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I think Duns Scotus' name is just a nice little easter egg - anyway, I hope understanding TSH doesn't require reading all of Duns Scotus' works :) Small correction: Martha's origi…
05 May 2010, 02:06
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It reminds me that Bax describes himself to Martha as being of Scots descent. He also says that the name "Dunn" comes from a town there (I think). Wikipedia says that Duns Scotus w…
04 May 2010, 11:45
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote: <snippety> "Griffin" is an excellent name for a gold digger - because that's just what griffins did, …
01 May 2010, 15:18
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Absolutely - I was going to say something along the same lines but work intervened. I was thinking that perhaps the "other things" might just have been "women". Bax does of course…
30 Apr 2010, 07:19
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Sure - we're agreed that Bax killed & replaced George. The discussion (I thought) was about whether Bax planned it all along. I think he might have.…
23 Mar 2010, 21:37
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But it's Bax who makes a will in favour of George, and Bax who "disappears". Everything about the replacement is under Bax's control, really, if he can get George to come to him, s…
23 Mar 2010, 20:31
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Maybe Bax's intention from the first was to lure George to Medicine Hat, kill him & take over his non-ex-felon life (and money). Bax is a "revenge served cold" sort of guy. He scre…
23 Mar 2010, 04:38
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But if you looked only to RTTW surely you'd assume that the sun went out just as he was leaving the manse. Bright sunlight when he found himself in Silk, switching to dark as he l…
28 Oct 2008, 10:03
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Another explanation might be that Sharon is in California. Under the Kololahi = fictionalised Tonga assumption, that would put her 3 hours ahead of Cassie (with a day shift). Sharo…
25 Oct 2008, 21:52
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Thanks for digging up all of that and putting it together. I'm not totally convinced that Cassie's apartment changes. She actually does have a balcony to start off with (p76, down …
25 Oct 2008, 07:48
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Eric Ortlund <eortlund at briercrest.ca>wrote: wrote: But about inhumi flying from Green to Blue - I wonder if that's a lie, because as I remember…
23 Oct 2008, 05:23
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As SilkHorn explains to Vadsig in RTTW, while they are sailing from Dorp to New Viron. There's a lot to think about in this. Just reviewing the conclusions I came to and seeing ho…
22 Oct 2008, 00:16
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I think it was supposed to be vaguely Phoenicia. I vaguely recall from somewhere that the Perseus/Andromeda myth is supposed to have its roots in some old Near Eastern myth with a …
20 Oct 2008, 11:09
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Margaret is such an enigma! Just some random points, without being able to make much sense of anything ... - She's Margaret Briggs, and this is a story where initials seem to be i…
20 Oct 2008, 09:42
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Yep, I agree - Tonga is the closest real place; Polynesian, it's a monarchy & the people are big! Wherever, it's almost certainly a Commonwealth country, judging by King Woossisna…
09 Oct 2008, 11:04
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One of the people who kidnaps/arrests Margaret wears "a birch suit with those black stripes". Another wolf? A hyena? A zebra, perhaps? Scott wears a "bone-white-and-Chablis seersu…
08 Oct 2008, 23:21
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We get an explanation from Gid for at least one character's preferred colour styling: werewolves wear shades of grey. I don't think Cassie is a beast woman, is she? She's gone up …
07 Oct 2008, 03:47
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Roy wrote: -------------------------- On the morning after Severian bedded Apheta, she brought him breakfast on a tray. It consisted of "... small cakes, a carafe of cool water,…
24 Jul 2008, 01:31
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Given all this, I still can't figure out why you believe that the Hierogrammates are working directly for the Increate. They weren't created directly by him; they display no appa…
14 Jul 2008, 06:47
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Trying to make up a Palaemon story is like squeezing blood from a stone, but I guess there's a couple more pieces of data which might be relevant. We can infer that he was in t…
05 Jul 2008, 13:02
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For me, of course, this is an argument against the woman being Catherine. I'm sticking to my Catherine = Ouen's sister story, at least until I make up one I like better :) As to…
04 Jul 2008, 04:08
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Hmmm, I must be missing something. How does this roll people's ages back by 15 years? We have Rudesind a boy 70 years ago, so I guess he has to be around 80. We have Dorcas born …
01 Jul 2008, 13:06
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Which ones in particular? The only odd part I can see is that Casdoe, whether in her 20's or in her 30's, seems young compared to her father's age. But that's not anything to do …
30 Jun 2008, 13:15
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A couple of other things I like about my little Sev-lineage story. First & most obviously, it explains Sev's silence about Catherine: he's just not letting on that he's the produ…
30 Jun 2008, 10:29
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Fechin = Rudesind would mean Rudesind is lying about having been painted by him, and I don;t see any reason for Rudesind lying. Fechin = Inire IMO is frankly absurd. On the rese…
29 Jun 2008, 13:26
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Pushing this story along, let's make Catherine Ouen's sister. Dorcas died in childbirth, after 4 years or so of marriage, during part of which Ouen was a toddler. If the child li…
29 Jun 2008, 13:14
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Jonas confirms Sev's belief that Abaia et al are as big as mountains, not just the size of big ships. (Somewhere in Claw.) I think they survive. Baldanders tells Valeria that thi…
18 Jun 2008, 13:36
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Doesn't one of the demons say something about "the woman tempted me" not working this time around? I just assumed that Dr Talos was working a variation on a story which closely r…
17 Jun 2008, 07:42
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I think "the Temptation" has to refer to something like it would in our world, which is certainly the Temptation of Eve. In Sev's world, the Temptation of Meschiane. At least on …
17 Jun 2008, 00:06
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Neither the old boatman nor Fechin can hang on to stuff ... except (according to Casdoe's f-in-law) Fechin always hang on to his art. I don't think Fechin would have pawned the l…
16 Jun 2008, 15:39
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My point is just that it isn't God he reaches with that prayer; it's himself. (Citadel XIV) "My mind was among the starry wastes, far from Urth ... and it seemed to me that tha…
15 Jun 2008, 11:38
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Maybe I'm missing your point, but surely you have that problem however you think of Sev1? Unless you believe that he became the Conciliator too, which I can't see at all. On the…
15 Jun 2008, 06:25
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BTW, did anybody ever make anything more of Juturna's line: "Catch Catodon ... Cast out his conation." It atually looks a bit like a cryptic crossword clue, but that doesn't hel…
14 Jun 2008, 11:36
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:53:02 +1000 "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> wrote: [Cogent things about about Juturna, Sev1, Sev2 etc] Just reiterating & summarising my theory: J…
14 Jun 2008, 11:14
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So the wall of Nessus is more than 4,000 miles long (if "a few" = "three or more" & we're talking about Roman-style leagues). Not really related to the eclipse issue, but how ser…
12 Jun 2008, 04:47
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It's certainly worth thinking about non-Ship explanations. The Apu Punchauan villagers surely think that Sev has done a magic dance and chant routine to banish the sun, then bri…
12 Jun 2008, 04:03
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Sure, it's possible. And it could be that Roy's interpretation is correct & the black hole event did happen in Typhon's time. I don't think there's enough info given to really se…
11 Jun 2008, 23:48
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Sorry, that doesn;t work. You can't just point to descriptions of bright sunshine, or things shining in the sun; these occur in Sev's time as well.…
11 Jun 2008, 12:23
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I use it loosely for the Hierogrammates, Hierarchs (like Apheta) and Hierodules as a combined group, but I guess I would usually be thinking mostly of the Hierogrammates. I don'…
10 Jun 2008, 15:16
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But I don't think this absolutely supports your position. For example: maybe the astronomers knew about a black hole lurking in the sun's heart from way back. Whatever effect it …
10 Jun 2008, 09:23
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If the Hierogrammates were all-powerful puppeteers then it would indeed be boring and pointless, and I have never sugegsted they were, for this reason, and also because everythin…
09 Jun 2008, 09:36
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But this is consistent with my story. Only in Typhon's time does the reduction in photon flow reach the surface of the sun; before that (maybe!) nobody has any cause to think the…
09 Jun 2008, 08:52
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My reading: because it would lead in the future to the conclusion actually reached at the end of UOTNS. That is: Sev + a small band of Urth humans (but not too small: I suppose…
08 Jun 2008, 10:24
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Sorry, I meant earthquakes and such, not flooding, which I assumed was caused by the New Sun melting the ice. Roy was speculating whether a White Fountain created inside the sun …
08 Jun 2008, 00:43
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As it turned out in UOTNS, I don't think there were any violent upheavals? Baldanders speaks of gravity waves which he can detect, and which may be enough to tinkle the bells in …
07 Jun 2008, 14:28
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It is just wildly implausible that the Hierogrammates could not have at least warned the people of Urth what was coming, even if the Apheta and her fellow trogladyte wasp-people/…
07 Jun 2008, 14:07
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That doesn't really have anything to do with my point, which is just that in the combined BOTNS + UOTNS narrative, eidolon- Malrubius and Apheta both lied and/or acted to deceive …
07 Jun 2008, 13:51
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Wolfe may well have decided to go down a different route with UOTNS than he did with BOTNS. But a couple of points ... The picture painted by eidolon-Malrubius *may* have been a…
07 Jun 2008, 06:49
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Sev asks Typhon if killing a man by merely striking the table would be a good demonstration of his powers. Typhon says, "Yep!". Sev pulls out his dagger and bangs it into the tab…
07 Jun 2008, 03:49
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I still don't get the destruction of Urth as a punishment. According to the Hiero-dude-ish propaganda, the punishment has already happened - humanity beaten back down to a primit…
07 Jun 2008, 03:41
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