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Or El Laberinto del Fauno, more accurately. Since the list is silent at the moment I hope people will forgive a quick plug for this Guillermo del Toro film. It's not Wolfean, but…
12 Dec 2006, 23:22
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My old scanned covers are *still up there*? Amazing. http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ajellis/WolfeArt.htm…
26 Nov 2006, 10:36
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Completely internal? Oh no, I think that Wolfe expects his reader to be far too well-read for that to ever be the case. What I *don't* think, on the other hand, is that Wolfe wro…
10 Sep 2006, 15:29
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I think you're reading too much into what I've said. I don't believe in 'the sanctity of the words', or any sacred bond between reader and author. You seem to be talking primarily…
10 Sep 2006, 00:22
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bsharp wrote, quoting me: Possibly I didn't explain myself very well. All I meant was that we should be able to solve the conventional mysteries of a Wolfe story from the story al…
07 Sep 2006, 22:37
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I *think* the Shadow Children - who I might not have called Shadow People if I'd drunk slightly less wine last night - are the native creatures of St Anne, while the 'abos' are hum…
07 Sep 2006, 21:42
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There's definitely an air of that about the relationship of Talos and Baldanders, isn't there? Who could imagine Baldanders creating Dr Talos's wonderful play, and yet Baldanders c…
06 Sep 2006, 21:58
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bsharp wrote, quoting Wolfe: Heh, and to me this says that some of the people I've argued with about 5HC just haven't read the same book as me. To be fair, it sometimes feels lik…
06 Sep 2006, 21:40
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They're just returning to the Citadel after swimming in Gyoll - perhaps later than usual because Severian almost drowned. And they *want* the guard to return - he was supposed to l…
05 Sep 2006, 18:03
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Rex (http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2006-August/002 622.html) and Roy (http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2006-August/002 629.html) ha…
30 Aug 2006, 23:27
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I don't think it matters. Maybe Wolfe thinks that 96 is a plausible age for Lomer, and maybe he never stopped to think how old he was forcing Lomer to be. Either way, 62 years rema…
29 Aug 2006, 23:01
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Rex Lycanthrosaurus said: Again, you're either misreading or misquoting me. I didn't say the Autarch was 40, I didn't even say he looked like he was 40. I said Severian said that …
28 Aug 2006, 23:45
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You're either misreading me or misquoting me. :-) I have never said that 62 years was the length of the penultimate Autarch's reign. 62 is the number of years that have passed betw…
28 Aug 2006, 17:49
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Apologies if this turns into a repeat post, the little tubes of the internet seem to have eaten my first attempt. I don't think so. As far as I can see it's a mistake that's been …
25 Aug 2006, 18:19
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And Bob Miller: Absolutely. Wolfe uses synchronicity because it's realistic. As Dan'l says, Wolfe is a Dickens fan and Dickens put a lot of coincidence in his novels - but *why*…
20 Aug 2006, 15:16
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You are slightly misreading me, I think, or more likely I wasn't being as clear as I thought I was, as I thought I was being very careful *not* to say "because there's so much hear…
01 Aug 2006, 18:04
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Ori wrote (of Daniel D Jones and I): Not quite, but I'll get to that in a moment. And hearsay in a novel is a million times more significant than hearsay you or I hear down the p…
28 Jul 2006, 18:08
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The similarity of Marsch's bite and Eastwind's is very suggestive, I agree, and something I've often wracked my brains over. However, my problem with your theory is the same prob…
26 Jul 2006, 19:08
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And b_sharp: No, it's definitely Frankenstein :-) . Dr Talos says "our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams." What's the one thing everyone knows about the w…
20 Jul 2006, 18:13
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Well, careful. As Dan'l says, Yesod and Briah are separate issues. They're not just different universes, they're different *kinds* of universe. As I understand it, while our unive…
19 Jul 2006, 20:34
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Apologies for dredging this up yet again, but I missed b_sharp's post when it appeared. <snip> ...the Actually, what that sentence says is that Agia was *trying* to kill Severia…
23 May 2006, 18:16
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Actually I think b_sharp is correct here, that Apu-Punchau is from "the early days of Urth." That is, from our own history. The clincher is that when Famulimus and co find Severian…
26 Apr 2006, 22:37
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Dan'l wrote (of time travel) Chapter 9 of In Green's Jungles, if people want a reference. Fava is telling the story of what is clearly her own childhood on Green, and for some rea…
06 Apr 2006, 18:56
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Well, there is evidence in the fact that the Piteous Gate is packed with a multitude of travellers - including experienced wanderers such as Dr Talos, Baldanders and Jonas. No one …
23 Feb 2006, 00:14
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And Rob Davies: Chris's post - that the law is only enforced now and then - answers both these points. Indeed, it could hardly be enforced any other way. Travel is not forbidden.…
21 Feb 2006, 23:30
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The explanation for this has cropped up a few times in the list, actually, but since it's my explanation I'm happy to repeat it. :-) The soldiers are driving people off the road, …
21 Feb 2006, 19:08
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Apologies for the change of thread, but I wanted to distance this from any discussion of clones. It's Severian's tomb. At the end of Citadel, talking about the 'other Severian', h…
01 Aug 2005, 14:48
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Severian is white: "I've never seen such white skin coupled with dark hair... Do you think my own skin white?" "Very white, Chatelaine." "So do others, but it is dun next to yours…
18 Jun 2005, 05:21
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He has cropped up on this list before, but it was years ago. Now, as then, I thoroughly recommend him.…
18 May 2005, 11:33
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Well now I'm intrigued. Where? Where does it say this? Yes, the future of a Frozen Urth is one of irreversible decline... but so what? The future of the inhabitants of that Urth, …
09 Apr 2005, 05:02
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Maru wrote What Joturna says is that Abaia "might have destroyed you... In a day, or a few days. He's sought to tame you instead." UOTNS, XLIII. Destroyed, not taken. Abaia wants…
07 Apr 2005, 01:32
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I wrote, on the subject of Severian's victims being doomed: Abaia and co have *always* been poised to over the commonwealth. They were poised when Severian left to be Tested, and …
03 Apr 2005, 03:21
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Yes, mere preservation. The Green Man future 'already is'. It's just as real – or unreal - as the ice future. We meet someone who lives there. Bringing the New Sun preserves the ge…
02 Apr 2005, 13:35
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Maru said, quoting me: In the post you're quoting from, the question was whether the mere preservation of future generations could be used to justify Severian's mass-murder *at al…
02 Apr 2005, 06:30
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And later: Well, this is the thing. Severian doesn't even start to travel the streams of time until after he has returned to Urth from Yesod, New Sun in tow. His very first time-h…
25 Mar 2005, 10:18
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Crush countered: Master Ashe says. "At this time, many of your people are already gone," Master Ashe continued. "Those you call the cagogens have mercifully carried them to faire…
23 Mar 2005, 11:45
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If what counts is the number of descendants the survivors of a mass slaughter might one day have, then mass slaughter on any scale, no matter how horrifically vast, can always be j…
22 Mar 2005, 13:17
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I True. Ozymandias chose to sacrifice the few to save the many. Severian does it the other way around. :-)…
21 Mar 2005, 12:22
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Broceliande wrote: <lots!> Well, the 'What Abos?' thread tackled this way back when, and hopefully we covered at least some of the key points. The argument starts here, if you can…
27 Jan 2005, 14:24
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Thank you for that Gaiman quote, Charles. I found it very interesting - but then I would, since Gaiman's take on Lewis and Narnia seems to be an exact match for mine. But I also t…
07 Dec 2004, 11:52
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Turin wrote <snip> In the essay 'Where I get my ideas from' collected in Castle of the Otter, Wolfe writes (movingly, for me): The horrible thing has happened. Father and Mother…
07 Dec 2004, 11:22
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The Procreation stories are among my all-time favourite Wolfe short stories (admittedly, it's a long list). They're funny, inventive, moving, and wonderfully concise - all things I…
17 Oct 2004, 08:04
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I¹m always surprised when I see people post that they don¹t rate Wolfe so much as a short story writer. If they¹re expecting the big, multi-layered mysteries of his novels, as you …
26 Jun 2003, 09:08
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<snip> The Haunted Boardinghouse too, by the sound of it. House Absolute hunters might also find a visit to the Doge's Palace in Venice of interest. Although the Doge did have a…
20 Jul 2002, 22:42
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While there's nothing in 5HC that lets us say for certain Roy Trenchard is Victor's biological father, that I'm aware of, I can think of several subtle indicators. One is that Vict…
04 Jul 2002, 14:20
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That's Nurture. The law he is citing concerns Nature, or heredity. Neither do I. He's talking about why he could never write when he held a pen properly. I think he is either cit…
23 May 2002, 17:40
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Then why not say that, using just those simple words? Why instead cite, at length, a specifically evolutionary process? In any case, this is the answer which Victor has already di…
20 May 2002, 10:49
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Sorry to seem at loggerheads with you again, Adam, but a few quibbles spring immediately to mind: If Victor thinks he is descended from French settlers gone native, why, when he t…
10 May 2002, 15:31
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This one is hardly subtle, but I like it too much to miss the opportunity to quote it: "Also he's big in aquarium supplies -- that's quite a small market altogether, but Ffoulkes …
07 May 2002, 19:03
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Why yes, it would be, but then I don't think that is the only purpose of 'A Story'. It also serves to tell us a lot about Annese culture, among other things, and on top of that it…
07 May 2002, 18:58
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