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Currently reading the Oxford Anthology of Victorian Ghost Stories. Couple of comments on what some others have reported: Piers Plowman starts off promisingly enough, but so quick…
12 Mar 2014, 15:26
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...it's not that humans, being lower than Neighbors, are more capable of dealing with Inhumi in a "smash and bash" way. If the Neighbors thought humans more capable, it would be t…
07 Oct 2013, 21:37
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I don't honestly know how time would work for the Yesodis. I'm imagining a situation where you are in your "prime" timeline when Severian dies on you. So you get a replacement fr…
29 Jul 2013, 16:01
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Jeff, I meant that when a Severian died (drowned, for instance), the Yesodis replaced him by pulling a Severian from another time line. If they had manipulated "their" time line …
29 Jul 2013, 13:54
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Marc, yeah, I didn't really think there was a connection to Short Sun, but once I noticed one similarity (the tree and the identity confusion) I kept finding others--the deer, the …
11 Apr 2013, 15:00
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Since I didn't take notes, I don't have a complete list, but a couple of things stand out. A female fairy who walked through nettles as if they weren't there, and the idea that if…
19 Jan 2012, 14:28
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Isn't there some sighting of the white fountain during the Apu-Punchau scene? If Severian's blood in both his body and the claw creates a temporal anomaly that allows his powers, …
23 Dec 2011, 14:22
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Ah, interesting...those dreams have confused the heck out of me. The whole Fava thing gets so weird I've never been able to get my head around it. I didn't think the mandragora w…
30 Nov 2011, 16:57
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Good point, Gerry, after I sent it, I thought about how curved pieces of a broken structure with a circular footprint could also be a cylinder, not a dome. ...and the one-way glas…
29 Nov 2011, 14:15
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Seawrack says something about there being similar domes on the bottom of the sea. Either those sank or this one has been brought up somehow. I've always wondered if there was a c…
28 Nov 2011, 18:18
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I think the other secret of the inhumi is that they are a hybrid of humanity, and the colonists from the Whorl are a prue strain that is being combined through blood to make a more…
28 Nov 2011, 17:23
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An interesting thing about the multiple Father Inire theory is that multiplicity has been used as a sort of failsafe technique at least two other places in the books. Typhon/Pas s…
14 Dec 2010, 03:24
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For a while I was thinking the domes were undersea because the Inhumi were unable to survive salt water, but Krait swims to Horn's boat at one point. If they domes are shelters aga…
06 May 2009, 17:55
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Some more thoughts about Neighbors, domes and blood. If the domes are greenhouses, it seems strange that the one Horn and Seawrack find has no old growth in it. Where did the pla…
05 May 2009, 13:11
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Well, whatever the Neighbors are to trees, the Inhumi are to vines. Maybe their base form is the slug-like thing that drops out of a tree on green, kind of an amphibian that lays …
28 Apr 2009, 22:11
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...maybe they evolve from parasitic vines to leeches... --Brian Lovely We haven't even approached what happens to Inhumi when they drink neighbor blood.... myspace.c…
22 Mar 2009, 13:53
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Y'know, I think I got the tree in the pit from all the other tree-references throughout the books. Also because the Inhumi seem to be associated with parasitic vines-Incanto's sta…
22 Mar 2009, 13:43
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I was never entirely sure if Babbie had actually bitten off Seawrack's arm. I HAVE, however, always been curious what that "sharing" of blood might have done to Babbie. Also, In …
17 Mar 2009, 18:00
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QUOTE So, could the name "Gideon Chase" be meant to refer to the bible in some way QUOTE I haven't read AEG, but I couldn't help butting in. A Gideon bible is placed by an outsid…
29 Oct 2008, 22:28
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