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Roy and Mournings glory write: R: M: Severian calls Venant a hierarch just as he does Apheta. The larvae of a Hierogrammate seem to be of human form (if you ignore a stump ton…
27 May 2006, 15:25
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Bsharp has been my nom de internet for quite a while now. I wasn't sure how important or revealed the members' vital statistics are for this community so I held back on that. I …
26 May 2006, 13:28
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I was always amused and puzzled by a scene, in a Severian dream, where he turns into Thecla and she is pleased to find herself in men's clothing. A recent web surf showed me that…
26 May 2006, 13:04
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I'm pretty sure the ugly Hierodule masks of F, B and O are an insect, a lamprey (fish) and a human leper. I think Famulimus is the leper. yep, earthly hierodules, uh praying ma…
26 May 2006, 10:48
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I don't think this topic, broached long ago by Roy, was fully explored. Hey, BotNS has ghouls and zombies, witches and ghosts, Frankenstein's monster, how can it leave out vampi…
26 May 2006, 04:18
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Roy, all these intertwined posts, combined with your reference to your sprawling Dear Dorcas post from days of yore, make it tough to respond in a concise organized way. But I'll…
26 May 2006, 03:16
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Macronaut is right. It was Vodalus. -bdull…
25 May 2006, 14:29
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On first reading of the BotNS I thought Father Inire (suggesting INRI King of the Jews?) made only one cameo apperance as the cowled servitor who guides Severian to the Green Roo…
25 May 2006, 04:44
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Thanks Jeffrey, I always had this feeling there was something more hidden in the Hierodule name. I wouldn't be surprised if more insights springboard from yours.…
25 May 2006, 00:23
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Dan'l asks: and later says: Maybe, since it is alien and has a personality(s), though stolen. Do we want to stretch the cacogen definition to include the salamander? The slug? …
24 May 2006, 15:12
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Macronaut asks: I don't think there is a clear answer but here is my take: First, in the Claw appendix, Wolfe idenfies all the inhabitants (except Ultan) of the Citadel as belo…
24 May 2006, 04:41
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I'd like to apologize for monopolizing so much of the community space lately. My excuse is that I spent the last 20 years reading the 5 Urth books at least once and often twice …
23 May 2006, 17:16
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We know that Fifth Head of Cerberus started as a novella and became a novel with two added sections. I suspect that Wolfe considered it an imperfect work, perhaps because nobody…
23 May 2006, 01:11
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I read Robert Borski's Solar Labyrinth and was both pleased and disappointed. I was pleased with most of the thoughtful and scholarly analysis. I was disappointed that it took …
22 May 2006, 14:43
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At the risk of being trite I'd like to mention some scenes in BotNS which, I think, are Wolfian guides on how to interpret that book (and surely others of his). 1. In Sword, Se…
21 May 2006, 03:56
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Once there was a rumor that Gene Wolfe was disguised in this community. If that were true, how could we identify him? If he is actually a technophobe then we wouldn't expect he …
20 May 2006, 21:55
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(golden Severa etc. doesn't seem the right title for this thread) David DiGiacomo exclaims: No, I suggested that Wolfe might be using this ideal of innocence to describe Dorcas.…
19 May 2006, 11:55
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There are theories on why the number 17 might be important as a significant and/or evil number to Gene Wolfe in BotNS. Because Noah's flood happened on 'February' 17? Because G…
19 May 2006, 01:30
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Well, interesting. It seems there are at least two or three here who flout the naming convention that urth humans have saint names and aliens have mythological names in BotNS. So…
18 May 2006, 18:55
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mourning glory presents two bits of evidence that Jolenta is Sev's sister: Nessus." Thanks for bringing those to attention! Both seem significant. The lightning face echo is mor…
16 May 2006, 19:22
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Well, let me open another can of worms regarding physical attributes. Robert Borski notes (and has published) that Severian's family may be identified by their golden attributes…
15 May 2006, 19:39
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In the vaults of this archinve there has been a fair amount of discussion centered on the disturbance at the Piteous Gate that ends Shadow. I had always felt it was something my…
15 May 2006, 03:49
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Russell Wodell wrote- "On a totally separate note: Has anyone else wondered why Wolfe has never referred to the two most famous vulpine authors: Thomas Wolfe and Virginia Woolf?…
10 May 2006, 11:46
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At the risk of cluttering the list with my own issues, I'll toss this small one in the ring. Just before Severian drops off Ouen at the house where Dorcas is mourning he tells h…
07 May 2006, 03:37
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Well, interesting. Roy's reference to Urth XXXV was illuminating actually in that an officer tells Severian he is being taken, "To the old port. One of the hulks there has been…
06 May 2006, 04:16
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Matthew, thanks for the correct text submission. I should have waited until my books were in front of me before posting. And I had considered your interpretation of "no shipmat…
05 May 2006, 15:21
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I first saw the idea of Mourning Glory's mention of Purn as Hethor and Gunnie as his paracoita in Robert Borski's Solar Labyrinth. Perhaps Mantis is in agreement on this idea. …
05 May 2006, 13:41
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Wolfe seems to use physical descriptions of his characters in somewhat mysterious ways. I have a few issues I'd like to discuss regarding this. First, in BotNS, Thecla is first…
02 May 2006, 01:33
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