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William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net> writes: Oddly enough, that second sentence appears twice in _Claw_: near the end of the first chapter, and near the end of the last. Vodalus…
08 Jul 2000, 10:31
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Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at sirius.com> writes: Or, as the mandragora suggests, a basket.... raster at highfiber.com…
08 Nov 1999, 21:44
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Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu> writes: Definitely, but the fact that Valeria is a *heliotropic* flower was clearly a big bonus! Speaking of flowers, isn't Marc…
04 Nov 1999, 08:24
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Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe at apocalypse.org> writes: I think you may have more luck mapping Marcus Aurelius to Patera Silk. Severian is Claudius -- the Graves version. (Could the grave r…
27 Oct 1999, 23:51
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"William H. Ansley" <wansley at warwick.net> writes: I think the animals *are* significantly longer than the equivalent Urth creatures. Horn describes his elephant's howdah as a "lo…
19 Oct 1999, 11:02
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mantis writes: The lengths of hours changed in Europe, too, until about the fourteenth century (and the invention of mechanical clocks.) Adjusting a water clock is not difficult:…
12 Aug 1999, 00:17
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Nigel Price writes: Where can I get a "Severian Lives" bumper sticker? (Argent on fuligin, if there's a choice of colors!) I shipped a set of six workstations once, and gave the…
21 Jun 1999, 21:15
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"Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> writes: Minor quibble here: of *course* Sev recognizes his portrait on "his" chrisos. He posed for it! I think his denial to Hadelin is a mi…
14 Apr 1999, 08:15
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"Robert Borski" <rborski at coredcs.com> writes: Adding my two asimis' worth to the "cameo" theory: Little Severian, asking for a bedtime story, demands that "There should be wolfs …
22 Mar 1999, 20:10
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Not bad. Not bad at all -- this fits the Long Sun taluses nicely! But doesn't Mr. Wolfe explicitly mention guard robots under the Talos entry in "Onomastics?" A role Dr. Talos a…
17 Feb 1999, 09:43
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"Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at crossover.com> writes: This appeared in our local paper as well. The article made an appropriate bookmark. raster at highfiber.com…
22 Jan 1999, 17:05
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mantis challenges: I have not been able to locate either phrase. "Soulless warrior," if I really wanted to stretch a point, might refer to the Ascian armies, and "lucid yellow" t…
09 Nov 1998, 18:25
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William Ansley writes: In fact, Inire seems decidedly un-Carrollian in the "Father Inire's Mirrors" episode. He takes Domnina away without her parents' permission; he frightens h…
04 Sep 1998, 09:30
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CRCulver at aol.com writes: The dead giveaway, for me anyhow, was the scene where Severian produces one of 'his' aes in the era of Typhon: He examined it, bit it, and gave it ba…
18 Jul 1998, 12:36
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CRCulver at aol.com writes: I don't think so. Water clocks have been around for a long, long time, but they're not terribly useful by modern standards. The flow rate of the water t…
14 Jun 1998, 12:25
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tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk (Tony Ellis) writes: Wow! Color me convinced! I never, never would have caught this myself .... raster at highfiber.com…
29 May 1998, 17:35
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"Robert Borski" <rborski at coredcs.com> elucidates: Ah, and I though "Maison du Chien" was just more polyglot punnery like "Cave Canem" ("Beware of Dog," referring to the statue, bu…
03 Apr 1998, 10:53
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You're right on Serenus -- I'd completely forgotten that one. I'll have to disagree on Abaddon, as Severian lists it among "worlds" and "spheres of ... cindery hills where lava ri…
29 Mar 1998, 18:11
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C R Culver <CRCulver at aol.com> writes: It's Hethor's very first line, in Chapter 30 of Shadow. "M-m-master, when I was on the _Quasar_ I had a paracoita ...." raster at highfiber.co…
17 Mar 1998, 08:19
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"Tony Ellis" <tellis at futurenet.co.uk> counters my guesswork: Sure. Even so, it irks me. As an even simpler explanation, it should be pointed out that Idas has an interest in mis…
10 Feb 1998, 09:11
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CRCulver at aol.com asks: A more useful reference wouldn't hurt either, huh? That's chapter 1 of "Urth." Severian, recalling his determination to launch his manuscript entirely out…
01 Feb 1998, 11:06
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