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Ooops. Please forgive me, I thought Ashley <=> Lee (though the First Exodus theory doesn't sound Leean at all). But the point stands that your first response was perfectly readab…
10 Feb 2011, 02:11
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It was readabler the first time, Ms.…
10 Feb 2011, 01:59
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Someone wrote (08-02-2011 17:50): Curious... the two whorl city names we do know how to parse both mean 'Big City'.…
08 Feb 2011, 19:04
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James Wynn wrote (26-01-2011 17:43): Funny, remember who else carries a stuff with a head in it?…
26 Jan 2011, 17:53
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No dia 2011/01/25, ?s 20:24, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: No, they are saying that there may be different alleles which produce a similar phenotype. They a…
25 Jan 2011, 22:03
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Mr Thalassocrat wrote (24-01-2011 07:36): Heh. Borges excelled in that. He got some idea and he wrote a story with the right amount of substance to illustrate it - differing from…
24 Jan 2011, 12:19
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Well, this is vague enough not to be wrong. Extreme weather regions will favour slanted eyes, highly-radiated ones will favour darker skin. 'Each continent' on Severian's Urth ca…
22 Jan 2011, 22:29
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No dia 2011/01/22, ?s 13:11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: This is more properly the reason why mules are sterile - their maternal and paternal chromatids…
22 Jan 2011, 13:55
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D'oh, I was thinking of the idea that each region had a 'racial' type that would always resurface, not Dollo's law. But not applicable if congruent selection is halted to begin w…
21 Jan 2011, 22:41
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Gerry Quinn wrote (21-01-2011 20:10): Not really, since our species is not known for being dependent on biological adapation to the environment in the same way the others are.…
21 Jan 2011, 20:21
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Son of Witz wrote (21-01-2011 19:25): Be sure I am the opposite of a fan of selectionism. Good point.…
21 Jan 2011, 19:56
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Son of Witz wrote (21-01-2011 19:06): If persistence of epicanthic folds (all embryos have got them) is associated to extreme climates as suggested, then it is likely they would …
21 Jan 2011, 19:13
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Marc Aramini wrote (20-01-2011 18:48): That's a very valid point, I just don't think that it applies in this particular case.…
20 Jan 2011, 19:36
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Marc Aramini wrote (20-01-2011 19:02): Correct. I think it's a common idiom. 'I feel (...) that you're really my older sister' doesn't mean Mint thinks Chenille is her sister, bu…
20 Jan 2011, 19:34
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Marc Aramini wrote (20-01-2011 18:10): I don't have a position on any of those matters (except for thinking that Silk isn't Typhon's clone), but I don't think the data you've ment…
20 Jan 2011, 18:36
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Son of Witz wrote (20-01-2011 17:33): But the assassin can, and indeed should, be disguised, and asian people tend to lesser sexual dimorphism. I think Lee's idea here is genuine…
20 Jan 2011, 17:59
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Jeff Wilson wrote (20-01-2011 04:57): I'm not sure, but it seems to me that part of her impulsiveness is staged. All are reasonable points, but none answers why Agia even appears…
20 Jan 2011, 12:26
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Son of Witz wrote (19-01-2011 21:56): (And how can one talk of revenge when Severian was innocent in Agilus's killing? Revenge for what, for Severian's having not died in the due…
19 Jan 2011, 22:01
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James Wynn wrote (19-01-2011 20:13): Nephew? Son? Brother? Grandson? Father? Cousin? Engineered from his and other people's DNA? Or, if Typhon comes from a place where blond peop…
19 Jan 2011, 21:36
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Marc Aramini wrote (19-01-2011 19:04): I think somneone should look into this. Along with many others, it's the kind of 'clue' that stares at you in the face, and yet people don't…
19 Jan 2011, 20:01
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James Wynn wrote (19-01-2011 19:20): It's one thing to associate them and another to say the former is a clone of the latter.…
19 Jan 2011, 19:55
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (19-01-2011 18:52): No, please. First thing off: separate those two cases. Disagree. Unless Typhon's image of himself was wildly at odds with what other…
19 Jan 2011, 19:53
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Son of Witz wrote (19-01-2011 17:52): And James is right that even after Nagasaki the japanese government couldn't agree to surrender. (Not to mention that isolated groups of fi…
19 Jan 2011, 18:15
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James Wynn wrote (19-01-2011 16:44): But it's not a good analogy. Gene Wolfe is the opposite of Agatha Christie. What GW leaves out of the text can be deduced, and the various pa…
19 Jan 2011, 17:33
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James Wynn wrote (19-01-2011 16:37): Oh, no contention there at all. At the same time I find it good that people remember Hiroshima - not only the bombing, but why the bombing wa…
19 Jan 2011, 17:25
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James Wynn wrote (19-01-2011 14:45): I originally meant to show how you were imposing an unreasonable demand on the text to dispell the notion that Silk might be Typhon's clone -…
19 Jan 2011, 16:00
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Gerry Quinn wrote (19-01-2011 14:57): I don't think it can really be discussed meaningfully nowadays. Everyone and their cactus have opinions on things related to the US, without…
19 Jan 2011, 15:48
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Let's make the green man work *for a living*! Ant?nio No dia 2011/01/19, ?s 14:20, Jack Smith <jack.smith.1946 at gmail.com> escreveu:…
19 Jan 2011, 14:49
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Tim O'Donnell wrote (19-01-2011 09:19): It is legitimate, but I think it's implausible on three counts: - Why would Silk realising to have Pas's face (he doesn't even know what a…
19 Jan 2011, 12:38
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This is actually a great example of how to go on about it: I.e. it provides for a richer story. I.e. no really great problem, and an invitation to speculate on what may have hap…
19 Jan 2011, 04:01
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(Yeah, we all got let down when GW struck out that paragraph in ExLS 'Many have come to us asking whether Patera Silk was Great Pas himself. Though both had blond hair, and maybe…
19 Jan 2011, 03:53
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Jeff Wilson wrote (18-01-2011 19:12): I don't think we really wanna go down that road.…
18 Jan 2011, 23:33
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Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote (18-01-2011 11:30): Speech, I meant, though if enough people have deficient speech then it will become a problem of the language itself.…
18 Jan 2011, 11:34
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Jeff Wilson wrote (18-01-2011 00:18): Without teeth, language becomes impaired.…
18 Jan 2011, 11:30
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Jeff Wilson wrote (17-01-2011 06:15): "Nearly all sickness is from the teeth" (The Third Policeman). Well, maybe that doesn't apply if you don't eat [vegetable matter] a lot.…
18 Jan 2011, 11:29
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Yeah, what's the deal with Mint and Auk? Silk supposedly took an interest in Auk because of Mint, but what was Mint's interest? And how come we hardly see any manisfestation of i…
17 Jan 2011, 02:11
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Yes, because it's the logical thing to think. But how solidary are the inhumi with each other? How could he ever think the people would follow his selection after he were exposed…
17 Jan 2011, 01:44
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From there one can see that's not the whole story, as indeed was to be expected - is he going to embark on a lecture on his biology to Severian? Not likely. Should he have a doze…
17 Jan 2011, 01:30
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But I don't mean that GW can't err or that he somehow is privy to advanced science of whose toys he gives us some glimpses. What I mean is that he isn't the sort to include consp…
17 Jan 2011, 01:00
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There was really only two planets to go to, anyway. But it's weird. I still don't know whether he wanted them to go to Green or to Blue, but I'd lamost venture the latter. Choosi…
16 Jan 2011, 23:15
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For the reasons that have been recently adduced, I think the books' portrayals of science are to be taken very seriously. In fact, I'd say that's one of the important things ther…
16 Jan 2011, 22:52
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- Who says the green man lives only on photosynthesis - Who says the green man only uses chlorophyll-based photosynthesis (other, parallel pigments can make use of other wavelengt…
16 Jan 2011, 22:35
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No dia 2011/01/16, ?s 02:15, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: Never knew how to read this. Quetzal must have known the colonists would mistrut his choice afte…
16 Jan 2011, 04:44
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No dia 2011/01/15, ?s 22:06, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu: A point that may be overlooked is that Typhon wasn't expecting to end his career as soon…
16 Jan 2011, 04:34
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No dia 2011/01/15, ?s 19:18, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: I don't think anybody disputes that the sleepers' memories have been mmssssd with. But how can t…
15 Jan 2011, 21:05
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Andrew Mason wrote (14-01-2011 22:41): Unless it's just that one's not allowed to use it under those circumstances.…
14 Jan 2011, 22:54
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David Stockhoff wrote (14-01-2011 13:00): Rather Sev produce heir -> Sev no gets called to Yosed (methinks).…
14 Jan 2011, 15:07
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (13-01-2011 18:56): More and more, Typhon sounds to me like the guy who claims every iconic deed of the past as his own.…
13 Jan 2011, 19:33
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Jeff Wilson wrote (13-01-2011 18:36): My take on this is that what's important is not saying nonsense about the stuff we do obvservational data on. Our knowledge is so limited th…
13 Jan 2011, 19:32
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Jerry Friedman wrote (13-01-2011 06:24): How many Urth days does a bluish year span?…
13 Jan 2011, 12:24
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