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Friends of the Wolfe; In another five or six months, after you've worked your way through GW's latest, maybe a few of you will remember to come back here and see if I've written a…
26 Aug 2003, 08:43
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Hello all once again. As my schedule currently stands, I will be unable to participate in the discussion of Wolfe's latest once it hits the bookstores at year's end, and since I a…
25 Aug 2003, 08:19
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Marc Aramini writing originally: Then Blattid adding: Among my many works-in-progress (most of which will probably never see light of day), but promised to another venue, is an e…
17 Sep 2002, 01:01
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Crush responding: Almost certain I posted this somewhere, but couldn't find it myself, so let me attempt a brief reprise. In the process of describing their visit to Mainframe, w…
31 Aug 2002, 20:43
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I (Extending a right hand blithely across the aether.) How do you do, Crush! I've never met anyone on the list either, although Nigel Price and I talked about getting together la…
29 Aug 2002, 00:12
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Stone Ox writes: But look who imparts this information about the weekend tragedy and the boarding house connection: Dan French, who, not having been a factory employee at the time…
23 Aug 2002, 05:53
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One of the bigger mysteries in PEACE involves the coldhouse prank. Who is its perpetrator and who is victim? Most people seem to believe that Den is the perpetrator, but in the 27 …
21 Aug 2002, 06:33
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Roy done writ: [Best to skip here my own personal travails in the decline of my brain, with sidejaunts down Nostalgia Avenue saved for unappreciative grandchildren.] Don't agree …
18 Aug 2002, 05:26
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mantis having speculated: "But what if the normal sepia man really is a man that neither one has ever seen--what if he is Tilly?" I rather like this idea, and I believe StoneOx a…
09 Aug 2002, 21:37
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Roy responding to me again: I was going by the timeline in the Peace Indexicon, where under the Golden Year, six events are listed, including the following: "Charlie Turner, the d…
08 Aug 2002, 18:32
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Adam S. pondering: "And why does Charlie not mention the second picture in his letter?" Not sure if you think we don't know what is in the second photo, Adam, or simply that Char…
07 Aug 2002, 06:25
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Barker Roy again, from that Texas grab-joint of his: Hattiesburg, Mississippi--or somewhere around there. At least according to Charlie that's where the carnival is playing when D…
05 Aug 2002, 19:19
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Should have included this with my previous post. Roy again: --But then, why does Charlie write: "Anyway, if you have any comments on the picture you would like to make, go ahead …
04 Aug 2002, 19:29
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Dog-determined Roy has written: --Ah, yes. I had forgotten that the mysterious Mr. Mason was the father of Candy and Arline, as well as Doris. That's another strike against the id…
04 Aug 2002, 17:53
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Deep in the heart of Texas, with his calendar and stopwatch in hand, Roy L. has written: I don't agree with this. They may _seem_ to take place on the same day, but also on that s…
03 Aug 2002, 00:34
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Blattid having objected to my certitude about the Weer-Gold parentage of Doris: In my original draft of "The Devil His Due" I included a lot of footnotes, but later dropped them o…
01 Aug 2002, 19:54
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Jen Van Gee again, still in a genealogical vein, writing: Well, don't walk too far out on that limb or you'll displace me because I've been arguing the Catherine-Contessa connecti…
30 Jul 2002, 01:07
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J-the-Genealogist having self-corrected herself: Glad you caught this, because any daughter by Dorcas would be at least 50 years old (Severian making the trip to Yesod in the tent…
29 Jul 2002, 18:23
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Can anyone tell me where the Wolfe essay, "What I Know About Writing," appeared? I'm trying to source the following quote: "Almost any interesting work of art comes close to sayin…
13 Jul 2002, 05:29
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The bug-eyed one having writ: I don't like the suicide theory either (can't see Silk committing selbstmord, it being too heinous a sin in Wolfe's Catholicism), but like the-slash-…
09 Jul 2002, 19:48
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Jay Fred appending the following long list of nested names: Hokey smokes! That's a long list--for which I commend and thank thee. Some preliminary thoughts. I deliberately did n…
21 Jun 2002, 17:18
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Jeff Wilson quoting me first, then appending: "For starters the names "Juturna" and "Idas" derive from classical mythology, and if we adhere to Wolfe's rule of names--a rule I be…
19 Jun 2002, 17:25
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The landbound Blattid arguing: "The undines, as near as can be told, _are_ homo sapiens -- they are more advanced cases of the process to which Baldanders has been subjecting hims…
17 Jun 2002, 22:54
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Blattid having rebutted: No argument there, and I should probably have used something a little more qualitative like "according to non-canon tradition" or "according to the Book o…
31 May 2002, 06:10
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The cockroach having written: It's from the Book of Jubilees (Chapter 4: Verse 9): "And in the sixth week [Adam] begat his daughter Azura. And Cain took Awan his sister to be his…
30 May 2002, 05:55
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More "Tracking Song" thoughts, this time on Cim Glowing. Though he risks his life to save Cim Glowing, Cutthroat may be making a signally bad choice, since she is clearly allied a…
29 May 2002, 17:29
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Lots and lots of commentary on "Tracking Song" in the early days of the list, but not much since, so I thought I'd upload my own interpretation. Is it possible that Gene Wolfe, dr…
29 May 2002, 06:07
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Lots and lots of commentary on "Tracking Song" in the early days of the list, but not much since, so I thought I'd upload my own interpretation. Is it possible that Gene Wolfe, dr…
29 May 2002, 06:05
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A few random notes from my weekend reread of _Free Live Free_ that may still be pertinent, the vast majority of what I would have said having already been duly noted, primarily by …
28 May 2002, 04:07
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Rostrum writing:…
14 May 2002, 21:39
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hartshorn having attempted to throttle my base 9 theory thusly: "The children are in their childish way making mistakes." "By the way 7 + 17 = 25 in base 9" Yes. But if indeed t…
12 May 2002, 06:54
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In _Nightside the Long Sun_, on p. 29, Wolfe has Maytera Marble presiding over a mathematics lesson, "watching the children take nineteen from twenty-nine and get nine, add seven a…
11 May 2002, 18:07
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On Wed, 8 May 2002 09:55:58 -0800 (PDT) David DiGiacomo wrote: Re: Ardis Dahl: American Monster : ("I would therefore like to suggest something else to you. Is it possible that w…
09 May 2002, 15:58
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Last of my posts on Wolfe's superlative "Seven American Nights." Both Joan Gordon and Kathryn Locey, in their analyses of "Seven American Nights," are able to find elements of hop…
08 May 2002, 04:41
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It is only at the end of "Seven American Nights" that Nadan Jaffarzadeh is finally able to glimpse the totally-revealed body of his lover, Ardis Dahl, and this act in itself requir…
07 May 2002, 04:34
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Possibly Gene Wolfe's best work of short fiction is "Seven American Nights." Certainly it's one of my favorites. But how, given that Nadan's journal only chronicles six nights, ar…
06 May 2002, 06:42
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Jerry F. having opined: "Wolfe could easily provide us with certain evidence of the abos if he wanted to. Just as an example, when Marsch meets Trenchard, he could note, 'This old…
02 May 2002, 04:26
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More mini-reviews of some of Wolfe's uncollected short fiction, or as I've taken to calling them, lupets. "Eleventh City." The fourth of Wolfe's Sam Cooper stories, featuring an i…
28 Apr 2002, 18:52
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hartshorn having rather unprudishly pondered: "When Marsh remarks that the boy is "uncut" and *therefore* when he was with the girl, would "bind", or something like that (sorry I …
27 Apr 2002, 18:49
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Tony Ellis having written this about the Annese's lack of manual dexterity: "I go for explanation 2: the Annese had the ability, but lost it, and cannot recover it due to Dollo's …
26 Apr 2002, 18:46
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Hey, Tony: How goes it? I have a question for you relating to the following: While admitting that almost all of the evidence about the Annese having shapeshifting abilities is …
25 Apr 2002, 08:14
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Good news, my brother and sister Lupophiles. GW has finished the first draft of his next novel, The WIZARD KNIGHT, and is now about 130 pages into the second draft. Because of its…
20 Jun 2001, 12:07
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Quoth the newly-monickered Sepia: <Believing that the inhumi can only breed on Green implies that the Neigbors have to return to replenish their "stock," or that they have found s…
03 May 2001, 12:30
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Dr. Nick has written: <A few months ago, I urged Ellen Datlow to run a Gene Wolfe story on SCI FICTION, and lo--whether because of my suggestion or without reference to it--she ha…
26 Apr 2001, 12:28
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Nacre has written: <Also, as I recall (and I'm afraid that I don't have the book here for reference, so we'll have to depend on my recollection), Fava had to be very careful not t…
26 Apr 2001, 01:18
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Nick Gevers has written the following: <Mora isn't travelling astrally in the same manner as Horn--she's doing, with or without Fava, what Mucor does, possessing others. Perhaps F…
23 Apr 2001, 11:04
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The water rat, Dan'l D'Tree and Kevin M. all contributing to the following thread: <I wondered about that. Do Horn's sons ever initiate travel on their own? If not, then I've alre…
21 Apr 2001, 00:56
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The sharp-sighted Kevin M. writing: <If Pig is 22 feet tall, it's hard to imagine that one of Silk|Horn's eyes would fit into his eye sockets.> I think 22 feet is a little tall m…
20 Apr 2001, 13:23
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Kevin M. writing: <<...just as others believe ... that Silk has committed suicide or accidentally bled to dead from cuts inflicted during the grieving process.>> <Does anyone bel…
20 Apr 2001, 13:17
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Nutria dipping his ratty tail into electric ink and writing: <Surely you don't still maintain this? If so, you should take up the arguments presented against it. Also, since you n…
19 Apr 2001, 20:46
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