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No, no. Sinew was conceived in the Calde's Palace on the _Whorl_. (EXODUS, 384) Marrow had nothing to do with it. -Roy…
21 Feb 2005, 22:46
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Yes, I've read it, but I'm somewhat biased. Here's a link to another opinion, a sample from the book, a review and the publisher. http://www.siriusfiction.com/ -Roy…
26 Jan 2005, 21:42
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Hey Ori, It's been years. Welcome back! -Roy…
12 Jan 2005, 21:20
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In LEXICON URTHUS, under the entry for "Magic in the Urth Cycle", Michael Andre-Driussi writes: --------------------------------------------- [t]here is no "magic" in the Urth Cycl…
07 Dec 2004, 22:11
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Just so. And Wolfe goes out of his way to make Apheta and her kind have no tongues. In Chapter XIX, aptly named "Silence", Apheta says: --------------------------------------------…
06 Dec 2004, 22:14
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--------------------------------------------------------- "Let me explain before we argue again. I hurt you. It is my right and duty to correct and chastise. Then I had joy of it.…
04 Dec 2004, 15:45
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I meant, of course, "His _conscience_ bothered him." Sheesh. -Roy…
04 Dec 2004, 09:39
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Crush queried: Yes. Ignore the book covers. I don't remember Horn's hair color, but it isn't white. This is what Horn looked like when he began his quest (It is, of course, Silkho…
06 Oct 2004, 22:42
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Okay, I'll bite. Which of the previous autarchs was Severian, and when? If you're referring to the "first Severian" scenario outlined by Sev on p.270 of CITADEL, that doesn't coun…
04 Oct 2004, 22:24
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If you're looking for internal inconsistencies in the Urth Cycle, here's another. Aquastor Malrubius told Sev, "If you pass -- if our race is judged ready to reenter the wide seas …
04 Oct 2004, 21:58
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No, no. The flood is world-wide. That's the whole point of it. As Tzadkiel said to Severian: "You are the New Sun. You will be returned to your Urth, and the White Fountain will g…
27 Sep 2004, 20:39
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[snip] If Typhon never lost consciousness during the operation, then I could agree. But I think it's almost 100% certain that he lost consciousness at some point, if not from anes…
07 Sep 2003, 05:13
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The most obvious analogy (but one which can't be ignored, given the title word "Exodus"), is with Aaron and Moses. The _Whorl_ was launched a thousand years before Sev was born. H…
06 Sep 2003, 15:46
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An insurmountable problem. Quetzal had been Prolocutor for more than thirty years, and it would have taken him years more to reach that position. Silk was 23 years old. It's not ph…
05 Sep 2003, 19:51
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Tisk, tisk. You're letting your pet theories ride roughshod over what the text actually says--or, sometimes, doesn't say--again. _Of course_ Silk eats in SS. To wit: "'I had resol…
22 Aug 2003, 06:35
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I assume that you meant a "Talus", not Dr. Talos. First of all, a talus is not a chem. A chem operates on nuclear power; a talus on fish oil. (EXODUS, 53) Second, taluses were made…
16 Aug 2003, 17:53
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Ashley Crill wrote: [amid much snippage] Nah. Silk and others from the airship saw the _Whorl_ and the Short Sun of the Blue-Green system from outside the ship when they visited M…
14 Aug 2003, 03:51
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As Dan'l also wrote in that post: I agree. Malrubius could not be Silk in actuality. Malrubius may have been some sort of mentor to Sev, but that's not saying much; Hitler also li…
22 Jul 2003, 05:18
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Since Sev wrote the whole thing there are, of course, no independent accounts of an event also related by Sev to compare. In fact, I can recall only one scene in which another char…
15 Jul 2003, 04:50
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Crush said it for me. Perhaps all of the discrepancies I and others have pointed out over the years are just mistakes made by Wolfe. He makes mistakes. But Wolfe is also subtle. He…
11 Jul 2003, 07:56
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Yes, I agree that Wolfe didn't intend his answer to be taken in other than its most figurative sense. Neither do I think that his answer is sufficient grounds to try to establish …
11 Jul 2003, 04:05
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Okay, I'll bite. It must be coincidence, because a nod to a Wolfe story in a magazine like that would go unnoticed. Who among it's readers would ever have read 7AN--besides you? -…
02 Jul 2003, 04:01
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Amen! I don't think I've ever been so entirely in agreement with Dan'l about anything so much as his eloquent defense of a man who shouldn't need defending. Perhaps the most consp…
19 Apr 2003, 04:04
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William Ansley, first quoting mimosa: --------------------------------- Interesting, indeed: I thought it was just me. The books share similar geography (NYC and a mysterious, ru…
13 Apr 2003, 22:16
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NOTE: Dan'l is apparently having some sort of difficulty affecting his ability to post to the list, so he responded to my post offlist. The text between the dashed lines is his. N…
13 Mar 2003, 19:26
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Don wrote, in part: is a clone of the monarch Typhon << Had Silk been a clone of Typhon, then Silk would have looked exactly like him (at least as Typhon looked before he acquire…
08 Mar 2003, 06:58
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Silk did more than flinch--he nearly jumped, from the airship. I agree with Adam that the Hy Silk fell in love with--at their first meeting--didn't really exist. It didn't take Sil…
21 Feb 2003, 07:16
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Men No, I wasn't thinking of eunuchs. I meant it metaphorically. The book specifically links Lara to Attis, so we have no choice but to see her as Cybele, though we both agree tha…
09 Feb 2003, 09:14
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I hadn't really thought about _why_ the nurse would help him. She risked her job, her car, and possible criminal charges. Motherhood seems a compelling reason; I just hope she wasn…
09 Feb 2003, 09:14
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In an earlier post you thought North wanted to kill Lara. (He had his chance, btw, in the locker room before the big boxing match. He was armed.) Rivals in such mythological strugg…
08 Feb 2003, 08:04
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And just to confuse things further; when they were in the limo Tina said to Klamm, speaking of Green: "He needs your help, Papa." Klamm matter-of-factly answers her: "Then he shall…
28 Jan 2003, 08:14
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Paradox indeed. I don't see how Tina could ever have been Lara's doll. The timetable for technological development aside, and ignoring effect preceding cause, the girl Tina belonge…
22 Jan 2003, 07:16
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Probably because it isn't there. Specific Otherworld dates (including month name, 294, and number, 128,130) are given several times in the book. The calendar in the Otherworld is t…
22 Jan 2003, 07:16
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OTOH, in Green's world, "The city was far enough south that really severe winter weather was exceptional." (214) Yet the two worlds _have_ to share the same geography. The bad wint…
18 Jan 2003, 04:44
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Oh, no! Not you, too! <g> You have noted Graves' position vis-a-vis earth and sky; needless to say, Graves' sympathies were with the goddess. Wolfe's, needless to say, are with th…
15 Jan 2003, 07:47
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Just a bit of fatherly hubris. My son, Sean, is a friend of the artist, John Picacio, who did the dust jacket illustration and design. Sean was involved with the digital photograph…
13 Jan 2003, 20:30
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Take a look at the credits on the back, inside flap of the dust jacket. -Roy…
12 Jan 2003, 04:45
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Screwed it up how? Typhon was already besieged on his mountain when Sev arrived in his timeline. Sev was there for less than a week. The sun had already been wounded, all the space…
05 Jan 2003, 18:30
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You put that in quotes. As if it came from the text. It doesn't. Severian's entire meeting with Typhon runs from page 184 to page 197 of SWORD, Timescape hardback, 170-182 paper. H…
05 Jan 2003, 09:33
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Nigel asked: He posted the contents in September. Here: < http://urth.net/urth/archives/v0209/1771.txt.shtml > "Queen" is in it. It's pretty short. It may be the simplest story …
03 Jan 2003, 06:14
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purification and renewal, and hints that the Urth will be flooded. He knows a lot more than anyone else, including Severian - he knows exactly who the conciliator is.<< Typhon sa…
30 Dec 2002, 23:41
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For Christmas I received a copy of SHELF LIFE, a collection of stories about bookstores. Edited by Greg Ketter, introduction by Neil Gaiman. It contains the new story "From the Cra…
26 Dec 2002, 20:38
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Okay, I understand your reasoning. It's based primarily on this paragraph: "If you're wondering where the general is now, let me assure you he's gone. Not vanished because I'm…
14 Dec 2002, 07:45
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They were warming up the plane's engines at the time the four were being collected at the airfield (end of ch. 51, beginning of ch. 54). So, the crew started out from 1983, and the…
12 Dec 2002, 21:56
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The crew does know when they are; they say so, and this is *after* they have de-coupled from HC and are gliding down to earth. The hypothetical projected field of the gizmo must no…
12 Dec 2002, 06:44
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I can't address the OZ stuff, so just a few notations. Pink is often mentioned in connection with Candy, especially her hands. She was wearing a garish pink robe in the morning bef…
11 Dec 2002, 06:46
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the world come to when a Wolfe mailing list is used to pull off an identity scam in Nigeria? It's kind of fitting. I had a similar message in my individual inbox last week, from …
10 Dec 2002, 20:48
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You keep trying to put words in my mouth that I never said, or even implied. What I actually said, a week ago, was: In both posts I said that Marble lied. I said she lied because …
04 Dec 2002, 23:26
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Hint: Hammerstone was a soldier; Viron was at war. Marble was captured and placed aboard the airship, along with Silk. She never saw Hammerstone after that, because she went on th…
04 Dec 2002, 19:40
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Dan'l quoted: "EXACTLY" would take some serious establishing. I accept it as likely, though; it seems to suit the situation.<< I would add that Sev's "drowning" in the Gyoll obvi…
03 Dec 2002, 23:05
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