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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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Recent discussion has asserted that Horn or Silk--or Silkhorn--had a perfect memory, like Severian's. No such claim is made in either the LS or SS books. BTW, on my first reading …
10 Jul 2003, 06:38
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What follows is a post I originally tried to send in late September 2000, but it was the night Moonmilk turned to cheese, so it never arrived. When the list was back up and running…
10 Jul 2003, 04:32
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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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Unless you are willing to posit the Hierogrammates their own third-party agenda, were they not angelic agents of the Increate? As for your "thematic argument" for the "redemption"…
15 Mar 2003, 08:32
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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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It has been accepted by most here for a long time that the temptation of Severian by Typhon on the mountain mimics that of Jesus by Satan. Although Wolfe has maintained that Sev is…
12 Mar 2003, 20:35
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Then here is a somewhat more scientific objection. When Silk briefly "died" in that tunnel collapse, he was granted a 'vision' by the Outsider (and it _was_ the Outsider; Pas can't…
08 Mar 2003, 18:27
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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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Apropos of nothing going on at the moment, I just wanted to shoot another hole in the bullet-riddled notion that Silkhorn's spirit travel was temporal, rather than spatial. In cha…
20 Feb 2003, 07:28
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F&W must have been using Frazer for their authority; the quoted section is almost the same as in chapter XXXIV of THE GOLDEN BOUGH. I couldn't do anything with the March dates. It…
11 Feb 2003, 06:31
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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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You would think so, but if you look back at the total of Otherworld individuals noted by Green you'll find that the majority are males. (Red-faced man on street, clerk in doll hosp…
31 Jan 2003, 08:31
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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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Fanny's account of Lara being Klamm's "stepdaughter" wasn't true; that was just a popular cover story put out to satisfy public curiosity about why such a desirable young woman sho…
27 Jan 2003, 06:12
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Speaking of Aeneas . . . The name of the hospital where Klamm took Green to get patched up was "St. Anchises's". (303) Aphrodite's mortal lover was struck down (lamed or blinded) …
23 Jan 2003, 07:46
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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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I had the impression that dolls such as Tina were given primarily, if not exclusively, to boys. It also seemed to me that boys lost interest in them, or were made to give them up a…
20 Jan 2003, 07:50
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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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All, I received an e-mail this afternoon at 3:03 central time, subject line "Happy Christmas" from list-member Stone Ox. It crashed Outlook Express when I highlighted it (fortunat…
24 Dec 2002, 03:08
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I cannot agree. Authorial intent is not to be dismissed so casually. Propagandists of one stripe or another have historically cited respected, even revered, sources in support of t…
23 Dec 2002, 08:27
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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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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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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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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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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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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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