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Roy, are you suggesting that every day, Dorcas' husband and Hildegrin put their boats on their backs and carried them up the Adamanian (what was that name?) stairs and past the C…
26 May 2006, 12:07
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Mourning, I'm seeing a pattern. You are absolutely an anti-Rudesindite. You hate his painting, you hate his appreciation of Fechin, you hate his drivel and his working class ver…
26 May 2006, 04:41
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Well, Mournings glory takes me to task for violating Mantis' saints and myths naming rule (I don't violate Wolfe's "everything is what it says it is" rule. We don't even get a n…
26 May 2006, 03:38
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I knew I forgot one topic in my last post. Regarding Dorcas' husband as a ne'er do well, one person agrees with that, Ouen. He doesn't appreciate being sent to clean pots at age…
26 May 2006, 03:21
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Both Tzadkiel and Typhon (I think it is him) make chessboard references to the BotNS drama. Tzadkiel tells Severian that his is a race of pawns, who can only move in one directi…
25 May 2006, 12:03
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Roy says: Roy you are so parsimonious! Care to elaborate on which parts of my post are wrong, which are old hat and which are cogent? Roy also says: At some later date I'll pos…
25 May 2006, 11:37
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p.s. more biotech: I forgot to mention the Cumaean's Talos-like human body transformation abilities, as touted by Merryn. I also forgot the apostrophe. -bsharp…
24 May 2006, 18:43
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mournings glory's theory on the incident at Piteous Gate is a good one. Could the extant theory it is semi-based be Borski's idea that Baldanders mates with Juturna shortly after…
24 May 2006, 18:30
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LOL@ Hierish eyes smiling. For shadow children it is, "hey there, you with the stars in your eyes". anyway Dan'l says: I think Robert Borski would say we can know them (cacogens…
24 May 2006, 00:27
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Roy says: Good catch Roy and good analysis. It is the in the appendix of Claw where Wolfe tells us they are both cacogens. But since I'm in a priggish mood I'll increase the prec…
23 May 2006, 22:45
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I think Tony makes good points in his last post. He pokes a few holes in what I thought was an airtight case. The problem as I see it is that Tony can't see the holes in his own…
23 May 2006, 19:34
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maru writes: I believe Wolfe specifically identifies Inire and The Cumaean as cacogens in one of his appendices, but I like your idea! It fits well with my upcoming post on the …
23 May 2006, 12:15
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Roy says: Yes, F, B and O know less and less as OUR time passes. We know less and less as their time passes. They know the most in Apu Punchau's time. Roy says: This contradi…
23 May 2006, 11:41
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Mark Millman writes: I think some Wolfe worshipers have the idea that he had Wizard Knight mentally complete before he wrote Island of Doctor Death. But when I mention the conn…
23 May 2006, 00:18
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p.s. Regarding regular visits of F, B and O to the House Absolute, if you mean to Severian, after he is autarch then I think they must be private audience of one.…
22 May 2006, 19:09
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Macronaut you DO pose a large number of questions which I appreciate! I did have the patience to read through them all, though I'm not sure anyone else will want to ;-). I thin…
22 May 2006, 18:50
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OMG what have I done!! http://www.maison-de-stuff.net/john/pictures/ParisFeb2005/SANY0060.JPG Sorry Gene!…
22 May 2006, 15:34
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Just so it is clear, my original post in this thread was completely tongue-in-cheek. If I really thought Roy was Gene Wolfe I wouldn't out him in such a cavalier manner. If the…
22 May 2006, 11:09
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I think examples of Wolfian humor are especially effective because they are so rare and widely spaced and inevitably droll. 5th Head is so damned dark and foreboding I think the…
20 May 2006, 03:55
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So we are on undine mating habits, hm..I think Robert Borski is of the opinion that Baldanders mated with one of them, which gave him the ability to breath underwater. Severian …
19 May 2006, 12:27
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thalassocrat expresses: I use the megatherian term as a convention only, is there an alternate term? So Thalassocrat is of the school who feel "they" (is it even 17?) are human? …
19 May 2006, 03:27
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Okay the two eldest of the current posters win the quiz, Dan'l and Roy C. Lackey with answers of yellow and blonde. Roy says: Roy, you are more than 7 years old, why so snippy? …
19 May 2006, 00:37
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Hoping to post correction of myself first ;). Juturna has red eyes, not green. Combining this with her white skin and hair (the green we learn is from algae) makes her and her …
18 May 2006, 14:48
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Well, some great discussion on this guy going on. Kudos to mournings glory for noting the surely intentioned Frankenstein allusion (in a golden Severa etc. post) My first clue t…
17 May 2006, 21:21
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Thanks (once again) to Roy for the correction. As a new guy, I really do appreciate them. Robert Borski didn't miss the catamite as I thought. Sorry I don't have Solar Labyrinth…
17 May 2006, 12:05
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mourningsglory responds- I must respectfully disagree that Severian could be refering to events after Saltus Fair such as the man-ape cave, the notule attack, the antechamber sl…
15 May 2006, 15:29
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Thanks to Macronaut and mourning's glory for those posts on Hethor. So it seems we have two contenders for Hethor on Tzadkiel's ship. Is one a red herring? One is big blonde Pur…
07 May 2006, 03:28
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Okay, some misunderstanding. I thought it was being argued that no part of the citadel was a spaceship. It seems the concensus is that only parts of it were spaceships (especiall…
07 May 2006, 03:09
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Okay, my last thoughts on this. So it looks like the only two characters with explicitly described violet/purple eyes are Thecla and the paracoita. Hethor blames his "shipmates…
05 May 2006, 13:57
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I think it is a mistake to assume the desires of Juturna are (in all times) the same as those of Abaia. Abaia is not interested in the physical domination of Urth but rather the…
28 Apr 2006, 11:34
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Thanks for all the helpful responses! I'm not the most computer literate but I think this is now in plain text and postable. I am almost ready to bow to the "received wisdom" reg…
27 Apr 2006, 12:19
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