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No. She was "thirtyish" (207). Pretty and young were my terms. Merely pretty, as she was pre-mojo, as distinguished from mojo beautiful. Young as seen from the perspective of some…
16 Mar 2010, 06:02
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FWIW, I am largely in agreement with you, given that I raised many of the same objections. The only point I would quibble over is this one: [snip] I don't think Cassie reverted t…
15 Mar 2010, 21:02
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On the subject of the Sherlock Holmes pastiche, Michael Andre-Driussi had this to say: "However, Jeff Wilson raises the question about "The Case of the Vanishing Ghost." This one…
08 Mar 2010, 22:40
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Those of you in the Bay Area may be interested to know that THE WIZARD KNIGHT COMPANION is available at the Other Change of Hobbit and Dark Carnival in Berkeley. -Roy…
15 Nov 2009, 06:41
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Michael Andre-Driussi has a new book out about TWK, similar in format to LEXICON URTHUS. Below is his announcement. The longer URLs may wrap, so compensate as needed. TWKC has a fo…
29 Oct 2009, 19:51
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Neither. "Werewolves are human." (205) According to Gideon, Wolders "cannot transform as we [humans] do. Not at all." (99) What male Wolders can do is hybridize with lower animals…
09 Oct 2009, 05:05
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In this version of a time-travel theory, Cassie is Rian's mother and Pavlatos Bill's second wife. Sharon seems to know or know of Rian's mother, but I know of nothing to indicate t…
09 Oct 2009, 04:03
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I knew I was setting someone up for a straight-line; it was just a question of who. <g> -Roy…
07 Oct 2009, 19:11
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Not to pick on your Margaret-as-Cassie theory <g>, but it's not as risky as Margaret going to work for her younger self. I doubt that Sharon knew Rian's mama well enough to sit dow…
07 Oct 2009, 07:15
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Does it? Perhaps, for the individual who was killed. But if there are characters who have one or more temporal copies running around at the same time, the copies cannot be simply w…
07 Oct 2009, 07:11
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Temporal. You seem to assume that time travel is one-way only, into the past. There is no more evidence for that than there is for travel into the future. If you receive a reply to…
05 Oct 2009, 16:47
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One more try. I'll make it brief. Cassie goes to Woldercan and gets Gideon to make her look good again. She comes back to Earth about 20 years before she left. She is still in her…
05 Oct 2009, 04:27
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My cynicism aside, who is there to say that Cassie didn't find her lost love and both lived together happily ever after? Whether Madame Pavlatos was Bill's second wife or not doesn…
02 Oct 2009, 04:12
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She eats some form of pork at almost every meal mentioned, if not all. So how can she eat meat all the time, unlike Margaret, if they are both werewolves? You said before that were…
01 Oct 2009, 05:54
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Dave Tallman wrote: [snip] There is an odd bit of dialogue in the breakfast scene the next morning, p-153, Margaret speaking first: ________________ "You ought to get a thing at …
01 Oct 2009, 05:52
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That Whereas I was trying to avoid any Cassie/Margaret connection, for reasons previously given. <g> If Pavlatos is a future Cassie, she would be just about midway in age between …
29 Sep 2009, 19:04
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Judging from Klauser's picture, Bill Reis had a wife but no children by her when he first went to Woldercan as ambassador. He was ambassador for eight years. In the year he met Cas…
26 Sep 2009, 17:29
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Thanks, Don. I has been too many years since I read the book or saw the movie, and I didn't remember Woldercan at all. -Roy…
22 Sep 2009, 07:13
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This was in the context of the spelling of Woldercan, so perhaps not enough attention was paid to it. A day or two later, I googled the quote and found out that the Wikipedia summa…
21 Sep 2009, 05:53
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"Ebony bobbed like a cork in India's wake." (p. 143) That matches up nicely with your ". . . and Margaret bobbing in her wake" on p. 59. If Margaret is a future Cassie, then she k…
20 Sep 2009, 05:16
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I went to the same school of pronouns <g>, but that's not the case here. "I saw the man who shot me. He didn't resemble John. It wasn't his face or his body type. As for it being a…
19 Sep 2009, 19:23
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I'm sure I've said this before, but Gid repeatedly referred to the shooter with masculine pronouns. Gid also said that it is easy for a shape-changer to slip back "down", so easy …
18 Sep 2009, 18:35
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Point taken. -Roy…
18 Sep 2009, 18:33
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She That picture would have been just 11-12 years in the past for Klauser. He should have recognized the woman who came to his house to ask advice. If Cassie could travel back in…
18 Sep 2009, 06:30
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So Rian was born on Woldercan? This makes my head hurt. Cassie was in her early-to-mid-thirties at the end of the book, despite looking like an old woman. She goes to Woldercan an…
16 Sep 2009, 19:23
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Where the hell have you been, Dave? Or is it Charles? You were missed. Reis had a wife when he first got to Woldercan as Ingstrup's ambassador (301). Ingstrup served two terms, so…
15 Sep 2009, 18:53
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You've got me there: I concede that I cannot prove a negative. Yes, I do, and so should you. Reis was a wealthy man before he ever went to Woldercan as President Ingstrup's ambas…
14 Sep 2009, 23:34
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You would do well to heed your own advice. In my first response to you, I simply gave my objections to your theory of identity switching. You responded with your comment about me "…
12 Sep 2009, 02:24
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Months after Reis was killed, Cassie had to call Rian to tell him his father was dead (296). {big snip] You are missing the point. I have given you text-based reasons why the man…
11 Sep 2009, 16:19
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Rian planned to attend (277). Klauser could not have attended, no matter where the wedding was held, for health reasons. Reis could not have had the ceremony just anywhere, not if …
10 Sep 2009, 18:38
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Gid claimed not to be able either to shape-shift or do the "vanishing" trick. (Yeah, yeah, he could have lied.) It was he who explained to Cassie why the wolf that got Scott was so…
10 Sep 2009, 05:32
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Reis was a big man; Gideon was not. A conventional disguise or one that involves a "glamour", to say nothing of shape shifting, would have to account for Gid's missing leg. Shape s…
09 Sep 2009, 23:18
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As Dave said, "mews" and "limer" are just obscure words. I recall that the mews of a stable near the Inn of Lost Loves was where the ostler Trudo kept his belongings and may have s…
19 Jul 2009, 20:01
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Not Wolfe related, but I know some of you live in the Bay Area. If you are also interested in anime and/or would like to hear Michael Andre-Driussi introduce two anime films by Miy…
13 Jul 2009, 18:43
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That should, of course, have been "Asimov". My bad. -Roy…
24 Jun 2009, 03:25
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For those who may be interested: Michael Andre-Driussi has an article on the influence of Toynbee on the fiction of Azimov and de Camp in the latest issue of the "New York Review …
23 Jun 2009, 20:29
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(emphasis I said I didn't want to get into this stuff again. I don't and I won't. But . . . when I read the above quote from OBW, p-272, then compare it with the wording in my cop…
19 Mar 2009, 20:38
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Oh, there were. But I'm not going to get into it again, either. Just don't take everything thrown out here as accepted wisdom. Far, far from it. -Roy…
19 Mar 2009, 07:36
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Of course I can't answer all your questions, but I'll give you my take, fwiw. I think you are right to view the Flying People as angelic -- if they aren't quite Judeo-Christian an…
04 Mar 2009, 21:16
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That is almost certain to be correct. See the description of the tender that brought Severian and Burgundofara back to Urth: "I recall thinking, as I leaned over the railing and w…
18 Feb 2009, 20:40
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I don't see what is so mysterious about this. If you look at the last two sentences of the chapter I cited when I answered the original question, it seems obvious enough: "No one …
11 Feb 2009, 20:50
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"And the secret is only that we torturers obey." See the last page of chapter XXXI, SWORD. -Roy…
10 Feb 2009, 08:19
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_______________________ The Urth Cycle is definitely anthropocentric. I don't want to touch off a debate about alien sentient beings and whether or not they have souls that need s…
10 Feb 2009, 08:15
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can we agree on that? you guys have convinced me that, ontologically speaking, Severian ain't Christ. but: "A god's supposed to pull on a man just like a tunic — that's what they s…
09 Feb 2009, 05:37
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To give us a path. This is where the Logos comes in as that which reconciles God and Man. What's Jesus say about finding the Father only through me, or such. The Logos is the brid…
06 Feb 2009, 23:35
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No inhumi. It was Tzadkiel. "And it was pleasant indeed to sit upon that bank, occasionally refreshing my laboring tongue with the cold, clean water of the brook, and recount to T…
06 Feb 2009, 06:28
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[snip] The scene where Cassie is sitting in the back of Wally's car and he shows her a vid image of her in the play may foreshadow the dance in the beach scene near the end of the…
26 Jan 2009, 05:14
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Otoh, that whole account of how she came to be stranded is a tissue of half-truths and evasions, a fine example of Gid's lecture about how best to mislead people. Cassie was told …
21 Jan 2009, 07:05
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I'm still not sold on the reality-warping bit, partly because no one, not even Cassie, seems to notice the discrepancies you have mentioned. Gid is the only known expert in the bo…
20 Jan 2009, 05:44
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Thank you for your regard, but I will bravely relinquish a place at the front to Dan'l while I observe the, uh, rear. -Roy…
19 Jan 2009, 05:38
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