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Marc Aramini wrote (16-11-2011 18:26): You do have in mind that the BNS only started being written in Gaon, was all written by the same hand (except for the chapters by Hide and …
16 Nov 2011, 19:28
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James Wynn wrote (16-11-2011 18:21): I find this all works better when a comment on what someone wrote indicates that the commenter actually read what he's commenting on.…
16 Nov 2011, 19:24
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Marc Aramini wrote (16-11-2011 15:29): Isn't it clear? I'm pointing out an objective, textual way to determine who is who. It's one thing to posit that a part of Horn went into B…
16 Nov 2011, 15:51
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Marc Aramini wrote (16-11-2011 15:07): Objectively/textually, I've pointed out why Babbie in RW isn't just a hus (if he were, he'd look just like a hus while dream travelling), y…
16 Nov 2011, 15:22
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No dia 16/11/2011, ?s 04:43, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: If a bit of Babbie went into the Rajan, it must have been during/after the episode under the tre…
16 Nov 2011, 05:09
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No dia 16/11/2011, ?s 03:48, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu: There's the cartloads of times he mentions Horn's family as the ones he hopes, or not, to see again. Not o…
16 Nov 2011, 04:20
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No dia 16/11/2011, ?s 02:49, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu: There's the pedestrian explanation that Horn's family are the ones he had set out to rejoin. The others we…
16 Nov 2011, 03:07
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No dia 16/11/2011, ?s 02:31, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu: It's a farewell because he wrote it when he thought he'd be killed soon. It needn't trouble you. The proo…
16 Nov 2011, 02:45
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No dia 15/11/2011, ?s 23:38, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: As I pointed out the other day, people only look different in dream travel if there is a mismatc…
16 Nov 2011, 02:27
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I honestly can't hear another word on this particular poem. I've had more than my share of fITZgERALD in its time.…
14 Nov 2011, 19:23
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James Wynn wrote (14-11-2011 18:00): "And if one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is"…
14 Nov 2011, 18:39
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No dia 2011/11/13, ?s 17:21, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: Quite otherwise. The reader has by then witnessed in shock the unmasking of the chem council…
13 Nov 2011, 20:54
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No dia 2011/11/10, ?s 20:21, Peter Metcalfe <metcalph at quicksilver.net.nz> escreveu: But that ties better with Venus having a little less gravity than Earth, rather than nec…
10 Nov 2011, 21:32
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No dia 2011/11/10, ?s 18:45, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: But notice the crew seem to be about the most technically advanced humans left and to know t…
10 Nov 2011, 21:28
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No dia 2011/11/10, ?s 17:54, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu: Such a difference in gravity has biological implications.…
10 Nov 2011, 21:21
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No dia 2011/11/10, ?s 17:38, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: Gravity and size and temperature and was covered by jungles in early sf. But what if the Urth is Ve…
10 Nov 2011, 21:19
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No dia 2011/11/10, ?s 15:37, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: What if it was more like a zoo, with many potentials but not a well defined purpose at the beginni…
10 Nov 2011, 21:04
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David Stockhoff wrote (09-11-2011 19:55): One thing that may be being overlooked is that the Whorl goes on in its voyage after colonising Blue/Green. So it is not the case that t…
10 Nov 2011, 11:18
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (09-11-2011 19:42): I think that the electrical joke actually strenghtens the identification, in a Roger Rabbit way (is there any mention anywhere to Rigo…
10 Nov 2011, 11:15
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No dia 09/11/2011, ?s 22:45, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: I think this is an important point.…
09 Nov 2011, 23:38
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David Stockhoff wrote (09-11-2011 18:48): I'd be more happy with it if the connecting element were something funny.…
09 Nov 2011, 18:56
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David Stockhoff wrote (09-11-2011 18:32): Most cities are by rivers. Cities not made of stone would not physically endure long after abandoned. The rocket tower is the one linking…
09 Nov 2011, 18:36
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I thot it only ate trees... What are you suggesting re Gear id? No dia 09/11/2011, ?s 02:23, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu:…
09 Nov 2011, 02:56
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Not unlike the Outsider transforms folks into doing his work, heh?…
08 Nov 2011, 22:08
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Marc Aramini wrote (08-11-2011 12:50): I said 'You can certainly say a relationship between them is possible'. Something that would be beyond *reasonable* doubt would be to have s…
08 Nov 2011, 13:53
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I didn't mean to sound cross; just that there are things are best left to one's own reasoning once more data is available. In Wolfe's case, expecting the unexpected is probably t…
08 Nov 2011, 12:07
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Marc Aramini wrote (08-11-2011 03:42): Nessus is of cyclopean size, but it has 'moved' along time. The abandoned parts, iiuc, largely crumble to pieces after a while. The undergr…
08 Nov 2011, 12:01
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Nick Lee wrote (07-11-2011 22:31): More than once Wolfe has professed to collect ideas and names to use in his work, with no necessary deep connection to their previous meanings.…
08 Nov 2011, 02:51
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Marc Aramini wrote (07-11-2011 22:29): Well, you've said this a number of times. But just what makes Nessus similar to the City of the Inhumi?…
08 Nov 2011, 02:48
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Andrew Mason wrote (07-11-2011 21:53): I like this. This as well. Also the part where Hound wants to go to *Green*.…
08 Nov 2011, 02:46
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larry miller wrote (08-11-2011 02:31): It'll be more fun for you if you work it out by yourself.…
08 Nov 2011, 02:40
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Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote (07-11-2011 18:35): I always wonder about that whenever the languages spoken aboard the Whorl become important in relation to some point. And the notes in …
07 Nov 2011, 18:43
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Look, I'm worried for Master Ash. What happened to him? (I'm also a bit worried for Randy Carter's mule.)…
07 Nov 2011, 16:57
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Marc Aramini wrote (07-11-2011 15:23): Well, it's made of green cheese.…
07 Nov 2011, 16:49
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Marc Aramini wrote (06-11-2011 01:47): Meh. I think this is a point in serious need of review. That's fair. I've read it more than once before. I'm seriously beginning to feel …
07 Nov 2011, 15:17
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No dia 07/11/2011, ?s 00:57, larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com> escreveu: Mmmmmm. To me, an answer like that suggests GW knows very well what lies deep inside the layers of th…
07 Nov 2011, 01:34
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No dia 06/11/2011, ?s 23:45, Nick Lee <starwaterstrain at gmail.com> escreveu: We had this colleague who drank (but he's recovered, iinm) and some called him Bacchus. We called on…
07 Nov 2011, 01:28
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I find it an impolite question, but I'm not sure GW would give a wrong reply tout court. Notice that Blue is too big to be Lune, so Blue+Green can well be P+Urth, where P is anyt…
06 Nov 2011, 18:31
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No dia 05/11/2011, ?s 23:40, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Great handwriting too! Green is Urth, Blue is Neutral, Brownblack is Live. (sorry, couldn't resist…
06 Nov 2011, 00:48
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Prima facie certainly the continent is SA. But Nessus is not BA, at all, nor the Gyoll the Plate.…
06 Nov 2011, 00:33
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No dia 05/11/2011, ?s 15:48, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: I'm waiting for an explanation of how is Green better than Urth and what have Severian's trees got t…
05 Nov 2011, 23:02
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No dia 2011/11/05, ?s 02:16, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: So when your parents called you Gerry, it can't possibly have been because they liked the sound AN…
05 Nov 2011, 13:18
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No dia 2011/11/05, ?s 12:01, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: This ties in with a point I never see made but I think is quite important. People strive to …
05 Nov 2011, 13:01
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But Marc, what are you saying after all? Is Green Urth's future or its past? NB GW said Urth is Green, not that Green is Urth. Could the Whorl have reached the past, not the fu…
05 Nov 2011, 12:43
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Ant?nio No dia 2011/11/04, ?s 20:22, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: I can accept that if you substitute personal bias, as built over the years in a myria…
04 Nov 2011, 20:51
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No dia 2011/11/04, ?s 20:17, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu: Because that wasn't available to '50s sf.…
04 Nov 2011, 20:44
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Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote (04-11-2011 19:40): I'm reminded of a PM candidate we had 16 years ago for whom, when asked, every single issue would be a priority of his government. Of co…
04 Nov 2011, 19:57
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Lee Berman wrote (04-11-2011 18:56): Here I have to agree on both counts (that the coincidence is interesting and that no one should be bothered by others' following of it). The …
04 Nov 2011, 19:33
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I'll agree that Gerry has been unjustifiedly negative in his responses to some of the latest hypotheses. But what if you dropped your oh-I'm-so-much-cleverer-than-you,-I-see-stuf…
04 Nov 2011, 18:02
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Nettle and Horn wrote (04-11-306 11:39): I'd never before noticed the 'old man' part. I've always pictured Typhon as not looking a day over 33.…
04 Nov 2011, 14:37
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