Lupine defined
The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 10 Jun 2001
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William Ansley — 10 Jun 2001, 23:09

> Pardon my ignorance, but what is "Lupine"?  I just picked up a copy of There
> Are Doors at the used paperback store the other day, and it is described as
> "loop-the-Lupine".  I've heard you guys talk about Lupine on the list before.
>  Thanks,
> 
> -Steve

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 your message, but 
then I thought there might be others reading this discussion list 
that had been wondering the same thing but were afraid to ask.

Lupine means wolf-like, it is an adjective derived from the Latin 
word for wolf lupus (similar adjectival forms are ursine: bear-like, 
vulpine: fox-like and murine: mouse-like; the latter is used almost 
exclusively in scientific literature).

It is a scholarly pun on Gene Wolfe's surname. (It may have been 
coined by John Clute; does anyone know?) On this discussion list it 
is used to mean writing in the style or manner of Gene Wolfe, 
especially something written in a particularly convoluted, 
elliptical, ambiguous way.

It is used in combined forms such as "loop-the-Lupine" which you 
mention (I imagine this means "even more convoluted than Wolfe's 
writing usually is") and Dan'l Danehy-Oakes excellent recent coinage 
Lupiverse, meaning the universe of discourse of a particular work by 
Gene Wolfe.

  --
  William Ansley
  
  *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 11 Jun 2001, 08:50
  follows, by subject match William Ansley

William Ansley referred to

> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes excellent recent coinage Lupiverse,

Thank you!

> meaning the universe of discourse of a particular work by 
> Gene Wolfe.

Well, actually, what I had in mind was the major universe 
of discourse in which the BOOKS OF THE [FOO] SUN take place,
but if the term is more useful the other way, who am I to
stand in the way of linguistic evolution?

--Dan'l


*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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