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So what was the ring of glass that Horn, Seawrack, and Babbie found on the herbal island? Light seemed to go one way through it, implying a dome meant to contain light, like a gre…
09 Oct 2013, 16:18
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The discussion of cloning a while back was of interest to me, because I always thought that Severian's replacement bodies were pulled from other timelines, where he hadn't died--an…
25 Jul 2013, 15:13
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Has anyone read Peter Ackroyd's Milton in America? At one point, the blind Milton goes into the forest and sits under a tree. Then follows a passage of pronoun/identity confusion…
11 Apr 2013, 13:20
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I've been reading Evan Wentz' "The Fairy-Faith i Celtic Countries," and I'm fairly convinced it's one of the sources Wolfe uses for his research. I've noticed many striking simila…
18 Jan 2012, 14:55
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...Just wondering if that Linked-In request somehow threw the server for a loop, resulting in the lapse in activity. ...or if people actually have real lives and it's close to Chri…
13 Dec 2011, 16:46
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Since we all agree Wikipedia is never wrong ;), I'll just stick with their definitions. Mandragora is the genus of the plant mandrake, which often has a somewhat man-shaped root. …
30 Nov 2011, 14:20
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Could the secret of the Inhumi be that they are a hybrid branch of humanity, and the colonists from the Whorl are the pure strain hybridizing through blood to make a more vigorous …
28 Nov 2011, 17:19
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Regarding the "Names and the Whorl" thread. I'm pretty sure someone else has noted this, except, perhaps, for the Smoothbone and trumpet parts: Horn is a papermaker who writes a …
22 Sep 2010, 14:07
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I don't remember exactly who, but some characters pretty obviously avoid cursing, and some are fairly obvious about it. I think it's Cassie and Margaret who use substitute words l…
06 Aug 2010, 22:56
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"They're hiding in animals" Maybe this applies to the Neighbors as well. Not all animals on Blue have extra limbs. Somewhere in the books, Horn talks about eight-legged wolves an…
04 May 2009, 22:29
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On Blue's Waters, Chapter 10 "The End": "I know places in the sea where there are walls like those," Seawrack told me. Her voice was hushed. "'Underwater' is what you say." They'…
29 Apr 2009, 23:53
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I'm with ya about it being a stretch from polyploidy to multiple limbs. Still, with alien biologies.... Has anyone ever had any solid theories about the greenhouses? Seawrack say…
29 Apr 2009, 15:40
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He's a tree, he's a tree! Neighbors are trees, Inhumi are parasitic vines. .or something. Not sure what the Neighbor-version of Inhumi are-maybe the vine with a face that is cut f…
28 Apr 2009, 10:58
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Remember that hybrids are a big part of the story. That long bit with Silk/Horn, the farmer, and how to cross corn wasn't there for nothing. Plus, in the books, transferring blood…
20 Mar 2009, 18:36
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In Zora Neal Hurston's "Tell My Horse" she describes how a Voodoo deity possesses a worshiper. The deity passes a message/instruction to the worshippers, adding an injunction to "…
17 Mar 2009, 18:30
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I thought that the Sun was a cylinder, like a florescent tube, running from end to end of the whorl (which I pictured as a hollow cylinder rotating with the Sun at its axis). The …
28 Jan 2009, 00:47
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I don't have the books in front of me, so forgive me if I make a massive blunder. Anyway, I've always wondered about the ruin that Horn and Seawrack find on an island (blunder que…
18 Sep 2008, 16:47
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(apologies if this appears twice) In UOTNS, Juturna sticks her head and arm into the throne room. Severian asks her if she remembers saving him. She says she does not, that i…
16 Jul 2008, 18:42
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<< I apologize if this shows up twice >> Maytera Marble has cooling coils in her cheeks. Mucor's brain is so different from normal that it baffles a brain surgeon. Silk, like M…
22 Apr 2008, 23:00
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