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Yes, the naive political content certainly detracted from the admirably heartfelt remainder. Can it be seriously questioned that societies of hundreds of millions require more com…
04 Jan 2002, 11:44
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In whorl.v012.n106, Rostrum wrote in response to my question "how many gods does a planet need"?: A nice riposte. I was going to write that my question was rhetorical, but this w…
19 Apr 2001, 04:24
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Kieran Cleary wrote of my querying the quote from "Father" re Typhon's daughter Scylla at p 360 of RTTW ("the daughter who had pledged herself in secret to one of the sea gods of t…
17 Apr 2001, 02:26
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My two cents worth: I also found RTTW unsatisfying, but then I'd found IGJ a big let down from OBW too. Without repeating the problems, I refer to Alan Lloyd's excellent post in …
12 Apr 2001, 06:30
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Michael Straight asked of IGJ: I confess that this is one of the things I disliked about IGJ - a certain sententiousness from Horn is his disquisitions about life, family relation…
01 Feb 2001, 03:35
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I gave up after a few pages, quickly deciding that I didn't like this sort of Wolfe - folksy prose and weak humour, as opposed to his more literary efforts like TBNS. I was tring …
01 Feb 2001, 03:25
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Re Ultan's Library, congratulations to Jonathan Laidlow and all involved. I, like alga some time ago (I think?) was very impressed with Nick Gevers' essays on TBLS. They made me …
08 Jun 2000, 06:59
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<snip> I always thought Horn's speculations on how the inhumi get from Green to Blue (and to the Whorl) at pp 180-183 was intended humorously (not by Horn, but by the reader seeing…
16 Apr 2000, 05:47
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Check it out in any Greek mythology compendium, or go to the source, Hesiod. As I said in my original post on the subject, I possess Lexicon Urthus so I know there are alternative…
10 Apr 2000, 23:07
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Frankly, Steve I've been trying to resist responding to your post, but then I thought to look at its date. Explains everything! If, on the other hand, it does not fall into the…
09 Apr 2000, 06:21
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Re the recent discussions prompted by my post on whether the Long Sun series is worth it or not, it's nice to see that there is a respectable body of opinion at both extremes. How…
03 Apr 2000, 02:55
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Re my posting on difficulty in even getting started on the Long Sun books because of the writing style some months ago in urth.v028.n079 and replies in n080-n082, I took the advice…
30 Mar 2000, 04:08
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Re my posting on difficulty in even getting started on the Long Sun books because of the writing style some months ago in urth.v028.n079 and replies in n080-n082, I took the advice…
30 Mar 2000, 04:08
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Why does the Green Man tell Severian that Agia can be found "above ground"?…
26 May 1999, 05:30
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