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Marc I'd like to re-visit something from The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories. You explored the onomastics of Tackman Babcock to connect Tackman to Talar, relying on the G…
26 Apr 2015, 20:25
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Awhile back we noted that 'the good old Hotel Sacher' alludes to novel/film The Third Man. Also, a recent discussion connected The Land Across to The Third Policemen (which I recen…
14 Nov 2014, 00:25
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Half-baked thoughts, thought I'd share them in case someone finds something useful thereby. The philosopher/theologian John Duns Scotus is found by lining up three iterations of t…
04 May 2010, 06:53
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Suddenly (it was something I was still unused to) she whistled piercingly, and Ming-Sno and Sun-Sun cam bounding, panting with pleasure, their deformed mouth opening almost split b…
22 Jul 2009, 16:07
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I recently picked up Peace for the first time, and now that I've completed a first read of this delightfully complex horror story. I'm mulling it over a thing or two. One thing we …
29 Jun 2009, 16:23
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During the banshee banter, Cassie remarks that she'll be "going out with it" (p64). This identifies Wally Rosenquist as one of the 'sidh'. From various sources, we learn the sidh w…
07 May 2009, 16:47
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Fernando Gouvea recently noted a curious coincidence between Wolfe's 'Peace' (1975) and Bartis's 'Tranquility' (2001), each work sharing a central character named Weer. Gouvea also…
12 Apr 2009, 19:02
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In the opening chapter of An Evil Guest, Wolfe takes us inside the White House for a few moments where we get a brief look at the inside game of a cowboy president and his wily ass…
07 Apr 2009, 15:22
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A couple of news items this week made me think of places in An Evil Guest. The first was a report of a large quake (7.1 magnitude) associated with the eruption of an undersea volc…
24 Mar 2009, 17:39
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