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What I was wondering was how much I'd pay for a week in a writing class with Gene Wolfe. ___…
26 Jul 2003, 12:22
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I can't believe I am doing this. Everyone knows that Master Ultan 'is' JL Borges. 'Is' Baldanders Samuel R. Delany? I have descended; I wrangle. Shoot me now. J. ___…
21 Jul 2003, 16:06
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In a fifteen hundred page book? Without a computer? No one, as far as I know, is arguing that Gene Wolfe has a perfect memory. .…
12 Jul 2003, 16:31
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Perhaps 'branch' is not quite the exact term. But the Library extends to the City, as well as to the Citadel and the House Absolute. This is explicit. .…
10 Jul 2003, 16:33
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Actually, I misspoke slightly. I think that they do have mechanical printing, but not much need for it because the society is mostly illiterate. Exactly. But I think what I say s…
10 Jul 2003, 16:15
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That's what he says. How extensive is the Library again? Doesn't Severian remark to the effect that 'surely the rabble of the city are not permitted here'? I don't recall him rec…
10 Jul 2003, 15:55
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By some qabalists, perhaps, I haven't run across it in thirty years of doing qabalah, but I don't know everything, and there are lots of different schools of qabalah. The word 'ale…
10 Jul 2003, 15:55
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By some qabalists, perhaps, I haven't run across it in thirty years of doing qabalah, but I don't know everything, and there are lots of different schools of qabalah. The word 'ale…
10 Jul 2003, 15:55
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People will only be expecting the New Sun after Severian has left with the hierodules. It's not his problem after that. It is Valeria's and her boyfriend's problem. We don't know w…
09 Jul 2003, 18:17
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Bifurcations. This is all correct, as near as I can tell. .…
09 Jul 2003, 15:38
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I don't think this is so. I don't think you are understanding the diffference, and the sameness, between (amongst?) the two Severians. In fact, to talk of two Severians is in some…
05 Jul 2003, 20:53
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Both trees are based on the observed structure of the Sky. The rabbis tried to generalize the QBLH and associate it more directly with number than with the physical Sky and its in…
25 Jun 2003, 23:10
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I believe that somewhere in there it says that Latro and his people went to Egypt for some reason. Egypt was then a Persian province. J. ___…
19 Jun 2003, 14:58
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Could be, might not be. These things happen sometimes. Who would have thought a US Grant or a Harry Truman could ever be President? It could indeed. .…
19 Jun 2003, 03:50
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A Republican patrician family wasn't necessarily wealthy. Cincinnatus, the famous dictator, owned an estate of three acres, where he worked in the field personally. Later Romans u…
19 Jun 2003, 03:21
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The Persians generally lacked infantry to match the Greeks. Before, during and after the war they went to some efforts to hire Greek infantry. They would have definitely found a u…
18 Jun 2003, 13:24
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It would depend who you were talking to. There was an country party and a city party. Peasants and aristocrats on the one hand, businessmen and urban laborers on the other. You ar…
16 Jun 2003, 03:14
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These are his war-paint. He puts them on before he goes into battle. Herodotos mentions this, where he is listing the different ethnic groups that were represented in the Great K…
09 Jun 2003, 06:15
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I believe so. The organism is the same, or very similar. .…
13 May 2003, 00:39
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The use of arsenic to cure syphillis was discovered by Dr. Paul Ehrlich I think around 1900 or maybe a little before. The treatment remained the standard treatment until the invent…
12 May 2003, 19:00
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I am looking at the 22 volumes of the first half of my copy of the Vance Integral Edition, which just arrived. Josh…
09 May 2003, 00:21
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It's a good thing, when we are lost in confusion, that someone should step right up and tell us the Truth. No one could possibly deny this. Josh…
08 May 2003, 23:33
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It's not, though. It used to be. People still argue about it fiercely, and an absolute date is hard to come by, but linguistically the Gathas are from about the same era as the Rg…
08 May 2003, 22:22
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Depends. People argue about it. Non-Zoroastrian people, just about all of them. None of that ought to apply to this crowd. The Gathas are pretty old. No one really knows how old…
08 May 2003, 18:44
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Those were not ur-Zoroastrians, in Cyrus the Great's time. Zoroaster preached about a thousand years before this. That would have been quite a trick. The influence is all the o…
08 May 2003, 18:36
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It's not quite accurate. Zoroastrianism is a monotheistic religion. Check out www.avesta.org. J.…
08 May 2003, 17:21
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