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Roy objcts: I'm not wedded to Chenille as Jahlee's soul parent. In fact, J seems much more umm regal (in her demon-whore kind of way) than Chenille. She also doesn't seem to hav…
18 Aug 2005, 05:07
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I wrote Mulling outcomes: Some of the Jahlee problems go away if you can push her birth back to pre-Exodus times. That's easy enough, by itself. I continue to believe that the …
17 Aug 2005, 20:06
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Roy asks: Maybe! A difficulty is that in Silkhorn's vision of her attacking infant Sinew, she seems more like a starving adult than a "little girl". RTTW p27: "The inhuma came, …
17 Aug 2005, 07:24
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Actually, it looks like that's where this doesn't work. When Krait is dying on Green, and tells Horn the Big Secret, Horn says he understands what had happened "almost twenty yea…
16 Aug 2005, 06:01
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An atempt at a timeline. Don't have the books with me so this is all from memory & so no doubt wrong in places: 1. Green/Blue conjunctions happen every 6 Blue years (see Horn's …
16 Aug 2005, 00:59
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It was surely Pas doing the shoving, from the start. Tartaros reveals to Auk that unless they get at least one lander away, Pas is going to start kicking butt. I'm not sure that…
14 Aug 2005, 23:25
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Maybe: in this conversation with Abanja, Silkhorn is still thinking in the context of Horn's three hypotheses from OBW. He knows enough about the inhumi now to dismiss the hypoth…
14 Aug 2005, 22:36
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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:46:36 -0700 "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> wrote: <Snipped for brevity.> Horn thinks about how Quetzal might have come to the Whorl, in OBW (pp182-3)…
13 Aug 2005, 09:01
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Damn - I was sure some explicit mention was made somewhere of the Neighbors having spacecraft, but now I can't find anything. I do have the Neighbor testifying at Silkhorn's tria…
12 Aug 2005, 05:31
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Just to be clear, Silkhorn does say later that the Neighbors took inhumi to the Whorl, and using them studied humans for a long time (RTTW 235-6). In the passage you quote, he s…
11 Aug 2005, 17:34
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Well, except that we know that the Neighbors did put inhumi on the Whorl (at least, Silkhorn said they did), while AFAIK there's no reason for thinking that there were any inhumi…
11 Aug 2005, 14:25
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Perhaps the mystery of the tall figure with the bird-like gait & the squat, dome-like building up the top have to be solved first. I continue to hope that the figure is a Neighb…
11 Aug 2005, 00:49
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Wolfe may have nodded. Otherwise, you have to get around that "years" comment (which I'd forgotten when I posted about this a few days ago). I guess it's just possible that "ye…
10 Aug 2005, 16:59
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On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 23:58:26 -0700 "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> wrote: <Interesting things about Jahlee and Chenille, snipped> What were Jahlee's origins? She bites baby S…
07 Aug 2005, 08:59
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Roy says: Google gives me "cuir boulli; the root of the later word cuirass, used to describe a breastplate". Not a lot of help. I dislike the whole clone thing & wish it would g…
31 Jul 2005, 22:43
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Well, I don't think he's actually "foresworn bathing of any kind". In winter it's hard for a servant boy of the proto-torturers to wash. I doubt that he'll still be known as "Ree…
31 Jul 2005, 21:15
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Roy wrote: <Well-argued stuff which I agree with.> I've long felt that if Wolfe is teasing us with hidden family currents, one of them might lead from Sev to Horn. There are a…
31 Jul 2005, 02:56
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Art says somewhere in Wizard that he saw the screaming faces of those who had been sacrificed to Grengarm by the Easterlings at ummm the Mountain of Fire or whatever it's called.…
05 May 2005, 15:02
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Hethor mentions the name of his ship (can't remember what it was), and Jonas says that his ship was called "The Fortunate Cloud", as far as I recall. The idea that there is just …
28 Apr 2005, 01:08
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That's interesting, but didn't Idas say she was actually searching for Inire's letter endorsing Sev as Autarch to the Hierogrammates? I don't recall the exact details. Somehow I …
19 Apr 2005, 17:41
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Oopsie - Obviously, "its destruction".…
17 Apr 2005, 04:26
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Roy says: Would they have to wait for a new cycle? By the time of the trial, Sev is an eidolon, created on the ship after he died encased in Sidero. It was at that point Tzadkie…
09 Apr 2005, 05:52
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Roy says inter alia: I feel that "symbolic" and "punishment" must both be wrong, somehow. If it were a punishment and only symbolic, why then would Tzadkiel's son fight and di…
29 Mar 2005, 03:17
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan answers my questions: I agree this is pretty likely, but I still feel there might be something else going on. Why not eg just t…
27 Mar 2005, 08:19
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Is that really the best readng of "Overcyn"? AFK, "cyn" = "kin", and you could just read it as "the folks who live up there". Or mayb…
22 Mar 2005, 04:01
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Maybe p297: Idnn says, "Could you do that then? Turn into an eagle or a bull. Or be smaller than Mani." Able says, "Who'd catch and eat me, and serve me right too."…
17 Jan 2005, 13:08
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Mounrings Glory writes: As to the first question, Art's not concealing anything. He's writing to Ben, remember, who knows both names. As to th second - dunno!…
16 Jan 2005, 04:20
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My guess is that by "both of mine" he means "both my name here, and my name in America". So Arthur and Able. Doesn't somebody somewhere compare the voice of the Valfather to the …
15 Jan 2005, 21:26
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I forogt to mention Setr also. Apparently "r" is an Old Norse masculine case ending. I vaguely recall somebody associating Setr with some figure from Norse mythology, but it seem…
15 Jan 2005, 07:23
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Could have missed it, but haven't noticed anyone giving the place name definition of "Ormsby" courtesy of google: "Village of the Worm/Dragon". (The real Ormsby in northern Engla…
15 Jan 2005, 05:59
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I've never read Chesterton before, but his "Lepanto" (below) surely is horrendously awful. White founts falling in the courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling a…
11 Jan 2005, 13:06
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At the end of Wizard, when Art is wearing his magic helm. I think that previously, Berthold would have looked like Berthold, helm or no. Art wears the helm a lot and Berthold is …
11 Jan 2005, 04:01
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Further on Dream, Art & Able ... It seems that you one way you know you're in Dream is if you see the the Valfather's "castle like a star" flying through the clouds. Toug watches …
09 Jan 2005, 03:05
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I think Dream is a shared realm, as Crush says. I think it is the key to Mag and Able/Art. First of all my understanding of Able/Art: they have been swapped, in some way, by the…
07 Jan 2005, 06:14
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Stone Ox writes: One reason I don't like this: if he's going back to America, surely he can meet Ben in person, rather than send him a huge letter?…
06 Jan 2005, 04:11
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Mr Lebling says: I'm really not sure why ummm the witch-ghost put on her repulsive little giant-human sex show for Toug. What gives with that? The only reason I can see for her …
04 Jan 2005, 06:30
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No, but maybe it's just an image Wolfe liked & recycled. The giant in ummm that story about dwarves killing a giant in the errrr recent collection (retarded with names, sorry) ha…
04 Jan 2005, 01:13
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Don writes: Arnthor is surely shamed by Able's knighty prowess (and presumably isn't totally thrilled that Able killed his brother). But I believe that Able's role as far as the…
03 Jan 2005, 04:22
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Stanislaus - That's excellent! Thanks.…
10 Dec 2004, 14:17
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Crush says: The biggest problem might be what to do with "Baldanders", who I think is a reasonably well-known chracter in German literature.…
06 Dec 2004, 11:56
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Roy says: I don't have the books handy, but I have a vague recollection that Ymar doesn't get distinguished as the *first* Autarch until UOTNS. (Or no?) If that's right, then I …
04 Oct 2004, 00:11
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There was some discussion of this story a while back, which I didn't follow as I've only just read it - so maybe this has been done to death, but FWIW, my interpretation ... The…
29 Sep 2004, 17:34
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While enjoying the way loose ends get tied up, I think it's interesting to think about whether or not the way in which this happens tells a different story than the back-story Wo…
29 Sep 2004, 06:54
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StoneOx wrote: "First, I can't believe that Wolfe thinks that it was a good idea for Able to drop his quest, abandon his friends, abrogate his duty, and run off into elfland chas…
29 Sep 2004, 06:50
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For me, one of the ummm metaphysical or whatever underpinnings of the Sun books is that "soul" will take any opportunity it can to take root and grow, pretty much regardless of the…
08 Sep 2003, 02:34
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Another gap between New Sun and SS/LS. IMO it would be odd if the Typhon of SS/LS could not clone huimans, given the apparent level of genetic technology at his command. And as Roy…
06 Sep 2003, 15:56
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Were the Tarquins descended from Aeneas? I thought they were supposed to be descendants of <some guy from Corinth>. But if they were, it would make Latro's tryst with Aphrodite a l…
04 Sep 2003, 05:29
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mantis writes: Sure, all this cool stuff is available to non-Urthians, and quite likely to New Sun Typhon, but there's no hint that it's anywhere on the Whorl. I suppose you could…
16 Aug 2003, 01:37
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The universes of New Sun and Short Sun really don't fit together very snugly. IMO, if you took them as standalones, you'd say that Short Sun is in the future, while New Sun is in t…
14 Aug 2003, 14:21
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I know there was some discussion of this, sometime, but I can't find it on a quick search. Sev fetches four books for Thecla - Wonders, a book of devotions, something to do with he…
07 Aug 2003, 22:20
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