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No dia 2011/12/03, ?s 14:49, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: If those are the only two instances of the word, I'd say it's pretty concluisive as to her not hav…
03 Dec 2011, 20:33
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No dia 2011/12/03, ?s 18:48, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: How do we know Severian's real name?…
03 Dec 2011, 19:19
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No dia 2011/12/03, ?s 14:23, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: All hell broke loose last time I inquired on this.…
03 Dec 2011, 19:17
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No dia 2011/12/02, ?s 16:06, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: If we are to make any sense of it, then, at first sight, Severian's sister, if there is one, shoul…
02 Dec 2011, 17:04
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No dia 2011/12/01, ?s 14:47, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: What's the general view on the development of technolgy after Typhon? At first sight, it only went…
01 Dec 2011, 15:16
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No dia 2011/12/01, ?s 14:20, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: Not to be the devil's advocate, but I think that is clearly the default, simple, surface interpret…
01 Dec 2011, 15:10
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(You are welcome to reply with a passionate denial of the assessment I give below of your position and a questioning of the assertions I've made, but as to the first, I doubt the…
01 Dec 2011, 00:02
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No? You couched it in rather judgemental terms. If it does not require a recognition of irony in the text or it does not leave problematic questions hanging or something else, the…
30 Nov 2011, 21:41
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James Wynn wrote (30-11-2011 17:44): I simply disagree that that's what we have here. Do I have the right? I'm saying that B's view of B's interpretation as valid only comes into …
30 Nov 2011, 18:16
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Marc Aramini wrote (30-11-2011 17:41): The narrator acts Silky enough from the first moment, which suggests there is Silk in him, but showing no memory of the 20 years between LS…
30 Nov 2011, 18:03
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James Wynn wrote (30-11-2011 16:53): Even in your parody above, your person starts off with 'This explanation is a totally unsupported'. That's the refuting part, not the eventua…
30 Nov 2011, 17:21
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Gerry Quinn wrote (30-11-2011 13:18): What snakes actually have is their phallus split in two, and they're only able to use one of the halves at a time. While of no consequence t…
30 Nov 2011, 14:48
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Gerry Quinn wrote (30-11-2011 12:15): I'd put it otherwise. It's not that time travel is unwarranted, it's that 'dream travel invovles time travel' and 'Pike's ghost is the Rajan'…
30 Nov 2011, 12:31
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It can become entangled, no? When you point out actual problems with an interpretation and *then* people ask you for an alternative, they are the ones admitting the alternative a…
30 Nov 2011, 00:06
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No dia 2011/11/29, ?s 19:59, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> escreveu: It doesn't. 'X is wrong' is not the same as 'All but Y are wrong'.…
29 Nov 2011, 20:03
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David Stockhoff wrote (29-11-2011 19:26): I think this may be the most important contribution someone sent in a long, long time.…
29 Nov 2011, 19:29
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David Stockhoff wrote (29-11-2011 17:58): Believe or not, I wasn't thinking about anyone in particular or even about this list. It's a tactic(?) that pops up every now and then, w…
29 Nov 2011, 19:22
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Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote (29-11-2011 18:49): Something which has happened more than once. But of course that applies only to the point where there already is an 'opponent'. Somethin…
29 Nov 2011, 19:15
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James Wynn wrote (29-11-2011 17:57): Why, seeing as though yours was in response to an unanswered one of mine and it is based on what you consider a theory whose assumptions have…
29 Nov 2011, 19:12
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David Stockhoff wrote (29-11-2011 17:40): Precisely, so that those who don't understand why I can't stand it may get an idea. The problem with it is not so much the isolated ins…
29 Nov 2011, 17:46
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David Stockhoff wrote (29-11-2011 17:39): It's good to know. Sometimes a written medium doesn't carry that information very well. But I was talking here to James.…
29 Nov 2011, 17:43
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James Wynn wrote (29-11-2011 17:12): What do you base your theory that it was Horn and Nettle on? There's no real reason to believe it. It may have been Marrow's slave.…
29 Nov 2011, 17:35
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James Wynn wrote (29-11-2011 17:09): So you admit that when you ask where others get their assumptions from, it's a rhetoric/flippant question? Indeed, that's exactly where your…
29 Nov 2011, 17:33
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David Stockhoff wrote (29-11-2011 16:59): Now for something completely different (really). Who is (are?) the Silk in the Rajan? - Has the original Silk been lost? - No Silk we …
29 Nov 2011, 17:09
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (29-11-2011 16:55): And to what extent may we rely on their assertion that they wrote LS? And to what extent may we rely on their actual existence? Come…
29 Nov 2011, 16:59
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James Wynn wrote (29-11-2011 16:37): If the text says so and everyone can go look and everyone is supposed to have read it once, isn't it a bit tiresome to have to repeat at each…
29 Nov 2011, 16:45
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James Wynn wrote (29-11-2011 16:12): Why do you believe enlightenment came to Patera Silk in the ball court? And what in your view constitutes smugness?…
29 Nov 2011, 16:20
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Gerry Quinn wrote (29-11-2011 15:18): Where does it say that? Pas on the Sacred Window after Sand's sacrifice has a radiant head and a stupefied one.…
29 Nov 2011, 15:31
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If this really is you talking, James, and the odds are it is, I'm beginning to understand you a lot better.…
29 Nov 2011, 00:37
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Correct. I think so, yes, and yes, they're not unrelated.…
29 Nov 2011, 00:20
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Possibly I misapplied the word 'odds'. Yes, I think you're right. I have no disagreemnt with any of the above. And the sleepers don't meet Silk - except for Mamelta who is still …
29 Nov 2011, 00:16
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This isn't about theories. This is about when something looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. If you want it *not* to be a duck, you'll have to say why you think it isn't a d…
28 Nov 2011, 23:56
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David, I think we're talking at cross-purposes here. You may go on, but as far as I can tell our only disagreements are on two points (to sum up what I also wrote below): - You …
28 Nov 2011, 23:00
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Or, for that matter, what for? What good is it for Typhon if some guy in a far away solar system is possessed by a copy of Typhon's mind? I rather think Silk may have been meant …
28 Nov 2011, 21:42
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What do you think Seawrack knows about the Neighbours?…
28 Nov 2011, 21:08
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No, it's been floated around more than once. I think the problem is that nobody knows what to do with either the reference to a 'Prime Calcula' (whatever that might be, is it the …
28 Nov 2011, 21:04
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It does, but recognisability, which is the issue, is a desired feature. The argument for the conclusion was in the paragraphs above the conclusion, which you skipped. Your argume…
28 Nov 2011, 20:56
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David Stockhoff wrote (28-11-2011 17:57): Clones usually look like the original and parodies usually look like the original, so there is just a wee possibility that a clone of so…
28 Nov 2011, 18:37
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James Wynn wrote (28-11-2011 17:35): Their memories have been tinkered with in order for them to put their personal lives behind, but there is no suggestion that they have had th…
28 Nov 2011, 17:47
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David Stockhoff wrote (28-11-2011 15:42): There *is* a real reason. It may not be asbolute, but it certainly isn't absent. However, the issue is whether Silk not finding Pas's li…
28 Nov 2011, 17:02
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Gerry Quinn wrote (28-11-2011 13:10): Either way, what is meant by 'recognition'? If it's that Silk doesn't recognise Typhon, there's no reason he should, he's never met him. If …
28 Nov 2011, 14:13
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No dia 28/11/2011, ?s 04:23, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: Well, there can be differences between the two scenarios. But they would be reflected somewhere else. …
28 Nov 2011, 04:38
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No dia 28/11/2011, ?s 01:57, Larry Miller <decanus1284 at gmail.com> escreveu: Possibly his fate as Monarch, but his fate as a living entity? He does seem to be dead/sleeping from…
28 Nov 2011, 03:09
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It isn't especially hard. But why was his fate tied to the blond head then?…
28 Nov 2011, 01:30
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But it's not only the name, it's the whole package. And he learned instantly of Abaia - or did he?…
28 Nov 2011, 01:28
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In what way hasn't it? This is one of those things on which a firm opinion isn't all that relevant in isolation. It's rather 'there's this interesting scheme in which Typhon isn…
28 Nov 2011, 00:38
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He must, otherwise how would she be a Scylla? An interesting question - was there contact between Urth and the Whorl after the launch? (Can't see why not, if there's beings on Urt…
28 Nov 2011, 00:33
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Typhon's children mention having a life before being scanned into the Whorl. Cilinia/Scylla was entering puberty. How come Cilinia's business with monster-Scylla is a treason to …
28 Nov 2011, 00:01
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Larry Miller wrote (26-11-2011 22:33): You'll really have to read the archives from 2011 (especially James and Marc). It's an idea that has been developed along, not set in stone…
26 Nov 2011, 22:37
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Marc Aramini wrote (26-11-2011 21:51): But again, where is it said that Chenille's children were murdered? I recall a mention by Jahlee that someone told her and other inhumi to …
26 Nov 2011, 22:35
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