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To my mind, a society ruled by an unselfish monarch who cares for the interest of his subjects has a lot of advantages over a democracy where politicians with unsavory motives pit …
06 Apr 2009, 11:10
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An orful lotta emotion heah. Seems lahk muh man Jamie Michener commented in his book The Drifters that homocide rates very strongly tend to be inversely related to the homogeneity …
18 Mar 2009, 11:01
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Not having studied the sociology of the seminary I was unaware, and probably shouldn't have been, of some of this. I am and have been aware that a central theme of most of Dr. Gre…
07 Feb 2009, 13:17
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Matt, I admire the elegance of your phraseology. Thank you. Bob…
07 Feb 2009, 12:33
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I apologize, but I think I've missed something. What is the "potential" that was seen? While I personally perceive Severian as being unique and pretty wonderful (I'm in love with…
03 Dec 2008, 12:15
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One just And the gamblers sometimes won. I can't help but wonder at the gutsiness of St. Brendan the Voyager who used much more fragile craft for his westerly trips. I do not su…
05 Sep 2008, 11:26
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My mind has always connected Dash Hammett and Roger Zelazny. It took me awhile to figure out why, if I have. Rich is the milieu? They both make, on immediately finishing somethi…
21 May 2008, 12:08
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anything ever makes. (Urth of the New SUn)" I am finding Urth harder than BOTN. Its writing style is perhaps easier to follow but it moves more into the metaphysics of the "Sun" un…
15 May 2008, 12:03
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apropos? I well remember watching Roger Zelazny signing 14 books for a young (under 19) man while being gently teased about it being his punishment for writing "so many books" by …
13 Feb 2008, 12:49
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But I think my biggest complaint -- my biggest stumbling block -- was a pair of intertwined issues: the character of Abel, and the ethics (even, politics) of the book. First off, …
20 Sep 2007, 12:59
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Bullfinch 21st-century reader whose public school education included not one single lesson in the Classics, it would make progress ever so much smoother for me.…
28 Jun 2007, 11:02
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My experience with trying to get people to read BoTNS has been negative. I think it is because of the relatively slow start. While some of it is only suggested, there's a lot o…
22 Jun 2007, 11:05
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From: Christopher Hettinger <telpeurion at hotmail.com> Reply-To: Telpeurion at Gamersadvanced.com,The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> To: <urth at urth.net> Subject: (…
19 Jun 2007, 13:20
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At the same time I am confident that no one is aware of everything they put into a work as lengthy as The Devil in the Forest (correct name?) much less BotNS.…
16 Jun 2007, 03:44
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There is and has been a lot of legitimate, quite justified, criticism of Able and thus, to a lesser degree, of TWK. Up front, I think it is the best book published so far in thi…
12 Jun 2007, 12:23
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One observation.... I've heard that Tolkien's work was a large inspiration for the Dungeon and Dragons tabletop games. Just after reading about 100 pages of Tales of the Dying Ea…
09 Jun 2007, 17:19
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The gentlemen seem to have hit a "nerve" with the responses to the below: "Readers are becoming a distinct minority. And for most of those who do cling to the habit, many or mos…
04 Jun 2007, 10:56
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As long as you are happy about the right things, that is, because the things under your control (will, desire, aversion, movement towards and away from an object) conform to virtue…
15 Apr 2007, 12:52
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Is "Ormsby" an alternative form of "Pendragon"? In the book, towards the end Sir Able acquires a helm that evidently gives the wearer the power to see things as they really are, s…
09 Apr 2007, 11:08
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Bruce, I think the first thing to consider is that the Hierodules may have more than one reason for interacting with humans. Bringing the New Sun is their goal; but who says that …
04 Apr 2007, 10:56
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Didn't Pasicrates get him to order Polos to obey him? I don't think pederasty sits too well with Latro, somehow. Pasicrates did get Latro to order Polos to obey him, but that was …
03 Feb 2007, 22:55
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Needed to understand SoldierofSidon? Time,the first two Latro books and definitely some knowledge of Egyptian mythology--many available resources there, of course . And did …
01 Dec 2006, 11:36
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From: "Theresa Flemming" <evacuate55 at hotmail.com> Reply-To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> To: urth at lists.urth.net Subject: Re: (urth) Soldier Series Date: Mo…
21 Nov 2006, 11:19
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Scott K writes: (snips) Very interesting, thank you. I had remembered the "adornments" Talos had made to Jolenta. It had always seemed to me that a good deal of her attractiv…
03 Nov 2006, 12:23
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James, I disliked "Urth" at first, for much the same reasons you suggest. I thought it, well, _unnecessary_. And perhaps it is unnecessary: but thanks to others on this list (esp…
24 Oct 2006, 00:34
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I heartily disagree. What do you mean by "our society?" The US? North America and western Europe? Your own social sphere? Because I just don't see it. Well, I do know the reflexiv…
20 Oct 2006, 00:23
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Perhaps it is. I don't know. Tolkien is incredibly masculine, perhaps more insulting to women by reason of simply ignoring them, treating them as nonentities, bit players. Yes, Eow…
19 Oct 2006, 12:19
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Speaking of literature and speaking of language usage are topics that can not be separated. Communication requires reasonable language use. Truly separable? Jeff…
02 Sep 2006, 20:39
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While I personally find the Appian thing to be a matter of little interest, after looking at all the posts I'm no longer convinced I am right. I do believe that it may be a part…
30 Aug 2006, 11:53
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Interesting. Possibly both Heinlein and Wolfe, or Stapledon to Heinlein to Wolfe or two-pronged--both Heinlein (Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag) and Stapledon having an e…
27 Aug 2006, 10:45
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While we all have fun niggling at the detailsand trying to read the mind of someone we, frequently, have not met, it often appears that part of the meaning IS in its being inscru…
27 Aug 2006, 10:39
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Yes, I'm rereading a fair amount of Kipling now and when I've run this race I'm going to reread Eye of Cat and the WK again. I feel sure that my opinion of WK will only get str…
20 Aug 2006, 09:35
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My own is that life is also full of these "coincidences", the result of a possibly ham-handed Divine Providence. i.e., life and history are full of incidents of such incredibly l…
20 Aug 2006, 09:29
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Well, we do know that this type of synchronicity does happen irl as well. The most obvious example I rememberis Winston Churchill's memoir of how he got into Sandhurst. When he…
20 Aug 2006, 09:23
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While I personally love BOTNS, word used carefully, there are many who do not like it at all. I well remember trying to loan the SotT to three different people at work. The po…
18 Aug 2006, 02:55
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??? Sorry, The Book of Enoch is older and translated, several versions, online. Sure read to me like giants and the children of men mated. "At least?" Now, how would we know tha…
11 Aug 2006, 04:45
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dead link From: "Dave Lebling" <dlebling at hyraxes.com> Reply-To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> To: <stilskin at sff.net>,"'The Urth Mailing List'" <urth at lis…
11 Jul 2006, 07:12
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Thank you so much for responding to the post, Dan'l. I was wondering why that boring pretentiousness was put out there or why anyone would bother with it, and you showed me agai…
17 Jun 2006, 02:54
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There are, unfortunately, many people out there who refuse to see. This is the reason why the injunction was, "...don't worry about that splinter in your neighbor's eye, worry a…
14 Jun 2006, 10:12
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Hmm. Perhaps y'all knew he was historical, but I confess my own ignorance--absolute and complete. Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin (1881-1955) was born in Kazan, a city on the Volga R…
05 Jun 2006, 14:03
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I deny wisdom or knowledge of Wisdom; however, as a science fiction fan the thought that came to mind when I first read this 20 some years ago was, "Ah, this man reads Roger Zela…
05 Jun 2006, 13:28
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No promises, but it sure looks like some of the stuff that, several years ago, Kurt Rudolph? (sp) wrote on the Gnostic Gospels found at Nag Hammadi. From: Adrian Robert <arober…
02 Jun 2006, 10:17
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Artists and their conscious intentions are often at odds with the functions of their works. The greater the artist the greater the risk/serendipitous chance of this being true. …
27 May 2006, 04:45
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Did I miss it? The one, and rare, to me is that scene in BOTNS where Severian found the bush of "Claws". "...and I cast away my boots that I might not walk shod on sacred groun…
20 May 2006, 10:30
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To comment on only a small portion of the below: The communists, in both Red China and 1930's and 40's Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, did not attempt to make everyone commun…
30 Jan 2006, 11:38
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Did the bit with Able sacrificing his blood to/for Disiri and then being able to take her with him to serve Michael remind anyone else of the Velveteen Rabbit? If you're really …
06 Dec 2005, 02:32
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- Promotion: Valfather etc => human heroes; I believe this is paralleled by Able => Dsiri The last surely indicates that Aelf are not eternally & necessarily soul-less. That would…
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