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Nobody denied that there are elements of the Book of the Jungle in the story; the question is whether they're anything more than scenic.…
23 May 2011, 21:51
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So tell us about them. Erase the names and colours, and enumerate the similarities that are left. How Frog's deeds parallel those of Mowgli.…
23 May 2011, 21:41
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James Wynn wrote (23-05-2011 16:29): Because that's how it is in the 'real world'.…
23 May 2011, 15:34
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David Stockhoff wrote (23-05-2011 13:07): I think the same about this as do about all else: it it makes for a richer reading somewhere, go for it - but richer should usually mean…
23 May 2011, 14:28
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Nicholas Gevers wrote (23-05-2011 10:43): Yet one in which he explicitly decries the outcome of a society giving absolute power to inflexible Law and its enforcers...…
23 May 2011, 10:48
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No dia 23/05/2011, ?s 03:40, Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> escreveu: I misread you, youre not saying the great beasts are 17. So I'll advance the possibility that …
23 May 2011, 10:37
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No dia 22/05/2011, ?s 20:55, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> escreveu: The part where that argument doesn't work is where there is no evidence at all that the great b…
23 May 2011, 02:40
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No dia 22/05/2011, ?s 14:25, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: +1…
23 May 2011, 02:29
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No dia 22/05/2011, ?s 21:26, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: I didn't mean that the plot itself is not wolfean, I rather meant the delivery - apparently the same…
23 May 2011, 02:25
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No dia 21/05/2011, ?s 23:58, Jack Smith <jack.smith.1946 at gmail.com> escreveu: The realisation that Dorcas is Severian's grandmother, that is. The pieces only appear gradually. …
22 May 2011, 00:09
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No dia 21/05/2011, ?s 22:36, Jason H <beet31425 at gmail.com> escreveu: To me, it was immediate. But there's probably a difference: you were reading the story wolfeanly, looking f…
22 May 2011, 00:01
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Andrew Mason wrote (19-05-2011 23:34): And of course anything that is common knowledge won't, as a rule, make its way to us.…
20 May 2011, 14:28
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Craig Brewer wrote (10-05-2011 16:14): Moreover, Gene Wolfe doesn't ride on other people's themes' success. He willfully reuses concepts and settings, but not for their success or…
10 May 2011, 15:36
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James Wynn wrote (18-04-2011 22:17): The Marble/Mint mixup `*does* look like a mistake. Though at that point anything goes...…
18 Apr 2011, 22:49
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (18-04-2011 15:35): +1…
18 Apr 2011, 14:39
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Gerry Quinn wrote (18-04-2011 11:38): I think so, if we should speak at all. Not quite. I didn't mean GW crafts unreliability. I meant he cares about it existing, and handles it …
18 Apr 2011, 12:24
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I wasn't even commenting on that, rather on your 'the chapter might have been insufficiently rewritten' bit. Wolfe has been working against the kind of analysis that wants art to…
17 Apr 2011, 23:28
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I think you're doing overanalysis. 'Unreliable narrator' simply means that the narrative isn't the absolute complete truth of what happened. Which, actually, applies to any narra…
17 Apr 2011, 23:09
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No dia 2011/04/17, ?s 21:28, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: I vehemently disagree. I think this kind of analysis is just what Wolfe as a writer has been…
17 Apr 2011, 20:58
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That's all well, Troy, but aside from the chapter having not been the original first, it's nothing you hadn't said before. I'm certainly not about to change your opinion, but m…
17 Apr 2011, 20:52
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This is the part I find unbelievable. A mistake such as this doesn't happen on such a passage from such an author. First, it'd be much of a coincidence; second, it's the kind of …
17 Apr 2011, 00:55
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No dia 2011/04/16, ?s 10:48, Tony Ellis <tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com> escreveu: Obviously one can't complain about feelings, but I just can't understand how you may feel th…
16 Apr 2011, 11:14
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Antonin Scriabin wrote (15-04-2011 17:48): Am I misremembering, or one of the first pages of NS goes like this: 'So Drotte was doing something... did I mention I have a perfect m…
15 Apr 2011, 17:35
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Gerry Quinn wrote (14-04-2011 00:48): I think that's chiefly because the inconsistencies in the narrative are so obvious that asking for them is kind of a breach of social contra…
14 Apr 2011, 13:00
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Well, Lane, I must say I've seldom if ever seen such a well-wrought presentation of these questions, the more coming from a non-believer (we may discuss that if anyone wishes to)…
13 Apr 2011, 14:55
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Antonin Scriabin wrote (22-03-2011 17:12): Antonin Scriabin? Kierkegord? I - I'd advise against. Unwieldy - heh? The books are too big for omnibus editions - why, why not ask fo…
22 Mar 2011, 17:26
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Gerry Quinn wrote (21-02-2011 13:05): I was only used to the simpletonish a c --- = --- b d I suppose :: is historically related to =, then. No, there's nothing wro…
21 Feb 2011, 13:25
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Sorry, I don't get what you mean. The words, as used, are: en now present time given present current place pt agora momento presente presente dado …
21 Feb 2011, 01:58
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I suppose : means 'is to', :: means 'as' and <> are just paretheses? If so, it took me a while to figure it out. I would suggest avoiding >.…
21 Feb 2011, 01:42
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He was (the smallest of (those dead)) He was (the smallest of those [something] (dead)) Can't remember either.…
21 Feb 2011, 01:38
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I liked Fava.…
17 Feb 2011, 16:07
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Meh. It got *me* banging my head trying to remember what was it that I read not so long ago that dwelled a great deal on Moses's horns :(…
16 Feb 2011, 02:19
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I see nothing preposterous about it. In fact, the idea is that neighbour-fed dream-travelling inhumi would be indistinguishable from dream-travelling neighbours. The problem is tha…
15 Feb 2011, 00:47
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No dia 13 de Fev de 2011, ?s 20:40, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: I may be mistaken, but if not then Ares was more of a god of the fields, rather than war, bef…
13 Feb 2011, 21:56
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2011/2/12 Ant?nio Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: One might argue that if any of his children by Echidna were fit, they could have been sent in the Whorl. Since none were fit, we …
12 Feb 2011, 19:36
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Unlike Mucor's well-defined abilities, 'leadership' is a vague, if not mystical, concept, and somewhat unwolfean on that account. But you say 'selected for leadership traits', whic…
12 Feb 2011, 19:00
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Gerry Quinn wrote (11-02-2011 16:20): More or less, and how do you get from that to your 'had a particular disdain for' above? The only sense I raised it was in regard to Typhon…
11 Feb 2011, 16:41
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Andrew Mason wrote (11-02-2011 13:22): But do we have evidence of how it was when the Whorl set sail, and if so, what does it point to?…
11 Feb 2011, 15:25
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Gerry Quinn wrote (11-02-2011 14:08): ? What then did you mean by '*then* great leadership skills are not much of a pointer to Typhon, as they might be if they appeared in a rand…
11 Feb 2011, 15:21
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Gerry Quinn wrote (11-02-2011 12:38): (I mentioned that Silk considered them people, not that Pas was their god.)…
11 Feb 2011, 14:36
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Gerry Quinn wrote (11-02-2011 13:43): ? That's emphatically *not* what I said. You're the one talking about Pas's intentions. I said that there is no reason why *Typhon* should …
11 Feb 2011, 14:34
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Gerry Quinn wrote (11-02-2011 03:04): But then again corruptness is a personality matter, which hasn't been shown to be determined/determinable by biological parentage. How do we…
11 Feb 2011, 11:28
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Gerry Quinn wrote (11-02-2011 03:18): The need for Silk to explicitly say that chems are people (iinm when he's arguing that taluses are people also) suggests to me that that's n…
11 Feb 2011, 11:21
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So you're indeed saying the question 'who are Silk's parent's' isn't of consequence. So why all the embryo stuff? What does it do for the story? One would have to ask what for.…
11 Feb 2011, 02:10
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Not really. Robots are people, and you could *argue* that means the software running them is people. But all over, 'real people' don't consider robots 'real people'. Silk does be…
11 Feb 2011, 02:07
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Granted - but as you notice, personality is orthogonal to mental abilities. (How does it make it harder? It's an argument for kinship, a weak one but still one.) Otoh, the only …
11 Feb 2011, 02:00
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There are many people throwing ideas around, Marc. Some think Silk is a clone of Typhon and some think Silk was meant to be taken over. It's not necessarily to you that Gerry is …
11 Feb 2011, 01:27
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I don't think it is an argument either for or against. The gods are strange enough that nothing can be concluded from it, and incest is not at all unexpected in this context, even …
11 Feb 2011, 01:24
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I should again point out that regardless of Pas having been scanned from Typhon, all he is is a computer program. Pas is Typhon's tool and in all likelihood Typhon doesn't care o…
11 Feb 2011, 01:18
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I think people grossly overestimate Typhon's powers and urthly technology. I don't find a single example, in all the books, of a power to engineer minds. There's lots of technolo…
11 Feb 2011, 01:09
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