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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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Marc says: Maybe they're just baboons? - "papio cynocephalus ursinus". (Cynocephalus = dog-headed, of course.) On the other hand, I did wonder whether the one in Shadow might hav…
01 Aug 2003, 08:48
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alga wrote amidst lots of interesting stuff: I thought of this book while I was reading the LB discussion here - specifically the New York stuff. I liked it when I was a youngster…
29 Jul 2003, 13:22
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Very tangentially ... One of the things which makes me a gushing GW fan-boy is the realistic depth to his worlds, despite all the fantasy elements. A small example: I see a natural…
29 Jul 2003, 04:55
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Actually, Mr Google tells me it was "Tides of Lust", aka "Equinox". The scenario was something like: guy owns a tramp-yacht or fishing boat or something; he owns two 12 year old ki…
29 Jul 2003, 00:06
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mantis offered: Pedophilia? One slim pornographic work by Delany which was chock full of it; can't remember the name.…
28 Jul 2003, 23:09
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Yep, I'd be in it. Problem is, I'm in Australia. Maybe some kind of on-line thing as well? Wouldn't have to be very interactive or hi-tech to be useful. I'd also be willing to put …
26 Jul 2003, 13:26
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I took a friend of mine to lunch yesterday to celebrate her first book being accepted for publication by Random. She found the workshop thing very valuable. Before the workshop, sh…
26 Jul 2003, 12:26
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Poor GW. That must have been distressing.…
26 Jul 2003, 01:34
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Little things: 1. Malrubius sans Triskele appears to Sev once only, I think? The night of his elevation to journeyman, when he's sleeping off his over-indulgence. Malrubius pops h…
19 Jul 2003, 07:51
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Quite a lot more time than a week must separate Silk's visit to Urth from Dorp (RTTW Ch 13) & his final visit from New Viron (Ch 19). But in both passages, Sev has Triskele, wherea…
15 Jul 2003, 10:34
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Marc says: The Porter is spooked by Silk, Hoof etc, but it seems to be mainly Hoof quickly fashioning a robe for himself while the Porter is watching him which does it. "So I mad…
14 Jul 2003, 03:11
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If Fair point. But the Marble/Mint error you mention IMO supports my position. That was the same kind of thing as Roy raised - Drotte-Roche etc - and arguably bigger, since Drotte…
14 Jul 2003, 02:51
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Nutria says: As an ex-computer geek, I think of it like debugging - there's always some left, no matter how carefully you check. I sort of appreciate the serialization point, but …
13 Jul 2003, 23:18
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Josh says: FWIW, I agree with Josh. Roy's list of errors are easily explained as Wolfe nodding, IMO. Go through any series of large books by anybody, and you'll probably find the …
13 Jul 2003, 07:31
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A small point re Silk & Malrubius. I hink the reason people see a physical connection between them is the scene in Ch 19 of RTTW where Gurloes is chastising Sev; Oreb flies in sqwa…
11 Jul 2003, 05:28
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Seth writes: Unless I've missed it, I don't think Sev makes this claim. It's Merryn who says: "He's my brother ... We're brothers & sisters, we witches & torturers" (Ch 13). I don…
11 Jul 2003, 05:10
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Marc writes: The actual comment from the Q&A: 14. Is there a member (current, former, future) of the Order of Seekers for Truth and Penitence on the Whorl? -- I'm going to interp…
10 Jul 2003, 06:43
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From mantis: Maybe this ties in tangentially with something that bugged me about the end of RTTW, the meetings between Silkhorn and young Sev. On the surface, these meetings are q…
10 Jul 2003, 02:24
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Christopher says: Me too! I don't think relics of prototype Sev's or their worlds exist in our Sev's world. At least, I don't see much reason to suppose they do. Sev encountering…
08 Jul 2003, 12:57
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Crush helps out: But to the point, there is one small issue that Andrew brings up that I think I understand. Latro kept his bargan with Artemis -- he raced. Hegisistratus' job …
25 Jun 2003, 10:20
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The little dalliance scene in Ch.20 continues to bug me. I have a feeling it is quite important, maybe for the development of later books in the series, may they be written. What I…
23 Jun 2003, 14:28
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Crush: See my earlier post - apparently Tarquitius was indeed a variation on Tarquinius, and the whole family did go into exile for a while, ending up at Caere (wherever that is -…
23 Jun 2003, 13:58
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I SAUD Just continuing this idle speculation, if Lucius Tarquitius is in fact Latro, we get a back-story for why he should have been an exile. The Tarquitii were in fact the Tarqu…
23 Jun 2003, 06:51
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1. WTF is it all about??? (joke) 2. The chariot race I still can't get my head around: - Is the outcome as Diana wanted it to be, or not? Did she want Pausanias to win or lose? …
23 Jun 2003, 06:21
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Crush: I think he may have learned Greek in Egypt, on campaign, from the Greek contingent in the Persian army. Her 3.1: ""... Cambyses the son of Cyrus led an army consisting of c…
19 Jun 2003, 06:06
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This did occurr to me, but I always thought the story was probably BS. Anyway, C. was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, appointed dictator in 458, so maybe our Latro? Probably not, giv…
19 Jun 2003, 03:19
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Crush writes: [Some good stuff] .. FWIW, I've been quickly brushing up on Roman "history" from the period, such as it is. The main themes are struggles between the plebs and patri…
19 Jun 2003, 02:45
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Matthew says: Anyway, the relevant passage is Ch 37 of Mist for Thermopylae: Latro addresses "the hundred" (I guess he is acting as centurion, if that term existed then): "While …
18 Jun 2003, 08:27
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Crush writes: I don't think Finley's argument against widespread trade, rather it's against widespread *economically important* trade of anything except rarities. In the chapter I…
16 Jun 2003, 07:54
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I guess I'm influenced by Finley, esp. passages like Chap 5 of "The Ancient Economy". His position, of course, is that large-scale trade in the ancient world was very rare. He can …
16 Jun 2003, 03:23
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How anachronistic are the glimpses we get? Eg: at the very start of Mist, Latro says that he would have though the commander of a warship would be a "horseman". Presumably by this …
16 Jun 2003, 01:30
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Doesn't this get kind of explained in Latro's vision at Thermopylae? I don't have time to search out the quote, but as I recall, we learn from this that Latro is captain of a group…
16 Jun 2003, 00:08
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Crush bravely ventures into theology; I though clueless must follow .. I guess that's kind of what I was thinking, or at least one of the things I was thinking. Doesn't Jesus say…
14 Mar 2003, 17:27
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Well, it happens very late in the story, really. By then, he's been confirmed as the New Sun, and almost completed his brief "ministry" on Typhon-era Urth. If lethal self-defence…
13 Mar 2003, 08:29
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Matt says: I think you're off base here. Wolfe is presenting Severian as a human being who is in the process of becoming more Christ-like (i.e. as a Christian). Severian's arres…
13 Mar 2003, 07:10
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Roy says: You Sev's lack of meekness is almost a critique of Christ by Wolfe. If I were a Christian, there's one scene I'd find quite disturbing - his arrest in UOTNS. He fights …
13 Mar 2003, 04:47
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FWIW, I think that the King Jesus/Typhon business is a red herring. I think that Graves' construction of a Set/Typhon story from fragments of Roman/Greek slander against Jews & Chr…
12 Mar 2003, 10:19
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Roy, seraphic & IMO irrefutable, writes: The only reason I have seen for thinking that Silk might be a clone is the vessel-of-Pas theory. But why should Pas want such a vessel? It…
11 Mar 2003, 12:36
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Blah! You're right; I was muddled. Leucothea the sea-nymph resuced Odysseus, so I guess it's still an appropriate name for the lover of Cap'n Billy.…
09 Feb 2003, 04:18
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I forgot to make the obvious point that a Siren's name is appropriate for the lover of Billy the sea captain. FWIW, "Lara. A Naiad daughter of the River God Almo. Lara could not …
09 Feb 2003, 01:42
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Mimosa wrote: The earth was manipulated and discarded for the benefit of the technology rather than gardened in a sustainable way for the benefit of all. -----------------------…
08 Feb 2003, 05:13
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"Leucothea" was also the name of one of the Sirens. I've always thought that it would have been a good name for Seawrack.…
08 Feb 2003, 00:43
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Shell wrote: Although of course there's always the temptation to try to place any Wolfe work in an Urth context (and I also wondered if this was Urth, although I thought that if t…
07 Feb 2003, 16:41
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So I just finished reading TAD. There's the obvious hints at Tammuz/Attis/Osiris/Adonis (Green & all the other Billies) and Inanna/Cybele/Isis/Astarte (Lara). But as always, Wolfe'…
07 Feb 2003, 05:47
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Nutria writes: [snippety] Thanks, Nutria - I now undertand Jonah's rather odd testiness over God sparing the Ninevites. I think the whole of Green, and Blue also, benefit from c…
28 Jan 2003, 01:38
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Blattid writes: I think "more" -- in that he's not asking to have Seawrack back on the terms Horn-in-Horn's-body had her before; he is (I think) asking the Mother for her freedom.…
28 Jan 2003, 00:32
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I asked this: --- Marble prophesies for Horn regarding the community (at the beginning of OBW): "The city searches the sky for a sign, but no sign shall it have but the sign from …
27 Jan 2003, 13:36
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One more .... A possible answer to part of my question: "Why doesn't SilkHorn meet with Mucor at the end of RTTW? What happens to her? Obviously, he has had communication with Muc…
26 Jan 2003, 04:18
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Sorry, forgot one question. Marble prophesies for Horn regarding the community (at the beginning of OBW): "The city searches the sky for a sign, but no sign shall it have but the s…
26 Jan 2003, 02:41
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