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I probably shouldn't even ask, but **where, in or out of the whorl, did you get such an idea???** Sure, he met her, but not at Sun Street. Moly didn't work at a cenoby. She was a …
03 Dec 2002, 03:54
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One more time. Yes, Silk was clueless. So was Mint (see below). None of them knew, then, that the Ayuntamiento was composed of chems, or of Tarsier's engineering abilities, abiliti…
02 Dec 2002, 19:44
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I'm going to try to work out a personal chronology for Whitten/Free from the time he set up camp at the Magic Carpet until his death. I think we're roughly in agreement on the basi…
02 Dec 2002, 07:50
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I didn't miss it. Silk is a 23-year old mama's boy, a year-and-a-half out of the seminary. His ignorance is encyclopedic. At that point in the story he thinks old-time pictures and…
28 Nov 2002, 02:51
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Marble did get both her hands from Rose. Rose didn't receive all her prosthetics at the same time, that's all; she would have scared the hell out of that boy if she had. Much of he…
26 Nov 2002, 19:46
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Ah. It's from when Marble was killing Musk, LS3: 3. "Her hands, the bony blue-veined hands of an elderly bio, glowed crimson in the flames." As for the rest . . . I'll save it for…
26 Nov 2002, 06:09
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I wasn't really prepared for this, but . . . I think all that Free meant was that he was literally too old and sick to derive any benefit from using the gizmo again; after all, th…
26 Nov 2002, 06:08
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Crush quotes and writes: The fact remains that, regardless of who paid for the parts, Rose was "largely prosthetic" when she died. All things feminine were deliberately and active…
23 Nov 2002, 04:56
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Crush asks: Exactly. She was in her mid-to-late forties when she got that hand and arm. (Blood was born when she was forty; she lost touch with the foster mother when Blood was ni…
22 Nov 2002, 00:18
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Dan'l quoted: it seems to me that the common factor between Jonas and Jolenta -- aside from their names beginning with the syllable "Jo" -- would consist in their both having an a…
18 Nov 2002, 20:21
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Thanks for taking the question. I would only add that, in the wake of Einstein's (and other's) theories, such theoretical considerations spawned someone to pen a limerick several g…
18 Nov 2002, 19:09
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Silkhorn speaking: "As for me, I have walked with them, and sat with them around their fire. Thus I know that they exist. They have gone elsewhere--found a new home circling anothe…
17 Nov 2002, 18:37
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Welcome, Chris I agree that FTL travel for the _Whorl_ is very doubtful. Anyway, the usual take on FTL ships is that they travel *backwards* in time. Therefore the arrival of the …
17 Nov 2002, 09:11
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Rather than argue the nuts-and-bolts, let me address the thematic objections. As you acknowledge, the galaxy had been conquered long ago by the First Empire. The effect of Urth bei…
16 Nov 2002, 05:48
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the universe causes the brain abnormality or heightened consciousness that allows Silk a communion with the Outsider - he has re-entered time - perhaps Pas planned it so that when …
15 Nov 2002, 21:01
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and makes it real by manifesting himself in her past. In a way, it's kind of Philip K. Dickish - Silk's dreams affect the past. Reality depends on his mind. Perhaps he is a bit …
13 Nov 2002, 07:49
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Don Doggett: First of all, I would like to welcome you to the list, if I may so presume. Whether I agree with your theories or not, I like your style and ability to express yoursel…
12 Nov 2002, 09:21
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The Correct, the gizmo was built into the back (kitchen) door of his house. Note the morning glories visible outside that door when he swept the kitchen floor near the beginning o…
10 Nov 2002, 07:35
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Joe wrote: [snip] purposes of the gods in Mainframe really is. Scylla is portrayed as having many arms -- Why, when obviously she didn't on Urth. So, why?<< [snip] Typhon's fir…
09 Nov 2002, 19:48
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It's a bug!! Yes, and that's the problem! "The face--the face!", as he put it. "The face would be lost, and it is the face that men are accustomed to obey!" To his way of thinking…
09 Nov 2002, 05:20
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No, he doesn't. Having been blind from birth, the scan of Tartaros is limited by the biological abilities of the brain he was born with. Knowledge he acquired after birth becomes …
08 Nov 2002, 20:18
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IIRC, past ages of Urth were marked by the depletion of some natural resource, e.g., copper, uranium, etc., or am I confusing some other book with the NS? IIRC, then much of Urth's…
08 Nov 2002, 05:24
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Sorry. It was a common Christian perception I wrote of, not mine. I have no preference among religions. Yes, and this brings up some interesting questions about exactly when, wher…
07 Nov 2002, 20:43
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[snip] I take it that we agree that Kate never kept a diary? Let me see if I understand you correctly. I don't understand your emphasis on the importance of the tryst, but we agr…
01 Nov 2002, 21:11
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Interesting slip you made there; I wonder if alga appreciates it? <g> -Roy…
01 Nov 2002, 17:53
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Like mantis, I don't think Weer murdered her, and the way the text reads doesn't seem to indicate that he killed her accidentally, either. She told him why she had the gun *after* …
01 Nov 2002, 09:43
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Correct. But, according to the web site mantis found, the Bell Witch was never buried, so there never was a tombstone. Margaret was just putting Den on. Not to mention that Roberts…
30 Oct 2002, 20:43
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In the further cause of pedantry, I should point out that there doesn't seem to have been a coffin, any more than there had been a strongbox. The text reads: "My shovel had struck …
30 Oct 2002, 20:15
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My senility is getting worse; I don't remember volunteering for anything! <g> However, if I've been dragooned . . . Halfheartedly I parry: didn't Wolfe write somewhere that PEACE …
30 Oct 2002, 04:52
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She's referring, I believe, to Peacock's question in the preceding paragraph. Answering his question, actually, which was: "Do you think Alden here realizes that this is the oldest…
29 Oct 2002, 08:11
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The two "facts" were the two you alleged and which I quoted. These two: "The fact that Poppy lied about knowing him shows that she, like Musk, is a Trivigaunte spy." and ""Civet" i…
28 Oct 2002, 20:41
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Thanks, Mark. -Roy…
28 Oct 2002, 20:38
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No, I don't recall that anyone has. Great find! The two "letters" might be summed up as pointing the moral that "virtue is its own reward" (as regards the original question addres…
28 Oct 2002, 08:10
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I found the definitive answer, and the friend _is_ Auk. It's in chapter 5 of LAKE (111, paper), right after Auk met Silk and Chenille in the arbor at Sun Street: "Auk was seated n…
24 Oct 2002, 20:50
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Just a few observations. My page numbers are for the Berkley paperback. Den was about 6-and-a-half (May to December) years old that Christmas. (17) You forgot the famous egg! (10…
24 Oct 2002, 19:10
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Granted. But if she had been looking at three sailors who were obviously robots (whether the slender type in URTH or those that looked like Sidero), then her statement that they ar…
24 Oct 2002, 05:41
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Crush asked: Joe gave the correct answer for the first question. I don't think there is an answer to the third. Even though Silk knows, intellectually, that Marble is a machine, h…
24 Oct 2002, 05:01
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What, then, is the relevance of Arabella's magazine article to Weer? I mean, most, if not all, of the imbedded stories in PEACE, ghostly or not, can be shown to have some bearing o…
22 Oct 2002, 07:58
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Whoa, now! Since when did Santa Claus get to be a ghost?! I posted about the switch two years ago. Teenage Den was right about who switched the gifts--it was his grandfather, for …
22 Oct 2002, 05:12
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I think she is pulling his leg, just as she clearly was about the faces on the Chinese teapot. It's the reverse of the country bumpkin in the big city; the girl from the country is…
21 Oct 2002, 22:06
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Sheesh. Sorry, mantis. I sent my reply to David DiGiacomo's post on the same mail send/receive session that I received your reply to the same post. The similarities are uncanny. -…
21 Oct 2002, 05:40
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Remember the infamous "leather-covered couch"? Weer wondered ". . .if Mr. Macafee had ever been able to explain to himself why my aunt, who had been impossible of access before her…
21 Oct 2002, 05:17
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mantis writes: Those "cousins" he mentioned would have been his own age. We know almost nothing about Smart's life beyond the few autobiographical details he divulges in the cour…
19 Oct 2002, 07:17
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Adam wrote: [snip] Perhaps; it's just that I have a hard time believing that a man would willingly leave his estate to someone he wouldn't even speak to. I wouldn't allow it to ha…
18 Oct 2002, 21:46
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That "most famous of all his portraits" is presumably the one he posed for in 1810, also painted by Jacques Louis David, court painter to the Emperor of the French. It shows him wi…
16 Oct 2002, 16:47
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So what is the joke? We know that Wolfe has a warped sense of humor, and that Jonas is telling the joke. It only dawned on me today that the woman's last line is also the punch lin…
16 Oct 2002, 16:47
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alga asks: No, he doesn't. At least there is no mention of one in the text. Why? -Roy…
16 Oct 2002, 03:45
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mantis writes: That sort of thing has happened to me far too often on this list; someone beating me to the punch, but "delightful" is not the word I would choose to describe my re…
15 Oct 2002, 05:57
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The plant existed before Weer went to work there, so whether or not he was the longest-tenured employee, after Smart, I couldn't say. But in any event, succession to ownership of a…
14 Oct 2002, 05:31
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I wrote, twice no less: That should have been "booger-picking", alas. My mistake. Sheesh. -Roy…
10 Oct 2002, 04:32
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