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Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. Of course he kidnapped her. The question is why think it was _for sacrifice_ that he did so. I don't think Tartaros wanted him to kidnap anyone; the w…
24 Nov 2011, 14:16
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Well, the Outsider can certainly send spirits of the dead. If it were just a vision, though, and not a spirit, one would have to find soem other explanation for Wolfe's remarks abo…
23 Nov 2011, 23:11
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Well, I have always seen the two parents as evidence that Silk is not a clone. Also, it still seems to me that Silk's response is best explained if he recognises his mother, and th…
23 Nov 2011, 23:00
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Yes, I saw this - I'm not doubting that there is a way to explain it within the time-travel theory. I just wanted to see if a simpler explanation could be given. Why do you say he…
23 Nov 2011, 22:47
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?I haven’t managed to read everything posted over the last couple of weeks, so some of these points may already have been made, in which case apologies. What can we know about Pik…
22 Nov 2011, 17:31
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I don't think chems have anything like what we would call sex. The only thing that disqualifies a chem from seeing the gods is actually making a child, which takes a year. Lemur h…
13 Nov 2011, 22:23
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Gerry Quinn wrote: . “There’s another very interesting use of ?aspect”, though: The interesting thing, I think, about both Kypris or Severian as aspects of the Outsider, and Tarta…
07 Nov 2011, 21:59
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Yes, I agree (not with all the details, perhaps, but with this). I think the Outsider has been established by numerous references as God, the Abrahamic God (both the Father and Je…
07 Nov 2011, 21:53
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Are we told this? In any case, whatever is true of them, I don't think it can be true of all hierodules, In the appendix to COTA we are told of a trade in arms with the hierodules …
07 Nov 2011, 21:23
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Nick Lee wrote: > And in the scenes where we most definitely see him he wears one, or a hood. By the other hieros I take it you mean B and F (who are indeed hinted to be of the sa…
07 Nov 2011, 21:09
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That is indeed the principal meaning of 'sard'; but I think people before now, wanting the pawnbroker Sard to be human, have interpreted it as a fish.…
06 Nov 2011, 21:06
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Jeff Wilson wrote: > So far as I can tell, while the Hierogrammates and Hierarchs live in Yesod, the Hierodules don't, so I don't think that name is really suitable for them.…
06 Nov 2011, 21:04
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As I read it: Hieros were super-evolved humans in a former cycle of the universe. (Malrubius in COTA leaves it uncertain wheter it was this cycle, a former one or a future one, bu…
06 Nov 2011, 20:58
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Marc Aramini wrote: . In any case, I don't see how Mucor That would be an older Mucor, of course, but as she klooks like a skull, I guess it's possible Silk can't tell the differ…
06 Nov 2011, 20:40
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Haing now reread the pasage, I am still worried about Oreb. it's his presence, presumably, that is the signal that 'Pike' is actualy a time-travelling Rajan - if it were not for th…
05 Nov 2011, 22:58
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A while ago I raised the question whether Sard, the pawnbroker in _Long Sun_, was a chem. I've found positive evidence that he is; at the beginning of _Calde_, 'Sard' is given as a…
05 Nov 2011, 22:45
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James Wynn wrote: Jerry Friedman: That's the Whorl. Jerry's worry was about the Commonwealth (on Urth). I agree it's a worry. We know - as you say, we are told repeatedly - that …
05 Nov 2011, 22:41
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There's something unusual, but it may just be because Silk is unusual. He has a tendency to go off into long ruminations like this, and while this certainly gives a good opportunit…
05 Nov 2011, 22:36
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Marc Aramini wrote: > I can't trace it now, but I'm sure there is a Wolfe interview, which has been discussed here, which says that it was while he was already working on _Long Su…
04 Nov 2011, 23:09
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He would have to be a form of the Outsider, and it's possible that he was the first. Also, we aren't told about everything Silk sees, so he may have seen lots of other forms of the…
03 Nov 2011, 23:06
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Gerry Quinn wrote; Actually I got that slightly wrong; the term the Rajan uses is 'forms', not 'aspects'. The term 'aspect of the Outsider' is used, I think, only in the glossary,…
03 Nov 2011, 22:51
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Do you know where, precisely? I always thought it was way too One thing that causes problems for 20,000 years is that the Conciliator is said at one point to have lived 30,000 y…
02 Nov 2011, 22:09
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Yes, and Severian as a Dark Sun manifests both. On the other hand, I think that from one point of view you can see Severian as manifesting the dark aspect of God, and Silk as manif…
02 Nov 2011, 21:53
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I think there is lots of evidence for a person who played the role of the historical Jesus: it's not clear to me that we can detemine, from the actual content of the works, whether…
02 Nov 2011, 21:49
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Oh, certainly. I said that was the reference _Hethor_ was going for. What _Wolfe_ may have meant by it is quite another matter.…
26 Oct 2011, 22:10
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I'm not wholly convinced by that, because of the vagueness of dates in the _Sun_ universe generally. GW in one of the appendices to _New Sun_ complains that the people of that age …
26 Oct 2011, 17:07
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I think it has something in common with an aquastor. It's clearly not exactly the same; its source is different, and so are the precise abilities of the travellers. But Malrubius s…
26 Oct 2011, 16:53
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Another possible interpretation is that Gerry was making a joke. If I remember rightly, the point at issue in that debate is not what Americans normally mean by 'vine', but what '…
26 Oct 2011, 16:35
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Hethor is also a saint, one of the martyrs of Chertsey. I take it that is the reference our Hethor is going for, since he is trying to pass as a Commonwealth citizen.…
26 Oct 2011, 16:30
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Can the custom of calling the sea-monsters 'Megatherians' be sanctified in the same way?…
24 Oct 2011, 21:57
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I'm sure I've seen somewhere a suggestion that Fechin was Dorcas's father, and his girlfriend, accordingly, her mother. This would establish a thematic link between the passages wi…
24 Oct 2011, 21:53
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. I think that the story functions on a few levels. There is clearly the hero quest which is most accessible on the surface. The page turning element, if you will. Nobody disputes …
24 Oct 2011, 13:58
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Having checked the passage, it seems to me that Merryn , who is the one who actually uses the name, is most naturally read as referring to a divine or somehow spiritual being: 'Tho…
24 Oct 2011, 13:41
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uncertain what we should. make of it.…
23 Oct 2011, 22:21
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I think the Outsider is identified with the Maker in the Pajarocu story. 'Demiurge' does indeed just mean 'maker'; it has a specific connatation in gnosticism, where it is opposed…
23 Oct 2011, 22:19
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Well, I think this depends on the kind of theory. Your tree theory is presented in order to explain evidence, and you have listed the evidence it is meant to explain. I'm not yet s…
23 Oct 2011, 19:35
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No one is disputing that Wolfe's works _contain_ puzzles to be solved. Sometimes, as various remarks by him make clear, this is because he overestimates our intelligence and expec…
23 Oct 2011, 19:01
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Lee Berman wrote: > Talos predicts, in a way that is uncannily accurate (though also strangely skewed) the events of the last day of Urth. He places a prophet, a giant, a demon at…
23 Oct 2011, 18:14
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Not in the _Sun_ cycle, as far as I can remember. Perhaps that Weer is dead?…
21 Oct 2011, 21:30
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I have just been looking at the Jordan interview with GW, which has been mentioned here a few times lately, and I noticed a couple of things. First, I can't find any reference to …
21 Oct 2011, 21:27
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Lee Berman wrote; Well, that wouldn't help the particular pattern I was hoping to find, of a distinctive Inire appearance in each book, since Talos is in every book. (Which is rat…
21 Oct 2011, 21:15
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Actually, this is rather less clear than I imagined, but I still think he can. Isangoma says 'The tokoloshe, Preceptress, the tokoloshe come'. Marie says 'I think he's lost his min…
21 Oct 2011, 20:58
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Gerry Quinn wrote: . But I just found a problem: Well, clearly Cyriaca's story is not entirely accurate. After all, she thinks the Citadel is deserted and no one but the Autarch …
20 Oct 2011, 19:36
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. Because he is telling us about his expericence as it happened at the time, and he didn't know it was Inire then? I think there is a definite plotline involving Inire, which is …
20 Oct 2011, 19:26
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'But on the night before the burning was to begin, the autarch of the time, who had never dreamed before the wild dreams of sleep but only waking dreams of dominion, dreamed at las…
20 Oct 2011, 19:14
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I agree in principle, but his idea of telling us may not be ours. He thinks he told us that Pike was Blood's father. I suspect he thinks he has told us that Merryn is Severian's si…
20 Oct 2011, 19:08
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The jungle guide and his two young companions are described as looking like Isangoma; they seem to pass for natives of that jungle, and certainly are not African. 'Though the first…
20 Oct 2011, 19:04
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_Urth_ chapter 36 (the physician speaking): 'This coast is quake-prone, as the old records indicate clearly enough - praise to our Monarch, by the way, for having them brought her…
19 Oct 2011, 22:13
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Lee Berman wrote:. But doesn't Severian see Isangoma's Yes, but Severian is allowed to see Inire's face once - the problem is if he sees it more than once, in which case he shou…
19 Oct 2011, 22:09
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It seems to me that the Isangoma-Inire theory has more going for it than the Isangoma-Dorcas or Inire-Dorcas theory. The difference is that we have quite an elaborate backstory for…
19 Oct 2011, 22:06
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