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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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He used Mint's name when he meant Marble and vice versa and he did this at least two or three times in _Exodus_. I remember this quite well because I thought it was a very strange …
12 May 1999, 23:19
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I'm afraid you're forgetting something: Rust never sleeps! And I replied: I am now going to violate an article of faith on this list, that Gene Wolfe never makes a mistake. A cor…
08 May 1999, 23:45
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The New Improved Wonderful Eyeflash of Oz Oz References in "The Eyeflash Miracles" Part 7 The Slam-bang Conclusion! There is a long complex scene where Little Tib's father tries t…
17 Mar 1999, 23:48
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The New Improved Wonderful Eyeflash of Oz Oz References in "The Eyeflash Miracles" Part 6 One of the biologists who had worked in the program mentioned that the same type of genet…
14 Mar 1999, 23:00
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The New Improved Wonderful Eyeflash of Oz Oz References in "The Eyeflash Miracles" Part 5 Little Tib learns that he has slept for more than a day and that Dr. Prithivi wants him t…
12 Mar 1999, 23:05
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I will not have the next installment ready to post today. I am continuing to do research as I go along and have re-read _The Lost Princess of Oz_ and _The Tin Woodman of Oz_, the e…
11 Mar 1999, 23:59
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The New Improved Wonderful Eyeflash of Oz Oz References in "The Eyeflash Miracles" Part 4 Little Tib, Nitty and Mr. Parker are picked up while hitchhiking by the driver of an old …
10 Mar 1999, 23:59
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[Note: the next segment, which I'm posting tomorrow, is at least half all new material. So stay tuned!] The New Improved Wonderful Eyeflash of Oz Oz References in "The Eyeflash Mi…
09 Mar 1999, 23:29
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The New Improved Wonderful Eyeflash of Oz Oz References in "The Eyeflash Miracles" Part 2 George Tibbs, usually referred to as Little Tib in the story (his father is known as Big …
09 Mar 1999, 00:46
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The New Improved Wonderful Eyeflash of Oz Oz References in "The Eyeflash Miracles" Part 1 First of all, I would like to express my great appreciation to alga, who was kind enough …
08 Mar 1999, 01:04
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The New Improved Wonderful Eyeflash of Oz Oz References in "The Eyeflash Miracles" Part 0 Since there has been such a long hiatus in my postings on Oz references in Gene Wolfe's s…
05 Mar 1999, 23:46
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Here is a _Peace_ puzzler. It has to do with the book itself, not its contents, so there may actually be an answer to this question. Who drew the cover art? The back of the Orb e…
03 Mar 1999, 00:55
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Here is my fourth posting on the Oz references in _The Eyeflash Miracles_. Little Tib, Nitty and Mr. Parker are picked up while hitchhiking by the driver of an old school bus whic…
18 Feb 1999, 00:29
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Before I go on with more Oz material I would like to ask for some help from the other list members. At one point in _The Eyeflash Miracles_, Little Tib, Nitty and Mr. Parker are h…
09 Feb 1999, 00:09
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alga, You're welcome. I'm glad to see that there is at least one other Ozophile on this list. Any help you wish to provide will be gratefully received. I didn't know about the re…
05 Feb 1999, 22:45
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Here is my third posting on the Oz references in _The Eyeflash Miracles_. The next Oz reference is a throw away line from Nitty. He is in a box car on a freight train with Mr. Par…
03 Feb 1999, 00:38
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This is the second of my postings about Oz references in Gene Wolfe's story "The Eyeflash Miracles." Although I don't really think it is necessary to warn about Wolfe spoilers in p…
01 Feb 1999, 00:02
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I don't intend on doing a detailed summary of the whole plot of "The Eyeflash Miracles" because it would take too long; I am going to concentrate on the parts with Oz references. F…
30 Jan 1999, 00:55
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This posting could be considered to be my way of volunteering to answer the FAQ: What are the Oz references in "The Eyeflash Miracles"? except that I doubt it is a question asked v…
29 Jan 1999, 00:00
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I think you are going to have to change your specifications if you want to include all the stories you mention. How about: a list of Wolfe stories where the protagonist (who may al…
16 Jul 1998, 00:16
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^^^^^ That should be fond.…
10 Jul 1998, 00:52
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I don't agree much with Robert Borski's potty theory about "Cues", except in one or two minor respects. I do think it is partly a potshot Gene Wolfe is taking at people who (over)a…
09 Jul 1998, 23:56
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I have just been rereading _The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories_ (Pocket Books paperback edition). It seems Gene Wolfe is more than commonly found of usi…
09 Jul 1998, 22:29
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Of course! And the names of a group of seven shadow children are Doc, Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Bashful, Happy... and of course, me, Dopey.…
03 Jul 1998, 01:58
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Aunt Jeannine isn't an abo, she's a dead abo priest! I don't believe this but I could have argued it from the parallels I found between the first and second novellas of 5HC. (I co…
19 Jun 1998, 00:31
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Tony Ellis replied: I agree with Tony Ellis here. adam louis stephanides replied: I agree with you here. Ahhhhhhh, what does he know. He's only the author. adam louis stephani…
18 Jun 1998, 01:01
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Just for the sake of completeness, I felt compelled to post this. They are called the four-eyed fish (Ananbleps species). (Duh!) It wasn't too hard to find this out when I looked …
16 Jun 1998, 11:27
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I really don't agree with the "morphing carabao" theory. What is it morphing to? Are any four-eyed forms of life on St. Anne (or St. Croix) mentioned? If it isn't turning into a fo…
16 Jun 1998, 00:06
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Forgive me if what follows is too obvious but has anyone else who has read 5HC thought that Maitre may have, in a way, achieved his goal of "ruling" St. Croix without realizing it?…
15 Jun 1998, 01:14
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Robert Borski wrote, on 6/4/98: Robert Borski wrote, on 6/9/98: Dollo's Law applies to the evolution of organisms; to apply it to the development of an individual organism is to …
12 Jun 1998, 12:46
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You know, maybe we need a separate Suzanne Delage mailing list. <g> I came up with my own theory about this story, almost against my will, since I was originally going to post a m…
12 May 1998, 01:59
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One thing I am sure of (perhaps the *only* thing I am sure of) in this story is that the "Horatio" quote is the one intended here. (Of course, just because I'm sure doesn't mean I'…
12 May 1998, 00:38
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Quite a while ago in this list there was a discussion about the rats in Ultan's Library and whether they really could write. In looking back over the archives, it seems that more p…
11 May 1998, 00:30
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I am re-reading TBotNS, as I have mentioned before, I think. I am trying to be more analytical this time (about the fourth) but I keep getting drawn into the story and forget to be…
10 May 1998, 22:29
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Is anyone else reminded of _The Circus of Dr. Lao_ by Charles G. Finney when reading the passage describing Severian's encounter with the green man in ch. 3 of _Claw_ (pp. 229-231,…
09 May 1998, 01:02
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Aaaaarrrgh! I should have known! There are no easy questions involving Wolfe. 8-> Thanks very much to Tony Ellis for putting up the Bruce Pennington cover paintings. I like them b…
09 May 1998, 00:39
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I re-read FLF a while ago and noticed something that hasn't been discussed in this group. Since all (most?) of Wolfe's major works have a Christ figure in them, one would expect FL…
06 May 1998, 01:02
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I am rereading TBotNS and I have come across a passage that I think makes a good epigraph for this discussion group. It is in Vol. 1, Ch. 20, (p. 125 of the Orb edition _Shadow & C…
02 May 1998, 01:23
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I reread PEACE recently and have a question. (Well, I've got a lot of questions, of course, but one in particluar.) On page 2 of the Orb edition Weer mentions knowing why Napoleon…
29 Apr 1998, 23:51
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I have a question about Gene Wolfe's story "The Cat," the sixteenth story (starting on p. 210 in the mass market paperback edition) in Wolfe's 1989 collection _Endangered Species_.…
15 Apr 1998, 01:16
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Hello, I discovered this mailing list a few weeks ago and have just finished reading all of the archives of both the Urth and Whorl lists and boy is my brain tired! It is wonderfu…
14 Apr 1998, 00:28
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