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I went there and the discussion prompted me to look for a similar word in a Portuguese dictionary (since Portuguese is a Latin-derived language, it seemed a good try). So, here i…
23 Feb 2000, 13:20
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Thanks for the impressive amount of info & insight! I read the books almost an year ago, and I didn't remmembered all the death-sybbols at the Gyoll submersion -- I was mostly gues…
06 Nov 1999, 08:00
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Nessus? I can be mistaken, but I think you mean the river Gyoll (is this the correct spelling?). This could be a Christian paralel, anyway: not with the resurrection of Christ -- w…
05 Nov 1999, 14:16
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Yes, you are right. The mate herb, used fot the so-called mate tea and the strongest, bitter "chimarrão", is a plant from South America. The use of the "bomba" ("pump"), or metal s…
29 Oct 1999, 18:15
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Well... I'm Brazilian, also. Amerindians from Brazil (tupi, guarani, caiapo, txucarramae, etc) are not the same -- language-wise -- with the Peruvian/ Andean Incas, who spoke quech…
29 Oct 1999, 13:12
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It could have been some sort of shuttle, like the one wich brings Severian end Burgundofara back to Urth...…
02 Jun 1999, 10:03
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This is a very interesting point. When I started to read TSOTT (and I didn't know where things were going to), I thought, at first, that the myths about the "Conciliator" and the "…
01 May 1999, 17:54
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Hi! It's my first post. This materialism/supernaturalism question in TBONS and UOTNS is quite interesting, so... I guess it's a mistake to attempt to put Wolfe's work in one of t…
23 Apr 1999, 11:55
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