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You can figure out when he is Horn and when he is Silk. The big first person goodbye at the end of OBW is a huge clue - he says goodbye sitting under a big tree, then he turns to think how much more positive he should have been. At that point, the reminiscing as Horn is mostly told in the...

The Soldier series in general is sublime. Well worth re-reading, though I have not actually read Sidon as often as the earlier books in the series. The manumission ceremony left out of Soldier of Arete that leads Latro to a depression is handled so very well. I so wish Wolfe would have...

Yes, Gene Wolfe books. Always find so much more the second/third time, especially back to back. I just finally figured out Fifth Head of Cerberus after all these years - eye infections!!!! It's a maggot past the larval stage pretending to be a man who was replaced by a half tree aboriginal...

I have a much better final explication of the second and third parts now: the metaphor of place names as "eye" and "other eye" in "A Story" are a mythic mapping of what is happening in VRT as well - the shadow children chew these little pink eggs and spit out their white "wives". Indeed, these...

ON BORSKI’S FAMILIAL CONNECTIONS: The lady in pink is clearly CelestineEtienne, because she is a spy mistress working for the government, and MaitreWAS an important spy for them, and she is also using her wiles on “Marsch” inprison. However, his essays on David andPhaedria as siblings and...

I just wrote this little write up for the urth list; I tried to be pretty comprehensive in my approach, where I have been doing some more or less chronological analysis of Wolfe's stories. The Fifth Head of Cerberus I felt odd moving past 1972 without at least some mention ofWolfe’s first...