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I didn't think of Babbie having more than the usual quantity of eyes until that bit with the spectacles, but now I imagine his face as being like that of a spider (8 legs!), with t…
13 Mar 2001, 23:55
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The Neighbors have two heads each? I'd love to see a reference. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
12 Mar 2001, 23:46
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Maybe they're off to see the Shrike, the wonderful Shrike of Hyperion. -r. (Follow the Aureate Path! Follow the Aureate Path!)…
28 Feb 2001, 13:10
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I shall lay down the law: Go ahead and discuss Return to the Whorl. I haven't read it yet, but it's only three down in the pile. Don't put in spoiler space but please do put a w…
05 Feb 2001, 10:17
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Studious Wolfologists will be glad to know that the urth and whorl archives are now searchable. http://www.urth.net/urth/search/ Get those dissertations finished! Ranjit…
25 May 1999, 17:16
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For almost a year I've been struggling to make room in my web account for the urth and whorl archives -- every two weeks or so I'd have to throw away something else to get the quot…
22 May 1999, 21:53
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Today is the second anniversary of the opening of the Urth list on April 5, 1997. Since that day we've written almost 7 megabytes or about 2000 pages. To put this into perspect…
05 Apr 1999, 13:34
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This made me think of the damaged monitor in Moneta's-- I mean Apheta's-- I mean Mamelta's lander. It was certainly howling among tombs until M. repaired it. I thought it was how…
16 Mar 1999, 09:47
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OK, I see you all are getting restless, so I'm getting my act together and trying to make the list archives more searchable. As an experiment I've split URTH volumes 1-22 into ind…
30 Jan 1999, 19:37
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We do learn of one thing: Quetzal banned human sacrifice. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
02 Nov 1998, 23:54
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Rostrum: I assume that, just as Wolfe explained that /terminus est/ is not really Latin but a language as archaic to speakers of Severian's language as Latin is to Engl…
30 Oct 1998, 21:04
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I need someone to take care of the Urth and Whorl mailing lists while I'm on vacation for two weeks. The only real responsibility is to unsubscribe anyone who accidentally flood…
14 Jul 1998, 10:29
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Tony Ellis: Once you start writing your own story into the gaps in someone else's, it's really not that hard to find connections suggesting that it was there all along. "Rosen…
25 Jun 1998, 10:24
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After skimming over months of discussion, I finally got around to reading my copy of _Fifth Head_ -- the receipt, still stuck in the book, is dated May 1988. I had a year ago re…
22 Jun 1998, 12:59
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Marty Light writes: Amazon.com lists Endangered Species as "out of stock" and Planet Engineering as "out of print." The implication is that the former might be reprinted soon but…
15 Jun 1998, 16:30
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The Baba Yaga Gardens Cooperative Apartment Association. -r.…
15 Jun 1998, 14:35
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I'd like to remind everyone that the archives of the Urth and Whorl mailing lists are available on the web at http://www.urth.net/urth/archives and http://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/…
27 May 1998, 12:00
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I wrote this in 1995. The article's entirely tongue-in-cheek, but the coincidences are uncanny! By the way, it's a good album even outside of the eerie New Sun connections.…
05 Mar 1998, 10:25
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The Whorl/Urth web site is temporarily inaccessible at moonmilk.volcano.org because someone forgot to pay the volcano bill. However, the site can still be reached at http://www.…
23 Feb 1998, 17:13
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The Whorl/Urth web site is temporarily inaccessible at moonmilk.volcano.org because someone forgot to pay the volcano bill. However, the site can still be reached at http://www.…
23 Feb 1998, 17:13
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Am I misguided or stating the obvious in guessing that Reechy grew up to be Ymar? Coulda saved a chiliad or two if Ymar'd been the Conciliator. r.…
28 Jan 1998, 18:49
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This week marked the first anniversary of the WHORL mailing list (unless I misplaced a decimal point somewhere). Thanks to all who have contributed over the past year! Activity o…
28 Nov 1997, 20:48
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Support for the merger of the Urth and Whorl mailing lists is overwhelming. There's also a lot of interest in a list for other authors -- as long as they're the Right Kind of auth…
27 Aug 1997, 21:41
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Support for the merger of the Urth and Whorl mailing lists is overwhelming. There's also a lot of interest in a list for other authors -- as long as they're the Right Kind of auth…
27 Aug 1997, 21:41
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OK, it's been a coupla months now; excitement over the completion of the Long Sun series has died down; we've all had a chance to settle in. So, the big question: is it worthwhile…
16 Aug 1997, 15:32
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OK, it's been a coupla months now; excitement over the completion of the Long Sun series has died down; we've all had a chance to settle in. So, the big question: is it worthwhile…
16 Aug 1997, 15:05
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Because I can't find my copy of Dr Island, I can pass my time with this instead. For what it's worth, the quoted poem appears to be "Enoch Arden", by Al Tennyson. There was a sil…
09 Aug 1997, 22:34
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Milton, Il Penseroso, which begins Hence vain deluding joyes, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all …
05 Aug 1997, 16:35
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Apropos of nothing, how come the ribbon still showed after Agilus took off his mask? -r. strange thoughts that occur on the bus to work…
01 Jul 1997, 13:23
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OK, so it's a Whorl Train, but I have that song in my head. And I'll thank you to stop badmouthing Philadelphia, my adopted hometown, at least until I can get the hell out of here.…
24 Jun 1997, 15:41
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_They Have Scientists_ The May 31 issue of Science News reports that researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons and Dental Science at Kings College in London have found that BET…
03 Jun 1997, 09:07
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Gene Wolfe answers questions online! Remember, though: it's cheating to ask any questions that have already been packed up and delivered on the Whorl Train. ranjit -- forwarded…
17 May 1997, 10:58
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Gene Wolfe answers questions online! Remember, though: it's cheating to ask any questions that have already been packed up and delivered on the Whorl Train. ranjit -- forwarded…
17 May 1997, 10:58
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Um, does it have to be in the form of a question? I feel like I'm dealing with a tricky gen-ie, and if I say "Can you give me a brief biography of Maytera Mint" the response will …
15 May 1997, 19:23
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Here are some tidbits of information of dubious utility. In reading the newspaper I came across the term "next friend," which in a legal context apparently means something like a …
22 Apr 1997, 14:08
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Why is the extremely minor (?) character Maytera Betel always carefully described as dark and sleepy-eyed? It's bothering me. Sounds dangerously like a deliberate clue, like Tuss…
15 Apr 1997, 01:05
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Mantis, congrats on the good review of Q&D from the one critic who really counts... I really like this explanation (by the way, to whomever asked, I think the way we know that Pik…
11 Apr 1997, 11:07
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The URTH mailing list is now open! Its primary purpose is the discussion of Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. To subscribe to URTH, send "subsingle" to urth-request at lists.best.com I…
05 Apr 1997, 23:27
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The URTH mailing list is now open! Its primary purpose is the discussion of Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. To subscribe to URTH, send "subsingle" to urth-request at lists.best.com I…
05 Apr 1997, 23:27
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Distractions... 1. Those of you who want to learn to talk like Tick should look for the book _Anguish Languish_ by Howard L. Chace (late '50s?). It's an entire book of familiar p…
19 Mar 1997, 12:44
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OK, I've been restraining myself, but perhaps the time has come to act. Do we need... A mailing list for discussing THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN A mailing list for GENE WOLFE stuff…
13 Mar 1997, 10:57
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Come to think of it, not only does Silk chow down at Auk's expense, he also DOES cast himself from a high place (Hy's window), and he DOES accept the, um, crown of Viron. Questio…
10 Mar 1997, 23:39
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He made a lucky guess based on the Hyacinth designs embossed on her needler. You can find a lot of discussion of these questions -- but not necessarily answers! -- in the archives…
10 Mar 1997, 23:35
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The shade seems to be a strip which covers about half the sun, and rotates around the sun so that it's day on one side of the whorl and night on the other. The glare of the sun bl…
28 Feb 1997, 19:09
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Rereading Nightside. What the heck's going on between Silk and Hyacinth? I-Ch 6 - Silk has dismissed the monitor and snuck into Hyacinth's bedroom. "As he bent over her, somethi…
28 Feb 1997, 13:31
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[sorry about the title; I just couldn't resist!] Dominus reminds me that a major character in that other classic of Generation Starship Fiction, Heinlein's _Orphans of the Sky,_ w…
24 Feb 1997, 17:54
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mantis: Re: the smashed door, okay, I like it! However, there's this problem in that it seems like Marble was dreaming that scene . . . the text has the surreal quality we ass…
19 Feb 1997, 10:54
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mantis: Hey, anybody--how come Rose's door was smashed open/down at around the time of her death? And nobody fixed it? Talk about surreal . . . Is this a question, or a quiz…
18 Feb 1997, 12:09
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Here's a puny attempt at a timeline of recent history on the Whorl. Help me fill in the details -- or throw it away and start over. About 300BE (Before Exodus): Typhon, last Mona…
04 Feb 1997, 11:40
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Inconsistent or not, I don't think there's any doubt that Pas is Typhon. I don't remember exactly when it occurs, but when Pas appears in a monitor or Window, he's shown with one …
22 Jan 1997, 13:42
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