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----- Original Message ----- Maybe it's a quantum computer? Maybe the brain is a quantum computer? Qubits can be entangled and projected elsewhere, but not "copied" in the sens…
23 Apr 2002, 06:41
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----- Original Message ----- Human beings seem to understand themselves best by using the machines the build as parables of their nature. Strange fact, because our machines are …
23 Apr 2002, 05:35
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----- Original Message ----- I agree with that. Your pardon, Nutria. hartshorn…
22 Apr 2002, 17:26
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----- Original Message ----- To be redeemed AND BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD. Please. To be subject to the Fortunate Fault is a blessing, not a curse. You may argue that robots can…
22 Apr 2002, 16:51
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----- Original Message ----- I am begnning to have serious doubts about the "numerous microcephalics" being true, and I'd appreciate a link to a primary source (not a dodgy populi…
22 Apr 2002, 07:49
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----- Original Message ----- The trouble is, of course, that a human personality needs a human brain to hold it. A smaller brain will not do. Only a fraction of a human prson…
21 Apr 2002, 21:40
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----- Original Message ----- More A cubic millimeter of brain has 14 kilometers of biological wiring packed into it. There is no comparion between the brain of any living creat…
20 Apr 2002, 20:56
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----- Original Message ----- As you note, it was Tolkien who started this game, with his Ainur: but Wolfe approaces it from the other end. Pas and his family are the very patter…
20 Apr 2002, 17:41
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----- Original Message ----- Yes. But don't be defensive. I am not atttacking. What is Wolfe saying? Does not Wolfe's fiction accept and transform the "little gods" - and …
19 Apr 2002, 23:31
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----- Original Message ----- The transmigration of the soul is a familiar theme in Celtic legend, certainly. I did note that te one element of the Briah cycle which does *not* f…
19 Apr 2002, 19:06
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----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Bollen Very interesting post indeed. One point, which does not exactly contradict what you say, but supplements it; Wolfe is strongly …
18 Apr 2002, 10:51
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Damon's obit made the NY TIMES for 4-17-02. He was an important man - arguably (even) more important as an anthologist and editor than a writer. maa is right - the older genera…
17 Apr 2002, 20:14
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----- Original Message ----- <snip> I am irresistably reminded of the pictures that hold the replicants' fake identity/memory in BLADE RUNNER. hartshorn…
16 Apr 2002, 21:37
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----- Original Message ----- From: James Jordan Me. also. One thing that sucked me in was the library at the beginning, the one with the great dome which M Million climbs up, and…
13 Apr 2002, 16:22
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----- Original Message ----- On the scale of Silk's life, yes. But here are multiple analogies here Mainframe Typhon/Pas and his wife and quarreling family OK. Lets. Hethor…
26 Mar 2002, 08:26
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----- Original Message ----- the analogy of Noah's Ark seems compelling to me A fairer reply would be that the life forms are very similar indeed except for the limb doubling. T…
25 Mar 2002, 21:25
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It really does seem to me that much of this discussion is based on a profound error about the way people write. In some part a writer is an explorer - discovering, rather than unp…
18 Mar 2002, 05:52
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You have some cheek, Mr Gevers!! As I thought - Wolfe is obeying internally generated mythic imperatives in creating these patterns. He does not know if Ushas/Lune is Blue/Gree…
17 Mar 2002, 08:49
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----- Original Message ----- Am I correct in thinking that the awakened sleeper that Silk meets beneath Virion remembers being savagely compelled to board the Whorl? This would f…
13 Mar 2002, 17:49
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----- Original Message ----- It is clearly signalled that Green causes massive tides on Blue. You are right in saying that such an orbital system would be unstable. Blue would h…
11 Mar 2002, 20:08
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----- Original Message ----- In the bit in COTC where he is captive and riding on the back of the balachutherium he refers to the correct way of drawing the sword being to "grip t…
06 Mar 2002, 17:20
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----- Original Message ----- The total mass in the asteroid belt is less than that of the Moon. Of the order of 10% is metal mostly iron/nickel IIRC, the rest is silica slag. …
06 Mar 2002, 10:48
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----- Original Message ----- I don't really see the problem with this in the first place. The Whorl could simply go and come back. Time dilation would handle the problem neatl…
05 Mar 2002, 18:58
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----- Original Message ----- As gracefully as possible, I yeild to you & the majority of the list on this point. You have convinced me that Typhon did not kill the Sun. hars…
05 Mar 2002, 18:47
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----- Original Message ----- A point here: I have a background in astrophyics and cosmology, and I know that it would be quite "easy" to create a black hole and drop it into the s…
04 Mar 2002, 13:07
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----- Original Message ----- Hmmm. A fair point, but I still disagree. I have said all I justly can. I think we must now accept that our interpretation of the text differs, a…
03 Mar 2002, 19:46
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----- Original Message ----- The bit in SOTL where Typhon and Severian are speaking. "My astronomers had told me that this sun's activity would decay slowly . . They were wron…
02 Mar 2002, 09:04
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----- Original Message ----- My position is this. In TBOTNS there are three levels of technology: 1) the "medaeval" or blacksmith level, to which most of the world has been rele…
02 Mar 2002, 08:59
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----- Original Message ----- I know what you mean. Music - not just music, but *song* - has always seemed fundamentally myth-making, alogical, beautiful, deep. I wonder what son…
01 Mar 2002, 22:28
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----- Original Message ----- Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the fundamental thing about SF is how it feels. Science fiction is myth-making, not rationality. The Whorl is a BDO, a human…
28 Feb 2002, 15:34
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----- Original Message ----- This does not feel right. You are correct that this sort of thing is often glossed over, but the Whorl is a STL generation starship and is not at the…
27 Feb 2002, 23:20
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----- Original Message ----- in Also known a "The Yellow Handkerchief". These are the trad words as I hear tell For once I loved a young girl as I loved my life And I thou…
27 Feb 2002, 00:40
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----- Original Message ----- That is a subtle thought. Maybe here is something actually "supernatural" here? Maybe the religion of the rebels, if that is what it is, actually al…
21 Feb 2002, 21:50
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Original Message ----- Well, I have e-mailed him :-) hartshorn…
21 Feb 2002, 21:36
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I think it is possible that when Horn went to Green he was sucked dry by an inhumu and thereafter merely thought he was human. I cannot pin down the spot but I think it might be a…
19 Feb 2002, 12:28
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----- Original Message ----- It has long been speculated that Silk/Horn is an inhumi, or perhaps that the "spirit" that inhabits him was not that of Horn, but that of an inhumi wh…
18 Feb 2002, 01:06
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I am not much up on Kabbalistic themes, but listmembers might find some amusement in my attempts to fuse them with Lovecraft and Elementary Particle Physics, at "Domain Science let…
15 Feb 2002, 09:04
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----- Original Message ----- From: James Jordan Actually, it seems to me a powerful image of failure in spite of hope :-( hartshorn…
12 Feb 2002, 20:31
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----- Original Message ----- Sarky! OK, "Catholic" in the catholic sense then. Complex. The real-life Emperor represents a combination of tribal leader and religious leader ele…
12 Feb 2002, 09:12
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----- Original Message ----- It is on BONS somewhere. I always wondered at that. How come the inhabitants of this future South America are (mostly) European and white, even blon…
12 Feb 2002, 09:05
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----- Original Message ----- Wolfe would identify it as demonic, aand parabolically condemn it as such. Specifically, the real-life Japanese kamikazi is an expression of a religi…
10 Feb 2002, 23:32
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----- Original Message ----- Oh dear, this is my fault. My background thinking is steeped in Evolutionary psychology. I didn't mean "evolve" as in "get better". That is not a…
09 Feb 2002, 18:58
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----- Original Message ----- Well, that is a comical story, while "Hour of Trust" is very realistic. No, it is a war story, with one side having been hopelessly outevolved by the…
09 Feb 2002, 18:00
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----- Original Message ----- So how does that relate to the "false-but-deeply-felt humanity" of the inhumi, and its equivalent sexuality? Is Hyacinth the converse of Jahlee: a bl…
08 Feb 2002, 06:49
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Thanks to jess nevins of Fictionmags I have..... hartshorn ............................................................................ ............................. The U…
02 Feb 2002, 12:41
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----- Original Message ----- I am surprised to find someone reading Wolfe with this sort of binary thinking The Empire was never simply a force for good. It was *meant* (in Cat…
31 Jan 2002, 23:17
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----- Original Message ----- Politically, no-one seems to have mentioned Wolfe's only direct statement on the subject: Severian: "Unite? Shout? I know that you have isolated…
30 Jan 2002, 13:27
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Marc, speakng as one overintelligent guy to another, bin there, done that, go and get drunk, have a hike, do somehting non-cerebral, NOW!!! ----- ***** ----- Otherwise, FWIW…
09 Jan 2002, 16:16
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Yeah, good point. Today we say the dynamics of the Earth-Moon system is chaotic and its evolution cannot be predicted. When Wolfe wrote TBOTNS the consensus was still that the or…
09 Jan 2002, 16:02
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Green is obviously in a parallel orbit to Blue, occasionally overtaking it in its orbit. This takes years because the planets have nearly the same orbit and so nearly the same or…
09 Jan 2002, 15:56
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