Posted as William H. Ansley, William Ansley
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I really don't understand your argument here. How is what the narrator of TFHoC knows about his and David's relative ages or social status controlling the order of the roll? Mr. M…
16 Feb 1999, 23:58
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Yes, as a matter of fact, I do know of a roll call that is not alphabetical. In my family, when my mother wanted to make sure that I and all my brothers and sisters were present, s…
15 Feb 1999, 23:17
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Wow, a book written like Wolfe but with an author who's not coy and oblique. I don't know if I could stand it. The relief, that is. <G> William Ansley…
05 Feb 1999, 22:29
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I take the above back, partly. Shortly after I sent it, I remembered that Little Ozzie sings "We're Off to See the Wizard" at some point in FLF. Maybe I'll have to re-read FLF soon…
01 Feb 1999, 23:27
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mantis, I may try this; I am rather fond of FLF. But despite the many times I've read that FLF is a loose retelling of the _Wizard of Oz_, I don't buy it. The only real Oz referen…
01 Feb 1999, 00:10
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That's as good a guess as any and better than most, I would say. That's interesting. I also thought a storm was mentioned in the first paragraph of _Peace_, until I went back and …
31 Jan 1999, 22:26
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Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com> said: I wouldn't call Weer's mental state a dream. My interpretation is that he is casting his mind back through his memories, in no parti…
27 Jan 1999, 01:02
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I have been reading this list quite a while and have read all the archives at one time or another and I think I know why "nothing is ever actually done" and why nothing is likely t…
27 Jan 1999, 00:05
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I have a new theory about these shadows. (And that is all Forlesen saw, after all, the shadows of whatever was holding up the road. And can we even be sure of that?) They were the…
12 Jan 1999, 00:06
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I hadn't read "The Children's Hour" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore for years myself but I did recall that it was in _A Treasury of Great Science Fiction_ edited by Anthony Bouche…
07 Jan 1999, 00:31
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I'm afraid I just can't let this pass, even though I suppose I am picking nits. In the passage quoted above from _Peace_, the person speaking to Katy is not Aunt Olivia, it is Hann…
13 Dec 1998, 01:40
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Thank goodness (and evilness, to preserve duality)! I am glad that someone else interpreted this passage in the same way I did, which seems to me to be the only sensible way to in…
30 Oct 1998, 01:10
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! What a welcome breath of fresh air. I shall never be unkind to pond scum again. Thank you, alga! William Ansley…
14 Oct 1998, 00:11
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Well, *somebody* has a wicked sense of humor, anyway. William Ansley…
13 Oct 1998, 23:49
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Yup, I guess it does. I didn't write "Lewis Carroll wasn't a child pornographer despite the fact that he took pictures of naked little girls," not because I wasn't aware of that he…
09 Sep 1998, 00:01
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I find your second "speculative claim" about ILGC much easier to swallow than your first, in fact it even occurred to *me* that she might be imagining the man without too much spec…
06 Sep 1998, 00:51
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(To the tune of "Little Orphan Annie".) Who could it be but Robert Borski! Who said: I am with Rostrum on this one. I don't see how Robert can get "experiencing time backwards" …
05 Sep 1998, 00:31
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I certainly don't deny the Carroll connection, I noticed it myself on my first reading of TBotNS and especially "The Cat". Even though I was quite sure that Christopher R. Culver …
05 Sep 1998, 00:31
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I certainly hope no one reading this list thinks that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) molested any children. He didn't. He also wasn't a child pornographer - mantis was jo…
04 Sep 1998, 00:06
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----------------- My novel _Peace_ has just been published in Britain.... Colin Greenland has reviewed it kindly in the London _Times Literary Supplement_, but what we are doing he…
28 Aug 1998, 23:42
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Rostrum (Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>) said: I really don't think we disagree very much here. I think there was a "real" house Weer built before he died that had muse…
28 Aug 1998, 00:08
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Alex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu) said: I shouldn't have left this hanging. Sorry, I was tired. Nope. I don't think Weer is a serial killer and I never have, although I hav…
27 Aug 1998, 23:57
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Rostrum (Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>) said: Maybe. But it definitely would be more fair as a test if he was a great deal older than five. "Alex David Groce" <adgroc…
27 Aug 1998, 00:46
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Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com> said: I prefer to believe that the house does/did exist and it did have "museum rooms" replicating important rooms in Weer's life. But, I …
27 Aug 1998, 00:38
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Rostrum (Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>) said: Rostrum, Your recollection of the end of the book is a little bit off. ----------------- It is time, I think, that I se…
27 Aug 1998, 00:32
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Rostrum (Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>) said: "Alex David Groce" <adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu> said: I really find it hard to support the idea that a five-year-old Alden Den…
26 Aug 1998, 00:12
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Alex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu) said: I am rereading _Peace_ again and taking notes. (Man oh man, does that ever slow me down and make what is normally a pleasure into a c…
25 Aug 1998, 23:33
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Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com> said: You certainly can think whatever you want, but please note that I said "certain as anything can be in a Wolfe book" which isn't very…
24 Aug 1998, 23:45
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It is as certain as anything can be in a Wolfe book that Weer is dead, a YADP (Yet Another Dead Protanganist - another useful term I offer to Wolfe scholars), both from internal ev…
24 Aug 1998, 01:11
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I am not sure if I am thinking of the same discussion of _Peace_ that you are (although I remember only one) but if I am then "good" is perhaps overstating it. What I remember is a…
24 Aug 1998, 00:15
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The zuchinni squash is also know as a vegtable marrow, which ties in with the greengrocer occupation. William Ansley…
31 Jul 1998, 00:05
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Not that this matters, but no geckos (that I know of) have sticky tongues. They catch insects by staying very still and then lunging very quickly when an insect comes within reach,…
29 Jul 1998, 23:11
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Amen! I agree with you completely and I think this would be a very appropriate last word on 5HC... but I know it won't be. 8-> William Ansley…
22 Jul 1998, 23:09
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I like this too. I have a nagging idea that the phrase "the Country of Friends" occurs elsewhere in Wolfe and I have seen it recently in my rereading. If I find the reference, I w…
17 Jul 1998, 23:50
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I am now skipping around in my Gene Wolfe collections. One thing I've noticed that happens to his characters frequently is that they must travel without food or shelter and often w…
11 Jul 1998, 01:11
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Earlier I (William Ansley) wrote (slightly edited from my original post: First I would like to say how much I appreciate the effort that Damien Broderick and Michael Andre-Driussi…
08 Jul 1998, 01:20
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Damien, Even though the result wasn't all that informative, I want to thank you for going to the trouble of asking John Clute and Peter Nicholls about the passage I quoted to try …
06 Jul 1998, 22:33
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... You know, I used to think this too, but it's not so. The story opens with "Cues?" the young (not really so young any more) man said. "I'm afraid I don't understand.…
06 Jul 1998, 01:23
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Hi, Robert. I hope you realize that I am not going to take anything you post to this list seriously ever again. I mean, you *know* you are not going to convince me that Wolfe mean…
06 Jul 1998, 01:20
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Robert Borski writes: Gee, Robert, I have disagreed with your interpretations of other Wolfe works but I really, really, REALLY disagree with this one. This seems to be the whole…
05 Jul 1998, 01:53
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prion, I don't know if you're right about this but it seems to my tired and befuddled brain (after reading over 20 of you messages more or less in a row) that you've absorbed the …
03 Jul 1998, 02:22
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Too true, too true! I would guess, as with most things, because it's easier for them to be unoriginal. Now my own little effort in this area, while it may seem similar on the sur…
26 Jun 1998, 23:13
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You can't just blame it on Severian. Most, if not all, of Wolfe's fiction is torturous in the same way and, in a few cases, possibly to a greater degree. His nonfiction tends to b…
19 Jun 1998, 00:41
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Somewhere in TBotNS there is a passage where Severian compares the relationship between torturers and their clients to that of men to women and authors to their readers. (Maybe I a…
18 Jun 1998, 00:06
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Actually, a shoggoth is engineered, rather surprisingly for Lovecraft. "At the Mountains of Madness" is about as close as he ever comes to writing "hard sf." ---------------------…
16 Jun 1998, 12:15
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Yes, I have a doubt. But I am willing to accept Roy as being the best suggestion I have seen, although I have a sneaking suspicion that 'R' stands for "Rm E2S14 Seat 18". To parap…
16 Jun 1998, 11:51
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I am not sure that all of the GW trial clones were sold as slaves. While it may be true that the brisk business in children in Port-Mimizon (and elsewhere on St. Croix) is mainly t…
16 Jun 1998, 01:02
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I just reread 5HC because of the recent and ongoing discussion. This was an enjoyable experience since Wolfe gives you so much to discover upon rereading, as everyone on this list …
15 Jun 1998, 00:39
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To me, at least, the little animal is obviously Mickey Mouse (or possible one of the other, similar cartoon mice with pointed snouts, round ears and square human teeth). Wolfe defi…
12 Jun 1998, 11:06
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Wait! I want Anna Nicole for my WCS cast! Please! William Ansley…
13 May 1998, 23:31
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