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Inspired by mantis's identification of Santa Claus as the switcher of the presents, I reread the section of Peace containing Christmas at Grandfather's.I am inclined to agree tha…
28 Oct 2002, 01:59
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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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When the falling of the elm awakens Weer, he finds himself in a room with a fieldstone fireplace. He seems to have been intermittently awake between his death and the fall of t…
22 Oct 2002, 15:00
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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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I think I've figured out another piece of the Doris puzzle. I was going to wait until I'd thought through its ramifications further before posting, but when I saw Roy's speculatio…
16 Oct 2002, 14:11
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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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A while ago, I read Robert Borski's essay, "The Devil his Due," which makes the connection of Peace with Faust, and identifies Weer as the devil. I think that Borski often notic…
04 Oct 2002, 13:32
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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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The recent charge that discussions on this list have become "loony" made me start thinking, and I think part of the problem is that we are concentrating too much on the hard aspec…
14 Sep 2002, 17:10
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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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Hello, Despite all the effort spent analyzing many of the embedded stories in Peace, there seems to have been relatively little written in this forum about the banshee story. I…
25 Aug 2002, 13:52
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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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Robert Borski argues quite eloquently that Ted Singer's father is the victim in the coldhouse prank. I don't think this can be right, because the victim lived in a boarding hous…
22 Aug 2002, 04:26
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Hello, This is an elaboration on my previous post, where I speculated about the meaning of the banshee story. I have some new thoughts about this story, which I'll give in a la…
21 Aug 2002, 03:32
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Hello, I have a few thoughts inspired by Robert Borski's recent essay on Peace. I don't believe that Weer is the devil, but I do like the idea that uncle Julius is the devil. …
19 Aug 2002, 02:30
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Hello, There's a simple explanation for the second man in Tom's photo. I think the photograph, like Candy's, is a publicity photograph. What do you do to make a publicity phot…
11 Aug 2002, 13:26
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In a message dated 8/4/2002 7:58:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mantis writes: There's another connection nobody seems to have mentioned yet. In the Arabian Nights story, the mari…
08 Aug 2002, 11:41
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"Charles Reed" <cmreed at link.com> writes Wolfe addresses this (possibly by accident, although I doubt it) when Silk/Horn is talking to the godling. Silk is talking: "Oreb can se…
18 Jul 2002, 23:17
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I proposed that Victor has invented the pre-French wave of Earth colonization, and included it in "A Story," in part to explain the fact that he is an abo-human crossbreed, despit…
06 Jul 2002, 02:15
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One of the interesting questions in 5HC is whether humans and abos are two, or one peoples, and whether they can interbreed. Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> speculates I have anothe…
04 Jul 2002, 01:28
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In reply to my statement that I thought Sherry died after Weer, mantis wrote ,,, ... The wandering is still triggered by the fall of the elm ... showing real-life posthumous e…
30 May 2002, 11:40
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In response to my post about Mr. Tilly's death, mantis comments I'm not convinced. I see Sherry's death as being one instance of the "everybody is dead" theme, and Weer's stroke…
29 May 2002, 10:56
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I think that Robert Borski has brilliantly figured out the mysteries in Seven American Nights. I want to add a corroborating piece of evidence I discovered, and try to answer on…
24 May 2002, 02:16
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Hello, Did Mrs. Tilly's ghost really poison Mr. TIlly? I haven't seen this question discussed in the mailing list, so I'm assuming that most people think the ghost did it. I th…
22 May 2002, 09:42
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Tony Ellis writes: To throw mud into already murky waters, why is everybody assuming that the abos can interbreed with humans? I don't believe that Roy Trenchard is Victor's fa…
26 Apr 2002, 15:02
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Hi, I've been lurking for a while, and I think it's time I contributed something. I have a theory about the ending of Peace that I'll be describing later in this post, but before…
07 Sep 2001, 10:43
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