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James Wynn wrote (28-12-2010 15:17): Besides the fact that it is *the* probable way a travel powered by the mind would work?…
28 Dec 2010, 16:06
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Lee Berman wrote (28-12-2010 13:24): You mean the city that is bigger than the planet it is in? Yeah, the fact is that unless someone has some insight they haven't shared yet, "…
28 Dec 2010, 16:03
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Jack Smith wrote (27-12-2010 09:23): I had the impression, from the way some cities are described as 'distant', that it would be bigger than that.…
27 Dec 2010, 12:31
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Lee Berman wrote (24-12-2010 14:17): How can we know? We don't even know who said the thing you quote. Merry Christmas, folks.…
24 Dec 2010, 14:56
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Seeing as the war apparently takes place within Commonwealth territory and is carried out largely by professional soldiers and mercenaries, that view doesn't hold water. Though …
24 Dec 2010, 02:57
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Well, what I can say is that all that is very well thought out. Maybe I dislike the Urth = Green conclusion in the same way that some dislike the idea that there are two mausoleu…
23 Dec 2010, 23:07
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Has anyone explored the idea that instead of dividing et al. these are (spatially and maybe temporally) multidimensional creatures?…
23 Dec 2010, 23:05
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Gerry Quinn wrote (23-12-2010 18:42): I think he's saying Patera Pike and the fluttering on the 2nd floor were the Rajan and Oreb from 20-odd years later.…
23 Dec 2010, 19:06
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Lee Berman wrote (23-12-2010 17:18): Then our new stove exhaust fan may be a black upright rhombus cube. Though I don't think so - a cube is a parallelepipede with all 3 dimensio…
23 Dec 2010, 17:35
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Lee Berman wrote (22-12-2010 20:38): Sometimes we can't even spell it out and sometimes even if we do spell it out thoroughly nobody gets it. For instance, my beloved and I got an…
23 Dec 2010, 16:22
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I like parts of your exposition, Marc. It only seems to me that after a number of insights and interesting deductions, some of your conclusions (Urth = Green (or Blue, even, if i…
23 Dec 2010, 16:13
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James Wynn wrote (22-12-2010 17:35): Weren't there explanations for that episode? If so, have they becoem invalid? Is everyone currently reasonably convinced that an astral trav…
23 Dec 2010, 16:09
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (22-12-2010 17:26): I don't find time travel impossible or even improbable. My comment was in respect to Marc's hypothesis. I don't think there's anythin…
23 Dec 2010, 15:31
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James Wynn wrote (22-12-2010 16:55): So exactly how many people said it was an astral traveling Oreb before Short Sun got published? Have none ever been presented that do not in…
22 Dec 2010, 17:12
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James Wynn wrote (22-12-2010 16:09): It would if it were established that Silk saw an astral flying Oreb in his room. Suspicious but not definitive. Not really. It's not like th…
22 Dec 2010, 16:32
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Marc Aramini wrote (22-12-2010 15:06): It is spelled out in the text that dream travel is in space, and only landing on places previously known to the travellers. Of course, this…
22 Dec 2010, 15:39
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Doesn't Juturna claim the ability? I may be misremembering. David Stockhoff wrote (22-12-2010 14:51):…
22 Dec 2010, 15:01
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David Stockhoff wrote (22-12-2010 14:37): There isn't?…
22 Dec 2010, 14:46
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Lee Berman wrote (22-12-2010 12:44): Thanks.…
22 Dec 2010, 14:45
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Lee Berman wrote (22-12-2010 12:13): Good grief, Lee, who said your theories concerning the stories written by Gene Wolfe were or resembled straw men? Speaking for myself, will y…
22 Dec 2010, 12:35
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Lee Berman wrote (22-12-2010 02:06): He can weigh it to decide it's not a platypus or a vending machine. I think if you spent more time polishing your hypotheses instead of build…
22 Dec 2010, 10:05
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Lee Berman wrote (21-12-2010 18:22): Into the spiky tail which you'll admit yourself has no spikes since spikes are unimportant details in the broad pciture of the spiky tail? If…
21 Dec 2010, 18:29
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Lee Berman wrote (21-12-2010 17:19): You keep bringing this up, that people 'attack' your ideas because they have different ones. Repeating it to exhaustion doesn't make it any m…
21 Dec 2010, 17:35
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Lee Berman wrote (21-12-2010 17:19): This dichotomy is seriously troubling.…
21 Dec 2010, 17:30
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Lee Berman wrote (21-12-2010 17:19): No, he's asking people not to describe the elephant's tail as spiky.…
21 Dec 2010, 17:29
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Lee Berman wrote (21-12-2010 15:35): I certainly don't remeber such an exhange.…
21 Dec 2010, 15:57
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Jane Delawney wrote (21-12-2010 01:38): You may be on to something. Severian as an ancestor of Typhon sounds much more interesting to me that Severian as a descendent of Typhon. (…
21 Dec 2010, 14:52
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On the one hand it's yet another classic SF thing. Could be, but he seemed surprised that only 6 seeds were being requested.…
20 Dec 2010, 08:06
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I don't know about others, but I enjoy reading people whose ideas are completely at odds with mine, provided they are well developed. (Of course, there is a world of difference bet…
20 Dec 2010, 03:02
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Do the 'fake' gods ever mention the Outsider? Otoh it certainly looks like she's saying something - but what does it advance the story if she's, f.i., refering to Pas?…
20 Dec 2010, 01:43
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Andrew Mason wrote (17-12-2010 11:52): I'll just say I think that until proven otherwise there was a Jesus on Urth. But either that Jesus wasn't God the Sun (bwahaha), or he was …
17 Dec 2010, 12:02
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Lee Berman wrote (16-12-2010 14:39): That DOES fall in line with Craig's trinity idea, doesn't it?…
16 Dec 2010, 14:43
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Craig Brewer wrote (16-12-2010 14:09): I don't think so, but if it is, then it must be Al Lah = the Father Outsider = Holy Ghost Thyone's son = the Son…
16 Dec 2010, 14:25
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Andrew Mason wrote (10-12-2010 21:23): The problem, as I see it, is that Lee is on to philosophical concepts, and within philosophy those two are not the same.…
11 Dec 2010, 00:37
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David Stockhoff wrote (10-12-2010 21:14): I've been waiting for an opportunity to ask the following: "- What the hell is the purpose of the Cumaean." Now isn't it beautiful whe…
11 Dec 2010, 00:36
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David Stockhoff wrote (10-12-2010 19:05): For the current pop culture, influencing = evil. Maybe I should have asked wheteher it was FI + Autarchy + Vodalus + Erebus God + City o…
10 Dec 2010, 19:13
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David Stockhoff wrote (10-12-2010 17:44): What about this one: Latro is a character in someone's recurring dream. Each time the dreamer wakes Latro goes into oblivion, and in the…
10 Dec 2010, 18:02
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Well, Lee, at the risk of sounding condescending, which is not true, I'd like to congratulate you on the way you've presented your Gestaltver?nderung (pun intended) case. But I …
10 Dec 2010, 17:54
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Andrew Mason wrote (09-12-2010 17:46): But not here, I think. The fact that [grape]vine and ivy were always kept separate as associates of Dyonisus is enough for someone like Wol…
09 Dec 2010, 19:09
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Son of Witz wrote (09-12-2010 17:49): That seems to be a matter of deeply held opinion. Do not disturb.…
09 Dec 2010, 18:34
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Andrew Mason wrote (08-12-2010 19:43): Heh. Found this just yesterday: "Even when he introduces someone else’s short story, he creates mystery ? I’ve been trying for years to un…
08 Dec 2010, 21:24
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Lee Berman wrote (08-12-2010 08:43): 'Argument' has a number of meanings in english. One of them, and clearly the one intended here, is 'reasoning'. So what exactly do you expect…
08 Dec 2010, 15:46
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (07-12-2010 18:41): Except for the global meltdown during the 21st century? Either way, we don't know how much of other material are quotations from things…
07 Dec 2010, 19:06
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We can't be sure of that, now, can we.…
07 Dec 2010, 01:36
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I think there are precendents of editors of that kind of stories doing just that kind of thing. Of course Severian _could_ have done it.…
07 Dec 2010, 01:30
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I think I may have seen that name somewhere in the Book of the New Sun's appendices.…
07 Dec 2010, 01:21
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And regarding the mediation view, I honestly don't think it works (no offense intended). Christ's sacrifice could be made for Man because it was a sacrifice. Not a deal. In a dea…
07 Dec 2010, 01:19
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The Book of Silk looks to me like a significant work, in need of s significant author. In fact, all we know of Horn is from Horn's hand. All we know of Silk, too. For all we kno…
07 Dec 2010, 01:12
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Has the first time been discussed at length somewhere? Who/what power is supposed to have resurrected him? I'm not confortable with that episode either with him dying/resurrectin…
07 Dec 2010, 01:04
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James Wynn wrote (06-12-2010 19:54): I may be missing something, but isn't that episode *before* Horn goes to green and his body dies there? I find it easier to picture that the …
06 Dec 2010, 20:59
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