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In a Gene Wolfe book, either the map is awfully important and nobody has studied it well enough, and presenting a half-accurate version is counterproductive, or the map is a mere d…
06 Dec 2020, 20:56
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I knew I liked you from the first time you wrote on the list, Ryan!…
31 Jan 2020, 04:54
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I would love something along the lines of 'Due to the complex and often tricky nature of Mr Wolfe's writing, and since he is not here anymore to review the final edit, we've decide…
01 May 2019, 13:59
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No dia 09/01/2019, ?s 16:48, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> escreveu: We're here. I think it's a major downgrade. No archival, no search, no reasoning, no structure. I …
10 Jan 2019, 03:43
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Hi. It’s been some time since it was said that there was a new book coming soon - a sequel to ABM, I think. Does anyone know how that stands? Does anyone know how Gene Wolfe has …
02 Nov 2018, 05:57
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Now, is the volume in the shelf above “Hothouse” or “Penthouse?” No dia 14/08/2018, ?s 03:52, David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimrberghofer.edu.au> escreveu:…
14 Aug 2018, 12:40
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No dia 19/02/2018, ?s 15:45, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> escreveu: Otherwise they’d speak English in reverse. Of course, they could compensate for it...…
19 Feb 2018, 19:29
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No dia 17/01/2018, ?s 23:16, Keith Sadler <kthsdlr at gmail.com> escreveu: Unlike the authors your friend may be familiar with, Wolfe comes form a school of writers who knew more …
07 Feb 2018, 14:06
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During the last year I've mostly been reading Andrea Camilleri - some years ago I'd read two books I've found at a fair in english, then last year on a trip to Italy I found a coup…
16 Nov 2017, 21:02
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But the idea of colonisation involves settlers. No dia 26/09/2017, ?s 16:55, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu:…
26 Sep 2017, 21:32
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No dia 29/04/2015, ?s 16:51, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: :) My opinion is that while LotR was mangled into an s&s bore _for no reason or with no need wha…
30 Apr 2015, 00:32
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Well, Gerry, if *that* isn't a male thing, what is? ;) No dia 29/04/2015, ?s 19:21, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu:…
29 Apr 2015, 19:48
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'Conservatism' being an unfashionable thing, many people who end up there are of the kind that think for themselves, and more often than not have come to abhor what they see as her…
29 Apr 2015, 15:29
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I have no idea, but I'm certainly *NOT* eager to see Wolfe transported into any other medium. I agree he provides much material for that, but I'd rather folks would get their mater…
29 Apr 2015, 15:12
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No dia 24/04/2015, ?s 19:20, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Jesus was certainly opposed to the Saducees. There is no dearth of verses chiding them as enemies of God. …
24 Apr 2015, 22:02
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Recurrent small floods might heighten the floor and get the door stuck? (I don't remember what the paving was.)…
21 Nov 2014, 18:27
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Faithless in that you can have no faith in it. Interesting verses. No dia 21/11/2014, ?s 15:20, "Norwood, Frederick Hudson" <NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> escreveu:…
21 Nov 2014, 17:21
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No dia 03/11/2014, ?s 17:21, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> escreveu: I think for many Wolfe - like so many others and other things, but let's say Wolfe since we're ta…
04 Nov 2014, 01:35
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Like with anything there's bouts of activity and then people get exhausted for a while. It's nothing to write home about.…
03 Nov 2014, 13:26
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No dia 21/10/2014, ?s 15:50, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: Has the name 'Gyoll' been analysed?…
21 Oct 2014, 20:54
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Can someone more math-enjoying than me take up the challenge to build a system based on (A => B) & (A & ~B) — Could some insight come out of the thing? No dia 17/10/2014, ?s 19:2…
18 Oct 2014, 19:18
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I think this is an example of a subthread which ought to have had its subject changed. So that folks who dozed off long ago might become interested again.…
17 Oct 2014, 20:44
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I asked that because one has to know what one is dealing with. I do not enjoy having my position be misunderstood. Math-oriented folks usually like to be rigorous in their exchange…
17 Oct 2014, 16:11
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I'm not anything of the sort. Just because the inadequacies of tools you thought all powerful are pointed out to you, it doesn't follow that you can go around calling others names.…
17 Oct 2014, 14:34
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No dia 17/10/2014, ?s 14:23, "Norwood, Frederick Hudson" <NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> escreveu: Even merely human communication and language are not chained to what logic is able t…
17 Oct 2014, 13:46
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I'd rather have 'The This Far Uncollected Gene Wolfe'. No dia 16/10/2014, ?s 17:56, Robert Pirkola <rpirkola at hotmail.com> escreveu:…
16 Oct 2014, 17:29
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They're self-absorbed to the point of professing not to know what points the person they've been arguing with is defending. Yet they keep arguing! No dia 15/10/2014, ?s 15:43, Mar…
15 Oct 2014, 15:19
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I've been complaining about it perhaps for a week now. It's not nice to pretend it's news. If you are not aware of what his two points are, how can you conduct a meaningful discu…
15 Oct 2014, 15:16
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Your discussions remain meaningless, and, quite frankly, boring, while you don't clarify what point of view you are defending. Lee is making two separate points (which have some po…
15 Oct 2014, 09:29
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No dia 14/10/2014, ?s 12:59, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: The problem is that people take science to be philosophy, which it is not (and ethics, which it is not). T…
14 Oct 2014, 13:07
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Math may be derivable from logic, I don't know. I know it stared off as counting, and that is in no way independent of 'number'. But a significant number of you keep mixing up 'rea…
10 Oct 2014, 22:42
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No. It cant be taken off list because the list os the sole point of contact between the participants. What would be nice would be to bring it to an end because it has reached a poi…
10 Oct 2014, 19:54
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It's not a matter of the concept not depending on the actuality. It's a matter of what you call 'concept' being how the human mind responds to actuality. Other minds might respond …
10 Oct 2014, 18:13
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The Bible is big enough to have a bit of everything in it. Catholics consider that faith is what sustains the Bible, rather than the reverse, so they're happy to read everything in…
10 Oct 2014, 13:21
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You don't need to build a robot. Humans, animals and other critters exhibit 'will', yet to a physician they work mechanically. You think you raised your arm because you wanted to? …
09 Oct 2014, 14:02
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Now it's both Lee and Dan'l who are taking the physical applications of math for math. 3 + 4 = 7 can be math or physics or something else. As math, it is universal, since it refers…
09 Oct 2014, 12:18
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And so you illustrate the point: physics comes from observing the universe, whereas math comes from reason. Our reason could be different. There is no such thing as multiplication …
09 Oct 2014, 12:09
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I like H Beam Piper! (I actually have read only a couple of stories I got for free from feedbooks back when Stanza was king, but I liked them.) The comparison with the periodic ta…
08 Oct 2014, 18:58
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But Dan'l, neither Lee nor I said anything against point (2). In fact, at least for me, what Brendon says is quite how I see it myself, tho I'm by no means a math guy. What I'm sa…
08 Oct 2014, 18:44
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You are again making the structure of math dependent exclusively on what it tries to describe rather than on the circuitry that it runs on.…
08 Oct 2014, 17:01
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I'm not discarding anything. I'm not saying the crow can't compute. I'm saying we don't know how the crow's computation works, and specifically if it is anything like our own math.…
08 Oct 2014, 16:36
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We're all defective pots. Based on what you say, I'd wager that you do have faith but find the theology intellectually abstruse and some so called divines ethically questionable. …
08 Oct 2014, 16:28
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The point is that no one knows how the crow does his math. The crow may look at it in a way similar to our addition and subtraction, or in a different enough way. Again, what we're…
08 Oct 2014, 15:38
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No dia 08/10/2014, ?s 15:46, "Norwood, Frederick Hudson" <NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> escreveu: Eh? I think you've got me and Lee mixed up. Your earlier reply in the same vein is t…
08 Oct 2014, 15:34
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In that case I don't think either me or Lee disagree with you, and you've expressed it very well. We're not questioning the external universality of a mathematical statement, we're…
08 Oct 2014, 15:12
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No dia 08/10/2014, ?s 15:32, "Norwood, Frederick Hudson" <NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> escreveu: If you have you reasons for it, who can tell you otherwise? That's not the same as s…
08 Oct 2014, 14:51
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Could you gentlemen pinpoint what you're labelling as the universality of math? No dia 08/10/2014, ?s 15:01, "Norwood, Frederick Hudson" <NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> escreveu:…
08 Oct 2014, 14:28
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The problem is that people may be discussing Wolfe centuries from now and still not have progressed more than we. Unless there is writ yet to be revealed that will help sort out so…
08 Oct 2014, 01:50
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No dia 08/10/2014, ?s 01:05, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> escreveu: That is not only confusing the model with reality, but reifying physics. Lee's example is perhap…
08 Oct 2014, 01:30
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No dia 07/10/2014, ?s 14:58, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: To which, of course, you're aware of solutions of various kinds. This is disturbing. It implies that if …
08 Oct 2014, 01:01
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