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Not 'Green is Urth' but 'Urth is Green'. I've always found the choice of word order significant. I just have no idea what it signifies. No dia 09/10/2013, ?s 03:35, Marc Aramin…
09 Oct 2013, 08:37
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Note: It's inhumu (m), inhuma (f), inhumi (p), maybe ?inhumae (fp)…
08 Oct 2013, 15:44
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No dia 27/09/2013, ?s 21:54, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu: From the first sentence I saw it in, I assumed Remora was a reference to the man's modus viv…
27 Sep 2013, 21:30
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I suppose possession may have started at any time, but I'd be sad if we came to the conclusion that a lot of Oreb wasn't Oreb. I like Oreb. No dia 13/09/2013, ?s 20:38, Marc Aram…
13 Sep 2013, 19:54
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No dia 12/09/2013, ?s 14:02, Allan Anderson <rubel at goosemoon.org> escreveu: Eh. Indeed. Of course, to save face, one must pretend to know them all by heart already!…
12 Sep 2013, 23:35
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I'd love to see your work published, Marc. Marc Aramini wrote (12-09-2013 06:24):…
12 Sep 2013, 10:13
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No dia 06/09/2013, ?s 21:52, Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr> escreveu: The person in question seems simple enough to think that if a character tells us some factoid about th…
07 Sep 2013, 00:04
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My thoughts exactly. Terra is full of blabbering conceited illiterates. Which one are y'all going to hammer sense into next? No dia 06/09/2013, ?s 17:00, "Robin B. Smith" <robin…
06 Sep 2013, 20:44
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I think Lee is quite on spot here - I'd just say I think killing Jahlee is not exclusively Horn's nor Silk's, it's maybe a defining point from where both characters become one. _…
03 Sep 2013, 15:16
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No dia 28/08/2013, ?s 19:34, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: Auk, harmless? The man does harm by trade. Yes, this is unsettling. As are some other things - do …
29 Aug 2013, 03:59
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No dia 28/08/2013, ?s 17:52, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: I've felt this a lot from the first Wolfe I read. It's what I'd call physical layering, in paral…
29 Aug 2013, 03:52
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No dia 28/08/2013, ?s 19:10, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: But then again that may only mean he's got a whole different perspective from yours, that he wants y…
29 Aug 2013, 03:48
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No dia 27/08/2013, ?s 16:18, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: It could be the case that Wolfe is doing more of the latter than one thinks would be nice. Though I do…
27 Aug 2013, 15:42
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No dia 24/08/2013, ?s 16:45, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: Ahh, so I'm not the only only one finding this quite odd. Not that the pun itself is hard to come by…
27 Aug 2013, 02:51
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More power to yous, but personally I can't follow a book that is being read aloud by someone else. Maybe if I really had to... No dia 31/07/2013, ?s 01:58, aaron <aaronsingleton …
31 Jul 2013, 01:56
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Severian discusses this with Ultan. No dia 15/07/2013, ?s 11:46, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu:…
15 Jul 2013, 12:09
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Planarians can hardly be said to have brains. And they aren't worms like the ones we find in our yards. They barely have any internal structure. I don't think anything very useful …
14 Jul 2013, 11:23
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Silk fred them? No dia 12/07/2013, ?s 13:58, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu:…
13 Jul 2013, 20:33
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A true master of the craft... Few of us will get near that age or accomplish a fraction, and yet it's still sad news. No dia 29/05/2013, ?s 21:46, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yah…
29 May 2013, 21:51
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You'll post us a link when it does come out, right, March?…
15 May 2013, 02:58
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Jerry Friedman wrote (09-05-2013 15:27): Still, what happens in the upper levels influences what happens below. I'm not sure what Abaia lives on, but there would be consequences …
09 May 2013, 16:16
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http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3283/2931392960_882130a963.jpg David Stockhoff wrote (07-05-2013 03:50):…
07 May 2013, 10:28
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Based on Lee Soong, I've mostly assumed unknown names are written as they are pronounced. I can't really use anything else than 'in ire'. I don't find the 'going in' Latin connecti…
03 May 2013, 17:49
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Gerry Quinn wrote (02-05-2013 12:04): It's just that I find this perspective essentially ungreat.…
02 May 2013, 13:40
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Another mask... DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (30-04-2013 20:24):…
30 Apr 2013, 22:35
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No dia 19/04/2013, ?s 15:28, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: I'm not so sure. Morality is by definition local. Horn has no qualms about telling us his unsavoury …
19 Apr 2013, 22:28
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No dia 19/04/2013, ?s 16:21, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: Well, the Byzantines had a precedent fro almost any method of disposition of potential pretender…
19 Apr 2013, 22:16
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Gerry Quinn wrote (15-04-2013 10:42): [I would rather imagine Roy doesn't see a point in filling the list with discussions of the same ideas again and again and again.] Not nece…
15 Apr 2013, 10:30
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No dia 10/04/2013, ?s 17:06, Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net> escreveu: And there are the Giant Tube Worms who live solely on what the chemautotrophic bacteria inside them produ…
11 Apr 2013, 01:38
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No dia 10/04/2013, ?s 18:26, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: Is this not a very old idea in this list (that khaibits have shortened versions of their origina…
11 Apr 2013, 01:33
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No dia 10/04/2013, ?s 15:27, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: And Horn's musing that a meat-only diet is quite disagreeable or something like that, and Silk's…
11 Apr 2013, 01:23
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You raise a very good point about Silk/Horn's Eucharist on Blue. It's the most enigmatic thing I've found yet in Wolfe's writings: - the narrator doesn't provide a reason nor inspi…
08 Apr 2013, 22:13
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The original Greek has ?????????? (tetelestai), as does John 19:28, which IMHO can be translated as '[it Is] settled' (but I'm not a scholar of Greek nor a native speaker of Englis…
08 Apr 2013, 21:59
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No dia 06/04/2013, ?s 00:36, Ross Arlen Tieken <ross.a.tieken at gmail.com <mailto:ross.a.tieken at gmail.com>> escreveu: Interesting. Do you analyze Evola as well? Precisely (w…
08 Apr 2013, 14:57
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No dia 05/04/2013, ?s 18:49, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: NB Mussolini was fiercely anti-catholic all his life.…
05 Apr 2013, 18:04
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No dia 05/04/2013, ?s 01:17, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: And yet I like it, for the simple reason that that would mean Wolfe took bits of his characters out …
05 Apr 2013, 01:13
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No dia 04/04/2013, ?s 00:57, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: ObJerry: Interesting, I thought Marc was really using 'under' as a verb, to mean 'put away, forget',…
04 Apr 2013, 01:28
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No dia 04/04/2013, ?s 00:48, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: I don't know about that. It sounds very plausible that human cultures remained mostly static until som…
04 Apr 2013, 01:20
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This has been discussed before, albeit not in not so elegant a framing as you use here, and I agree with you, but for once I'll take a page from the Bermian book and point out that…
27 Mar 2013, 02:39
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I'm reminded of Thomas More's Utopia, in which if memory serves the 'monarch' was chosen at random each week from the general population. But it's at best a very remote inspiration…
25 Mar 2013, 01:39
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I'll be sure to get this the first opportunity I get (even though I'm not usually fond of volumes of short Stories by divers authors, everything has its exceptions). Thank you for …
02 Mar 2013, 22:37
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No dia 06/02/2013, ?s 14:30, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> escreveu: The conclusion is correct, but the premises aren't those.…
06 Feb 2013, 14:39
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No dia 06/02/2013, ?s 14:27, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: In which they behave like real people instead of book characters!…
06 Feb 2013, 14:32
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I don't think that Wolfe had thought out the specifics of the latter books when he was writing NS. even if he had, it would have been very strange, or even disappointing, if they …
06 Feb 2013, 14:29
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No dia 26/12/2012, ?s 21:59, steve roh <sroh98 at gmail.com> escreveu: Sure thing. The concern is specifically about DRM, which in the eyes of many is an unacceptable way to enfor…
27 Dec 2012, 10:17
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No dia 14/12/2012, ?s 22:49, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: Oh, sorry, I'd missed this. Not that I have much of a sprachgef?hl for Dutch, but Andrew is righ…
15 Dec 2012, 02:21
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No dia 01/12/2012, ?s 22:34, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu: It may be that the plan of Pas is to send bios to Blue, not chems. Chems seem to have starte…
02 Dec 2012, 18:28
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Andrew Mason wrote (29-11-2012 16:02): -es. -es. (Whereas the o-acute is a matter of detail.) NB I said 'for me'. Very true. But it doesn't need to come to that, unless one is …
29 Nov 2012, 16:35
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About the only thing I think about the SotH is that it must be something of relevance for the reader. It can't be just some nifty industrial secret.…
29 Nov 2012, 02:31
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The problem with Jahlee lying about re-entry burn-up is... How would she, or anyone else apart from the Whorl's Crew, know there is such a thing as burning up on re-entry? No dia …
29 Nov 2012, 02:23
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