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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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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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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 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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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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