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Well, it's very close to the German "Vorlesen", which means to recite or read aloud. I suppose maybe Wolfe thinks this is a good story to read to the kids at night? Sgt. Rock…
25 Jun 1998, 11:51
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Like scolex! I am crushed. But not dissuaded! I fail to see how my central contention that Marsch killed V.R.T. is "ridiculous" or involves making up text. Indeed, who killed who…
25 Jun 1998, 11:47
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Of course. That's why Marsch only activates the second cover when he has good reason to think his first one is blown (when the authorities arrest him and accuse him of being an Ann…
24 Jun 1998, 15:57
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Thank you. It's good to be on active duty again. You mean we haven't been? 8^) We know that the text of the second two novellas in 5th Head is, to some degree, unreliable--I just…
23 Jun 1998, 14:08
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I've been poring over 5th head lately (after getting out of a lengthy stay in sick bay), and my attention was caught by the following words, uttered by one of Marsch's interrogator…
22 Jun 1998, 12:07
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I've been wondering: why does everyone buy into the notion that Marsch was killed by V.R.T. It seems to me that in 5th Head, _everything_ is possible, and here one obvious possibil…
22 Jun 1998, 11:56
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The ballistics table also strikes me as odd. It is simply not something that the average hunter would bother with. You take your rifle to the range, and zero the scope at 100 yards…
02 Jun 1998, 16:46
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That makes a lot of sense to me. The fact that all the other "people" in the story are animals (in the same sense, perhaps, that Cordwainer Smith's "underpeople" are animals) makes…
02 Mar 1998, 10:23
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Hmmm. That would account for Typhon's sending off a colonization ship, wouldn't it? Perhaps he thought the death of the sun was imminent, and wanted to save a fragment of humanity …
02 Feb 1998, 10:54
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I cede the point: lightning bug it is! Whop! It just hit me what you're talking about...Mr. Million is an ancestor of the line, isn't he? Some kind of personality imprint of great…
05 Nov 1997, 10:02
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The english analogue to "saltimbanque" would be "mountebank". As Cristina (?) has pointed out, there's a connotation of quackery or larceny. However, I believe that "saltimbanque" …
03 Nov 1997, 10:37
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I hate to be always the contrarian (lie: I love it)...but I think "Cim" is an electrical phenomenon, like St. Elmo's Fire or ball lightning. Either could fit the description of a "…
31 Oct 1997, 10:13
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While he was ruminating last night on Seven American Nights in the place where he does his second-best thinking (the shower), the Sergeant was suddenly struck by the fact that Nada…
08 Sep 1997, 12:02
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can you give me a clue as to where this passage begins? Uh...Ma'am, my poor limited military-issue brain went to a lot of work to provide that analysis...and you're just going to …
28 Aug 1997, 16:39
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Yes No. On the second day, he ambles around the North of the city, gradually coming to realize how deformed the Americans are. The crucial thing is that the "fear" passage cannot …
22 Aug 1997, 13:25
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Please keep this list focused on Wolfe. Why not start up another list for people who want to do a more generalized "literary discussion" thing? Sgt. Rock…
21 Aug 1997, 14:46
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Jim Jordan wrote some very thoughtful comments on "Seven American Nights" that sent me back to the text with my sharp pencil to find the missing "night". After a careful recount, I…
20 Aug 1997, 09:57
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Holy Toledo! She's right! I sat down last night and methodically marked up the story and the egg-eating instances, and there are indeed only six nights and five eggs eaten! It's …
15 Aug 1997, 19:02
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Alice Turner <al at ny.playboy.com> semaphored with her cilia: You have a PROBLEM with chems? And that's SERGEANT Rock to you, lady! Yes! I think you're definitely going in the righ…
14 Aug 1997, 11:54
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Finished Seven American Nights last night. I've decided that for Wolfe, plot is a kind of opiate that he introduces into his stories to keep you hooked until the end--when it turns…
13 Aug 1997, 15:05
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In regard to "Tracking Song": are the "underpeople" animals that are evolving toward humanity, or humans who are devolving to an animal state? The cave city is clear evidence of an…
12 Aug 1997, 09:46
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Actually, I could suggest a way that the worlds depicted in Fifth Head could be the same as the destination of the Whorl. Assume that the arrival of the Whorl is a considerable tim…
02 Jul 1997, 14:12
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Can somebody puhleeese ask if Blue and Green are the same planets as the locale in which 5th Head of Cerberus took place? (My question's used up...) Rock…
26 Jun 1997, 10:48
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I wrote earlier: To which Jim "Nutria" Jordan replied: Sorry, it's easy to take emailed remarks out of context, or give them an emphasis that distorts their meaning. I think we a…
24 Jun 1997, 12:33
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With respect, I flat-out don't understand how it can be so. A Christian is, by definition, a follower of Jesus Christ. (This is the minimum criterion, you can pile on as much theol…
23 Jun 1997, 10:29
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The castle is the Church? That hadn't come into my mind at all. What indications are there in CASTLEVIEW that this is so? I would have thought that the Castle represented the power…
23 Jun 1997, 10:15
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Well, Joel has _me_ convinced of Wolfe's misogyny. At the moment, I can't think of a single really admirable woman in any of Wolfe's works, nor of a case where a man has a satisfyi…
19 Jun 1997, 17:32
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I don't think the Outsider abandoned Silk at all--I think Silk was forced to realize how badly he had misunderstood the Outsider. Nor do I think that Silk died; he's a survivor, an…
09 Jun 1997, 12:08
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I always assumed that, being a highly flexible shape-changer, Quetzal simply stretched his arm (neck?) until he could reach.…
15 Apr 1997, 16:09
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My feeling is that Kypris--perhaps alone of all the gods--was never asleep. She was hiding in Orchid's house, perhaps in Hyacinth or in one girl or another. Rock ===============…
14 Apr 1997, 12:15
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But your presume that Blue is the better planet. I don't really think we have enough to go on to decide that this is so. Horn's knowledge of Blue's geography is necessarily limited…
14 Feb 1997, 12:55
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I thought they were fixing the hydraulics in Maytera Marble's hand, and that this looked like "cutting" to Oreb. (He had a thing about "cutting"...) In this connection, I thought …
11 Jan 1997, 14:47
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Perhaps insight into the true amount of corruption in the Whorl--and Pas' plan--had a role in driving Silk to the point of suicide. I don't think that was was the whole of it, thou…
02 Jan 1997, 13:56
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One thing I found really frustrating with the end of Exodus was the revelation that this has been Horn's narrative all along. This revelation came as a complete surprise to me, and…
06 Dec 1996, 14:44
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Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at best.com> I always preferred to translate "Terminus Est" as "It is finished". And when that sword gets through with you, it is definetely all over! 8^) I…
06 Dec 1996, 14:32
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I really don't feel that I completely understand what happened on top of the airship. Why did Mucor possess Horn (that _is_ what happened, right?)? Did Mucor "push" Horn off, or d…
06 Dec 1996, 14:22
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I would agree with "ambiguous". He is clearly presented as a "good guy" in the narrative; we are supposed to like him. I don't think that this means he is necessarily good, howev…
06 Dec 1996, 13:57
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