Comments on: The Close of The Book of The New Sun http://upperfortstewart.com/enthusiasm-uncertainty/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/ Somewhat Amusing Ideas About Reading Books Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:17:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ian http://upperfortstewart.com/enthusiasm-uncertainty/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-487 Ian Fri, 25 May 2007 18:13:18 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/05/22/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-487 Okay, well mostly forgotten then. Although I suspect you've been drinking the Alzabo juice. Okay, well mostly forgotten then. Although I suspect you’ve been drinking the Alzabo juice.

]]> By: Elliot http://upperfortstewart.com/enthusiasm-uncertainty/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-484 Elliot Fri, 25 May 2007 16:08:00 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/05/22/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-484 Forgotten? Nonsense! I use words like fuliginious, dimarchii, falchion, zoanthrope, and hierodule, each and every day! Just like Mr. Burns, on the Simposons. Mr. Burns: You there! Send this telegraph to the Prussian consulate in Siam by the next auto-gyro - post-haste!! Forgotten? Nonsense! I use words like fuliginious, dimarchii, falchion, zoanthrope, and hierodule, each and every day! Just like Mr. Burns, on the Simposons.

Mr. Burns: You there! Send this telegraph to the Prussian consulate in Siam by the next auto-gyro - post-haste!!

]]> By: Ian http://upperfortstewart.com/enthusiasm-uncertainty/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-481 Ian Fri, 25 May 2007 15:02:45 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/05/22/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-481 I was planning on doing the same thing too, but, yeah, that's how it goes. And the language! I went into a giddy, little, recursive spiral when I started thinking about the language. Ancient words we've all forgotten, to stand for words we'll never know, in a perfectly remembered memoir about a time when the past has all been forgotten and can never be remembered. And then Wolfe has to include an appendix about the language that would better be included as an introduction except for the fact that it makes my head spin just a little faster coming at the end. Brilliant. I was planning on doing the same thing too, but, yeah, that’s how it goes.

And the language! I went into a giddy, little, recursive spiral when I started thinking about the language. Ancient words we’ve all forgotten, to stand for words we’ll never know, in a perfectly remembered memoir about a time when the past has all been forgotten and can never be remembered.

And then Wolfe has to include an appendix about the language that would better be included as an introduction except for the fact that it makes my head spin just a little faster coming at the end.

Brilliant.

]]> By: Clemens http://upperfortstewart.com/enthusiasm-uncertainty/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-474 Clemens Fri, 25 May 2007 03:50:28 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/05/22/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-474 I've got to finish the series. I was going to write a review of book no 1, then got into no 2, then was going to write a huge review of both of them, then got into book no 3... well.... you see how it goes. I got most interested in what Wolfe did with language. It is amazing. I’ve got to finish the series. I was going to write a review of book no 1, then got into no 2, then was going to write a huge review of both of them, then got into book no 3… well…. you see how it goes.

I got most interested in what Wolfe did with language. It is amazing.

]]> By: Ian http://upperfortstewart.com/enthusiasm-uncertainty/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-462 Ian Tue, 22 May 2007 17:02:38 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/05/22/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-462 Well, I wouldn't say I <i>grokked</i> them exactly. Maybe more that I would like to grok them one day. And the amount of revelations in <i>Urth</i> (relating to the plot, not the Bible book) is almost overwhelming. I can imagine what it's like to come back to the book again and look forward to doing just that one day. Well, I wouldn’t say I grokked them exactly. Maybe more that I would like to grok them one day.

And the amount of revelations in Urth (relating to the plot, not the Bible book) is almost overwhelming. I can imagine what it’s like to come back to the book again and look forward to doing just that one day.

]]> By: Elliot http://upperfortstewart.com/enthusiasm-uncertainty/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-461 Elliot Tue, 22 May 2007 16:32:29 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/05/22/the-close-of-the-book-of-the-new-sun/#comment-461 I'm glad you liked 'em! Though 'like' seems too tame a word. I'm glad you grokked them! I think it's amazing how Urth of the New Sun fits into the Book of the New Sun and opens the whole thing up, revealing those things which *should* have been obvious if I had an IQ of 250... I’m glad you liked ‘em! Though ‘like’ seems too tame a word. I’m glad you grokked them!

I think it’s amazing how Urth of the New Sun fits into the Book of the New Sun and opens the whole thing up, revealing those things which *should* have been obvious if I had an IQ of 250…

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