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By the way the World == the Universe (as moderns call it), not Urth. .…
16 Jul 2008, 04:53
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I am referring to the hierarchy of the great chain of being, as is David Duffy. This is an underlying assumption of the Christian worldview, although many modern Christians choose …
16 Jul 2008, 04:51
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The World is alive and every level of the World is also alive, and has an intelligence and a spirit. The planets are the intelligences that rule the planetary level of the World. …
16 Jul 2008, 04:19
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I think the asymmetry is limited to the gaurd. .…
04 Jul 2008, 03:08
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Put a one way valve on one side..... .…
02 Jul 2008, 23:39
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You have a brass or soft iron tube (actually I think I'd want to experiment with the tube) and you overlap it with two battens that you've made out of wootz, which are sort of tria…
02 Jul 2008, 19:42
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I still think it is doable. You are right about the vacuum: you'd have to let the brass tube into the hilt and have a little nipple for pumping it out occasionally. It's getting a…
02 Jul 2008, 14:12
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It could be done with a brass tube. It would be a tricky bit of work. .…
02 Jul 2008, 09:28
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I think there's just the one, in Father Inire's apartments in the House Absolute. So no, not everyone, but people who know the House Absolute well would. .…
01 Jul 2008, 04:25
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You are, of course, entitled to believe whatever you wish to believe. It's pretty clear to me, though, that it is a little initiatory stage play, and that Severian has the proper …
25 Jun 2008, 11:51
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You think someone would notice that the chick came back to life, maybe make a fuss.... .…
25 Jun 2008, 11:49
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I think he was in the proper state of mind for performing in an initiatory drama. I don't find any of this speculation about the woman in the torturer's elevation ceremony at all …
24 Jun 2008, 20:47
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Yes, I believe that was its name. .…
18 Jun 2008, 20:57
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Ambrose Bierce wrote a great short story on this theme, one of his truly remarkable Civil War stories. This spy was hanged, the rope broke, he fell into a river, fought his way ou…
18 Jun 2008, 19:12
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Severian drowns in the river Gyoll. Everything else that happens in BOTNS and UOTNS are hallucinations that he undergoes while dying. .…
15 Jun 2008, 18:39
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Wolfe told me that Severian's powers are his as a manifestation of the Body of Christ. At the 2002 WorldCon. .…
15 Jun 2008, 13:03
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Wow. .…
12 Jun 2008, 03:57
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I am extremely skeptical about all of this. If Wolfe intended any of it, there would be better and more solid clues, like the ones linking Severian, Ouen and Dorcas. .…
07 Jun 2008, 15:56
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Jolenta is his sister? Cyriaca is his aunt? Agia and Agilus are his cousins? Is there any evidence for any of this in the book? .…
07 Jun 2008, 05:08
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Ukiah's south a ways. .…
16 May 2008, 19:42
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I live in Hayfork. I think Dan'l lives in a little village called Oakland, but I may be mistaken. .…
16 May 2008, 03:16
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Now this I have no problem with. If anyone wants to discuss this matter with me, my email address is widely known. .…
13 May 2008, 21:57
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Sure, Christian organizations have also committed vast crimes. I have no problem admitting that. I'm a Jew, you silly person. I do think however, and have no problem arguing the p…
13 May 2008, 15:10
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Compared with socialism? Being neither a socialist nor a Catholic, I don't mind at all. I tell you though, the Catholics will get off much easier. You notice, Nazis are figures …
13 May 2008, 14:57
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It has slain in its millions and in its tens of millions. .…
13 May 2008, 13:54
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Perhaps a bit. I think that communism has made his brain rot. Now, Moorcock and Delany are also socialists. But I think that they are both excellent writers. .…
13 May 2008, 00:39
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Splain to me how Catholicism isn't Western, or isn't mainstream Kemo Sabe. Last I checked there were more Catholics than Protestants, in the West as well as in the United States of…
12 May 2008, 23:28
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I did not like Iron Council and it has left me with a prejudice against Mieville. .…
12 May 2008, 20:35
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Normally, one writes an author in care of his publisher. I have done this with Wolfe and received no reply even after years, which hurt my feelings a bit until I reflected that he …
12 May 2008, 18:16
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Michael Moorcock wrote a bunch of lyrics for them and also contributed some bass lines, I believe. .…
12 May 2008, 14:04
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It is reasonable that things should be thus, what with the US or its northern annex being home the vast majority of native speakers of English derived languages. Used to, with me.…
11 May 2008, 04:57
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This is pretty normal Catholic practice, I think.... .…
05 May 2008, 23:00
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There are certainly some differences among the various schools. And confusion does occur, as I know. .…
02 May 2008, 00:25
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I hope it makes sense still after I corrected it! .…
01 May 2008, 23:04
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Sorry folks, I made a huge mistake here. I must have been half asleep or something. Actually the third world is Yetzirah. Yesod is the ninth sephirah. Yesod is in fact the ninth …
01 May 2008, 23:02
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Second from the top. Atizluth, Briah, Yesod, Assiah. This is not my understanding. It is also the means You are conflating the sephiroth and the Four Worlds. Although the Worl…
01 May 2008, 20:32
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And whatever happened to the Wolfe/Swanwick collaboration? .…
26 Mar 2008, 18:51
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I think Wolfe should write a book about a torturer who does all sorts of horrible things except - get this - he's the hero! Of course it would have to be in the first person. .…
21 Mar 2008, 23:33
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I have always been loyal to the Group of Seventeen! .…
07 Mar 2008, 22:49
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Jeff Wilson writes: Did a large procession wave their torches while its head fell in the basket And is everybody dancing on the casket? Now it's over its dead and it hasn't Done a…
07 Mar 2008, 22:48
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AND his name is Christopher! I think you might be onto something. .…
05 Feb 2008, 16:32
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Please do. .…
05 Feb 2008, 08:13
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Yo ho ho, a pirate AND a smuggler AND a highwayman! What a guy! .…
05 Feb 2008, 08:12
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I know what you are talking about, here, but if I am right it should be possible by making the middle part extra thick. You might even want to run a brass tube up it after you bore…
17 Jan 2008, 20:20
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That sucker in the wiki article was as long as TE. Couldn't tell if it had a mercury channel, but that kind of thing would be obvious. I have heard of swords with sliding weights a…
17 Jan 2008, 16:58
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I believe that TE is based on an actual type of executioner's sword. .…
17 Jan 2008, 00:29
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And there's a court of heaven with various officers and so on. You can figure out which archangel is taking which office in which aeon and so forth (by this system, it may interest…
09 Jan 2008, 13:13
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No, but the association of humans or some humans with stars is ancient and very widespread. .…
21 Dec 2007, 19:50
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On the other hand, a history of the Freemasons that did not mention the Templars would be incomplete, to say the least.... .…
17 Dec 2007, 20:27
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I thought they sounded something like Plato's "original humans" (something like two humans lumped together, some of them male-female, some of them male-male, some of them female-fe…
16 Dec 2007, 23:01
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