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John Watkins wrote (09-07-2010 16:18): It makes a lot of sense. But why couldn't he cherry pick his humans and take them to a different planet where they would have everything th…
09 Jul 2010, 15:37
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Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 13:30): But are you saying that Inire interferes in Severian's life or that he shapes his personality? Those are different claims, I think. What are t…
09 Jul 2010, 15:16
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This is worth pursuing but I think there are a number of problems with it. If Tzadkiel is honest, his intent is to renew the planet and give Humanity a new chance. If there is an…
09 Jul 2010, 15:08
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You'll be taken to a cave in Mercury. Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 15:51):…
09 Jul 2010, 10:59
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James Wynn wrote (08-07-2010 13:30): This is 'I've explained how it isn't a good analogy'. This is 'I've reported you to the endless discussions on that at the time it was put fo…
09 Jul 2010, 10:56
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David Stockhoff wrote (08-07-2010 13:13): I didn't say it was your David's approach.…
08 Jul 2010, 12:17
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Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 07:26): The more power and intentions you give to Inire, the more it becomes unclear why he'd need such convoluted steps to reach his goals.…
08 Jul 2010, 12:13
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Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 06:44): Go on. This may lead to something. What may it connect to?…
08 Jul 2010, 12:09
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Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 06:01): And that's why I think your reducing it to determining at all costs whether she is a robot or not is not the correct approach.…
08 Jul 2010, 12:06
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Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 05:55): (I think this view has flaws, but as I've said I'm not out to get them.) *Now* you've produced something. So, if Inire guides Severian's whole…
08 Jul 2010, 12:04
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James Wynn wrote (08-07-2010 05:46): Great, then he is a Disney character, friends with Roger Rabbit. Let's work out the implications of that (oh, wait, what for? we only need to…
08 Jul 2010, 11:55
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Lee Berman wrote (08-07-2010 04:53): In fact rosemary, sweet/dead nettle, hedge nettle and the mints all belong to several genera of the Labiates. There is also a nettle in the s…
08 Jul 2010, 11:21
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I'll try to present my point of view in more general terms. When we connect real world dots, we don't do it guided by our impressions of how the order of the universe woud be nea…
08 Jul 2010, 01:43
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John Watkins wrote (08-07-2010 00:17): Oh, I don't find that a stretch at all, though I'd prefer a little more freedom for him. What I find a stretch is to associate haviong simi…
07 Jul 2010, 23:26
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And, of course, a person from 1600 can't be recruited for a 2010 job. David Stockhoff wrote (07-07-2010 23:51):…
07 Jul 2010, 23:21
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 22:54): I'm positing it as true - say, Rudesind is Inire. And I'm asking 'and now what?'. And I'm not getting an answer. As to the significance of t…
07 Jul 2010, 23:15
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Ryan Dunn wrote (07-07-2010 22:53): Just as an aside - we follow Severian's trail till he becomes Autarch. I can't find any reason why Inire should appear before that point. Unle…
07 Jul 2010, 23:11
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 22:42): That has been discussed to death. It's probably the only 'puzzle' in the book that everyone gets. The only way it could be more transparent w…
07 Jul 2010, 23:05
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Maybe I should point out in more detail how the two things you are confusing are quite distinct. - One is the author having a purpose for including something in the story. The t…
07 Jul 2010, 21:33
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 22:13): I'm not talking about narrative advantage. I'm talking about speculative advantage. And as a side note I'm against the idea of narrative adv…
07 Jul 2010, 21:18
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 22:11): <shivers!> Am I the only one whose Silk's recoiling at the idea of being in the same room as Rose was transferred to myself? (Awful grammar,…
07 Jul 2010, 21:16
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 20:49): Dunno. Wolfe wrote the March B Street stories. And Cherry Jubilee. But *if* Wolfe had written Superman and the etxt didn't show Superman and …
07 Jul 2010, 21:11
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Jeff Wilson wrote (07-07-2010 21:42): That era? By his name I'd guess he was born some centuries before the 20th.…
07 Jul 2010, 21:01
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 20:15): The bastard won't die, that much is known.…
07 Jul 2010, 19:18
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Roy C. Lackey wrote (07-07-2010 20:04): What, isn't he Inire as well? And he's also an old woman, which strenghthens the shapeshifting argument. I'm all for considering each and …
07 Jul 2010, 19:08
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 19:54): And here I was thinking it might be a legitimate synonym. Shame on you, befuddling the furriners.…
07 Jul 2010, 19:04
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 19:49): That's why I think that usefulness is a much better test than provability.…
07 Jul 2010, 19:02
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 19:25): If Superman were not Clark, where would he have met Lois? Ok, she's a journalist and he's a public figure. If Superman were someone else other…
07 Jul 2010, 18:34
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (07-07-2010 18:23): I was satyrising it, but aside from the straightness and use of slang it's the one reliable piece of evidence that has been aduced.…
07 Jul 2010, 18:25
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 18:54): Well, I don't know - there's that letter, which sounds like human speech much more than anythign we get from the triad. There's FI goi…
07 Jul 2010, 18:08
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John Watkins wrote (07-07-2010 19:00): Yeah, that's the first thought, but then there's little way you can spread some 20 years over a millennium and still be all that pervasive.…
07 Jul 2010, 18:06
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Hi Lee, Thanks for your exposition, I agree with much though not all of it, but it addresses a different question than the one I was asking. I'm empahtically not dismissing that k…
07 Jul 2010, 18:03
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John Watkins wrote (07-07-2010 18:36): I understand this is the majority view, has anyone addressed - the way FI seems to act according to processes much more akin to those of hu…
07 Jul 2010, 17:48
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Ryan Dunn wrote (07-07-2010 18:29): How can it be important if I've been asking forever for its implications and no one produces any? I'm not disagreeing with it. I'm asking what …
07 Jul 2010, 17:42
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 18:28): Is that a matter of not 'leav[ing] out the parts that people skip'?…
07 Jul 2010, 17:36
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 18:02): The Quenta Silmarillion is an unfinished book, but why is it deeply flawed?…
07 Jul 2010, 17:23
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Jeff Wilson wrote (07-07-2010 18:07): Well played.…
07 Jul 2010, 17:21
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 17:49): Well, it wasn't a book.…
07 Jul 2010, 16:57
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 17:31): There may not have been much novelty in UNS, but certainly it strenghthens the story. Without UNS, may things would be wild guesses; …
07 Jul 2010, 16:49
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Tim O'Donnell wrote (07-07-2010 17:13): What I don't see is how Rudesind and other characters being FI in disguise has much to do with any of those questions. Yes - the pervasive…
07 Jul 2010, 16:39
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 17:04): You mean spending 5 days in Stamboul is unnecessary if you can sightsee the broad outlines in 4?…
07 Jul 2010, 16:17
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Ryan Dunn wrote (07-07-2010 16:12): Here I just have to say that I quite never did grasp that idea. If it means that the BNS can be considered complete without UNS, obviously it …
07 Jul 2010, 15:49
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No dia 2010/07/07, ?s 14:04, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: But that's not at all what I'm saying. Of course there are loadheaps of dots to connect. What I…
07 Jul 2010, 13:59
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Well, I bet for almost every family of mammals you have members with proboscides. I honestly don't think Rudesind looks like that at all. Rather like this: http://www.galleryofth…
07 Jul 2010, 03:12
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Ryan Dunn wrote (05-07-2010 01:00): Well, that's just the way it works - people don't usually go around shouting their names on the street. You later on recognise them and think '…
05 Jul 2010, 11:24
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My view on this has always been similar to David's. There should be someone directing the kitchen and the parlour. Whoever do so might be called Cook and Porter. It wouldn't actua…
04 Jul 2010, 19:49
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I don't like the idea of reducing the whole book to a single character. Along the lines of thought that have been presented here, everyone could be everybody (yeah, I know others…
04 Jul 2010, 19:40
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Or the possessive may mean he's pointing to it for the benefit of Severian, since he (Rudesind) knowns all thee is to know about the picture anyway.…
04 Jul 2010, 19:26
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I think the reason I seldom remember the english proverb is that it evokes in me the image of a single soul's gradual descending path into damnation. I might remember it if I wer…
04 Jul 2010, 19:22
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adam at io.com wrote (02-07-2010 19:49): I may have not expressed myself clearly. I might guess it was all solid gold.…
02 Jul 2010, 18:55
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