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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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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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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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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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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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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, 06:05
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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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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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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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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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Rostrum writing: <I thought the main objection to the godlings is that in Act 1 (New Sun) the author goes into detail about why anything that big would have to live in the sea or …
19 Apr 2001, 13:20
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Here's another little mystery from ON BLUE'S WATERS. While at sea, sailing to Pajarocu, with Babbie and Seawrack aboard, Horn records the following encounter during a storm with a…
16 Apr 2001, 00:58
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William Ansley, in a curmudgeonly mode, having written: <What do I mean by "loose ends"? Well, if I had the time and energy (which I currently do not and almost certainly will not…
08 Apr 2001, 02:47
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Adam-the-Greek conjecturing: <(Or are there six passengers? Babbie is present at the meeting with Daisy, and if my theory is correct the writer of the last paragraph could have s…
31 Mar 2001, 13:47
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Some random thoughts about Pajarocu, the phantom town. The name apparently derives from pajarraco, Spanish for 'mysterious bird' (pàjaro = bird), which ties in with Wijzer's littl…
29 Mar 2001, 20:49
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Crateowl having come out of the dark woods long enough to post: <I don't know what to make of the fact that the Neighbour said his name was also Horn. The only (I think) other Nei…
28 Mar 2001, 00:34
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Here's another little scene from the Short Sun troika I'm puzzling over. Horn has transported himself, Fava, and a number of Soldese from a snowy hillside on Blue to a prison cell…
26 Mar 2001, 14:05
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Shellac having gracefully conceded the following: <Okay, point taken. I remembered the line about "holy slave" after I posted. I suppose the only legs that the Cumaean-as-Inhuma h…
24 Mar 2001, 00:53
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Shellac, having inhaled a little too much of himself in a closed room, writing: <But more importantly, why do you and everyone else cling to this notion that Seawrack was given to…
22 Mar 2001, 01:25
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Some more questions for those of you arguing that the Mother and Greater Scylla of Urth are from the same, galaxy-conquering, bad-ass family of aliens who all speak the same lingua…
16 Mar 2001, 11:28
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Adam S. again, asking: <What, then, is your interpretation of Horn's statement "I asked the Greater Scylla on the Red Sun Whorl how I could find Seawrack again. She taught me how …
15 Mar 2001, 12:49
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First up, re the Neighbors having two heads: of course, I misread my own argument from my original post about Pas-as-alien ("Typhon's Home: Pas as Neighbor," Vol. 11). What I faile…
13 Mar 2001, 12:13
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Adam S., in a non-confused mode, professing: <I may be missing something again, but I don't see the problem here. The Mother is a goddess of the Neighbors; why wouldn't she have b…
12 Mar 2001, 23:39
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Patera Nutria, my fellow quinquagenarian, having asked: <3. I cannot recall evidence that Neighbors have two heads. Neither Babbie nor any of the other indigenous lifeforms of Blu…
12 Mar 2001, 23:19
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First Alex Groce wrote: <Fine and well, but you still haven't dealt with the fact that when Severian meets Typhon in SWORD, Typhon doesn't remotely resemble a Neighbor, in any way…
12 Mar 2001, 17:00
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Skeptical Kevin M. having peed on my Pas-as-Neighbor speculations: <A. We don't know that there are. There's no evidence whatsoever to judge what criteria Typhon used to select th…
12 Mar 2001, 15:01
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Gamemeister Maroney (Unplugged) having asked: <Why would we believe that Pas is a Neighbor?> Well, as I've been arguing for some time now, I believe this notion answers more ques…
12 Mar 2001, 12:14
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BMeyer having pondered twicely: <I asked once before, but received no responses. What happened on p. 266-67 with Merryn and the dog? Jahlee says "Merryn had trouble with animals, …
10 Mar 2001, 14:42
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Lots of little mysteries in the SHORT SUN books. For instance: who is Colonel Terzo and why can he alone, of all the people that Horn encounters, hear Seawrack's distant singing? …
01 Mar 2001, 22:08
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vizcacha having written: <In fact, spinning this into more of an idea, what if Horn/Silk's wounds were made by a godling? I brought this idea up before but didn't have any idea fo…
26 Feb 2001, 16:40
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Several minutes ago, while waiting for the caffeine to suffuse its way through the blood-brain barrier, I wrote: <Then a couple of years later when this same man--or maybe it's no…
23 Feb 2001, 13:02
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No one seems to have liked my Kypris-Seawrack theory, so I've done a bit of retooling and have come up with the following alternative: Seawrack is driven from her underwater home …
23 Feb 2001, 12:34
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El cucaracha having written: <Tartaros is not only blind, was not only born blind, but is utterly and incurably and inalterably blind; even when riding/in possession of Auk, he ca…
21 Feb 2001, 22:21
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Patrick O'Leary having written: <3. Pig is not a godling. Think of difference between the two: One an artificial being (a combo of chem and Super Talus, I'd say) and a three dimen…
21 Feb 2001, 17:01
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Whatever happens to the entity I see variously as Pig, Babbie, or Tartaros? Given the multivalent and/or composite nature of many of the characters in SHORT SUN, this may not be al…
19 Feb 2001, 12:34
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Part IV of V-part Piggie Sequence; if you haven't read its predecessors you may be confused. One of the things I've always wondered about is the provenance of the ring given to Ho…
19 Feb 2001, 00:59
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Fernando Gouvea having written: <About the secret of the inhumi: can we trust the text here? Since Silk/Horn is writing a "public" document, might he have put down a bowdlerized v…
14 Feb 2001, 13:16
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Woo-hoo! I finally found the passage I was looking for in IGJ. What seems to have thrown many of us off in RTTW is that only Horn/Silk's arm injuries are mentioned when the farmer…
12 Feb 2001, 21:37
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For a long time now, and well before the publication of RTTW, I've been wondering if there might be a connection between Babbie the hus and the blind giant known as Pig. Part of th…
12 Feb 2001, 15:10
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