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No, Wolfe is a well-spoken and calm anarchist who accepts the existence of reality and tries to work within the contraints given. Something that Korean War veterans are inherently…
18 Mar 2009, 00:37
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My apologies: Wolfe's pro-gun bias is so clear to me that I did not anticipate that so many people would question its existence. I will admit that 'featured prominently in almost e…
18 Mar 2009, 00:31
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I'm sort of amazed that you didn't learn about it in school. Considering the historical frequency with which European governments tend to massacre the citizenry, domestic and fore…
18 Mar 2009, 00:22
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Pedro writes: Perhaps you would like to comment on the process of disarmament as it has taken place in Europe: of course you are aware that a hundred years ago anyone with suffici…
17 Mar 2009, 17:18
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You are surely not as familiar with Wolfe's work as many of us, to the extent that you are saying silly, obviously wrong things. I'd advise you to go read the parts you haven't rea…
17 Mar 2009, 17:08
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This is a Big Lie, that you are repeating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie The debate recorded in 'The Federalist Papers' and 'The Anti-Federalist Papers', and usage of the …
17 Mar 2009, 17:03
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Indeed, the most powerful weapons available in the eighteenth century were warships, many of which were privately owned, as was much artillery in the sense of crew-served weapons. …
17 Mar 2009, 15:20
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This is a good opportunity to start the discussion that I have been wanting to have. A prominent feature of Wolfe's politics, which appears time and time again in his stories is h…
17 Mar 2009, 10:36
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Alan Moore is or is not the author of 'From Hell' and 'V for Vendetta'? Yes indeed Gene Wolfe's work is overtly political. I find it interesting that politics is almost never disc…
17 Mar 2009, 05:06
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Hold on. Isn't kneejerk politics Moore's main lens? How is it unfair to turn the man's instrument on himself? .…
17 Mar 2009, 03:48
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Tough. The World is a certain way. Some problems don't have solutions. The sooner you accept that, the more useful you will be in solving the problems that do have solutions. …
17 Mar 2009, 00:10
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Or yet another anarchist whining about how he doesn't like reality cause it's got nasty bits. He's not just one ordinary bator, you know. Imagine no more clothing We never wear …
16 Mar 2009, 22:59
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People have been talking seriously about sail powered spaceships for decades. .…
18 Feb 2009, 16:43
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Sure. He's got a minute or two to take himself apart and get his sword out. Remember a lot of the time he has taken the gaurd off and is using it as a staff. Finally, Severian is …
17 Feb 2009, 19:25
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Sev's not a duellist, he's not wandering around striking on the draw and such. If he was a duellist he surely would not have that kind of sword. .…
17 Feb 2009, 17:35
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It is a truly remarkable film. You have to pay attention. .…
06 Feb 2009, 14:20
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And in any case, the rule doesn't say anything about what you are chaste from, just so long as you are chaste. If they get rid of all of the gay priests, what are they going to do…
05 Feb 2009, 12:33
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Various Catholic Christian churches. .…
04 Feb 2009, 19:17
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Whatever. They will take communion from each other's priests, in emergency. Neither one of them will take communion from your priests. .…
04 Feb 2009, 18:35
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And politically and culturally and so on you are very much like him, wouldn't you agree? You and he share many attitudes about the individual and society and traditional roles and …
04 Feb 2009, 02:09
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They are big hunks of things, not piles of gravel. This seems to be what he is getting at. I don't have an opinion as to what is correct. What passage of the text talks about shado…
25 Jan 2009, 18:43
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I don't know anything about Moby. Dick I don't think used this particular idea. .…
22 Jan 2009, 23:24
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The idea that people (or some people) are in some way related to stars is very, very old. It appears in Judaism, Hinduism and various American Indian religions. .…
22 Jan 2009, 23:08
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Severian (and Silk) are human beings. They each have a single, human, nature. Christ is unique, in Christianity in that He has a dual nature, being both human and God. He is the on…
22 Jan 2009, 20:20
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Linda Hunt as Father Inire. .…
15 Jan 2009, 18:26
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No He doesn't. Where are you getting this idea? .…
08 Jan 2009, 18:48
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Getting hit in the face with a meataxe is not a subtle thing. .…
06 Jan 2009, 01:19
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He wanted to make sure we knew that Baldanders knew. .…
29 Dec 2008, 13:39
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Did it move around? .…
19 Dec 2008, 20:11
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This is a requirement? .…
19 Dec 2008, 03:25
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I don't know why, personally. It is a mystery. .…
19 Dec 2008, 02:22
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Same reason he hasn't won a Hugo. .…
18 Dec 2008, 23:30
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It took me a few times to finish 'GR'. I can't say that I enjoyed it immensely. .…
18 Dec 2008, 01:54
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Indeed. I don't believe Crowley has read Dee or Bruno except as excerpted in Yates. .…
18 Dec 2008, 00:27
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It could be contracting now if time ran backwards.... .…
13 Dec 2008, 00:40
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The Big Bang is so Twentieth Century. Steady-state forever! .…
13 Dec 2008, 00:38
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There are, apparently, (according to modern, Christian Polynesians) pre-Christian Polynesian stories about some white guy going around on a big boat around the time of Christ and d…
11 Dec 2008, 23:43
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Severian has horrible facial scars all the time he is ruling, from Agia smacking him with her leopardman claws, I forget what Wolfe called them. .…
11 Dec 2008, 23:39
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Yes, Caput and Cauda Draconis (them Head and Tail of the dragon) are associated with lunar and solar eclipses. I think Caput is actually the one associated with Solar eclipses. ht…
11 Dec 2008, 23:34
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Who knows? I believe that if you had the right connections you could get a boat in the Middle East that was going to America, or would meet up with one that did. .…
11 Dec 2008, 23:26
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It is active. It has a lava lake, even. http://erebus.nmt.edu/ . (so there's no reason why a…
10 Dec 2008, 15:54
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And Dr Henry Killinger! .…
10 Dec 2008, 15:51
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Yes. If there are a lot of gunshots going off at once, you may not even be able to clearly distinguish the one associated with the bullet that hit you seconds ago. What you hear ar…
09 Dec 2008, 20:09
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Yes. I think I mentioned that drugs in practices like this are by way of being training aids. Did I mention learning to dream, to navigate in and retain your dreams? In dreams and …
08 Dec 2008, 23:00
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The memories are not particularly otherworldly. When you move from world to world the worlds are different. Like, for instance, maybe you lived in a house in the world you started…
08 Dec 2008, 21:46
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"Oi." .…
08 Dec 2008, 20:14
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"Relatively." .…
08 Dec 2008, 20:01
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I had not. Thank you very much. I believe it is a relatively common insight. .…
08 Dec 2008, 19:28
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White sage is a stimulant, not a psychedelic. Not Salvia divinorum. Also, the spirits of wine are used as a solvent to prepare the sol of myrrh. None is consumed. Myrrh is certai…
08 Dec 2008, 19:26
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You mean that it is a hallucination? Of course it is a hallucination. The question is, is there any underlying reality to the hallucination? I think probably yes. But it is impossi…
08 Dec 2008, 19:23
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