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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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That's what I get for not doing the homework! I don't know about the rest, but of the NECRONOMICON, Gold claims to have "just wrote it" (215), and that it was "never mentioned in…
13 Jun 2001, 13:32
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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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Further perusal of HEBREW MYTHS yields the following wrt the fratricide of Cain and Abel: "Still others hold that the brothers quarrelled for love of the First Eve, whom God had f…
22 May 2001, 16:08
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The search engine was working last night, and I found the post by alga (vol.19, 10-22-98) I remembered, where she mentioned Lilith's disinclination for the missionary position. Bet…
22 May 2001, 12:24
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Adam wrote: [snip] [snip] But that Lilith (the one in Eden) couldn't! There weren't any other people around; not even Eve had been invented yet! <g> [snip] [snip] The minute …
20 May 2001, 04:50
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So the short answer: she could have co-operated ("submitted" sounds so heavy-handed) and allowed herself to be beamed back to her homeland. Instead she opted to sow more confusion …
17 May 2001, 01:36
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As mantis pointed out, some person or persons *had* to have been experimenting with the device for the NP to know as much as he did about it. So far as we know, it has been in the …
15 May 2001, 00:34
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Rostrum asks: Well, they weren't part of a larger flock, per se. The spell laid on them by Aeife was that they retain the forms of swans (but with minds and speech intact) for thr…
10 May 2001, 23:00
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Dan'l having written: And mantis replying: There is too much evidence in the story of an election-as-usual to support the theory that the NP came to the office through the back d…
10 May 2001, 21:13
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Rostrum asks: The basic story told by Wolfe--the children being turned into swans and their eventual passing--is one of the "Three Sorrowful Stories of Erin", known as the "Fate o…
10 May 2001, 14:25
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Matthew and Jeff Wilson wrote, respectively: There are no justifications within the story to indicate that it takes place in a world much, if any, different from our own. And the …
10 May 2001, 01:45
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Here is my spin on "Copperhead". As others have mentioned, the "boys" mentioned by the naked woman are, indeed, Cain and Abel, as well as the murdered man and his murderer in the s…
09 May 2001, 03:20
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Anyone else notice the temporal problems within the story? GW is on record as stating that he doesn't like to repeat himself wrt important story information. Yet, the protagonist i…
08 May 2001, 01:32
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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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Adam, re: the end-of-the-world hypothesis: Not I. I agree about the "dreamlike quality", but I think an even more telling detail in the passage is that when Weer enters the waiti…
10 Dec 2000, 13:09
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Almost all of the stories in PEACE, imbedded or "real-life" ones, are unfinished, presumably because they are painful to Weer, one way or another. The imbedded stories are analogie…
27 Nov 2000, 23:40
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Julius Smart grew up on a farm not too far from Cassionsville, which is why he went back there to buy a drugstore (148). He was about 25 years old at the time of Macafee's birthday…
18 Nov 2000, 03:06
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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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About Miss Birkhead: I've had to talk myself out of the idea--more than once--that she and Sherry Gold were the same person. Sherry dies; Den has a stroke. Birkhead dies; Den has a…
10 Nov 2000, 01:27
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For background about what mantis and I have been struggling with, and for those who may be interested, and/or want to make a stab at establishing their own timeline for PEACE, here…
10 Nov 2000, 01:24
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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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Hattiesburg, Mississippi (where Doris joined the carnival) is just about as far east of the Mississippi River as Gladewater, Texas (where Doris died) is west of it. Memphis, Tennes…
06 Nov 2000, 02:03
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Dan'l wrote: <<But... Perhaps his life is "Kansas" and his LAD "Oz?" Idunno. That doesn't seem to work too well. I sort of want to see Part 5, which takes place more in the LAD off…
03 Nov 2000, 13:48
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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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