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Jeff Wilson wrote (07-07-2010 18:07): Well played.…
07 Jul 2010, 17:21
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 17:49): Well, it wasn't a book.…
07 Jul 2010, 16:57
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 17:31): There may not have been much novelty in UNS, but certainly it strenghthens the story. Without UNS, may things would be wild guesses; …
07 Jul 2010, 16:49
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Tim O'Donnell wrote (07-07-2010 17:13): What I don't see is how Rudesind and other characters being FI in disguise has much to do with any of those questions. Yes - the pervasive…
07 Jul 2010, 16:39
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (07-07-2010 17:04): You mean spending 5 days in Stamboul is unnecessary if you can sightsee the broad outlines in 4?…
07 Jul 2010, 16:17
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Ryan Dunn wrote (07-07-2010 16:12): Here I just have to say that I quite never did grasp that idea. If it means that the BNS can be considered complete without UNS, obviously it …
07 Jul 2010, 15:49
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No dia 2010/07/07, ?s 14:04, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: But that's not at all what I'm saying. Of course there are loadheaps of dots to connect. What I…
07 Jul 2010, 13:59
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Well, I bet for almost every family of mammals you have members with proboscides. I honestly don't think Rudesind looks like that at all. Rather like this: http://www.galleryofth…
07 Jul 2010, 03:12
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Ryan Dunn wrote (05-07-2010 01:00): Well, that's just the way it works - people don't usually go around shouting their names on the street. You later on recognise them and think '…
05 Jul 2010, 11:24
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My view on this has always been similar to David's. There should be someone directing the kitchen and the parlour. Whoever do so might be called Cook and Porter. It wouldn't actua…
04 Jul 2010, 19:49
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I don't like the idea of reducing the whole book to a single character. Along the lines of thought that have been presented here, everyone could be everybody (yeah, I know others…
04 Jul 2010, 19:40
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Or the possessive may mean he's pointing to it for the benefit of Severian, since he (Rudesind) knowns all thee is to know about the picture anyway.…
04 Jul 2010, 19:26
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I think the reason I seldom remember the english proverb is that it evokes in me the image of a single soul's gradual descending path into damnation. I might remember it if I wer…
04 Jul 2010, 19:22
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adam at io.com wrote (02-07-2010 19:49): I may have not expressed myself clearly. I might guess it was all solid gold.…
02 Jul 2010, 18:55
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Jeff Wilson wrote (02-07-2010 18:16): But it's far above enough that I think it can be described as being rising over his shoulder (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3012885/Var/AS17-134-…
02 Jul 2010, 18:47
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David Stockhoff wrote (02-07-2010 17:24): You draw a vertical line, it *is* over the shoulder. If you then picture the planet rising in an arc, clockwise, it doesn't sound far of…
02 Jul 2010, 17:00
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Ryan Dunn wrote (02-07-2010 05:26): Well, I can see how the earth could be described as being over his shoulder and how the 'faceplate' seems to be made of gold. The staff can be …
02 Jul 2010, 15:14
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Ryan Dunn wrote (02-07-2010 05:34):…
02 Jul 2010, 14:52
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I'm confused as to why you don't write your remarks below the part of the message whcih they address. But I didn't say evil masters can't have good servants. I said that in the …
01 Jul 2010, 23:53
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Only the jews, a very small part of the world's population, worshipped the God of the OT as such, and they certainly went to end talking about his wrath, jealousy and favouritism…
01 Jul 2010, 23:34
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I mean, it's not the parallel between BNS and gnostic christianity that fails, it's the parallel to a BNS in which an evil Tazdkiel had wide moral control over mankind, such that…
01 Jul 2010, 23:06
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But what they consider is that the demiurge is antagonistic to God. They do not consider the demiurge to be God, and those who they see worshipping God are not worshipping what t…
01 Jul 2010, 22:52
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Jerry Friedman wrote (01-07-2010 20:06): I don't think so. I think it's very different if nothing else in terms of scale. You can hardly say the Inquisition had domain over the U…
01 Jul 2010, 19:20
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John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 19:09): Could you elaborate?…
01 Jul 2010, 19:10
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John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 18:22): Natural disasters aren't ever considered benign. They may be considered part of some higher purpose, but that's not what we're discussing h…
01 Jul 2010, 18:05
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John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 18:08): But the point I brought up is independent of whether the evil power was created by God or bred by whoever.…
01 Jul 2010, 17:12
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I honestly think top-posting usually isn't helpful - maybe it's early afternoon drowsiness but I can't grasp your point. John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 16:31):…
01 Jul 2010, 15:43
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John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 13:18): Afaict 1 and 3 are just points in a continuum. Unless you push 1 further and make it so that Tzadkiel has no will at all but God's will. In…
01 Jul 2010, 15:14
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Jeff Wilson wrote (30-06-2010 16:04): There's that thing about only God being creator.…
30 Jun 2010, 16:32
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Lee Berman wrote (30-06-2010 13:37): Just what a god (in the polytheist sense) and other preternatural being is may not be easy to define in words, but nonetheless I think the di…
30 Jun 2010, 14:20
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Roy C. Lackey wrote (30-06-2010 05:32): It's prtobably time to point out, if it's news to anyone, that -dule means 'slave'. The name 'hierodule' may look impressive but doesn't i…
30 Jun 2010, 14:07
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Jeff Wilson wrote (30-06-2010 01:41): I think it can be economically explained by their simply not knowing who the father was.…
30 Jun 2010, 14:03
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Idas is supposed to be an undine or something and they don't seem to be very proficient in the arts of shapeshifting.…
18 Jun 2010, 22:23
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I just find that Agia is the single most important character in the whole story and precious little is known about her. Maybe Wolfe's hints are not in the sense of her being a ro…
18 Jun 2010, 22:17
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Ryan Dunn wrote (18-06-2010 16:44): Not necessarily - 'betrayed' as in the way something you rely on ends up being counterproductive. In this case, putting her in a disavatageous …
18 Jun 2010, 15:59
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Again generally speaking, most pre-modern christians believed in the existence of supernatural powers. There wasn't nor isn't anything heretical about that. The thing is that chr…
19 May 2010, 22:41
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Church Fathers did not in general make a point of saying pagan gods didn't exist. I don't think any considered them divine, but instead of angelic nature, though either fallen or…
19 May 2010, 14:33
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