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larry miller wrote (01-11-2011 17:29): Well, I don't think they did well to answer you, because their answer, regardless of being correct or not (and they have by no means convin…
01 Nov 2011, 20:00
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James Wynn wrote (01-11-2011 19:31): Yeah. Like, all of Pike, not only the astral one, being Silk. Making Silk you-know-who's father.…
01 Nov 2011, 19:56
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Andrew Mason wrote (26-10-2011 18:07): One thing is certain, that episode is to be explained and not just dismissed.…
26 Oct 2011, 17:48
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (26-10-2011 17:42): Yes, but we're missing the 'afterwards you remember Kirsten Dunst being a part of it' part. It may be there, but I don't remember it.…
26 Oct 2011, 16:47
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (26-10-2011 17:28): Let's be economical. They're telling stories. The stories set off as biographical, but there's no reason they must remain accurate. J…
26 Oct 2011, 16:39
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James Wynn wrote (26-10-2011 16:30): I've already assumed for the sake of discussion that time travel is available to Incanto. I still don't see how it allows him to manipulate t…
26 Oct 2011, 16:28
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Marc Aramini wrote (26-10-2011 16:21): That still doesn't explain the scene at the dinner table. Should Incanto 'dream travel' into the original setting of stories at some point …
26 Oct 2011, 16:22
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Marc Aramini wrote (26-10-2011 16:13): I chose the word 'consensus' precisely because it doesn't mean 'unanimity'.…
26 Oct 2011, 15:16
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Marc Aramini wrote (26-10-2011 16:12): You'll have to elaborate.…
26 Oct 2011, 15:15
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Marc Aramini wrote (26-10-2011 15:56): It can't be 'definitely' since there's no consensus, but *even if it were*, how does dream travel account for Incanto inserting himself int…
26 Oct 2011, 15:09
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I don't think that, even if it were true, has anything to do with it. No dia 2011/10/26, ?s 14:23, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu:…
26 Oct 2011, 13:35
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larry miller wrote (26-10-2011 12:40): I must be losing it - I knew the answer to this question and I can't recall it. Also, does anyone remeber the part where dream Fava wants t…
26 Oct 2011, 11:54
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I'm reminded of 'I, Cthulhu'.…
25 Oct 2011, 08:59
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Andrew Mason wrote (24-10-2011 22:57): For it to be the same way, it would have to have been settled that the 17 Great Megatherians were not the sea-monsters.…
24 Oct 2011, 22:05
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Gerry Quinn wrote (24-10-2011 21:54): And was never the same afterwards!…
24 Oct 2011, 21:11
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David Stockhoff wrote (24-10-2011 20:48): I didn't write that, Lee did, though I had said something to the same effect in response to Sergei. He may have been on the ships before…
24 Oct 2011, 21:10
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No dia 2011/10/24, ?s 19:56, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Precisely. Not only that - for some reason, Hethor and FI strike me as creepy in a sexual way …
24 Oct 2011, 19:43
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Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote (24-10-2011 19:46): I recall one such explicit mention of it (something about his longevity being abnormal compared to 'his kind'). How does it help it any…
24 Oct 2011, 18:58
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David Stockhoff wrote (24-10-2011 19:26): Well, if Hethor having human emotions rules out his being FI, then everyone else has been ruled out of being FI as well, isn't it?…
24 Oct 2011, 18:35
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Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote (24-10-2011 19:13): Notice that's precisely what's missing from FI's biography. How come, waste? I didn't ask whether H's curriculum was fictive. Why can't …
24 Oct 2011, 18:26
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Ryan Dunn wrote (24-10-2011 18:41): Nah. All of us together couldn't spot a notule if a swarm were falling upon us. Otoh maybe the portuguese proverb _Muita gente junta n?o se sa…
24 Oct 2011, 17:49
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David Stockhoff wrote (24-10-2011 18:25): Why isn't Hethor the same individual as Inire?…
24 Oct 2011, 17:42
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Gerry Quinn wrote (24-10-2011 17:40): Istr there was mention of how the bodies were handled. Weren't they given over to the family? (I that that isn't it, but...)…
24 Oct 2011, 17:12
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David Stockhoff wrote (24-10-2011 17:09): *Iirc*, it was put to rest that the Old Autarch was *not* the Appian mentioned in the text; however, 'Appian' has become such a traditio…
24 Oct 2011, 17:06
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David Stockhoff wrote (24-10-2011 15:35): He professes it's a quest for knowledge, so he should be going out for whoever possessed some bit of knowledge. Otoh, the folk in the ne…
24 Oct 2011, 15:08
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Andrew Mason wrote (23-10-2011 20:01): This is a crucial point, in my view. Let me repeat it: the visible stories have real depth.…
23 Oct 2011, 21:23
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Andrew Mason wrote (23-10-2011 20:35): That's partly what I meant when I said Marc's approach was holmesian.…
23 Oct 2011, 21:20
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Marc Aramini wrote (23-10-2011 19:56): These are very good points. (The point where I depart from Gerry is that I do think there's noatloads of mysteries to solve, and hints not t…
23 Oct 2011, 21:17
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Ryan Dunn wrote (23-10-2011 17:59): I don't think the quote by Sergei did that. It merely depicts how some - in particular, Lee, that I can see - approach the works. It's descrip…
23 Oct 2011, 21:14
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Lee Berman wrote (23-10-2011 03:41): ? Certainly a demiurge creates. It's the Outsider who isn't referred to as a creator, iirc.…
23 Oct 2011, 19:15
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No dia 23/10/2011, ?s 03:20, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Wolfe has said the Outsider is a spiritual god. That - substantiated by what we see of the Outsider…
23 Oct 2011, 02:43
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No dia 2011/10/22, ?s 17:23, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Nor should it, because I was talking about/to *Marc*. Oh, I didn't mean you tried to impose the …
22 Oct 2011, 17:19
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No dia 22/10/2011, ?s 04:45, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: I find your approach radically different from Lee's. You're a bit like Sherlock Holmes, trying to ma…
22 Oct 2011, 12:00
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No dia 22/10/2011, ?s 00:27, "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at clueland.com> escreveu: The genesis of a Christianity without a historical Christ - either because there never was one, or b…
22 Oct 2011, 11:33
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No dia 22/10/2011, ?s 04:31, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: Maybe you're right. And the same goes for Dorcas, some say. Sounds bleak to me.…
22 Oct 2011, 11:29
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David Stockhoff wrote (21-10-2011 15:39): That's cause they're both Dr. You have to know a lot to be a Dr. Well, this looks like as good a place as any other to ask one simple qu…
21 Oct 2011, 16:45
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Mostly so. The chronology and relationship between the volumes can be tricky for the unwary. If only we had the answers.…
19 Oct 2011, 22:56
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I like it when Severian shows himself to be as dumb as us and misidentifies master and servant.…
19 Oct 2011, 22:54
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David Stockhoff wrote (19-10-2011 17:35): Interesting. Outside some parts of Christianity, I have seldom seen suicide considered immoral. Could you expand?…
19 Oct 2011, 17:12
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No dia 16/10/2011, ?s 02:08, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: I don't know that there's evidence for it, but it would explain why the heck Typhon and Echidna rem…
16 Oct 2011, 01:28
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larry miller wrote (12-10-2011 12:44): Could be.…
12 Oct 2011, 12:37
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No dia 12/10/2011, ?s 01:41, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: Errr... You've caught us.…
12 Oct 2011, 11:41
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Jerry Friedman wrote (11-10-2011 23:45): 'Cold-blooded' does not mean the creature is at the same temperature as its environment. It means it has no organic* way to regulate the t…
11 Oct 2011, 23:15
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Jeff Wilson wrote (11-10-2011 08:30): FTA: +10 'Unfortunate' is an odd spelling for 'fair'.…
11 Oct 2011, 19:35
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Jeff Wilson wrote (10-10-2011 18:29): Awesome. +10. +2…
11 Oct 2011, 19:13
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James Wynn wrote (11-10-2011 04:20): What with never having time nor food to eat (Jerry, can you take this sentence to a.u.e? But crosspost it to somewhere I read!), I've always …
11 Oct 2011, 19:10
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David Stockhoff wrote (11-10-2011 03:47): The younger clone would be the same entity for everyone, including itself, except for the older clone. Which I don't think is an option…
11 Oct 2011, 19:06
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David Stockhoff wrote (10-10-2011 22:56): When the older dies, the older dies, regardless of having been copied into the younger. The entity may go on existing for third parties,…
10 Oct 2011, 23:00
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larry miller wrote (10-10-2011 16:38): Whoa. That would mean Gene Wolfe was cloned from a frozen embryo one night.…
10 Oct 2011, 21:46
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Jeff Wilson wrote (10-10-2011 08:30): There is no transferral of conscience. There is just duplication. If you duplicate it and the original dies, the original doesn't get anythi…
10 Oct 2011, 21:42
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