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This is a completely off-topic post, but I know that some people reading this list are H. P. Lovecraft fans, or, at least, readers. Well, now is your chance to own what every tru…
19 Aug 2003, 03:22
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Michael Buice, I'm with alga on this one. IMO the seams really show where Wolfe tried to sew the New and Long/Short Suns together. And I'm not really sure what the fact that Gen…
19 Aug 2003, 03:10
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The Orb paperback edition also reads "underweight." If this version is correct, then Weer is always skinny, which would seem to throw at least a small monkey wrench into your ti…
30 Oct 2002, 04:18
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I don't know, Wolfe seems awfully familiar with the corridors of time.…
07 Sep 2002, 05:04
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Is "And if not, was he even aware of the lacuna when he wrote?" your 'question number 3' or have your supplied us with a lacuna of your own? <G> William Ansley…
27 Aug 2002, 19:32
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When I wrote my original reply to this message, it became quite long and I decided to send it just to Marc Aramini. But I also want to address this matter here as well. This is a s…
21 Mar 2002, 19:20
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My apologies. I didn't mean to imply that you didn't know what the word meant, although I can see now, re-reading what I wrote, that it must have come across that way. I was mere…
02 Mar 2002, 06:14
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Thank you Dennis/Endy for posting the link to the Gene Wolfe interview. I just finished it and I would just like to know one thing: Does anyone want to start a pool on how many v…
22 Feb 2002, 05:11
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I have a request to make. Could everyone who has a comment to make about whether to have one or two Wolfe discussion lists and what they should be called please post to the Urth …
10 Dec 2001, 19:12
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I have a request to make. Could everyone who has a comment to make about whether to have one or two Wolfe discussion lists and what they should be called please post to the Urth …
10 Dec 2001, 19:12
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I just wanted to post a heads-up for all the Nero Wolfe fans on this list. If you have access to the Arts and Entertainment (A&E) cable TV channel, you might want to watch tonigh…
14 Oct 2001, 10:40
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I just wanted to post a heads-up for all the Nero Wolfe fans on this list. If you have access to the Arts and Entertainment (A&E) cable TV channel, you might want to watch tonigh…
14 Oct 2001, 10:40
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I did enjoy the Gormenghast books immensely. Well, the first two, but I even enjoyed _Titus Alone_, just not as much. (That ending!) For all the rest of you who did enjoy the Gor…
28 Jun 2001, 23:23
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Warning! I have a spoiler for a Ray Bradbury short story at the end of this message. ... Even though Joshua provided us all with a wonderfully apropos link to a discussion of t…
25 Jun 2001, 23:13
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No need to apologize. If you don't ask you can't learn. (However, if you do ask and I answer, you risk an overdose of pedantry.) I was originally going to send a private reply to…
10 Jun 2001, 23:09
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First of all this message should really be in the Urth list. I am cross posting it in the hope that anyone who replies will just reply to Urth. ---------------------------------…
05 May 2001, 23:40
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First of all this message should really be in the Urth list. I am cross posting it in the hope that anyone who replies will just reply to Urth. ---------------------------------…
05 May 2001, 23:40
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And this is a good thing? <G> I swore to myself that I was not going to contribute any more to this conversation. But your theory is too good to pass up, Adam. Interesting. This…
23 Apr 2001, 23:51
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At last, a perfect opportunity! The answer to your question is yes and no. There is a Crowley discussion group* on line, but there hasn't been much discussion for quite a while.…
16 Apr 2001, 23:55
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I don't mean to be overly fussy, but could people please double check the date their computers are set to before they post to this list? I keep my email sorted by date. If a new …
16 Apr 2001, 23:11
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I have just finished listening to a series of taped lectures called _The Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer_*. Somewhere in this series, the lecturer talks about how Chaucer i…
14 Apr 2001, 00:35
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I thought I would take the liberty of assembling the appropriate portions of the relevant posts. ... Apparently the the astral projection of Hornsilk was. Well, well. Congratul…
29 Mar 2001, 23:00
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Although the "spider hypothesis" is tempting as a reason for the octopedalian nature of Bluvian life, here is another possible source. The passage below is from a book that Gene …
26 Mar 2001, 23:05
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I know it was a long time ago, but there was a fairly long discussion of whether Wolfe could be considered a modernist or post-modernist here. I had nothing to say on the subject…
22 Mar 2001, 23:06
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Just now, as I was purchasing a book from Amazon.com, I was presented with the usual "Customers who bought the items in your shopping cart also bought:" list and on it was the en…
22 Mar 2001, 11:14
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I didn't chime in during the "who's a catholic" discussion. I'm not one, but my tastes in reading are. I know there are some other people on this list who like reading comic boo…
15 Mar 2001, 23:08
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Robert, They say every reader brings something of his own to every book he reads. You seem to bring more than most, in fact you seem to bring an entirely different book. At leas…
19 Feb 2001, 23:44
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Well, when you put all the pieces together, I'd really appreciate you telling us all about it. I personally don't believe Wolfe has given us all the pieces or anything like it. …
14 Feb 2001, 23:09
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Hi, alga and all. I finally had time to finish RTTW. I can't say that I was all that thrilled with it either, for a variety of reasons. I found Pig's dialect quite irritating as…
14 Feb 2001, 01:08
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While I hesitate to bring up this old chestnut again, I am still fascinated by Weer's remark about Napoleon's hand on page 2 of _Peace_. He remarks that he knew why Napoleon kept…
09 Dec 2000, 00:23
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Back on Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu> wrote: [...] I found the passage quoted above while I was looking through the archive for one of my …
23 Aug 2000, 23:54
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Well, I finished _In Green's Jungles_ today. Wolfe is certainly is full of surprises. All I can say is that I hope _Return to the Whorl_ is released with no more of a delay than …
23 Jul 2000, 23:40
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I have just finished IGJ. Although I hadn't intended to, I re-read OBW in its entirety first. I certainly noticed several things that I hadn't the first two times I read it but o…
23 Jul 2000, 22:59
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Is that your final answer? Sorry. Ooooh, you were so close! The correct answer is: "In the final reckoning there is only love, only that divinity. That we are capable only of be…
06 Jul 2000, 23:43
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Although I agree that the house in THB is supposed to recall the house in LB, there are some differences. The haunted boardinghouse is a more or less normal house (architecturall…
26 Jun 2000, 22:46
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The URL below links to a single panel humor cartoon called Dr. Fun. The subject matter, if not its treatment, should be of interest to many readers of this list. <http://metalab…
30 May 2000, 23:17
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Now that I have paused a couple days to keep you all in suspense, here is more detail. Book Two of LB is called "Brother North-wind's Secret". Chapter II of this Book starts off …
15 May 2000, 23:44
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What's the difference between a wolf and a crow? Give up? Well, just look at them. They are pretty different! How about this one: What's the difference between G. Wolfe and J. C…
14 May 2000, 00:17
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Or perhaps *a* fairy? William Ansley…
05 May 2000, 00:10
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Thank you for that Matthew. Now, is there anyone who would be so kind as to translate all the Latin bits in "The Haunted Boardinghouse"? [I know that some of it is explained in co…
24 Jan 2000, 23:30
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I accidentally sent out this message before I was quite done. That last sentence should be replaced by the following: I don't think the stories are linked in any direct way, but t…
17 Jan 2000, 23:02
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I found the story "The Death of Koshchei the Deathless" in _Strange Travelers_ very entertaining. Although I could tell it was based on "fairy tale" material. I didn't recognize th…
17 Jan 2000, 01:35
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Alga, Wait a minute! The inhumi can survive "mummified" for long periods of time, they depend on humans for sustenance and they take on human characteristics*. These guys aren't …
16 Nov 1999, 23:12
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"Roberson, John" <RobersonJ at bek.com> (Ram) wrote (back on 5 Nov 1999): and later (16 Nov 1999): Ram, Don't feel bad that there was little response to your earlier posting; this …
16 Nov 1999, 22:58
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OK, all of you people who think Wolfe always has a reason for everything he writes (you know who you are!), what is the reason for Seawrack's missing right arm? I find it rather o…
14 Nov 1999, 23:46
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Gene Wolfe just loves being tricky. I noticed an example in OBW as I was looking for something else. Horn is describing Seawrack's jewelry to Babbie, wondering whether she was real…
09 Nov 1999, 00:30
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Although it's really not my place to say so, welcome to the discussion. [a lot of stuff omitted] There has been some discussion of this already. You might want to read the list a…
06 Nov 1999, 01:16
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"Do you think there are answers to everything here? Is that true in the place you come from?" Dave, The lines above are what you are referring to as the "motto/colophon of the Ur…
25 Oct 1999, 23:47
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Alex, At first I was very annoyed with you. I sat down at my computer all set to impress the heck out of the readers of this discussion group with the clever things I had figured …
19 Oct 1999, 00:49
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In the new Warner Bros. animated film _The Iron Giant_, the title character, a gigantic robot, does not have a very mobile face. There is a scene in the film where he smiles and in…
16 Aug 1999, 23:42
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