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Matthew responding to me: So, Helen Birkhead Tyler yields . . . torch + shininghead (?) + gate keeper(?) flame-topped gate keeper? Like the cherubim with flaming swords at …
26 Aug 2002, 04:19
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Maybe, just maybe, some of the responses to Weer's anomalous statements can be brushed off that way, but take the example of Dr. Black: A four-year old boy knows words like "metap…
21 Aug 2002, 20:19
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Now [snip] The main problem with this is that Olivia didn't have any farms for Smart to inherit. John Weer controlled the Weer estate; he and his wife were still alive and Olivia…
21 Aug 2002, 15:30
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Other characters are being "puppetized", to the extent that words are being put into their mouths by frametale-Weer that could not possibly have been uttered by them in real life. …
21 Aug 2002, 14:30
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Robert Borski writes: My old _Webster's_ gives "birk" as [Scot. & Dial. Eng.] "birch". It gives "birch" as akin to the German "birke", deriving from an Indo-European word meaning …
20 Aug 2002, 05:08
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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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I agree that the "age of the bicycle" and the picnic are linked, but that happened when Weer and Margaret were in high school (107), not after college. In Weer's "what went wrong" …
19 Aug 2002, 05:48
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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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It just occurred to me why this can't be--probably, maybe. "He was one of the tallest men I ever saw, I guess, but most of the time he stood like he didn't have any chest at all, …
10 Aug 2002, 07:26
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mantis asks: Close enough. And his wife "passed on a number of years ago". (120) Probably during The Great War. Not for Lombard; as Robert has pointed out, her heyday was the 193…
10 Aug 2002, 06:49
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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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Robert B. writes: A quibble: the Golden Year is the year Den met Lois and Sherry, when he was about 45, and before he became president. His meeting with Charlie took place a few y…
07 Aug 2002, 16:58
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Adam Stephanides expressed doubt that Candy was the woman Miss Hadow saw in the photo, and added: I don't see how the text can allow for anyone other than Candy to be the woman in…
05 Aug 2002, 02:42
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Whoever the real Mr. Mason may have been (Tilly or Smart or Weer or Other), the cover-story in Charlie's letter is that Mr. M. has just died. Even if that's a lie, and ignoring the…
04 Aug 2002, 21:22
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Ah, yes. I had forgotten that the mysterious Mr. Mason was the father of Candy and Arline, as well as Doris. That's another strike against the idea that Weer was the father of Dori…
04 Aug 2002, 08:16
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Not to nit-pick, and I know we covered this before, but there was no photo of Doris. As I read it, the two sepia photos depict a total of three people. One is the girlie picture of…
03 Aug 2002, 08:46
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I know I've refuted this idea before, but maybe it was just to mantis. Den was five years old when the fake deerskin was painted, nine during the Year of the Egg Hunt. He met both…
02 Aug 2002, 16:02
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If you have long held the Sev-is-his-own-grandpa theory, just ignore this. But if you picked up the notion from this list about three years ago, then the fault is mine. I posted ju…
30 Jul 2002, 17:20
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Okay, then I will deny it: Typhon was dead, not in SA; the text says so. Sev prophesied (it was easy, since it came from memory) while on Mt. Typhon (URTH, Chapter XXXIX): "'I…
16 Jul 2002, 09:56
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Silk was a kid fresh out of the seminary. He was a novice as an augur, hadn't had time to inculcate the poor-as-a-church-mouse stereotypical appetite of same. His eating habits mus…
08 Jul 2002, 19:10
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From: James Jordan In addition to the objections raised by others, there are all those stories in the Brown Book, clearly recognizable to students of Classical mythology as founde…
11 Jun 2002, 05:58
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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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Given time (it's been less than 200 years since the French landing), and a new need to handle tools, the abos might well evolve other means of handling them. But, in terms of evolu…
23 May 2002, 07:04
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"if the offspring return to a mode of life in which the vestigial organ had an important function, the organ does not return to its original state, but the organism develops a subs…
22 May 2002, 07:12
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Adam Stephanides quoted: What Jerry wrote was: Victor never "lost the opportunity to write the normal way"; he had the opportunity and was even punished for not doing it the norm…
21 May 2002, 05:48
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Haven't seen too many opinions (unless I missed them) when searching the archives.<< FWIW, I liked it. I happen to have read it for the third or fourth time just a couple of month…
19 May 2002, 06:38
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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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First, I would like to say that I'm glad to see Robert actively posting again, and look forward to more. Second, as mantis has pointed out, David's arguments are valid. I have alw…
09 May 2002, 20:12
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That reminds me of the professor who, about thirty years ago, _proved_ mathematically that the Apollo moon landings were a physical impossibility. :-) Ann Schindler was cold and w…
07 May 2002, 07:08
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I don't suppose it's really a joke, and it's not that subtle, but I've always found it funny; it's one of Wolfe's little digs at the eggheads of academe, from CASTLEVIEW (pp. 36-37…
06 May 2002, 19:57
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I know you are presenting what seems to be Wolfe's viewpoint, not your own. First of all, redeemed from what, exactly? Original Sin? For a Christian who subscribes to that doctrin…
22 Apr 2002, 07:16
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(Reposted from yesterday's urth list glitch) The SUN books are all set in the far, far future of Earth; 5HC isn't. -Roy…
19 Apr 2002, 09:13
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(Reposted from yesterday's urth list glitch) Andrew asked: Scylla possesses Oreb at the very beginning of NTLS, just as Silk is about sacrifice him (her?):<< Scylla possessed Or…
19 Apr 2002, 09:11
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Nick Gevers wrote: ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been truncated, as it exceeded the maximum size of 0k as specified by the syst…
18 Apr 2002, 18:42
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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