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James Wynn wrote (08-11-2010 14:34): Because I never mentioned cross-'cycle' temporality? " - Severian is Earth's future - Severian is in the future of an alternate Earth " And …
08 Nov 2010, 15:50
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James Wynn wrote (08-11-2010 06:04): It's not irrelevant, it's devoid of meaning. Either way, I meant 'future', not 'meta-future'. No, you hinted it could follow 'There Are Door…
08 Nov 2010, 12:03
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My view regrding that is that he can't help conciliating, his powers are there. Knowing the episode, they might have opted to come in disguise and generally walking unnoticed at …
07 Nov 2010, 20:47
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No dia 2010/11/05, ?s 22:41, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu: I think the possibilities are only 2: - Severian is Earth's future - Severian is in the future of an alte…
07 Nov 2010, 01:38
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No dia 2010/11/05, ?s 22:01, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu: I must be missing something. Isn't it generally accepted that Severian paid several visi…
07 Nov 2010, 01:25
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No dia 2010/11/05, ?s 20:58, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> escreveu: Then i must have missed it. I thought you'd merely asked for ideas on Rudesind's relationship to In…
07 Nov 2010, 01:04
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James Wynn wrote (05-11-2010 20:31): But that's a social shortcoming on your part, blaming the messenger for the message. If the behaviour is repetitive, it's repetitive. We hav…
05 Nov 2010, 20:47
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James Wynn wrote (05-11-2010 19:58): Everyone's entitled to their opinions. Not to their facts. If the word 'green' isn't there, it isn't there, and repeatedly discussing why it *…
05 Nov 2010, 20:17
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Andrew Mason wrote (05-11-2010 19:05): Of course - and take Holy Katharine and 'Judastree', where is the latter supoosed to have come from?…
05 Nov 2010, 19:22
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James Wynn wrote (05-11-2010 18:32): Not, however, of doing it again and again and again. Apples, oranges. Theories don't enter the picture. We're talking about facts. We're tal…
05 Nov 2010, 19:20
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Jeff Wilson wrote (05-11-2010 17:32): Given that Lee customarily says something to the effect of 'sorry if I'm unintentionally doing that (bending/falsifying the evidence)' and th…
05 Nov 2010, 18:11
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Lee Berman wrote (04-11-2010 17:22): As the one casting dount on the etymological connection between typhon and typhoon, I should say once again that I don't think the lack of a r…
04 Nov 2010, 17:29
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James Wynn wrote (21-10-2010 16:42): There is (but don't ask me where). Hyacinth is the woman Silk ever found more attractive, and Seawrack is the woman Horn ever found more attr…
21 Oct 2010, 16:20
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Lee Berman wrote (21-10-2010 12:30): Iirc he said Hyacinth was dream-dead-Fava. Short of severe confusion, which I fortunately isn't the case, I find that simply impossible.…
21 Oct 2010, 13:15
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James Wynn wrote (15-10-2010 15:25): Which raises the question: do the Vironese speak spanish? I mean, they don't, but their 'high speech' which they seldom use is probably spani…
15 Oct 2010, 14:35
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James Wynn wrote (15-10-2010 15:25): Possibly arabic, given the number of trivigauntis.…
15 Oct 2010, 14:34
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'while in', I meant. Folk lore says it was a fig tree. The english "Judas tree" may be a misconstruction of the latin/romance for "Judea's tree". Oh, the boots thing is just one …
15 Oct 2010, 01:54
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Incanto (I think) calls Jahlee 'Judastree' in Sinew's village.…
14 Oct 2010, 16:41
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No dia 2010/10/07, ?s 12:13, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: All evidence is that only a small number of people realised that.…
07 Oct 2010, 13:14
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No dia 2010/10/07, ?s 05:28, "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> escreveu: Those are good questions, but I don't see their relevance here - istm they apply just as well no …
07 Oct 2010, 13:03
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That's not how I read it (that the Typhons had been regarded as gods on Urth). Rather, the people he [now] knows as gods walked among him and others on Urth. Just as he doesn't rem…
06 Oct 2010, 12:13
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Andrew Mason wrote (28-09-2010 15:21): 'Allegory' is not the same as 'metaphor'.…
28 Sep 2010, 15:42
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (27-09-2010 16:58): The relevant issue here are carbon-based lifeforms. Carbon-based means that they're structured around compounds of carbon (and oxygen…
27 Sep 2010, 18:46
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Jane Delawney wrote (27-09-2010 02:56): I don't think one needs to go to that. A monarchy is characterised by hereditary succession, divine right, exercise of power for its own sa…
27 Sep 2010, 11:30
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Lee Berman wrote (23-09-2010 13:41): I hope I am not being insulting (or wrong) in noting that the bit Roy takes issue with is not the 'grand', but precisely the 'unified'. What y…
23 Sep 2010, 15:27
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James Wynn wrote (23-09-2010 11:20): I should emphasize that it's the actual etymology of 'typhoon' that is dubious, but that is no reason why it shouldn't be used in the story, o…
23 Sep 2010, 11:52
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James Wynn wrote (22-09-2010 18:16): But a monument serves its purpose by being there. The Whorl wasn't meant to stay there. And what popularity would they enjoy if they were se…
22 Sep 2010, 17:27
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (22-09-2010 17:49): Don't know... taxes used to go to tangible things or waste. The Whorl is not waste but isn't much tangible either. It's clearly somet…
22 Sep 2010, 17:03
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (22-09-2010 16:58): That reminds me of Helliconia and the Avernus.…
22 Sep 2010, 16:36
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James Wynn wrote (22-09-2010 16:44): If you ask me, it's quite the reverse. The only thing that mattered would be the landing, otherwise it's just a massive waste of taxpayers' mo…
22 Sep 2010, 16:33
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James Wynn wrote (22-09-2010 16:04): The Apollo missions wouldn't be as impressive if they hadn't really been shown to reach the moon. The landings on Blue/Green weren't televised…
22 Sep 2010, 15:20
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David Stockhoff wrote (22-09-2010 03:36): I agree with everything - and IMO much more 'tying' would make it all feel a bit artificial. What next, turn the books into an annotated …
22 Sep 2010, 13:54
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Wolfe himself has answered that eloquently. According to such clever 19th century definitions of 'Literature', the Odissey or Hamlet or pretty much anything in the history of Lit…
22 Sep 2010, 01:00
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Mr Thalassocrat wrote (14-09-2010 10:40): Here I disagree. Not only are the dorpians seafarers, which is quite dutch, their names are not weird at all. Even Dorp (english thorpe) …
14 Sep 2010, 11:00
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The word is - appears to be, since the only reference to it is quite obscure - 'screadhbhuidhe'. Now, 'screadhbhuidhe' is more or less transparently two words, 'screadh bhuidhe',…
13 Sep 2010, 21:45
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Mr Thalassocrat wrote (13-09-2010 14:29): Has anyone analyzed at length the sleepers' role?…
13 Sep 2010, 14:03
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No dia 2010/09/05, ?s 20:42, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Just as an aside, Horm does say the inhumi actually travel to Blue in Auk's lander.…
06 Sep 2010, 18:54
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No dia 2010/09/05, ?s 20:42, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Possibly Cymru.…
05 Sep 2010, 21:02
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Lee Berman wrote (02-09-2010 13:17): I laugh hard at 'Remora' ever since the first time I saw it.…
02 Sep 2010, 15:32
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Maybe Typhon isn't being honest. Istr he says the importance of it is that his subjects were used to it. In the Whorl the cargo could get used to anything, they even got used to c…
01 Sep 2010, 19:26
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Roy C. Lackey wrote (01-09-2010 17:49): You're reading 'manliness' in Chenille's description where I think the text only means size. Don't forget Chenille was the kind of woman H…
01 Sep 2010, 17:11
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Lee Berman wrote (01-09-2010 13:09): - Maybe Typhon isn't being honest - The conditions on the Whorl have nothing to do with those on Urth - Is the second head of Pas Piaton's?…
01 Sep 2010, 12:28
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Dave Tallman wrote (31-08-2010 19:06): In James's defense, he said he needed some time to put it together and would present it afterwards; since then, people haven't stopped askin…
01 Sep 2010, 12:06
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Dave Tallman wrote (31-08-2010 19:06): Ahhh, Chenille. Wasn't Chenille possessed by Kypris during the knife episode?…
31 Aug 2010, 18:25
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(The narrator even mentions that he had not thought of Seawrack as a siren before Krait(?) called her so, but of course we all know that can be argued to mean the opposite.)…
29 Aug 2010, 23:39
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No dia 2010/08/29, ?s 16:16, entonio at gmail.com escreveu: Argh. ...the way one gets to it). Everything is fine, except why the shipwreck maiden would be called 'shipwreck' or w…
29 Aug 2010, 23:27
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No dia 2010/08/29, ?s 04:27, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: (not uh but the vowel in 'car') Yes, that's what I meant. I brought up the Greek just to explain…
29 Aug 2010, 15:16
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2010/8/29 Ant?nio Marques <entonio at gmail.com> (I mean, the names are alike to the point of -ll-, a double consonant, being represented by -wr-, and not some simpler alternative…
29 Aug 2010, 01:30
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I don't know whether this has been pointed out before, but it is a fact that 'Seawrack' and 'Scylla' are almost equal as names go. Or, at least, the name misheard as 'Seawrack' cou…
29 Aug 2010, 01:26
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Hi, I don't recall whether someone's already posted this to the list, but Willian Smith's 'A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology' is available on-line at http…
27 Aug 2010, 15:37
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