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Gerry Quinn wrote (12-07-2010 17:56): Well, I don't know korean, so...…
12 Jul 2010, 18:05
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James Wynn wrote (12-07-2010 18:23): Quite possible, I just mentioned the same for Jonas. The thing I don't like with the 'to enter' parsing is that it's an infinitive, though I …
12 Jul 2010, 18:04
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Gerry Quinn wrote (12-07-2010 15:26): It may be a misheard korean name.…
12 Jul 2010, 16:17
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Lee Berman wrote (12-07-2010 14:44): Are there any other cases in the Sun books of - a proper name that isn't a real historical proper name - a proper name that is a pun/mangled v…
12 Jul 2010, 13:52
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Jerry Friedman wrote (09-07-2010 22:31): Why are Latin Rite priests 'fathers'? They're not supposed to be producing children. Maybe someone that old and important in the Commmonw…
10 Jul 2010, 01:50
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Mr Thalassocrat wrote (10-07-2010 00:38): Yes, I had originally said something about excepting those who were simply fighting for their lives (only in the crucial moment, I add).…
10 Jul 2010, 01:26
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James Wynn wrote (10-07-2010 01:17): Whoa. I'd like to apologise to everyone as well, including James, for my part in it. I wasn't going to, but you were the better man in provid…
10 Jul 2010, 01:08
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Gerry Quinn wrote (09-07-2010 19:46): I'm not sure that's what you're getting at, but I've asked some days ago, if Tzadkiel is evil, where are the *good* people opposing the new …
09 Jul 2010, 20:11
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James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 21:01): So you're saying that you didn't notice that they were there before? But your wording suggested you were aware of them. If you were, what has…
09 Jul 2010, 20:07
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James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 15:38): Can't you even understand quotes now? Breathe a little, read again, then come back. Is this an intentional lie or a sign that you're just to…
09 Jul 2010, 20:04
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James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 20:35): Citation of what, James? I've said which two things are wrong with your question and given a further explanation. Since your attention span s…
09 Jul 2010, 20:03
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James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 20:08): Unlike the usual 'Wolfean mysteries', the indentity of Dorcas is hinted at using the classic literary devices one finds everywhere. I think t…
09 Jul 2010, 19:40
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James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 19:26): It's not my fault if you can't read. If X then X? Way to go about not saying anything.…
09 Jul 2010, 19:27
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James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 18:35): Hey!…
09 Jul 2010, 17:59
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John Watkins wrote (09-07-2010 16:18): It makes a lot of sense. But why couldn't he cherry pick his humans and take them to a different planet where they would have everything th…
09 Jul 2010, 15:37
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Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 13:30): But are you saying that Inire interferes in Severian's life or that he shapes his personality? Those are different claims, I think. What are t…
09 Jul 2010, 15:16
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This is worth pursuing but I think there are a number of problems with it. If Tzadkiel is honest, his intent is to renew the planet and give Humanity a new chance. If there is an…
09 Jul 2010, 15:08
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You'll be taken to a cave in Mercury. Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 15:51):…
09 Jul 2010, 10:59
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James Wynn wrote (08-07-2010 13:30): This is 'I've explained how it isn't a good analogy'. This is 'I've reported you to the endless discussions on that at the time it was put fo…
09 Jul 2010, 10:56
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David Stockhoff wrote (08-07-2010 13:13): I didn't say it was your David's approach.…
08 Jul 2010, 12:17
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Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 07:26): The more power and intentions you give to Inire, the more it becomes unclear why he'd need such convoluted steps to reach his goals.…
08 Jul 2010, 12:13
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Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 06:44): Go on. This may lead to something. What may it connect to?…
08 Jul 2010, 12:09
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Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 06:01): And that's why I think your reducing it to determining at all costs whether she is a robot or not is not the correct approach.…
08 Jul 2010, 12:06
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Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 05:55): (I think this view has flaws, but as I've said I'm not out to get them.) *Now* you've produced something. So, if Inire guides Severian's whole…
08 Jul 2010, 12:04
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James Wynn wrote (08-07-2010 05:46): Great, then he is a Disney character, friends with Roger Rabbit. Let's work out the implications of that (oh, wait, what for? we only need to…
08 Jul 2010, 11:55
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Lee Berman wrote (08-07-2010 04:53): In fact rosemary, sweet/dead nettle, hedge nettle and the mints all belong to several genera of the Labiates. There is also a nettle in the s…
08 Jul 2010, 11:21
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I'll try to present my point of view in more general terms. When we connect real world dots, we don't do it guided by our impressions of how the order of the universe woud be nea…
08 Jul 2010, 01:43
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John Watkins wrote (08-07-2010 00:17): Oh, I don't find that a stretch at all, though I'd prefer a little more freedom for him. What I find a stretch is to associate haviong simi…
07 Jul 2010, 23:26
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And, of course, a person from 1600 can't be recruited for a 2010 job. David Stockhoff wrote (07-07-2010 23:51):…
07 Jul 2010, 23:21
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 22:54): I'm positing it as true - say, Rudesind is Inire. And I'm asking 'and now what?'. And I'm not getting an answer. As to the significance of t…
07 Jul 2010, 23:15
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Ryan Dunn wrote (07-07-2010 22:53): Just as an aside - we follow Severian's trail till he becomes Autarch. I can't find any reason why Inire should appear before that point. Unle…
07 Jul 2010, 23:11
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 22:42): That has been discussed to death. It's probably the only 'puzzle' in the book that everyone gets. The only way it could be more transparent w…
07 Jul 2010, 23:05
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Maybe I should point out in more detail how the two things you are confusing are quite distinct. - One is the author having a purpose for including something in the story. The t…
07 Jul 2010, 21:33
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 22:13): I'm not talking about narrative advantage. I'm talking about speculative advantage. And as a side note I'm against the idea of narrative adv…
07 Jul 2010, 21:18
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 22:11): <shivers!> Am I the only one whose Silk's recoiling at the idea of being in the same room as Rose was transferred to myself? (Awful grammar,…
07 Jul 2010, 21:16
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 20:49): Dunno. Wolfe wrote the March B Street stories. And Cherry Jubilee. But *if* Wolfe had written Superman and the etxt didn't show Superman and …
07 Jul 2010, 21:11
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Jeff Wilson wrote (07-07-2010 21:42): That era? By his name I'd guess he was born some centuries before the 20th.…
07 Jul 2010, 21:01
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 20:15): The bastard won't die, that much is known.…
07 Jul 2010, 19:18
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Roy C. Lackey wrote (07-07-2010 20:04): What, isn't he Inire as well? And he's also an old woman, which strenghthens the shapeshifting argument. I'm all for considering each and …
07 Jul 2010, 19:08
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 19:54): And here I was thinking it might be a legitimate synonym. Shame on you, befuddling the furriners.…
07 Jul 2010, 19:04
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 19:49): That's why I think that usefulness is a much better test than provability.…
07 Jul 2010, 19:02
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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 19:25): If Superman were not Clark, where would he have met Lois? Ok, she's a journalist and he's a public figure. If Superman were someone else other…
07 Jul 2010, 18:34
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (07-07-2010 18:23): I was satyrising it, but aside from the straightness and use of slang it's the one reliable piece of evidence that has been aduced.…
07 Jul 2010, 18:25
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 18:54): Well, I don't know - there's that letter, which sounds like human speech much more than anythign we get from the triad. There's FI goi…
07 Jul 2010, 18:08
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John Watkins wrote (07-07-2010 19:00): Yeah, that's the first thought, but then there's little way you can spread some 20 years over a millennium and still be all that pervasive.…
07 Jul 2010, 18:06
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Hi Lee, Thanks for your exposition, I agree with much though not all of it, but it addresses a different question than the one I was asking. I'm empahtically not dismissing that k…
07 Jul 2010, 18:03
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John Watkins wrote (07-07-2010 18:36): I understand this is the majority view, has anyone addressed - the way FI seems to act according to processes much more akin to those of hu…
07 Jul 2010, 17:48
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Ryan Dunn wrote (07-07-2010 18:29): How can it be important if I've been asking forever for its implications and no one produces any? I'm not disagreeing with it. I'm asking what …
07 Jul 2010, 17:42
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 18:28): Is that a matter of not 'leav[ing] out the parts that people skip'?…
07 Jul 2010, 17:36
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 18:02): The Quenta Silmarillion is an unfinished book, but why is it deeply flawed?…
07 Jul 2010, 17:23
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