Posted as William H. Ansley, William Ansley
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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 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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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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^^^^^ 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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From "Dan'l Danehy Oakes": Uh, well, actually it washes quite nicely, thank you very much. Since Anton van Leeuwenhoek lived from 1632 to 1723, I don't see how his discovery of m…
13 May 1998, 23:28
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Yeah, I hesitated over him quite a bit as not being inappropriate enough. Oh wait. I've got it!!!!! Dr. Talos: Paul Williams Yes!!! Really bad, and he'd picked because he's short…
13 May 1998, 22:32
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This sounds like fun, but I think guessing who Hollywood might actually cast, but who would be totally wrong for the part, is more fun. The problem is there are so many to choose f…
13 May 1998, 00:46
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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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raster at highfiber.com (Charles Dye) writes: Now that I look back on what I wrote and your reply, I think I understand what really bothered me about Agia. I wasn't that I thought sh…
09 May 1998, 01:15
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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 *like* this theory! It seems to explain everything quite well, except why no one mentions the cacogens coming out of the wall later on. (Maybe the cacogens had those little MIB f…
06 May 1998, 00:15
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Mike, Ooooh! An easy question! I'll answer it! Don Maitz is the artist in question. I am not crazy about his covers for TBotNS, but I really like some of his other work. Wolfe do…
04 May 1998, 23:55
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This is possible, but my interpretation of the passage in question, which I have appended to the end of this message, is that Weer continued to repeat the story ("as a psychologica…
04 May 1998, 00:57
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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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Were actually gives his age in the passage I am talking about. He is 13. He says he read the book a year or so before. Let's say he read it at 10 at the earliest. If he read it the…
02 May 1998, 01:05
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.... Aside from difficulties associated with how Nappy could do this with his hand in his waistcoat (which ends at the waist, at least in front), it seems unlikely to me that Weer…
01 May 1998, 23:46
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Again, I don't think this fits with the fact that this is supposed to be an innocent remark. "At first I used to tell it in the hope of satisfying curiosity (and so obtaining thos…
01 May 1998, 23:46
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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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