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Russell Wodell…
23 Sep 2010, 17:36
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In F.W. Murnau's silent classic film *Nosferatu*, there is a famous sequence in which the vampire loads a coach with coffins; this is under-cranked (i.e., filmed in fast motion), t…
15 Mar 2010, 21:59
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May I ask a simple? possibly very naive — question about the climax of "The Urth of the New Sun"? If I understand correctly, the New Sun melts Urth's encroaching glaciation, flood…
08 Jul 2008, 21:05
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Am I the only one who sees Guzman as a possible third iteration of Chris -- driven to madness and (possible) suicide by sexual jealousy of his own younger self? Is his disappearanc…
17 Jan 2008, 16:47
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Graves' Claudius novels seem an obvious inspiration for BOTNS. But I wonder if there isn't an intervening source in a Graves rip-off: A.E. van Vogt's fix-up Empire of the Sun (19…
07 Sep 2006, 00:19
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This might be helpful for those (like me) still struggling to understand the historical background of the Latro series. http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/summer2006/kopff.html…
08 Aug 2006, 15:18
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Was anyone besides me bothered by the fact that the old list crashed on September 11, 2003? Rustle…
15 Sep 2004, 18:08
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This will seem to many to be off-topic; but I can't resist writing about this film by Aleksandr Sokurov. As you may know, it consists of one unbroken 96-minute take travelling the …
13 Apr 2003, 18:38
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As I recall (dimly), Plutarch said a sailor heard a voice from a distant island commanding him to proclaim that "The great god Pan is dead!" Since Pan's name literally means "All,…
24 Jan 2003, 01:13
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Re: supplementary reading: We should trust the author. The two volumes are dedicated, respectively, to Herodotus and Xenophon, a strong hint as to sources of the (sometimes) real p…
21 Jan 2003, 23:23
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I notice that the new DAW anthology _Mars Probes_ by Peter Crowther includes "Shields of Mars" by Gene Wolfe. Has anyone seen this? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.…
13 Jun 2002, 20:14
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How is the name Thecla pronounced? I believe it is Biblical, hence probably Hebrew
but I just suddenly noticed how close the name is to the claw, which has implications
no?…
24 May 2002, 00:30
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The first sentence of the second section: "Days past." Is this a typo, or a joke? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.…
08 May 2002, 14:47
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Notes from a first reading: 1. The source seems to be Auden's famous quote that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of reality. Here, this seems to be interpreted as poet=sai…
29 Mar 2002, 16:11
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This is going a long way back to the list discussion of PEACE, but I ran across the following in Everyman's Encyclopaedia of Gardening and was forcibly reminded of the tree on Weer…
23 Mar 2002, 17:52
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Many thanks to Andy Robertson for posting this fascinating essay. There is much to discuss (for example, that Wolfe seems to have even lousier taste in poetry than Tolkien). Two …
03 Jan 2002, 00:57
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Just picked up Andrew M. Butler's Pocket Essentials guide to Terry Pratchett, and was struck dumb by one of his notes on "Small Gods": "Brutha, with his photographic memory, and t…
10 Dec 2001, 16:21
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mantis wrote: Something else: Here's a touchstone which seems familiar, so maybe we've already discussed it, but PEACE might also be seen as a sort of opposite of IT'S A WONDERFUL…
16 Jul 2001, 22:21
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There is an excellent BBC book, "The Art of Gormeghast," about the making of the series. In fact, it's in my opinion _better_ than the series, because it allows the reader to feast…
29 Jun 2001, 08:26
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This message was sent to David at work. We checked our system and the named file was indeed there...so best to treat this seriously. Russell Friends, I found this on my computer.…
29 May 2001, 17:04
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John-Paul: The best site I have found thus far is the "Arts & Letters Daily" Website at http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily/, which contains links to many book review sites in ad…
29 May 2001, 15:09
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Is it certain there is to be a fourth book in the series? I am thinking of Chapter 16 in Daemonomia: "Here he had put down his plan to arrange his book according to the twelve hou…
28 Apr 2001, 16:37
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