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Andrew Mason wrote (08-12-2010 19:43): Heh. Found this just yesterday: "Even when he introduces someone else’s short story, he creates mystery ? I’ve been trying for years to un…
08 Dec 2010, 21:24
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Lee Berman wrote (08-12-2010 08:43): 'Argument' has a number of meanings in english. One of them, and clearly the one intended here, is 'reasoning'. So what exactly do you expect…
08 Dec 2010, 15:46
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (07-12-2010 18:41): Except for the global meltdown during the 21st century? Either way, we don't know how much of other material are quotations from things…
07 Dec 2010, 19:06
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We can't be sure of that, now, can we.…
07 Dec 2010, 01:36
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I think there are precendents of editors of that kind of stories doing just that kind of thing. Of course Severian _could_ have done it.…
07 Dec 2010, 01:30
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I think I may have seen that name somewhere in the Book of the New Sun's appendices.…
07 Dec 2010, 01:21
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And regarding the mediation view, I honestly don't think it works (no offense intended). Christ's sacrifice could be made for Man because it was a sacrifice. Not a deal. In a dea…
07 Dec 2010, 01:19
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The Book of Silk looks to me like a significant work, in need of s significant author. In fact, all we know of Horn is from Horn's hand. All we know of Silk, too. For all we kno…
07 Dec 2010, 01:12
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Has the first time been discussed at length somewhere? Who/what power is supposed to have resurrected him? I'm not confortable with that episode either with him dying/resurrectin…
07 Dec 2010, 01:04
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James Wynn wrote (06-12-2010 19:54): I may be missing something, but isn't that episode *before* Horn goes to green and his body dies there? I find it easier to picture that the …
06 Dec 2010, 20:59
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Son of Witz wrote (06-12-2010 17:25): She needn't have been resurrected in exactly the same physical shape she died in. Yes, Severian keeps his scars and lameness, but it needn't …
06 Dec 2010, 17:31
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Lee Berman wrote (06-12-2010 15:08): Well, that would explain his not letting go of Dorcas's body. No one ever discussed the similarity between the names Dorcas and Casdoe? (Not…
06 Dec 2010, 16:27
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David Stockhoff wrote (06-12-2010 13:31): I had never noticed it before, but all this time I've been picturing Typhon with the exact same appearance I picture Alexander, curly bl…
06 Dec 2010, 14:01
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David Stockhoff wrote (06-12-2010 12:57): We're told Ouen is 42 and the boatman had been lookign for Dorcas for 40 years. 2 years is too small a margin to draw any conclusions. H…
06 Dec 2010, 13:58
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When Severian enters Nessus from the south upon becoming Autarch he passes by a house in the deserted districts where Dorcas is tending presumably him.…
04 Dec 2010, 16:39
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Hey! Someone speaking their mind! :D Love it, the more so for ending the question with an '.' (honest, I do).…
04 Dec 2010, 00:03
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Ha! It's a Bildungsroman!…
03 Dec 2010, 23:00
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Can anyone explian to me when to use this and when to use 'authorial'? Thanks.…
03 Dec 2010, 21:26
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Matthew Weber wrote (03-12-2010 18:59): Detail. Things which are very different may look the same at first sight.…
03 Dec 2010, 19:02
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Matthew Weber wrote (03-12-2010 18:48): Come back when you have something to say. Which kind of inserts some conditions required for Lee's question, doesn't it? Namely that the …
03 Dec 2010, 18:57
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Matthew Weber wrote (03-12-2010 18:33): Please present his antecedents' teachings. We're not talking about christianity. Lee asked what would a 20 AD Jew find special about Jesu…
03 Dec 2010, 18:44
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (03-12-2010 18:33): Yes there is. (The god is in the details.) Then he must really be the Son of God, seeing as a sizable chunk of mankind claims to be …
03 Dec 2010, 18:41
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Lee Berman wrote (03-12-2010 18:24): For all I know, what's special about the man Jesus are his teachings. That's the key element I find missing from the 'Conciliator'.…
03 Dec 2010, 18:29
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Son of Witz wrote (03-12-2010 17:38): I keep thinking Agia is the single most important (erm... okay, second most important) character in the books and there must be so much about…
03 Dec 2010, 18:26
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Son of Witz wrote (03-12-2010 18:04): bUT IS THATA DIGUISE?…
03 Dec 2010, 18:22
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (02-12-2010 17:41): Do you have the title? I can't remember anymore, it was several years ago. I'm not sure the style was Stockton's - who, by the way, I sh…
03 Dec 2010, 17:12
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Ryan Dunn wrote (03-12-2010 15:08): Well... yes: what makes him so special?…
03 Dec 2010, 16:22
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Lee Berman wrote (03-12-2010 14:53): It's a trick to point out that there are problems with the evidence for any given thing?!…
03 Dec 2010, 16:19
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Lee Berman wrote (03-12-2010 04:21): I think that's not uncommon. In fact I think that's the natural state of man. And much frustration in a lot of people's lives derives from tr…
03 Dec 2010, 11:10
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I'm disturbed by the narrator's crude mention, not far away from there, that he had thought of sacrificing Oreb (if no other sacrifice were available?) on a near occasion.…
02 Dec 2010, 23:04
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Hi Ryann, Ryan Dunn wrote (02-12-2010 15:34): Who's done that? I haven't seen it. I have seen people say that a strict atheist perspective precludes a full analysis of the work.…
02 Dec 2010, 16:53
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James Wynn wrote (01-12-2010 22:52): But that is not the issue. The issue, as originally stated, is that at a certain point some authors make some conclusions that don't follow f…
01 Dec 2010, 23:12
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Lee Berman wrote (01-12-2010 18:51): Might I repeat that it's some of your methods that irk some, rather than the content of your theories?…
01 Dec 2010, 21:53
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Thomas Bitterman wrote (01-12-2010 21:20): (Could you set up your system so that it prepends quotes with > rather than what it is that it's using?) I disagree. Then I apologise…
01 Dec 2010, 21:47
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Craig Brewer wrote (01-12-2010 20:23): Again, I don't think such a complex text can ever support a unique reading. What I think counts is the thoroughness of the analyses rather …
01 Dec 2010, 20:33
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Lee Berman wrote (01-12-2010 20:17): As I just said, in that case it's not a step beyond, it's two steps short. One can get to the step you mention, but one has to go through the…
01 Dec 2010, 20:25
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I'll take this opportunity to present a couple of points: Craig Brewer wrote (01-12-2010 17:25): I disagree. That's just a property of the text. (But I think that Wolfe's not su…
01 Dec 2010, 20:08
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Thomas Bitterman wrote (01-12-2010 02:30): I don't think this is getting anywhere. The issue here is that there is a dimension to the work that Wright hasn't explored in his gen…
01 Dec 2010, 19:05
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Thomas Bitterman wrote (30-11-2010 18:55): At the end of the day the fact remains that Wright left a certain path unexplored and that demands an explanation. And that is lacking.…
30 Nov 2010, 19:24
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Craig Brewer wrote (30-11-2010 18:02): Iinm NS was to be a trilogy, but then the third volume was promising to get too big, so it had to be split. Then yes, some padding may have …
30 Nov 2010, 18:16
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Another great post, Craig, but, Craig Brewer wrote (30-11-2010 16:48): ...it seems to me that making a positive case for anything at all is very difficult (whether by positive y…
30 Nov 2010, 17:10
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Thomas Bitterman wrote (30-11-2010 02:22): But is it more complimenting to answer "Because it's above his league?"? I certainly don't think that's the case. Not necessarily. Wher…
30 Nov 2010, 12:38
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James Wynn wrote (30-11-2010 00:09): As I've said, I find it too simple. Gerry find it good on those grounds, I don't. I feel everyone's overlooking something. Which may be bruta…
30 Nov 2010, 12:00
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A little too straightforward to be true, inn'it? To this day I haven't found an explanation I like for Pas. At the same time, the name makes an enormous amount of sense to me. I …
29 Nov 2010, 23:41
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Just because nobody commented on it doesn't mean nobody finds it interesting/possible.…
29 Nov 2010, 23:37
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Just to clarify things a bit, I only said it would be an uncomfortable or inconvenient leap. I can't understand how that got construed as an attack, personal or not. I don't thi…
29 Nov 2010, 23:31
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David Stockhoff wrote (29-11-2010 18:14): Because it would conflict either with his own beliefs or the rationalisation of his appreciation of the work.…
29 Nov 2010, 18:29
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David Stockhoff wrote (29-11-2010 16:13): It'd be an uncomfortable/inconvenient leap for him to make.…
29 Nov 2010, 16:33
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David Stockhoff wrote (29-11-2010 16:13): It'd be an uncomfortable/inconvenient leap for him to make.…
29 Nov 2010, 16:30
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Lee Berman wrote (08-11-2010 17:23): Did I mention it's the 'U' that's the weak part?…
08 Nov 2010, 17:46
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