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Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> writes: is a http://www.khamush.com/persian/rubaie236.htm, >"Nadân-ám" means "I cannot." Googling a while ago, I came across …
24 Oct 2010, 19:46
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Roy wrote It is not a mistake; Winker is Baxter's name for her. Actually, when she introduced herself to Orizia, she said her name was Winkle Inari, but she was speaking with a J…
02 May 2010, 15:26
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Roy wrote When it says "Her images vanished," doesn't this mean she has to be dancing with herself (probably a hologram, as Roy suggests). In real life, this has to correspond t…
26 Jan 2009, 21:07
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Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> says Just one comment: Springfield is the city where the first production of "Dating the Volcano God" was held; it's around 100 miles (I'd ha…
23 Dec 2008, 20:38
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Everybody: thanks for the great discussion on rereading AEG. I think I've discovered another clue: Gideon is a phenomenal hypnotist. Here's the evidence: Talking with the preside…
15 Dec 2008, 04:04
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Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> writes =============== Also at Rusterman's, Reis said: "You were wearing green the first time I saw you." "In the play? I wasn't. That was bro…
14 Dec 2008, 22:46
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In a message dated 6/10/2008 7:43:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, davetallman at msn.com writes: "I have another possible explanation for the eclipse. The exact dimensions of the …
10 Jun 2008, 13:09
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In a message dated 5/30/2008 8:50:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, davetallman at msn.com writes: This is a great discussion. First, and a very minor point, I think Lissy used the …
30 May 2008, 14:24
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Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> writes These questions gave me an idea. There are a number of mysteries about Weer's secretaries. Why does he call her "Miss Birkhead" when …
28 Apr 2008, 22:41
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In As I have remarked before, I think that Em Lorn came up with these specific Sabbath rules specifically so as to let Olivia obtain the egg, as Olivia did not bring quite eno…
26 Apr 2008, 16:38
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Dan <autarch at vippn.com> wrote Exactly. Lesage seems to know too much for him not to have had inside information from the future. My assumption (and it wasn't my idea) is tha…
13 Mar 2008, 18:41
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Some questions, which I think answer each other. Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I don't remember it. Who killed Valentin? The obvious suspect is Lesage, who see…
10 Mar 2008, 18:36
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Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote who The green man is wandering through the corridors of time looking for a situation where Sev is captive so that he can free him. He s…
19 Dec 2007, 05:17
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I think Robert Borski has solved the problem of what happened to the missing night (http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0205/871.txt.shtml). I don't agree with all the rest of his i…
18 Dec 2007, 22:21
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Matthew Malthouse <matthew at calmeilles.co.uk> writes To confuse the geography further, Folia seems to come from the pampas: "My land is the land ... of grass and wind and gallo…
15 Dec 2007, 18:06
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I suspected that this had something to do with the Cthulhu mythos, and indeed Googling shows that August Derleth wrote a story in which the Great One Cthugha can only be summoned…
14 Dec 2007, 17:31
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I have always assumed that "quercine penetralia" could be interpreted as "heart of the (oak) wood," so Vodalus's messanger would be saying "I am from the heart of the wood," whic…
28 Nov 2007, 16:50
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James Wynn (Crush) <thewynns at earthlink.net> said But of course there's a whale. On page 125 of Shadow and Claw Severian tells Agia the story of Domnina and Father Inire's mirror…
06 May 2005, 15:43
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Roy C. Lackey writes: Isn't there some dispute about what happened to those who died before Jesus was born? Jesus' own words from the Bible: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, t…
31 Mar 2005, 08:54
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"Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> quotes (with regard to Mag) "... it came to me that if I were to lie upon and then writes I'm really confused here, as well. I do remember t…
28 Feb 2005, 11:51
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Hi Crush, You haven't yet. The Amazon search copy (even the one linked from the hardback edition)…
23 Feb 2005, 15:03
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Crush asks: Roy Lackey says: Crush asks: I say: be careful when you argue with Roy Lackey about points of fact in Wolfe novels. He has, as I've come to realize, the annoying …
22 Feb 2005, 15:20
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In a message dated 1/25/2005 10:14:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, kieran at ou.edu writes: As is the spring Mimir, which I think is mentioned only once. It's where the Valfather too…
26 Jan 2005, 02:02
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Marc <aramini1 at cox.net> writes: Pretty convincing. Especially when combined with the fact that the neighbors said something to the effect (I don't have my copy here ... in fact,…
11 Jan 2005, 12:45
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In a message dated 1/6/2005 12:15:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, aramini1 at cox.net writes: eye Let me say that I really like this idea. Does this make up for my trying to demoli…
06 Jan 2005, 04:12
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In a message dated 1/6/2005 12:39:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, aramini1 at cox.net writes: Watching himself plant the spiny orange was one of those things he did during his missing …
06 Jan 2005, 03:56
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Very nice point. Beel is only a baron, not even a duke. Wouldn't that make it hard for him to claim the throne? How about Smiler? It seems that if he married Gaynor (or Morcain…
03 Jan 2005, 07:54
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I know people who've found it very difficult to get into the New Sun books but really enjoyed the Long Sun books, and I think there's little enough cross-reference between these t…
29 Sep 2004, 14:56
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Don says: This question has been bugging me for some time as well. The Green Man promises to set Severian free when he is imprisoned, so we only need to look at times when he is…
21 Jul 2003, 20:52
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I just got around to catching up on the Urth list, and I saw the questions about Seven American Nights. Nobody's answered many of them yet, so here are my answers. Gene Wolfe u…
11 Apr 2003, 16:36
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Roy says, about North, I think North was lying. The police dossier says that he was the chief of Iron Boot when he was arrested, and I suspect his arrest was in connection with …
08 Feb 2003, 21:39
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If the goddess can change the color of her hair and eyes at will, why not her age as well? If the previous owner was the goddess, this might explain the kitten. One of the attrib…
22 Jan 2003, 15:05
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Mantis writes: It's interesting that nomos is one of the words that Lovecraft combined to form "necronomicon," the meaning of which Gold discusses in Peace. I discovered a webs…
21 Jan 2003, 13:55
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I wrote: I'm wondering whether it is possible that it really was his first time at the Mental Health Center, and if his name was not originally Green, but that somehow the godd…
13 Jan 2003, 20:56
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Andrew Bollen <abollen at internode.on.net> writes <snip> This is a beautiful analysis, and I suspect that some of these views of Wolfe on the Mother Goddess also apply to There are…
03 Jan 2003, 13:24
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There's been a question that has, for some time, been circulating among mathematicians (and now I, like Jerry, have revealed my profession). Suppose you could learn the proof of…
18 Dec 2002, 08:44
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Mantis writes, speculating Hannah may actually have gone to Boston: But Hannah herself says (p. 10, Orb) "I never in my life been a hundred miles off from that little house, but …
01 Nov 2002, 10:36
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Mantis quotes: That's right. If Weer laid the stone down flat (like a porch step) only he would know it marked Lois's grave. Suppose he kills her (most likely, the gun went of…
01 Nov 2002, 01:14
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Roy asks Maybe Wolfe has answered this. Quoting from Peace: "... Den, I want you to help me find it." About an hour later we loaded Lois's pick and shovel into the trunk…
31 Oct 2002, 12:45
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Mantis writes, about the hole Weer dug with Lois (at the end of the Gold Hunt): If I remember correctly, this section is next to to the Bell Witch section, with the porch step "…
30 Oct 2002, 18:20
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Mantis writes: But that same paragraph shows Ted marries Melissa. "... two-headed Ted and Lisa into which each less-than-half had vanished more or less utterly and (though the m…
25 Oct 2002, 12:58
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Roy C. Lackey writes: I agree he's a liar, but I think that's not all he's lying about. I think Smart lived with Tilly for at least six months. Correct me if I'm wrong about e…
19 Oct 2002, 17:37
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There's another possible reason for one of Smart's shoulders to be higher than the other. Mr. Tilly seems to have killed his dogs, wife, and son with side effects of the "medicine…
15 Oct 2002, 19:50
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In a very interesting post, Roy C. Lackey writes: Good questions. I note that Weer's comment about not speaking to Julius for 25 years was not addressed to the reader, but to Aar…
15 Oct 2002, 13:41
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Nutria wrote snip Essentially, that's it. I left out the next line in the Chinese philosopher's story, which is: "And with that he [the old man] picked up the teakettle and d…
07 Oct 2002, 13:19
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blattid ("Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>) writes And this also touches on the question of whether Weer gets into heaven. In his reminiscences, Weer hasn't even admitte…
05 Oct 2002, 14:45
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Adam Stephanides writes, in response to my posting on the egg hunt: Even though a substantial part of her income comes from her brother, Olivia's a fairly well-off woman with exp…
21 Sep 2002, 01:54
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In a message dated 9/17/2002, matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk writes You're parsing this incorrectly. It's not circumcision that's connected with homosexual behavior, it's stra…
18 Sep 2002, 14:07
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Blattid (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes) writes: Thank you. It wasn't obvious to me. I came across these correspondences by assuming that Julius was the devil (as suggested by Robert Borski…
27 Aug 2002, 15:44
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In a message dated 8/23/2002 7:57:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Robert Borski writes: When Dan French is telling the story of the sidhe, it's an embedded story, and Wolfe has cha…
24 Aug 2002, 01:54
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