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Yup, a couple of places: - Knight, end of Ch.22. Garsecg to Art, as they first come to the tower & before Able has guessed that he is Setr. Garsecg has told Able that Setr made …
14 Sep 2007, 09:29
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I'm in a minority, I think, in believing it isn't. The -by suffix usually means something like "village" or "town", and I take the name to mean "from the village of the dragon". …
08 Apr 2007, 11:10
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Somewhere early on in Long Sun, we learn that Auk once kicked a man to death. It is very frustrating. SilkHorn meets Chenille (and Auk? can't rememebr) in the cellar of Sinew's …
02 Apr 2007, 06:50
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I don't think we have enough info about why Latro was left behind; anyway, I couldn't come up with anything. I found some things about Sidon a little disappointing. Eg: - What …
18 Feb 2007, 12:42
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The ending is pretty confusing. I posted my interpretation a few weeks ago - should be in the archives, fwiw. On Polos: Pasicrates is pederastically infatuated with him and has …
30 Jan 2007, 12:33
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Could be. But by the time he encounters her in sphinx-form, she's instructing him in a perhaps motherly way; apparently guarding his memory palace; and actually declaring that sh…
02 Dec 2006, 10:55
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I think knowing something about what happened afterwards is useful. Pausanias was supposed to have conspired with the Persians with the intent of taking over one of the Spartan…
01 Dec 2006, 02:41
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Theseus was supposed to have kidnapped an Amazon & taken her as his wife. When the Amazons invaded Attica seeking revenge, Theseus defeated them.…
30 Nov 2006, 20:47
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The end of Arete is Wolfe at his toughest, IMO. For this part of it, my conclusion is that Latro did a deal with Pausanias; the ship cargo in return for Pausanias holding back wh…
30 Nov 2006, 11:56
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Good point! But I'm going to stick with the my interpretation for now. Pindar says he doesn't know who is meant by "the god unseen" - why wouldn't he have picked up on a Hades re…
14 Nov 2006, 20:00
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Sidon should arrive here in a couple of days, and I've been re- reading Mist & Arete in preparation. Mainly I'm hoping for a good story well told, but I'm also hoping that there…
14 Nov 2006, 09:04
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But also: "There's your blue Urth coming over his shoulder again, fresh as the Autarch's fish."…
22 Oct 2006, 03:39
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I took this to be just a simple deduction by Sev: He realizes first that Ouen must be his father, then since Ouen is fair & he (Sev) is dark, Sev's mother must have been dark als…
14 Oct 2006, 12:48
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I think it's kind of intersting that "The Gospel of Sev" was set down by a Raskolnikov figure who thought it made a cute story - not by a devout disciple type.…
03 Oct 2006, 21:52
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The most striking manifestation of this to me is Sev's behavior when he's arrested in UOTNS. He messes up bunch of soldiers, and then he kills the prison governess almost immedi…
08 Sep 2006, 11:04
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A quick "me too"; I don't see how this can be in dispute, but maybe I'm missing something. And how is it that people around the House Absolute don't recognize the the servitor a…
28 Aug 2006, 23:42
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"Theoanthropos" is tricky. I think it is only used by Agia, in the jungle hut scee. As far as I know, the usual Chalcedonian term is actually "Theanthropos". Is Wolfe making som…
22 Jul 2006, 16:55
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Why do you assume that? Assuming continuity betwen BOTNS and LS/SS, I think we can safely assume that in pre-Autarchial days, the necropolis could be a resing place of the highes…
09 Jul 2006, 04:56
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Yep. I've tried to make up stories about who the other coffins in Sev's tomb might belong to, but I can't find anything to go on. And why *two* open? Ideas, anyone?…
04 Jul 2006, 14:03
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Sure, the Increate is God, and Sev & others believe they are doing God's will. But nobody seems to have a direct line to him; they're guessing. I do think Sev's prayer in the ch…
29 May 2006, 20:01
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Hmmm, what's the basis for that? Let me throw in another one: are the juvenile form of the Hierogrammates in any way related to the huge moth SilkHorn sees on one of his astral …
29 May 2006, 13:36
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Well, that certainly sounds more aggressive than I intended. I really meant that everybody finds themselves on different sides of that division from time to time. What looks like…
29 May 2006, 01:05
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I don't think that's the real dichotomy. Better: "Here's a nice shiny jewel - let's shove it in the ring!" vs "But it doesn't fit, and if you scratch it, it flakes. Let's find a …
28 May 2006, 23:58
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But when F says "Only O here has memory like yrs", I think it's clear she means like Sev's, who had just said, "I remember everything vey well, as you had better know at once". O…
26 May 2006, 14:05
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No, it doesn't work like that. As I pointed out, they know about the E&G incident at the time they meet Sev at Baldanders' castle. Sword Ch33, Barbatus to Dr Talos: "We could hav…
26 May 2006, 13:14
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So just trying to find a consistent solution to the Hierodules/time problem (foolish though the attempt may be). 1. There is evidence that they do, by nature, experience time ba…
26 May 2006, 11:18
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Yes, I certainly agree that's the best explanation, but I'm not sure it fits 100%. I *think* they say at some point that backwards- thru-time is indeed their nature - on the Ship?…
25 May 2006, 07:50
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Do what? <g> Sorry, no doubt being dumb but I just don't understand that. If they are "from the future moving down the timeline to the past", wouldn't that correspond to what I …
25 May 2006, 07:21
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I've wondered whether the "cynocephalous ape" Sev sees in the barracks when he awakes after the avern combat mightn't also be Inire, come to check out the new guy.…
25 May 2006, 06:33
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I've never understood why people assume this. "Megatherians" = "Big animals". Why think of Abaia, Erebus et al as "animals"? On the other hand, I suppose you could think of the …
19 May 2006, 02:29
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<snippety> Actually, I think it is very clear that the individual "towers" in the Citadel are spaceships. The Citadel itself isn't.…
06 May 2006, 06:11
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Howdy Rex. But given the way the Hieros etc etc can operate out of time, it's certainly possible for the punishment to be inflicted before the crime, so to speak. Or at any rate…
26 Apr 2006, 13:27
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FWIW, a long time from black hole insertion to noticeable effect on Urth is consistent with solar physics. Eg from the often-reliable Wikipedia: 'Estimates of the "photon travel …
26 Apr 2006, 06:55
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Hi & welcome b sharp: I tend to side with the Tzadkiel ship explanation, but it is interesting to think about what it was doing there & at that time. Maybe it was dropping a bl…
26 Apr 2006, 06:32
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Oops - wanted to think more about that; left it in by mistake.…
08 Apr 2006, 21:20
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Just in the context of SilkHorn & Sev, my Big Hypothesis is really based on Sev's "iterative" world-line, not on any specifically SilkHornian past-changing ability. In the New …
07 Apr 2006, 09:53
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Seems to me you can get that compression with something less than 0.01g, if your magic space-engine gives you constant boost up to 0.95c or beyond. Or no? But anyway I have no id…
06 Apr 2006, 05:20
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Do we know that? Not denying it, but I don't recall anything which suggests time travelling.…
06 Apr 2006, 03:54
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That is the other main possibility, of course. But I think that if there's some reasonably concrete evidence that Sev's story has changed at all because of the meetings with Silk…
06 Apr 2006, 02:03
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I posted this back in 2003: ------------------------------------------------------------- Quite a lot more time than a week must separate Silk's visit to Urth from Dorp (RTTW Ch…
06 Apr 2006, 00:54
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I don't think that's it. Recall the scene with the Hierodules in the Stone Town. Sev says: "When I spoke with Master Malrubius beside the sea, he dissolved into a glittering dust…
05 Apr 2006, 09:47
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<Snipped good argument> And if there wasn't a permitted space on the other side of the gate, why were the guards letting people through it in the first place? I prefer the look…
23 Feb 2006, 12:19
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This vaguely Zoroastrian or Gnostic or whatever hierarchy of powers permeates Wolfe's fantasy works. I can't see it as anything but deeply, deeply unorthodox. These beings are no…
10 Dec 2005, 14:21
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Humans have at least some God-like powers with respect to the Aelf. For example: Toug's healing of <whichever one it was>. They can also be "supernaturally" powerful warriors in …
05 Dec 2005, 11:14
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Doesn't he tell Toug he's now an Overcyn, more or less directly, at the start of Wizard? But Toug isn't to worship him, unless Able tells him to.…
28 Nov 2005, 01:17
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I think it has to be remembered that Art's absolute goal is to get Disiri. To do that, he (thinks he) needs to get honor & recognition. Becoming a knight is the only way he can s…
25 Nov 2005, 03:24
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Well, that's excellent, except I guess it means now I'll have to wait for book 4, for clues as to what the hell was going on in books 1 & 2 :)…
27 Oct 2005, 13:01
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I don't think there was an actual "promise". I sure hope it happens, though - maybe it will help puzzle out what the hell was going on in the first two books :) Tom Holland has …
27 Oct 2005, 03:01
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I'd include: 5. Travel by BOTNS-style mirrors. One little thing you could use to support this: Silkhorn says that neighbors on at least one occasion reminded him of images multi…
23 Aug 2005, 21:12
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That's certainly true. But I think that Krait took the form of a youth of the "right" age because he wanted very much to be Horn's son. Actually, appearance != age seems to be …
23 Aug 2005, 05:49
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