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Thanks for this, Marc. R On Friday, 24 April 2015, 22:20, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote: Here is a profile of Wolfe in The New Yorker ... ?http://www.…
27 Apr 2015, 04:34
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All right, I'll bite. If it is 'far from merely ornamental' what is its purpose in the books? Is Gene Wolfe preaching a sermon? Clearly not when he leaves the interpretation so amb…
10 Oct 2014, 03:08
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Re. 'nothing more': I'm not quibbling about 'Eucharistic elements' et al. Obviously ?there will be cultural references — I mean to our culture, not Urth's fictional one — in any wo…
09 Oct 2014, 14:15
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My own view on this is as follows: most of Wolfe's 'puzzles' have a direct bearing on the story; that is to say, they conceal information that could help the reader understand some…
07 Oct 2014, 03:12
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I explained how I interpret the text of The Fifth Head of Cerberus. Mr Quinn prefers a different interpretation, one I regard as untenable because if that interpretation is accept…
06 Sep 2014, 07:18
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I begin to weary of this... Sandwalker's people (the vast majority of the pre-Landing population: we are told "there are so many of you now and so few of us") just disappear into …
04 Sep 2014, 06:19
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On Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 23:01, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote: No lee, I think he was a shadow child, which is very different than an abo. I agree. the sw…
03 Sep 2014, 04:08
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On Wednesday, 3 September 2014, 8:58, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote: Let's look at just one thing: Why does Wolfe harp on the fact that Marsch's eyes are an unusu…
03 Sep 2014, 03:53
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On Wednesday, 3 September 2014, 3:41, "jbarach at aol.com" <jbarach at aol.com> wrote: Are Number Five (Gene) and his brother David in some way parallel to Romulus and Remus? …
03 Sep 2014, 03:49
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On Wednesday, 3 September 2014, 3:41, "jbarach at aol.com" <jbarach at aol.com> wrote: Are Number Five (Gene) and his brother David in some way parallel to Romulus and Remus? …
03 Sep 2014, 03:49
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I said I wasn't going to defend this very hard. One thing we can all agree upon is that the text supports multiple readings. Most texts do; the ones that are designed specifically …
02 Sep 2014, 18:18
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Thank you, Gerry, Lee and Mark, for motivating me to re-read The Fifth Head of Cerberus. I had hesitated to do so for many years because I found it repellent in many of its details…
01 Sep 2014, 14:49
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Hello again, Mr Quinn. Actually, the bases of my 'hypothesis' are far more substantial than that. The matter has been discussed, and as you saw from my earlier post, Gene Wolfe hi…
01 Sep 2014, 14:25
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Gerry: I'll reply your whole post a little later. For the moment, allow me simply to address this: "no character - aside from those intended to take the role of complete lunatics,…
01 Sep 2014, 12:55
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I'm not sure how this email appears to others on the list, so as an aid to comprehension I've put the comments I've replied to in quotes. "But then who is Victor? He is apparentl…
01 Sep 2014, 05:55
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I believe the human populations of both planets are the descendants of three separate waves of settlement. The last wave comprises the newcomers from Earth who now form the domina…
31 Aug 2014, 04:17
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"Isid iooo ioooeee" is the sound of static heard on a radio. On Friday, 8 August 2014, 14:32, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote: Then again. the only thing more d…
08 Aug 2014, 11:15
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