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"A thousand ages in thy sight / Are like an evening gone; / Short as the watch that ends the night / Before the rising sun." The Shadow of the Torturer. Goodnight, Gene. Here is…
16 Apr 2019, 20:56
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I was reading *Rosemary's Baby* recently and bumped into a reference to one Thomas Weir, an infamous witch. There was an interesting tale associated with him that I thought releva…
01 Jun 2018, 19:38
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I've been thinking about this for a bit and am not really clear what you mean by the dreaminess of the scene with Cathy Ruth and the gnome-jeweler who exclaims about Bax's sapphire…
10 May 2018, 18:52
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I just received my copy of William T. Vollmann's *No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies* and was pleasantly surprised to find one of my top-five favorite writers quo…
23 Apr 2018, 15:54
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I must say Eric that your thoughts about Cassie Casey are unusual. I find it most peculiar to take political and cultural stances towards information conveyed about a character in…
20 Mar 2018, 17:17
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It struck me that you used the word "jackpot" here. There is a bit in the book that has always given me the fuddles: "That girl wouldn't have unlocked the door for Jacob, Jack Po…
16 Mar 2018, 20:20
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This story continues to bug me but I really haven't come up with a way to make my theory really hang together as well as it should. — The more Wolfe I have read, the more I see you…
28 Apr 2015, 21:20
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I can say fairly certainly that Chris is not Blackbeard. Textual evidence strongly suggests that? *Pirate Freedom* takes place (in its bulk) in the late 1670's. Edward Teach is g…
28 Apr 2015, 20:26
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I may have overstepped in saying that Scelorderma's account had made into *The Book of the Long Sun* and saying that parts of the book were from the pens of others. “What I more pr…
05 Apr 2015, 23:12
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I was struck by the term "faithless door" in the passage describingSeverian's mausoleum " . . . it was the smallness of the room, thethick walls of masonry, and the single, narrow …
21 Nov 2014, 15:16
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The following passage from *Robinson Crusoe* could be one of the seeds of this story: ?As the bear is a heavy, clumsy creature, and does not gallop as the wolf does, who is swift …
21 Nov 2014, 15:04
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Marc: in your write-up, you are discussing the character Eugene Fine and say "he is the reason that the creativity meeting must be held at" but you do not complete the sentence. W…
08 Oct 2014, 15:53
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Marc Aramini wrote on October 7, 2014: "Off topic, your input on volksweapon from a few months ago .. It is verysuspicious that the hero wants to leave the dead girl alone, and th…
08 Oct 2014, 14:27
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My posts in October haven't been showing up in the October 2014 Archive thread. Anyone know why?…
07 Oct 2014, 16:59
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Gwern Branwen wrote: "Where does Kim Stanley Robinson say this?" It comes from the blurb he provided for the back cover of the hardcover edition of Exodus from the Long Sun: "Exo…
12 Aug 2014, 21:06
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Marc Aramini wrote: ?"I do have a desire to clear up the oft said but hard for me to verify idea that the quote describing Mars is actually from Macbeth."? Joan Gordon’s book Gene…
06 Aug 2014, 19:24
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I'm working my way from the beginning of Marc's thoughtful posts on the short stories and have been thinking a bit about "The Changeling". I think that the difficulty in interpreti…
18 Jul 2014, 21:26
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Marc Aramini wrote: ". . . in general Wolfe’s mysteries are fun for the small mechanical details of the guns and the engineer’s understanding of placement and construction that mak…
03 Jul 2014, 01:53
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It seems likely that “Philo Queen” is indeed a combination of Philo Vance and Ellery Queen as noted by Gerry Quinn back on March 24, 2012, but even if so, it must not have been a t…
26 Jun 2014, 16:46
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