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Jeff Wilson wrote (05-11-2010 17:32): Given that Lee customarily says something to the effect of 'sorry if I'm unintentionally doing that (bending/falsifying the evidence)' and th…
05 Nov 2010, 18:11
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Lee Berman wrote (04-11-2010 17:22): As the one casting dount on the etymological connection between typhon and typhoon, I should say once again that I don't think the lack of a r…
04 Nov 2010, 17:29
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James Wynn wrote (21-10-2010 16:42): There is (but don't ask me where). Hyacinth is the woman Silk ever found more attractive, and Seawrack is the woman Horn ever found more attr…
21 Oct 2010, 16:20
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Lee Berman wrote (21-10-2010 12:30): Iirc he said Hyacinth was dream-dead-Fava. Short of severe confusion, which I fortunately isn't the case, I find that simply impossible.…
21 Oct 2010, 13:15
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James Wynn wrote (15-10-2010 15:25): Which raises the question: do the Vironese speak spanish? I mean, they don't, but their 'high speech' which they seldom use is probably spani…
15 Oct 2010, 14:35
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James Wynn wrote (15-10-2010 15:25): Possibly arabic, given the number of trivigauntis.…
15 Oct 2010, 14:34
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'while in', I meant. Folk lore says it was a fig tree. The english "Judas tree" may be a misconstruction of the latin/romance for "Judea's tree". Oh, the boots thing is just one …
15 Oct 2010, 01:54
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No dia 2010/10/07, ?s 12:13, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: All evidence is that only a small number of people realised that.…
07 Oct 2010, 13:14
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No dia 2010/10/07, ?s 05:28, "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> escreveu: Those are good questions, but I don't see their relevance here - istm they apply just as well no …
07 Oct 2010, 13:03
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That's not how I read it (that the Typhons had been regarded as gods on Urth). Rather, the people he [now] knows as gods walked among him and others on Urth. Just as he doesn't rem…
06 Oct 2010, 12:13
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Andrew Mason wrote (28-09-2010 15:21): 'Allegory' is not the same as 'metaphor'.…
28 Sep 2010, 15:42
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (27-09-2010 16:58): The relevant issue here are carbon-based lifeforms. Carbon-based means that they're structured around compounds of carbon (and oxygen…
27 Sep 2010, 18:46
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Jane Delawney wrote (27-09-2010 02:56): I don't think one needs to go to that. A monarchy is characterised by hereditary succession, divine right, exercise of power for its own sa…
27 Sep 2010, 11:30
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Lee Berman wrote (23-09-2010 13:41): I hope I am not being insulting (or wrong) in noting that the bit Roy takes issue with is not the 'grand', but precisely the 'unified'. What y…
23 Sep 2010, 15:27
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James Wynn wrote (23-09-2010 11:20): I should emphasize that it's the actual etymology of 'typhoon' that is dubious, but that is no reason why it shouldn't be used in the story, o…
23 Sep 2010, 11:52
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James Wynn wrote (22-09-2010 18:16): But a monument serves its purpose by being there. The Whorl wasn't meant to stay there. And what popularity would they enjoy if they were se…
22 Sep 2010, 17:27
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (22-09-2010 17:49): Don't know... taxes used to go to tangible things or waste. The Whorl is not waste but isn't much tangible either. It's clearly somet…
22 Sep 2010, 17:03
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (22-09-2010 16:58): That reminds me of Helliconia and the Avernus.…
22 Sep 2010, 16:36
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James Wynn wrote (22-09-2010 16:44): If you ask me, it's quite the reverse. The only thing that mattered would be the landing, otherwise it's just a massive waste of taxpayers' mo…
22 Sep 2010, 16:33
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James Wynn wrote (22-09-2010 16:04): The Apollo missions wouldn't be as impressive if they hadn't really been shown to reach the moon. The landings on Blue/Green weren't televised…
22 Sep 2010, 15:20
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David Stockhoff wrote (22-09-2010 03:36): I agree with everything - and IMO much more 'tying' would make it all feel a bit artificial. What next, turn the books into an annotated …
22 Sep 2010, 13:54
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Wolfe himself has answered that eloquently. According to such clever 19th century definitions of 'Literature', the Odissey or Hamlet or pretty much anything in the history of Lit…
22 Sep 2010, 01:00
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Mr Thalassocrat wrote (14-09-2010 10:40): Here I disagree. Not only are the dorpians seafarers, which is quite dutch, their names are not weird at all. Even Dorp (english thorpe) …
14 Sep 2010, 11:00
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The word is - appears to be, since the only reference to it is quite obscure - 'screadhbhuidhe'. Now, 'screadhbhuidhe' is more or less transparently two words, 'screadh bhuidhe',…
13 Sep 2010, 21:45
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Mr Thalassocrat wrote (13-09-2010 14:29): Has anyone analyzed at length the sleepers' role?…
13 Sep 2010, 14:03
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No dia 2010/09/05, ?s 20:42, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Just as an aside, Horm does say the inhumi actually travel to Blue in Auk's lander.…
06 Sep 2010, 18:54
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No dia 2010/09/05, ?s 20:42, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Possibly Cymru.…
05 Sep 2010, 21:02
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Lee Berman wrote (02-09-2010 13:17): I laugh hard at 'Remora' ever since the first time I saw it.…
02 Sep 2010, 15:32
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Maybe Typhon isn't being honest. Istr he says the importance of it is that his subjects were used to it. In the Whorl the cargo could get used to anything, they even got used to c…
01 Sep 2010, 19:26
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Roy C. Lackey wrote (01-09-2010 17:49): You're reading 'manliness' in Chenille's description where I think the text only means size. Don't forget Chenille was the kind of woman H…
01 Sep 2010, 17:11
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Lee Berman wrote (01-09-2010 13:09): - Maybe Typhon isn't being honest - The conditions on the Whorl have nothing to do with those on Urth - Is the second head of Pas Piaton's?…
01 Sep 2010, 12:28
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Dave Tallman wrote (31-08-2010 19:06): In James's defense, he said he needed some time to put it together and would present it afterwards; since then, people haven't stopped askin…
01 Sep 2010, 12:06
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Dave Tallman wrote (31-08-2010 19:06): Ahhh, Chenille. Wasn't Chenille possessed by Kypris during the knife episode?…
31 Aug 2010, 18:25
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(The narrator even mentions that he had not thought of Seawrack as a siren before Krait(?) called her so, but of course we all know that can be argued to mean the opposite.)…
29 Aug 2010, 23:39
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No dia 2010/08/29, ?s 16:16, entonio at gmail.com escreveu: Argh. ...the way one gets to it). Everything is fine, except why the shipwreck maiden would be called 'shipwreck' or w…
29 Aug 2010, 23:27
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No dia 2010/08/29, ?s 04:27, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: (not uh but the vowel in 'car') Yes, that's what I meant. I brought up the Greek just to explain…
29 Aug 2010, 15:16
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2010/8/29 Ant?nio Marques <entonio at gmail.com> (I mean, the names are alike to the point of -ll-, a double consonant, being represented by -wr-, and not some simpler alternative…
29 Aug 2010, 01:30
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I don't know whether this has been pointed out before, but it is a fact that 'Seawrack' and 'Scylla' are almost equal as names go. Or, at least, the name misheard as 'Seawrack' cou…
29 Aug 2010, 01:26
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (25-08-2010 21:48): You're quite right to be skeptic in these matters, and it is true that what people who deal with history today do is to build such ed…
25 Aug 2010, 22:11
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But of course such works do exist, even if not using modern terminology and not always painting a complete picture. And much can be gathered from the subsequent evolution and loa…
25 Aug 2010, 20:32
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Mo Holkar wrote (25-08-2010 17:42): And since non-ASCII symbols are an e-mail nuisanace, I suggest to take a look at http://alt-usage-english.org/ipa/nutshell.shtml and http://a…
25 Aug 2010, 17:06
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Ryan Dunn wrote (25-08-2010 17:31): I suspect Dan'l means his fawn vowel but shorter. Post-stress vowels tend to be reduced in english, but not always completely. For instance, I…
25 Aug 2010, 16:37
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Ryan Dunn wrote (25-08-2010 17:16): Yes. In 'proper' transcription ['tajf at n], with english words 'TIE fun'. In greek, something like [tu'fO:n], 'too FAWN' - the : is to indic…
25 Aug 2010, 16:29
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James Wynn wrote (25-08-2010 15:41): That's actually open to question. - _Typhon_ is an english spelling pronunciation of greek <tu'fwn>, which would be more or less 'two FAWN' […
25 Aug 2010, 15:28
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I think 2 things are more or less clear. 1. Severian's journey is followed by higher powers. It is fact that his death is averted more than once - something is not letting him di…
24 Aug 2010, 21:16
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No dia 2010/08/22, ?s 13:27, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> escreveu: It's August and some of us do observe the weekend sometimes :) I hope to comment on both your and Le…
23 Aug 2010, 06:59
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Hi all, I've told David I wouldn't read any more personal e-mails from him for the time being, as they were devoid of content (and actually abusive, though my issue is chiefly w…
21 Aug 2010, 00:32
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Lux dei vitae viam monstrat The beam of the New Sun lights the way of life The light of God points forth the path for life Felicibus brevis, miseris hora longa Men wai…
20 Aug 2010, 00:03
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And he doesn't care to mention how he got back to Matachin, though he did say to Valeria he didn't want to go down to the tunnels again. Let alone how he could find his way out of …
19 Aug 2010, 23:39
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*You* are the one who could only provide those 'answers'. Which are only 'obvious' because they don't answer anything. I'm more interested in asking questions. If you have no answe…
19 Aug 2010, 03:09
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