ReReading Wolfe

Listener comments end at: 14:15 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 14, "The Antechamber" Severian and Jonas do NOT "come to the garden alone," but instead are accompanied by invisible praetorians and strange giant statues.  Links: * Facebook    - Chapter 14 The Antechamber   - Chapter 13 The Claw of the Conciliator * Reddit   - Chapter 14 The Antechamber   - Chapter 13 The Claw of the Conciliator...

Listener comments end at: 48:30 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 13, "The Claw of the Conciliator" Severian resurrects an uhlan and reconnects with the president of his fan club and its first rank and file member. Links: * Facebook    - Chapter 13 The Claw of the Conciliator   - Chapter 12 Notules   - Jeremy Sheets Correction on Baluchitheres, etc   - Stephen Frug's corrections and comments on...

Listener comments end at: 20:06 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 12, "The Notules" Severian and Jonas flee extra-terrestrial ritual murder bats.  Links: * Facebook    - Chapter 12 Notules   - Chapter 11 Thecla * Reddit - Chapter 12 Notules - Chapter 11 Thecla - This episode is sponsored by Sticky Reckonings! - You can become a patron and hear additional episodes at https://www.patreon.com/rerea...

Listener comments end at: 19:30 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 11, "Thecla" Severian and Jonas share a meal with the Vodalarii -- and that meal is Thecla. Links: * Facebook    - Chapter 11 Thecla   - Chapter 10 Thea * Reddit - Chapter 11 Thecla - Chapter 10 Thea - This episode is sponsored by Fine Art Barbeque! - You can become a patron and hear additional episodes at https://www.patreon.com/...

From New Zealand, Aaron Raisey, collector of signed, first edition Gene Wolfe books, brings love for "The Land Across." - * Aaron's Instagram * Author Hugh Walters   - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in...

Mike Farrar draws the line between the Whorl and Yesod.   - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on our examination table? Shoot us an email at rereadingwolfe@gma...

Listener comments end at: 21:45 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 10, "Thea" Over lunch with Severian and Jonas, Vodalus discusses his plan to return humanity to space and his Megatherian allies. Thea reveals an... unsavory... secret about the Vodalarii.  Links: * " Chapter Guide to The Shadow of the Torturer " by Matthew Chiarello * Phorusrhacos   * Behold the Lord High Executioner * Facebook ...

Sierra Reynolds reads from her magic, fabled notes.   Fact checking: "cacogen" = "an anti-social person"? Checks out .  Lexicon Urthus notes this but James was never fully conscious of it. "Jolenta" and violet flowers? Checks out . Lexicon Urthus associates the name with "Jolie" but it definitely is also possible to associate with Iolantha which means "violet flower." Also with names like Jolanta...

Keith Adams and the Soviet Vampires! - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on our examination table? Shoot us an email at rereadingwolfe@gmail.com Or DM us on on...

Listener comments end at: 34:02 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 09, "The Liege of Leaves" Severian and Jonas ride a baluchithere and Severian gets to meet his hero, and the introduction goes about as perfectly as he could have hoped. Alas, meeting his hero turns out the way meeting your heroes often turns out. Links: * Facebook    - Chapter 09 The Liege of Leaves   - Chapter 08 The Cultellarii...

Sean Michael Robinson, illustrator and musician, turns the tables and interrogates his interrogator. * Publisher at Living the Line Books - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do y...

Korkut Gule brings it from Singapore. - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on our examination table? Shoot us an email at rereadingwolfe@gmail.com Or DM us on o...

Listener comments end at: 59:45. The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 08, "The Cultellarii" Severian and Jonas return to the inn and talk about the man-apes and the Megatherians. Links: * Facebook     - Chapter 08 The Cultellarii       - Chapter 07 The Assassins * Reddit     - Chapter 08 The Cultellarii     - Chapter 07 The Assassins - This episode is sponsored by Henchmen & More! - You can become...

David Stockhoff, a man who looooves a good Wolfe theory. - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on our examination table? Shoot us an email at rereadingwolfe@gmai...

Listener comments end at 46:35 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 07, "The Assassins" Severian leaves the cavern and is reunited with Agia.  Did Severian heal the man-ape's arm with the Claw in front of Agia? Links: * Mike Bennewitz's Geographical Axis of the Enemies of the Increate:      - #1      - #2   * Michael Andre-Driuss (aka Mantis) proffers that the man-apes were not fleeing from the sca...

SonofWitz  * Official Website * Mike's Axis of the Increate's Enemies Model * Mike's Update to the Model   * Instagram - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on o...

Marcos Go-VEY-ah. Marcos started out on the podcast with emails analyzing all the possible pronunciations of Triskele.  * From the Urth List , some of Fernando Q. Gouvea's contributions.  * Additionally, New York Review of Science Fiction, January 1990, Issue 17: Fernando Q. Gouvea reviews ENDANGERED SPECIES and sends loc on SOLDIER OF ARETE. - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story. ...

Listener Comments end at 36:40 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 06, "Blue Light" Severian throws down with the man-apes. Also James changes his mind about what happened at Morwenna's execution... again. (See the comments). Links: * Facebook ---- Chapter 06 Blue Light   ---- Gary Owens on Morwenna's innocence ---- Marc's Rebuttal   ---- Chapter 05 The Bourne   ---- Chapter 04 The Bouquet * Reddi...

Master Stuart Hamm -- Tower of the Bass Line.  * Official Website * AllMusic bio * Wikipedia page - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on our examination table?...

Marc Aramini is not having it with our exoneration of Morwenna and putting the blame on poor flower-gifting Eusebia.  Links * Facebook ---- Marc's Rebuttal   ---- Chapter 05 The Bourne   ---- Chapter 04 The Bouquet * Reddit ---- Marc's Rebuttal   ---- Mike Farrar's A Little More-wenna   ---- Chapter 05 The Bourne   ---- Chapter 04 The Bouquet   - Did we leave something out? To issue your questions...

Stephen "I can do the Frug" Frug - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on our examination table? Shoot us an email at rereadingwolfe@gmail.com Or DM us on on Fac...

Teacher and Gene Wolfe fanatic Diana Lambert - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on our examination table? Shoot us an email at rereadingwolfe@gmail.com Or DM...

Listener Comments ends at 39:20 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 05, "The Bourne" Post-Game conversation with Severian and Jonas over dinner. Then Severian get's a letter from "Thecla" and has to bug out.   Links: * Pantopsalis on the significance of Valaria Parts 1 , 2 , 3 * Lord of Atlantis on the Geography of the Commonwealth * Emragoolio on Your First Wolfe Story * Luzellil on the Botanic G...

Urth Lister and NoMeansNo podcaster Jordon Flato.  Links: * NoMeansNo Thing Podcast - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on our examination table? Shoot us an e...

RRW tries out Patreon! There's a video version of this episode at: https://www.patreon.com/rereadingwolfe - This episode is sponsored by Busking. - You can also get episodes on your podcast app or on our Youtube channel . If you have problems accessing the podcast on your favorite platform, let us know. - Questions, comments, corrections, additions, alternate theories? Connect with us on  on Faceb...