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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (25-08-2010 21:48): You're quite right to be skeptic in these matters, and it is true that what people who deal with history today do is to build such ed…
25 Aug 2010, 22:11
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But of course such works do exist, even if not using modern terminology and not always painting a complete picture. And much can be gathered from the subsequent evolution and loa…
25 Aug 2010, 20:32
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Mo Holkar wrote (25-08-2010 17:42): And since non-ASCII symbols are an e-mail nuisanace, I suggest to take a look at http://alt-usage-english.org/ipa/nutshell.shtml and http://a…
25 Aug 2010, 17:06
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Ryan Dunn wrote (25-08-2010 17:31): I suspect Dan'l means his fawn vowel but shorter. Post-stress vowels tend to be reduced in english, but not always completely. For instance, I…
25 Aug 2010, 16:37
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Ryan Dunn wrote (25-08-2010 17:16): Yes. In 'proper' transcription ['tajf at n], with english words 'TIE fun'. In greek, something like [tu'fO:n], 'too FAWN' - the : is to indic…
25 Aug 2010, 16:29
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James Wynn wrote (25-08-2010 15:41): That's actually open to question. - _Typhon_ is an english spelling pronunciation of greek <tu'fwn>, which would be more or less 'two FAWN' […
25 Aug 2010, 15:28
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I think 2 things are more or less clear. 1. Severian's journey is followed by higher powers. It is fact that his death is averted more than once - something is not letting him di…
24 Aug 2010, 21:16
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No dia 2010/08/22, ?s 13:27, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> escreveu: It's August and some of us do observe the weekend sometimes :) I hope to comment on both your and Le…
23 Aug 2010, 06:59
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Hi all, I've told David I wouldn't read any more personal e-mails from him for the time being, as they were devoid of content (and actually abusive, though my issue is chiefly w…
21 Aug 2010, 00:32
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Lux dei vitae viam monstrat The beam of the New Sun lights the way of life The light of God points forth the path for life Felicibus brevis, miseris hora longa Men wai…
20 Aug 2010, 00:03
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And he doesn't care to mention how he got back to Matachin, though he did say to Valeria he didn't want to go down to the tunnels again. Let alone how he could find his way out of …
19 Aug 2010, 23:39
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*You* are the one who could only provide those 'answers'. Which are only 'obvious' because they don't answer anything. I'm more interested in asking questions. If you have no answe…
19 Aug 2010, 03:09
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I think this nails it in the head. Imo some of the participants here have little regard for the subject matter of the list. I'd especially like it if people here learned to distin…
19 Aug 2010, 01:31
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This kind of answers is precisely why people lose interest in following the list.…
19 Aug 2010, 01:17
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Lee Berman wrote (18-08-2010 19:02): The *Gaon* humans. For all we know she might have been the patroness of their whorly city.…
18 Aug 2010, 18:18
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James Wynn wrote (18-08-2010 14:58): Live by one's incomprehensibly bizarre quoting, die by the next guy's incomprehensibly bizarre quoting.…
18 Aug 2010, 14:19
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Lee Berman wrote (18-08-2010 12:58): This I think is worth exploring. - When Severian goes to Yesod, Valeria remains in his place for decades. Why would this be tolerated? We're…
18 Aug 2010, 13:36
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Lee Berman wrote (17-08-2010 13:38): For the umpteenth time, temporality across universes is meaningless. Earth can be both in Urth's 'past' and 'future'. If you like it, Briah g…
17 Aug 2010, 12:55
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'So THAT we know what it is that you think is not true?'. It was an answer to your question of why you're being asked to explain something you don't think it is true. David Stoc…
17 Aug 2010, 12:08
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I also think Mark is right. Not because I believe in some sort of control, but because this isn't a chatroom. I guess the idea here is that messages should present novel content,…
16 Aug 2010, 22:36
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James Wynn wrote (16-08-2010 16:22): That's interesting. But how are the mudball creatures from Briah(2i) going to be enlightened by a human Christ? Well, one might posit no civi…
16 Aug 2010, 15:35
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Gerry Quinn wrote (16-08-2010 16:27): I find that likely, but apparently moist others don't.…
16 Aug 2010, 15:29
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James Wynn wrote (16-08-2010 16:06): That's tenable, but I don't see God leaving so many of his creatures to waste. (It's the catholic God I'm thinking of, because we are explici…
16 Aug 2010, 15:11
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Gerry Quinn wrote (16-08-2010 15:48): Yeah, not terribly late in geological terms, and the drowning of Urth and the new beginning makes it perhaps not too late in cultural terms.…
16 Aug 2010, 15:08
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James Wynn wrote (16-08-2010 15:22): Not answering back, only asking.…
16 Aug 2010, 15:03
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Ryan Dunn wrote (16-08-2010 15:33): I don't think anything below answers it. He does resurrect some people, but not as part of a ministry. He doesn't even know that he's doing so…
16 Aug 2010, 15:03
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Jeff Wilson wrote (16-08-2010 03:20): I can even picture Hammerstone telling people to do some similar trick on him, just for the kicks. In that she's not blonde... we know so li…
16 Aug 2010, 14:21
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Ryan Dunn wrote (16-08-2010 15:03): Why? If a Severian-like fellow appears here on our Earth some one hundred thousand years from now, in what way will he be a fake Jesus? Agai…
16 Aug 2010, 14:12
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Mo Holkar wrote (16-08-2010 10:53): Biological species on the Whorl need not be the same as here. It's perfectly possible for there to be a genetically close relative of gulls the…
16 Aug 2010, 14:02
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Lee Berman wrote (16-08-2010 14:41): It's unnecessary cruelty to an innocent human being. Not the kind of thing that makes sense for me coming from the Guild. Not at all.…
16 Aug 2010, 13:58
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Ryan Dunn wrote (16-08-2010 14:31): My problem isn't heresy. *If* there weren't parallel universes to Briah, one of which supposedly is our own, then it would all be more than ok…
16 Aug 2010, 13:53
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Lee Berman wrote (16-08-2010 13:56): The short answer is that there wouldn't be a Catholic Church. But if for the sake of the argument one were possible, then I think it would be …
16 Aug 2010, 13:44
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Lee Berman wrote (16-08-2010 13:32): I must admit that when I first read 'Incus is a woman' I thought it was an interesting idea. But James's explanation of his theory made me go…
16 Aug 2010, 13:36
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David Stockhoff wrote (16-08-2010 12:49): It's not a problem with the Jesuses, it's the world that doesn't live up to them. The idea is that ultimately there is free will, and Go…
16 Aug 2010, 13:18
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Jeff Wilson wrote (16-08-2010 03:25): If only we could get other people to tuse sensible quoting, such confusion would not occur. I can't understand what the difficulty is.…
16 Aug 2010, 11:10
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Jeff Wilson wrote (16-08-2010 03:33): None, as I've said.…
16 Aug 2010, 10:51
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It's the seal of the god Pas, who created the Whorl, not the seal of the monarch Typhon, who built the Whorl.…
16 Aug 2010, 00:40
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I think people go to great lengths to interpret what Severian says about births and children in Matachin tower. As far as I read it, he simply says that they deliver, nurse and kee…
16 Aug 2010, 00:35
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So we know what it is that you think is not true?…
15 Aug 2010, 22:58
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Sorry, my 'would' wasn't meant to use the conclusion to cast doubt on the interpretation, it's just that we're discussing a hypothesis. If you do it often, it devolves into comed…
15 Aug 2010, 15:21
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It would be breaching the 4th wall. One needs a little fun every now and then. But in fact I think Wolfe would merely say he was given the key to *a* room if the number had no s…
15 Aug 2010, 13:25
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I don't think so. It's just that in your life and yourself you've immersed in context. You automagically do all the corrections and substitutions and inferences and what not, so …
15 Aug 2010, 01:31
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I'll just repeat what I said earlier: I think there's a Jesus in any universe, and I think it's as good a Jesus no matter where. The Jesuses will differ in their accidentals beca…
15 Aug 2010, 01:24
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Is. I have trouble with different identical chrisos.…
15 Aug 2010, 01:01
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I think so too, but I don't know that I could defend it.…
15 Aug 2010, 00:57
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I can only feel happy for you that you're in good terms with that angle of life :) (I gather it's 'on'. 'In' soudns better to me.)…
15 Aug 2010, 00:49
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And those are other ways out for scientism, albeit uncomfy ones. I certainly agree they may be appealing, but personally I find them unfulfilling.…
15 Aug 2010, 00:35
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Sure thing, I's not saying Yesod shouldn't have energy, I's saying 'hyperspace' shouldn't. (And that *because* Yesod has it, Yesod doesn't look like hyperspace.) But I'm ready to…
15 Aug 2010, 00:31
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I'd even venture that it isn't heretical to suggest that there may be other things beyond God. It's just that, from our vantage point, there's only God. God is our singularity. I…
14 Aug 2010, 21:20
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It doesn't, because it posits something extraneous to the universe(s) and hence not accountable to observed processes such as space, time and causality. Or as it's usually put, '…
14 Aug 2010, 21:16
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