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I argued, last spring, that Blue is not Ushas. If those arguments weren't heeded then, there's no point in repeating them now. Those arguments were from the text and/or Physics, so…
21 Dec 2002, 22:42
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I could agree with that but for Whitten's ages--real and apparent--at two critical stages. The first is his self-stated age (60-70) at the time of the HC interview. But he looks so…
13 Dec 2002, 08:14
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There are some problems with both the _High Country_ and the B-17 that I can't resolve. At the end of the book Free tells the four boarders that there are two ways to leave the _Hi…
11 Dec 2002, 21:27
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To go from Marble's notion of abandonment to the destruction of a child requires a leap in logic that leaves me in the dust. I can only conclude that . . . hell, I don't know what …
03 Dec 2002, 21:29
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One of the problems with making a personal timeline for Free (that is, one made from his viewpoint), is Wolfe's first entry in the chronology at the end of the book. It states that…
03 Dec 2002, 07:00
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I originally posted the following about twelve hours ago, but it never showed up. My apologies if it should now turn up twice on the list. -------------------------------- When Ba…
01 Dec 2002, 04:50
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There is a great deal of humor in FLF, as in CASTLEVIEW, but what is to be made of the last line of the book? That line is particularly disconcerting, given its antecedent in chapt…
29 Nov 2002, 06:22
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I don't see why you're hung up on the one-hand-or-two angle. Marble took both of Rose's hands, but even one hand that looks like an old woman's hand suffices to establish that it d…
27 Nov 2002, 08:49
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I don't understand the confusion. The only passage I can find where Marble/Rose speaks of "reclaimed" parts is in CALDE, chapter 10, where she is speaking to Blood. Each "me", "I" …
21 Nov 2002, 09:22
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Good point. I, too, recall that the ship had been in orbit for several decades, but can't remember where in the text that information is found. In any event, we are given that Quet…
19 Nov 2002, 06:24
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You have to go back to SWORD for the answer (chapter XXV). Typhon speaking: "It was a period of great confusion as well. My astronomers had told me that this sun's activity would …
18 Nov 2002, 19:45
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A quibble about the Claw: it has been suggested often before that the Claw (or Sev) worked by reaching back in time to a point before whatever malady it was being used to remedy ha…
18 Nov 2002, 06:47
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Let us posit--strictly for the sake of argument--that Blue is Ushas. How does that affect the overall picture Wolfe has drawn in the 12 SUN books? That is, is it consonant with the…
17 Nov 2002, 09:11
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Regretfully, I think I started this whole Gnosticism/Demiurge debate a few weeks ago with my irreverent Whorl/Genesis comparison. Mea culpa. I am trying very hard to stay out of it…
05 Nov 2002, 21:56
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Ranjit has all of the old urth/whorl archive digests viewable "as one very large file" working now. Yeah! Download away. -Roy…
02 Nov 2002, 22:55
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Kate never read from the diary; Lois did. Kate *couldn't* have read from the diary for some very good reasons, chief of which is the fact that *the diary didn't exist until Lou Gol…
01 Nov 2002, 09:43
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Kate really met Quantrill? The "bearded man" in the sectioned-off text on page 195 is presumably Quantrill. I don't know why it isn't written from the first-person point of view, a…
31 Oct 2002, 03:08
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Other than age, I don't see that the two girls have much in common. Doris is ostensibly an orphan; Sherry is not. Doris has "victim" written all over her, whereas Sherry is anythin…
31 Oct 2002, 00:51
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I must be getting senile, because I just re-read the LS series this autumn and completely missed those two "facts". Could you tell me where in the texts they might be found? I won…
27 Oct 2002, 07:27
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Correction: it is only Chenille who can't read. Sorry about that. -Roy…
25 Oct 2002, 08:51
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Crush writes: That's not how I read it. It's on the page before that "friend" quote. (279, paper) "He'd got it specially made for me, or anyhow the picture put on." The "he" is Cr…
25 Oct 2002, 07:34
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And in another post mantis wrote (of Santa): [dismissing my argument for who switched the gifts] Now, we both know that the "heavy, square package with its ribbons and trimmings …
23 Oct 2002, 07:54
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He doesn't mention any siblings, but if he did have any that just increases the likelihood of his having closer, by blood, relatives to whom he might bequeath his business. Stockho…
20 Oct 2002, 00:00
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We know even less about Julius Smart than we know about Weer, for all his being a "symbolic" figure and "the central character of this book". I want to address two facts related to…
14 Oct 2002, 04:37
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What I think you should read that passage again. It's in the last chapter of CALDE (pp. 335-36 of the paperback), at the point where Silk is being brought up from the cellar of Bl…
10 Oct 2002, 02:29
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Unfortunately, I must revisit the question of bias by bios against chems. I won't repeat what I've posted before, but bear it in mind; the subject is germane. As I wrote in my ori…
05 Oct 2002, 05:59
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Having just completed a slow rereading of the LS series, there are some puzzles I can't seem to work out. Those bored with nitty-gritty plot details may want to skip it. This puzz…
23 Sep 2002, 21:57
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Correct: "Five chains away, the blade of the azoth wrecked a fusion generator, and the soldier whose heart it had been died." (LS3, 9) But, but . . . that's just another good…
08 Sep 2002, 21:37
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The subject of chems having been brought up lately, I want to say a few things about them in general, some of which may bear on recent discussion. First is the silly anthropomorph…
03 Sep 2002, 05:26
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Many of the problems associated with the story of Doris would disappear if Charlie Turner's letter didn't exist. There is no reference to Doris outside that letter. The letter, too…
19 Aug 2002, 20:09
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Before this latest PEACE discussion dries up altogether, I still have a few things lying around from the last discussion. This is one of them. Some elderly people, as their physic…
17 Aug 2002, 05:56
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Robert B. writes: Ah, now I understand the confusion! The timeline you were looking at was the one mantis made based on the _Liberty_ magazine clue and included in the _prototype_…
08 Aug 2002, 20:58
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Re. Robert Borski's theory that Cutthroat is somehow Cain: Robert didn't bring this up, but it would explain Cutthroat's otherwise puzzling lack of concern for his wound. When he …
05 Jun 2002, 16:45
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While in Dorp, Silkhorn sent Oreb to Lizard with a note for Nettle. He was dissatisfied with Oreb's bird-brained account of her reaction to his note. Oreb, frustrated with Silkhorn…
29 May 2002, 06:04
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It seems to me that so many "facts" are in dispute regarding 5HC that some attempt should be made to present those for which there can be little or no doubt, so far as that can be …
13 May 2002, 05:21
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I just finished re-reading the SS series. I don't know if it has been pointed out before, but at the end of the SS series, just as Silkhorn is about to finally admit that he is Si…
18 Apr 2002, 06:52
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A couple of weeks ago I posted some numbers wrt Green's orbit, distance from Blue, time before and since conjunction, and how long Horn had been gone from Lizard. Those figures wer…
08 Apr 2002, 19:46
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My excuse for missing this is that it is only my second reading of RTTW, and I wasn't looking for it the first time through. On page 163 Silkhorn is answering Pig's question about …
05 Apr 2002, 06:47
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or Ushas, either. There are two separate arguments against it, both on page 349 of IGJ. Too much to quote here, but the gist is: 1) The Neighbors were created by the Outsider fro…
30 Mar 2002, 04:50
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If the two mentions of the distance in leagues from Blue to Green, cited earlier, along with the perceived interval between them, have any meaning wrt to the cosmic dance being wal…
26 Mar 2002, 07:48
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This occurred to me last night, and I took it to mantis first today, and he said to post it all to the list, so here it is: Is -Roy…
25 Mar 2002, 23:19
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You're right, Adam. It's a typo for "seared" in the _Timescape_ "original publication" paperback, p171. -Roy…
24 Feb 2002, 03:25
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Last Nov. 15 you wrote: "I'll comment on "The Waif" when I've read it..." Well, have you read it? I'd like to know your take on it. -Roy…
22 Feb 2002, 06:15
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I think mantis was on the right path to interpreting this story when he viewed the suicide-bomber tactics of the rebels as unacceptably barbaric. In the context of the story, I dou…
12 Feb 2002, 20:40
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Is there anyone here besides me who remembers Gene Wolfe appearing on Tom Snyder's old TV talk show, the "Tomorrow Show", years ago? My memory of it is hazy, and the older I get th…
27 Sep 2001, 01:00
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It turns out that I was all wrong about the apparent timeframe difficulties of "Copperhead" that I distracted the list with a few months back. The New President had not been in off…
03 Aug 2001, 19:28
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Rostrum asks: The second sentence of the book indicates it was mature: "from the number of shattered limbs and the size of the trunk there must have been a terrible crashing." And…
19 Jul 2001, 23:22
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"The elm tree planted by Eleanor Bold, the judge's daughter, fell last night." For all the times I've read that sentence, it is only now that something strange about it strikes me…
17 Jul 2001, 15:52
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As has happened to me all too many times on this list, by the time I get around to posting something I find that someone else has beaten me to the draw, said what I wanted to say, …
13 Jul 2001, 14:46
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I presume you mean the timeline in Doug Eigsti's PEACE INDEXICON ( http://www.siriusfiction.com/ ). Actually, in the "EZ" timeline I posted last Oct. 26, I had what mantis calls Th…
14 Jun 2001, 13:25
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