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Buckshot. The loden dress is in the text, like it or not. In the Rusterman conversation, Wolfe went out of his way to give the reader pause to wonder why and how there could be any…
21 Dec 2008, 21:19
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James Wynn quoted from two different paragraphs I wrote and tied them together with [...] (minus the brackets), which distorts the meaning: What I actually wrote was: [begin quote…
21 Dec 2008, 06:15
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The glamour was put on Cassie in Canada. Aaberg wasn't in a position to see the new Cassie. Before the glamour, Cassie was just a thirtyish, second-rate actress and no particular …
20 Dec 2008, 06:04
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There are two simple means to satisfy privacy conserns: 1) Don't talk to gossip reporters. 2) Stay out of the limelight. -Roy…
20 Dec 2008, 05:11
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Stupid me. Wolfe hid the answer in plain sight. In fairness to myself, my OED failed me. But when I complained to my wife about it after school today, she knew right off the defin…
19 Dec 2008, 23:33
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I was thinking that people who have been artificially enhanced in some way, like Cassie, are made to appear literally larger than life, so to speak. The height comparisons pop up t…
19 Dec 2008, 20:55
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He said he couldn't do it, but might be able to learn if he tried for a year or two. (196) My point is, yes, he thought he might be followed from the White House in the conventiona…
19 Dec 2008, 07:01
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Regardless of exactly when or why Reis had a change of heart, Cassie saw him in the audience and he stated at the cast party that he had seen the play. What reserved seat? The the…
18 Dec 2008, 22:26
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There is no basis, textual or otherwise, to suppose that Klauser served more than the usual 8 years for a political appointment made by a two-term president. I listed the order of …
17 Dec 2008, 07:31
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Why put himself in a position to be caught in a lie that served no purpose? Why did Wolfe put that bit of conversation in the story? I'm not familiar with Nero Wolfe, so I can't a…
14 Dec 2008, 22:29
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I mentioned that he might have thought that. Yeah, but it was Klauser who brought up the subject, and he brought it up *before* she said she wanted to bring back the Casey girl. I…
14 Dec 2008, 09:52
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I recently got around to reading AEG, then went back and read all the posts about it I had skipped. With those posts in mind--particularly Dave Tallman's, because he has done most …
12 Dec 2008, 05:59
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On a related note: I can't find it in the old archives for some reason, but I think I mentioned here six or seven years ago that Wolfe once appeared on the late Tom Snyder's old, l…
06 Dec 2008, 19:18
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I have a 60 minute mono audio cassette from American Audio Prose Library of a 1984 interview of Wolfe by Chris Merrick. -Roy…
06 Dec 2008, 08:11
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I can't speak for Wolfe, and I'm not a lawyer, but the holders of the copyrights for the audiobooks might well take exception. It might be worth checking into first. FWIW. -Roy…
06 Dec 2008, 05:52
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Persian, etc without having a perspective truly from their perspectives. Sure some of the hairsplitting of theology could get wonky, but the essence and spirit would not necessaril…
05 Dec 2008, 05:46
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I don't think the creature was Tzadkiel. Why kill Sev, just to bring him back on the sly? I have always thought that the winged creature was another assassination attempt by the fo…
04 Dec 2008, 07:59
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That's the essence of what I meant, that in Christian thought the birth, life, death and resurrection of a god who was God was a one-time event, a Big Deal, unlike the many "pagan"…
04 Dec 2008, 07:47
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Zak is just a splintered-off piece of Tzadkiel, like the tiny Tzadkiel beside the Brook who didn't know Severian's history because she was cut off from the main entity. Zak started…
04 Dec 2008, 07:05
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I don't want to dredge up the tired comparisons of Severian to Jesus or Christ to the Conciliator again. But I can't resist something I've pointed out before, something that seems …
03 Dec 2008, 09:43
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Yes, which is why I said what I said. Tzadkiel is the Hierogrammate who created the new body on the Ship. There were two bodies on the Ship. The dead one had written the first four…
03 Dec 2008, 05:20
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It was a new aquastor body made by the Hierogrammates. No. The first four books were written by the body that became autarch. The fifth book was written by the body created by the…
02 Dec 2008, 20:59
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style of writing may not be intentional. How much of it is just how he communicates?<< -------------------------------------- Oh, I think he does write that way deliberately. When…
28 Nov 2008, 23:17
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Absolutely not! -Roy…
26 Nov 2008, 05:08
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As for the issue of the Old Autarch being Thecla's father -- he cannot be her or Thea's biological father, as I've said before, and recently. It's this simple: Thecla is an exultan…
19 Nov 2008, 06:26
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what do you all make of the enigmatic reference at the beginning of Shadow Chapter X (The Last Year), where Severian and Roche are leaving the House Azure and the white-haired man …
13 Nov 2008, 18:36
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The "darkest night ever known" bit is a metaphor. Two page inches above the quote mentions "the hot sunshine streaming through the open door into the poor little room." It was by t…
28 Oct 2008, 06:06
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The "darkest night ever known" had nothing to do with the Long Sun. It was the dark night of Silk's soul. -Roy…
27 Oct 2008, 05:35
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Catherine seems to have been in residence there in one way or another and this could make Severian's non-biological, cuckolded father the Castellan and perhaps hints that Thecla is…
21 Oct 2008, 04:23
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I don't think so, and the quote suggests the same. My real point was to address the original thrust of this thread, which has been the subject of much debate and spawned some rath…
15 Oct 2008, 21:37
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After the fall on the Ship that killed Severian, URTH, Chapter IX, p-65: "The old Autarch, who lived in my mind but seldom spoke, muttered through my swollen lips. '_Find another_…
15 Oct 2008, 05:02
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And later: Well, there are other times when the subject switches from singular to plural in the same sentence, when the described action is clearly Thecla's alone. Immediately aft…
15 Oct 2008, 02:03
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I note that in these lists of named stories, those mentioned most often and indeed the majority of selections come from Wolfe's earliest collections. Not many stories from his last…
22 Aug 2008, 05:52
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Second Edition. Nigel posted about it last Sunday. Btw, I believe the Dark Carnival bookstore is actually in Berkeley, not Oakland. -Roy…
20 Jul 2008, 21:11
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Apheta to the Ship's crew at Yesod: "You know that we have condemned the peoples of Urth, and why." (URTH, XVI, 112) -Roy…
18 Jul 2008, 19:40
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We just aren't going to agree on this. The books show only two possible futures, Ragnarok and Ushas, with one excluding the other. Whether the Corridors and brooks are the same or …
18 Jul 2008, 04:16
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In all this crap about morality and who is fit to look down his nose at whom, why is it that no one has thought to mention two scenes involving the holy slaves Barbatus, Famulimus …
17 Jul 2008, 03:08
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The multiple brooks refers to the brooks that run between the tiered universes. Small Tzadkiel could show him only the one brook, Madregot, because that was where she had been exil…
17 Jul 2008, 03:05
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UotNS and the corridors of time stretch around him, he says: "Bright-winged, the small Tzadkiel fluttered beside one. The green man raced beside another. I chose one that ran as lo…
15 Jul 2008, 20:44
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Another point about why I think the Hierogrammates worked directly for the Increate that I have mentioned in the past but forgot to mention this time is that business about them be…
15 Jul 2008, 05:42
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It could be summed up as basically what Dave Tallman said last month about a five-volume heroic epic being turned into a horror story if Ushas was intended by Wolfe to be viewed as…
14 Jul 2008, 21:50
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As above. You are trying to define your way out of challenges to your belief(s) by presenting your belief(s) as axiomatic. Not only that, but anyone who disagrees with you is neces…
13 Jul 2008, 20:58
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The textual quote I made establishes conclusively that the Hierogrammates *do not* have "God-like foresight that includes impact on every atom in the universe." Far from it. Tzadki…
12 Jul 2008, 23:50
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No, he is not. It was a stipulated condition of his cited example: "Like a fancy Hierogrammate, you have foresight in this one case, and killing this hobo will in fact produce grea…
12 Jul 2008, 09:13
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Of course fathering a white hole on an insect is absurd. But so are Time Corridors, FTL ships, astral travel, aquastors, ghosts, blood-sucking shape-shifting reptiles that can fly …
12 Jul 2008, 01:10
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We are on opposite sides in this particular argument; that is, I do think the Hierogrammates got their marching orders from the Increate/Outsider/Judeo-Christian God. Some might sa…
11 Jul 2008, 06:24
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though this is not as strong.<< I'm afraid I am the one who came up with that theory. I later recanted, largely because of the time element. It was only about six months between S…
10 Jul 2008, 19:16
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[snip] Welcome, Tim! Just to maintain proper attribution: I was not the author of the post you attributed to me.…
10 Jul 2008, 18:48
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They wear a couple uncomfortable masks and are careful to work only tangentially with the human race. Their true nature seems above human. I find this hard to square with the exc…
09 Jul 2008, 23:58
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Back to my topic: The memories that Sev inherited of Ymar were too remote to provide information, but those of the Old Autarch were fresh. Though in URTH Sev makes occasional refe…
09 Jul 2008, 04:09
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