his family in "The Tree Is My Hat"...and while fully posse…
11 May 2003, 15:25
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I thought that it was far too long since we heard from Robert Borski, so I was delighted when I got up early this morning to find this message waiting for me. I've asked Robert whe…
11 May 2003, 11:56
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Special thanks to mantis, who comments... Yeah...Won't last! Brilliant! Thank you, Michael. Seeing the names like this, I wonder whether the significance of Rob's name is its co…
10 May 2003, 16:42
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Reread what I wrote last night about "The Tree is My Hat". Hmmm... One or two little things to add. I've assumed that the dramatised reading sticks closely to the text, and the wh…
10 May 2003, 11:24
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The recording of GW's story "The Tree is my Hat" which is available for free download at http://www.phaseshift.com/tree/ was due to come down last Tuesday, 6 May, but for the momen…
10 May 2003, 00:50
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I commend Alga on a wonderfully balanced appraisal of Graves' _The Greek Myths_. I agree with both her praise and her warnings. It's a superbly useful reference book, but Graves' i…
27 Apr 2003, 20:58
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Oren asked... It's up to you, but I really think that you'll get much more out of it if you read the books in sequence and read Long Sun before Short Sun. They are intimately rela…
27 Apr 2003, 20:55
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Reynardine = The Hero as Werwolf?…
18 Apr 2003, 22:05
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Splutter! What! Nigel, a fat, bearded and ageing hippy who has been meaning to respond to all sorts of issues raised on the Urth list recently but still hasn't got round to it, ru…
18 Apr 2003, 11:56
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In response to my query about the haiku at the end of "The Death of Dr. Island", Alga said: Okely-dokely! Way back in 1997, the thread lasted for about three messages (from alga,…
11 Apr 2003, 17:44
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For some reason, our wise friend Blattid is having difficulty posting his messages to the list. I forward here his response to one of my recent contributions. Nigel -------------…
10 Apr 2003, 18:35
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About six years ago, there was a discussion on the list of the poetry quoted in "The Death of Dr. Island" which was initiated by alga. As far as I could tell, no one was able to pi…
10 Apr 2003, 13:13
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Thanks to Matt DeLuca for raising the question of favourite quotations. It's a good idea, though not one I find easy to respond to. This is partly because of my poor memory for thi…
10 Apr 2003, 13:05
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Thanks, hartshorn. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it on the list. That's what comes of writing e-mails late at night, I guess. Nigel…
27 Mar 2003, 00:25
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Hello Michael. Good to see "Snake's Hands" prominently featured on the Wildside Press website. You ask about the Wolfe volume I mentioned. Well, the story goes as follows. The pr…
26 Mar 2003, 01:14
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In a rhetorical mood, Crush ruminates... Nigel, who, somewhat disturbingly, keeps a Latin dictionary by his side at all times, responds in a manner that is intended to be helpful,…
04 Mar 2003, 11:14
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Does anyone on the list have details of the book of essays on Gene Wolfe which Wildside Press are planning to bring out? Details of the proposed companion volume on C J Cherryh can…
27 Feb 2003, 17:38
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote... I don't think we're disagreeing at all. That's pretty well the sort of thing I meant to say when I was maundering on late last night! In my view, ther…
19 Feb 2003, 17:14
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I don't want to get into the "can and does Wolfe write convincingly about romantic love debate", because, as I've tried to explain in my other post, I think the real issue is wheth…
18 Feb 2003, 23:50
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On the subject of Adam's interesting "Wintry thoughts" and Nutria's helpful response (I'm waiting to see where Mantis is going before I comment!)... My previous reference to the p…
18 Feb 2003, 22:53
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In response to my precipitate endorsement, well after six years, anyway, of Kevin McGuire's suggestion that the grafting of Mr Burns' head onto Homer's body in an episode of "The S…
11 Feb 2003, 12:29
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Resolutely sticking to the TAD trail, like a bloodhound on a scent, the tireless Mantis asks: Is it simply too gross to point to the phallic associations of the name, or at least …
10 Feb 2003, 12:19
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