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Andrew asked: ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been truncated, as it exceeded the maximum size of 0k as specified by the system ad…
18 Apr 2002, 18:37
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Date: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:00 PM Even if what you wrote isn't true, it ought to be. That's brilliant. -Roy…
16 Apr 2002, 00:26
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Date: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:28 AM I won't argue with that, because I can't; you're right. Geritol-stage? Damn it, Marc, at the end of RTTW Silk is only about twenty years olde…
16 Apr 2002, 00:26
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Date: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:22 PM About three ... Did you hear that, sir?'" (pg 407 SFBC BOTSS, toward the end of Chapter 19 IGJ) How long does it take Silk to get from that …
09 Apr 2002, 20:01
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Date: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:21 AM Three years have passed for the narrator, but only two have passed for the people on Blue ( I think). If we want to, we can see this as a t…
09 Apr 2002, 08:10
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"We know that conjunctions with Green occur every sixth year." (OBW, 182) "There is argument about the length of the year here, and how well it agrees with the year we knew in the…
09 Apr 2002, 07:35
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Date: Saturday, April 06, 2002 10:41 PM "Green came up, bigger and brighter than we ever see it on Blue. Or want to, either." (pg 714 in SFBC BOTSS, chapter 17) He is talking ab…
08 Apr 2002, 19:46
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Marc wrote: He doesn't say that it is "much bigger", nor was he looking at Lune. He was on Blue and looking at Green. What he says is: "Our Green is not as big as theirs, but ours…
06 Apr 2002, 21:25
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Date: Sunday, March 31, 2002 4:15 PM deal. He reacts strongly to the face and thinks it might be driftwood, providing a weird rationale when he already has an excuse in the form …
01 Apr 2002, 05:26
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Date: Saturday, March 30, 2002 1:01 AM Marc wrote: [snip] ------------------------------------------- Read this passage again, as well: Think of a whorl so old that even its season…
31 Mar 2002, 08:12
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Date: Friday, March 29, 2002 11:06 AM Marc wrote, in part: --------------------------------------------- The trees are in cahoots with Horn, and therefore empathize with his goal a…
30 Mar 2002, 18:17
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Huh? I don't follow that. Gagliardo's numbers don't say anything about the length of either body's solar orbit that I can see. His numbers indicate that at your position A the two …
29 Mar 2002, 05:44
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TWO YEARS or THREE YEARS? you can't get the same number in the text. Conjunction has happened. More time dilation? How long has Horn been gone?<< As I said before, three years, a…
26 Mar 2002, 20:25
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Marc quoted me: ------------------- "? When Horn first met the Neighbors, and they formally turned over possession of Blue to him as representative of all the people, the Neighbor…
19 Mar 2002, 07:19
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that the Vanished People originated on Green before destroying "[Silk's] friends" and moving to Blue<< ? When Horn first met the Neighbors, and they formally turned over possessio…
18 Mar 2002, 22:32
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Andy Robertson opined: [snip] And Grant Peacock added: I don't want to get into the Blue=Ushas debate, but Lune didn't go anywhere. It came up as usual--only much brighter--the f…
12 Mar 2002, 06:26
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But in the end Lonnie underwent a battlefield conversion; when push came to shove, he decided that to kill was better than to die. He was gung-ho at the end, mowing down the enemy …
07 Mar 2002, 06:50
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Precisely. You have just restated my case. Redemption and retribution come to the same thing in this case. As I quoted before: "The death agonies of the world you know will be off…
07 Mar 2002, 06:49
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If Revenge for what? Typhon didn't want to pull the Temple down; he wanted to create a new empire with Urth, the ancestral home of mankind, as its symbolic center. He would have b…
04 Mar 2002, 21:59
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I agree. Not only is there no apparent motivation; I doubt that Typhon had the ability. Technology on Urth in Typhon's day was considerably more advanced than in Severian's, but wa…
04 Mar 2002, 07:09
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mantis quoted: [snip] I have to agree with mantis that, in the absence of clearer indications that the supernatural is involved, we have to look to a "realism" interpretation. […
23 Feb 2002, 03:15
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Yes, nihilism. There seems to be consensus that, if Clio is an agent of the rebels, her suicide, with or without taking Peters with her, makes no sense. We see very little of the o…
21 Feb 2002, 08:32
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I really enjoyed the Huddleston interview, and there are a lot of things that can be discussed about it, but the one thing that struck me hardest was that Wolfe now has a computer …
21 Feb 2002, 07:18
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It doesn't make sense to me either; as you have pointed out, if Clio is a rebel with the cause, she is more valuable to the cause alive than Peters is, dead or alive. The reactions…
20 Feb 2002, 02:26
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I hope I don't get bit again, but I don't *think* these are "real" books. And I suspect that there are quite a few more candidates in Wolfe's fiction. From TIODDAOSAOS: In "The D…
20 Oct 2001, 00:27
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From PEACE: (p.-160, Berkley) OH, RARE AMANDA (a biography, author unknown) By Amanda Ros: IRENE IDDESLEIGH DELINA DELANEY DONALD DUDLEY FUMES OF FORMATION (poetry) POEMS O…
13 Jun 2001, 01:00
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Well, Mitc...er...Talarican, are you compiling these IAQ's somewhere? How can it be the "final installment"? Because your list is hardly exhaustive. I could add some more, as doubt…
22 Apr 2001, 18:05
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As long as we're making commercial endorsements here, I might as well chime in. I, too, did a bit of proofreading for the PEACE chapbook, and, other than an unsolicited mention wit…
18 Apr 2001, 00:04
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<<I don't think this is correct. On p. 12 (Harper & Row) Weer says: "I begin to go through my pants pockets looking for the knife; it is not there, and I remember that I have stop…
18 Nov 2000, 03:06
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Adam asked about Weer's family fortunes and, again, I had a piece more or less prepared that touches on the subject, and a few more things as well, so I may as well post it now. It…
09 Nov 2000, 00:30
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Wouldn't you know it; I just happened to have a piece more or less prepared on this topic! Unfortunately, it repeats some of the points mentioned by mantis, but I'm too lazy to cha…
27 Oct 2000, 13:55
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mantis writes: <<What a day that was for President Den: Bill Batton with his clockwork orange, er, clockwork elephant; Eleanor Bold with her rather ominous request to plant a tree…
26 Oct 2000, 14:30
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mantis wrote: <<Crafty Roy seems to be saying that the memory mansion was begun on the grounds and form of Olivia's house. Outrageous!>> <<Or sneaky Roy might be saying that the…
25 Oct 2000, 01:36
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mantis wrote: [snip] [snip] A minor quibble: My take on the earthquake is the exact opposite of that; the earthquake was the effect, not the cause, of the energy exchange. S…
02 Dec 1999, 00:33
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mantis, Yes, that occurred to me, too. I wonder if Dorcas's basket was the same color. <g> It was just an aside, leading to this question: Where was Severian born? He states than …
09 Nov 1999, 02:17
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ended our dry patch; I'm also gratified that mantis agrees with me in part, a rare event. But to take up the cudgel again: I still contend that Inire's description of the working o…
02 Nov 1999, 02:10
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I'm glad to see amid all this discussion of authors, writing styles, influences, and contributions to literature, in and out of the genre, Heinlein get some credit. The younger lis…
28 Oct 1999, 01:30
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alga wrote: [snip] [snip] How can I possibly argue with that!? <g> I surrender my sword, for... "Where in dreams I have not wandered, my heart is slow to go." Roy…
28 Oct 1999, 01:25
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I thought the question of whether the Commonwealth was in the Southern Hemisphere or not was settled. It is in the Southern Hemisphere, and there's no doubt about it. In addition t…
27 Oct 1999, 02:22
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First of all, welcome to Daniel Fusch! Most of the questions you raised have been addressed elsewhere in the archives. Note that I didn't say they had been answered. <g> Actually, …
22 Oct 1999, 01:30
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My Dorcas post was more a case of speculating in public than anything else. I don't see any good reason, in the context of TBOTNS, for Dorcas to be a vampire, either, and I am cert…
03 Oct 1999, 00:26
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Roy's estimate for Dorcas is plausible, although I tend to suspect that she looks younger than she is, and this has lowered Agia's estimate (she also has some motive for (a) jealou…
02 Oct 1999, 04:30
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The fauna and flora of the Commonwealth are all South American, but not all of South America is in the Southern Hemisphere. When Severian is walking along the coast in _Citadel_, c…
23 Aug 1999, 01:05
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mantis, Actually, your definition of the Harvest Moon is incorrect. As stated, the Harvest Moon could occur as late as October 21 (in the Northern Hemisphere), which is not so. Th…
12 Aug 1999, 06:45
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alga: Thanks for taking an interest in the subject. And, as I said, there's a lot more of it in the NEW SUN books, more than is commonly realized, else someone would have writ…
23 Jul 1999, 23:48
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Remember how Uncle Gene says in CASTLE OF THE OTTER (eaten by CASTLE OF DAYS) that the enamel of the pictures in the religious book link to the enamel work sold by Dorcas and done …
08 Jul 1999, 06:52
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he's on Earth, rather than some very odd colony world. His knowledge is obviously based on reading the odd glyphs (there must be mirror-teleporters all over the galaxy). Perhaps th…
23 Jun 1999, 16:55
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mantis, To which you replied: he I took "the one" to refer to the "crimson teratoid sign" on the door. My mistake. You have written: I don't think it does. Why should …
23 Jun 1999, 16:21
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Actually, it's less than obvious from the text that the teratoid sign is what prompted Jonas to say that. He had been walking with Sev like, well, the automaton that he is. The cri…
22 Jun 1999, 15:52
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I think the all-too-human tendency to anthropomorphize is evident both in Wolfe's writing about Jonas and our speculations about him. Ascribing human emotions such as "shock", "agi…
12 Jun 1999, 00:34
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