Comments on: The Solitudes http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:53:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rilkefan http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/comment-page-1/#comment-201306 rilkefan Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:19:02 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/#comment-201306 Write a poem and win Crowley novels? What's the catch? Oh, just the bad ones. I've got multiple copies of _Engine Summer_ and _Little, Big_, because that's just how good they are. I wish I had the hours spent reading _Aegypt_ back. Write a poem and win
Crowley novels? What’s the catch?
Oh, just the bad ones.

I’ve got multiple copies of Engine Summer and Little, Big, because that’s just how good they are. I wish I had the hours spent reading Aegypt back.

]]> By: Jim the Publicist http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/comment-page-1/#comment-201269 Jim the Publicist Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:25:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/#comment-201269 I think your haiku was pretty good. We'll be accepting submissions until Friday. Good luck to all who enter. I think your haiku was pretty good. We’ll be accepting submissions until Friday. Good luck to all who enter.

]]> By: bad Jim http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/comment-page-1/#comment-201230 bad Jim Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:32:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/#comment-201230 Daniel Davies will soon appear to remind us why haikus don't count. Daniel Davies will
soon appear to remind us
why haikus don’t count.

]]> By: John Holbo http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/comment-page-1/#comment-201211 John Holbo Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:47:49 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/#comment-201211 I gather that, originally, John Crowley had wanted it to be called "Episode IV: A New Hope", but the publisher like "Aegypt". I guess Crowley always preferred "The Solitudes", so now that desired title is being restored and "Aegypt" is ... well, it's not exactly being transferred to the whole four-book series. Rather, that is now called "The Aegypt Cycle". I dunno what was wrong with "A New Hope" to begin with. I gather that, originally, John Crowley had wanted it to be called “Episode IV: A New Hope”, but the publisher like “Aegypt”.

I guess Crowley always preferred “The Solitudes”, so now that desired title is being restored and “Aegypt” is … well, it’s not exactly being transferred to the whole four-book series. Rather, that is now called “The Aegypt Cycle”. I dunno what was wrong with “A New Hope” to begin with.

]]> By: ben wolfson http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/comment-page-1/#comment-201208 ben wolfson Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:32:02 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/#comment-201208 Since when is the first book called "The Solitudes"? I got it from the library and I'm pretty sure its title was "Ægypt". Since when is the first book called “The Solitudes”? I got it from the library and I’m pretty sure its title was “Ægypt”.

]]> By: joel hanes http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/comment-page-1/#comment-201203 joel hanes Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:03:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/06/20/the-solitudes/#comment-201203 "Good lord, Pierce thought, snapping shut the book and reinserting it invits row. Star temples and ley lines, UFOs and landscape giants, couldn't they see that what was really, permanently astonishing was the human ability to keep finding these things? Let anyone looking for them be given a map of Pennsylvania or New Jersey or the Faraways and he will find "ley-lines"; let human beings look up long enough on starry nights and they will see faces looking down at them. <em>That's</em> the interesting thing, <em>that's</em> the subject: not why there are ley-lines, but why people find them; not what plan the aliens had for us, but why we think there must, somehow, always have been a plan." John Crowley, _Aegypt_, 1987 “Good lord, Pierce thought, snapping shut the book and reinserting it invits row. Star temples and ley lines, UFOs and landscape giants, couldn’t they see that what was really, permanently astonishing was the human ability to keep finding these things? Let anyone looking for them be given a map of Pennsylvania or New Jersey or the Faraways and he will find “ley-lines”; let human beings look up long enough on starry nights and they will see faces looking down at them. That’s the interesting thing, that’s the subject: not why there are ley-lines, but why people find them; not what plan the aliens had for us, but why we think there must, somehow, always have been a plan.”
John Crowley, Aegypt, 1987

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