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I should have said Al, not Carlos as the wolf. You evidently believe that Cassie was elevated by Gid to the level of a goddess. I have trouble seeing Cassie as a goddess in any me…
18 Jan 2009, 21:53
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Because there may be others who have transformed that she should be careful of--even if he only meant Margaret. That's not enough. It's not the radical transformation Gid spoke of…
18 Jan 2009, 02:08
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Cassie That's not right. What Gid did for Cassie to bring out her star quality was to enhance what was already there. That is not the same thing as shape-shifting as defined by Gi…
17 Jan 2009, 22:06
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Speaking of Cassie as Margaret . . . After Gideon aided Cassie to bring out her "star" power, it is implied that she was then elevated, transformed "up", to a state higher than no…
16 Jan 2009, 06:34
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Gil Corby was in the cargo space behind the seats, so I don't think there was any danger of making eye contact. And I don't know that he knew then (or any time before she went to W…
16 Jan 2009, 05:34
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He makes attempts to minimize the paradoxes, but they are still there. Right. In FLF, no two versions of Whitten are in the same "present" at the same time. Right. So long as Ma…
15 Jan 2009, 06:36
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Okay, assume that to be true and see where it leads. To trouble. I *hate* time travel stories. <g> An older, wiser, grayer Cassie, unable to get her mojo back, comes back from Wol…
14 Jan 2009, 21:01
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A hopper is worth a lot of money, even on the black market. The sandwich was a *hot* pastrami. The coffee would have been hot, too. And why wouldn't she have known about the extra…
13 Jan 2009, 06:36
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I understand the distinction you mean, and we can call Cassie's change mojo or whatever if you like, but it still amounts to a glamour. It may not wash off, like Gil's, but the cha…
13 Jan 2009, 05:22
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[snip] I agree with that much. I'm not sold on the "reality warping" bit. Anyway, bringing on Cassie's glamour had been but a night's work. Yet she told Klauser that she hoped to…
12 Jan 2009, 03:22
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Dave Tallman, quoting Wolfe interview: Not incidentally, that quote all but cements the earlier assumption that one of Gid's biological parents, probably the father, was not human…
08 Jan 2009, 20:12
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Reis I would think it very probable that Chase was aware of a fleet of Navy ships in the area, since he was in contact with the president's advisor, John. At the start of the nov…
08 Jan 2009, 20:09
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I did and I do. I agree. But . . . I agree that it was a dumb thing to do, but he did it anyway! That's a character flaw that comes from being a megalomaniac. Reis was used to ge…
08 Jan 2009, 07:11
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Cell phones aren't magical. They require support technologies that the government could not help but be aware of, and Reis was being monitored. If packaged communication, such as e…
07 Jan 2009, 20:55
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If real-time phone service between planets light-years apart were even possible, the government would know and use it. Clearly it is not. Besides, what could either Reis or Chase h…
07 Jan 2009, 18:35
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But Gid saw the shooter and said it was a man. (203) Yes, Gid professed his love for her in his note (216), and he may even have been sincere, in his fashion. What I meant was tha…
05 Jan 2009, 19:09
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I agree. I still wonder who shot Gid or, more to the point, who was behind the shooter. Gid had a late breakfast with Cassie the morning after the cast party. At about that time, …
04 Jan 2009, 23:00
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Dave meant Kingsport, not Springfield. The name of the city is mentioned several times in the text, including the "Cast" list at the end. -Roy…
23 Dec 2008, 21:57
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I agree with Dave T. on both counts. And Naturally I agree with Dave T. that Rian's mother was Bill's first wife. But I think David D. is right about the rich yacht owner being R…
23 Dec 2008, 21:45
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James, me, James: Yeah, but only while things were good. When push came to shove, Kanoa turned on him and got him killed. Btw, it was Kanoa who gave another "W.R." name for him, W…
23 Dec 2008, 06:29
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I don't know if this is related, or what theory it helps or hurts, but the morning after Cassie received the gold bracelet she talked to Gid and mentioned that Wally Rosenquist had…
22 Dec 2008, 21:23
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Which one killed a thousand or so people to take control of the islands? Which one benefited? But it is the same guy, the one at Rusterman's, who expressed the desire to have both…
22 Dec 2008, 06:36
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I brought that stuff up four days ago, but no one followed up on it. Maybe it got lost in the shuffle. <g> It happens all the time that someone sees something that someone else has…
21 Dec 2008, 22:54
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119) The only point you have marked true for both these scenarios is that Cassie was wearing a green dress when Reis first saw her. One of the problems with this clone theory is …
21 Dec 2008, 22:29
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Buckshot. The loden dress is in the text, like it or not. In the Rusterman conversation, Wolfe went out of his way to give the reader pause to wonder why and how there could be any…
21 Dec 2008, 21:19
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James Wynn quoted from two different paragraphs I wrote and tied them together with [...] (minus the brackets), which distorts the meaning: What I actually wrote was: [begin quote…
21 Dec 2008, 06:15
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The glamour was put on Cassie in Canada. Aaberg wasn't in a position to see the new Cassie. Before the glamour, Cassie was just a thirtyish, second-rate actress and no particular …
20 Dec 2008, 06:04
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There are two simple means to satisfy privacy conserns: 1) Don't talk to gossip reporters. 2) Stay out of the limelight. -Roy…
20 Dec 2008, 05:11
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Stupid me. Wolfe hid the answer in plain sight. In fairness to myself, my OED failed me. But when I complained to my wife about it after school today, she knew right off the defin…
19 Dec 2008, 23:33
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I was thinking that people who have been artificially enhanced in some way, like Cassie, are made to appear literally larger than life, so to speak. The height comparisons pop up t…
19 Dec 2008, 20:55
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He said he couldn't do it, but might be able to learn if he tried for a year or two. (196) My point is, yes, he thought he might be followed from the White House in the conventiona…
19 Dec 2008, 07:01
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Regardless of exactly when or why Reis had a change of heart, Cassie saw him in the audience and he stated at the cast party that he had seen the play. What reserved seat? The the…
18 Dec 2008, 22:26
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Both Gideon and Klauser mentioned that Wolder males could hybridize with lower animals. Klauser also said that they sometimes try to seduce human women. Both of these points should…
17 Dec 2008, 08:22
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There is no basis, textual or otherwise, to suppose that Klauser served more than the usual 8 years for a political appointment made by a two-term president. I listed the order of …
17 Dec 2008, 07:31
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Why put himself in a position to be caught in a lie that served no purpose? Why did Wolfe put that bit of conversation in the story? I'm not familiar with Nero Wolfe, so I can't a…
14 Dec 2008, 22:29
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I mentioned that he might have thought that. Yeah, but it was Klauser who brought up the subject, and he brought it up *before* she said she wanted to bring back the Casey girl. I…
14 Dec 2008, 09:52
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Given my past antipathy for clone theories, I hesitate to even bring up the subject, but it's mentioned in the book (p.-296) and I have a sinking feeling. Reis thought dying was a…
13 Dec 2008, 20:55
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I recently got around to reading AEG, then went back and read all the posts about it I had skipped. With those posts in mind--particularly Dave Tallman's, because he has done most …
12 Dec 2008, 05:59
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Who--or what--are the voices in Gid's hopper that Computer Lady didn't hear? Should I have recognized them from another source, as is the case for the Squid god? Why do they egg he…
11 Dec 2008, 06:03
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On a related note: I can't find it in the old archives for some reason, but I think I mentioned here six or seven years ago that Wolfe once appeared on the late Tom Snyder's old, l…
06 Dec 2008, 19:18
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I have a 60 minute mono audio cassette from American Audio Prose Library of a 1984 interview of Wolfe by Chris Merrick. -Roy…
06 Dec 2008, 08:11
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I can't speak for Wolfe, and I'm not a lawyer, but the holders of the copyrights for the audiobooks might well take exception. It might be worth checking into first. FWIW. -Roy…
06 Dec 2008, 05:52
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Persian, etc without having a perspective truly from their perspectives. Sure some of the hairsplitting of theology could get wonky, but the essence and spirit would not necessaril…
05 Dec 2008, 05:46
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I don't think the creature was Tzadkiel. Why kill Sev, just to bring him back on the sly? I have always thought that the winged creature was another assassination attempt by the fo…
04 Dec 2008, 07:59
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That's the essence of what I meant, that in Christian thought the birth, life, death and resurrection of a god who was God was a one-time event, a Big Deal, unlike the many "pagan"…
04 Dec 2008, 07:47
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Zak is just a splintered-off piece of Tzadkiel, like the tiny Tzadkiel beside the Brook who didn't know Severian's history because she was cut off from the main entity. Zak started…
04 Dec 2008, 07:05
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I don't want to dredge up the tired comparisons of Severian to Jesus or Christ to the Conciliator again. But I can't resist something I've pointed out before, something that seems …
03 Dec 2008, 09:43
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Yes, which is why I said what I said. Tzadkiel is the Hierogrammate who created the new body on the Ship. There were two bodies on the Ship. The dead one had written the first four…
03 Dec 2008, 05:20
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It was a new aquastor body made by the Hierogrammates. No. The first four books were written by the body that became autarch. The fifth book was written by the body created by the…
02 Dec 2008, 20:59
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style of writing may not be intentional. How much of it is just how he communicates?<< -------------------------------------- Oh, I think he does write that way deliberately. When…
28 Nov 2008, 23:17
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