The Sorcerer's House Questions (Major Spoilers)

Jonathan Goodwin · 23 Mar 2010, 16:00 · from 2010-March.txt.gz

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From: joncgoodwin at gmail.com (Jonathan Goodwin)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:00:54 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Sorcerer's House Questions (*Major Spoilers*)
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The Women's Studies professor at Mt. Holyoke who gave Millie a good
grade if she would let her hold her hand was fairly offensive, I
thought.

The book itself I liked, and I intend to write a review of it soon.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> John C. Wright: http://johncwright.livejournal.com/322189.html
>
> "Between the time I wrote the original post at 4.00 AM and now at
> 10.00, I have reached page 33. Thoughts so far: Mistrust whatever the
> letter-writer says when he writes to his brother, whom he is asking
> for money. When the ex-con is reading Thucydides, suspect a change of
> personality or identity, as often happens in a Wolfe book. When the
> ex-con finds a ring inside a fish, he takes it as a sign of good
> fortune, but the Polycrates myth (if I remember it correctly) is that
> a king throws a ring into the sea to avert the jealousy of the gods;
> and finding the ring inside a fisherman's catch meant that the god
> rejected the sacrifice: in other words, it is an prodigy among ill
> omens. "
>
> Side note; this is a hilarious D&D story:
> http://johncwright.livejournal.com/323619.html
> Also funny; how Wright seems to bring politics into everything, eg.
> http://johncwright.livejournal.com/324494.html (I didn't sympathize
> with the Mars preservers in Robinson's _Blue Mars_, but that didn't
> stop me from enjoying it.)
>
> --
> gwern
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