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C R Culver <CRCulver at aol.com> writes: Er, killing them? Where do you get this? That chapter is titled "Following the Flood" and I've always seen it as a kind of play on the phra…
12 Mar 1998, 10:08
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CRCulver at aol.com writes: I had interpreted this as the arrival of Abaia, Erebus, Arioch, and company. (Like Baldanders, we're told, they grow ....) Still, perhaps the one is symb…
10 Feb 1998, 09:11
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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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Jason Voegele mentions: You know, that's rather eerie, because I've played around with the same idea myself. Severian may well be spacially dyslexic. Take another look at the Ty…
07 Feb 1998, 15:17
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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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And the geological changes are trivial compared with the selenographical! The terraforming of Lune appears to be complete even in Typhon's reign. Severian drops numerous hints of …
31 Jan 1998, 13:14
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For them what has not yet seen it, Orb has (finally!) released The Urth of the New Sun in a trade paperback. Size and color are compatible with their two-volume "Book", and the pr…
26 Nov 1997, 08:28
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Mantis writes: What always strikes me about this play (I guess I was reading Tom Swift when the teacher covered Persian creation myths) is a sort of pervasive Shakespearean qualit…
22 Nov 1997, 08:15
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I'll vote for "literal." The ribbon is still in place when Agilus (now masked in iron) arrives to duel with Severian, whose "perfect memory" apparently fails him in the excitement…
06 Jul 1997, 14:54
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This from Matthew Freestone <matthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk> : I thought for sure you were making a reference to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. If "Little, Big" is infundibular, then "The Book …
31 May 1997, 14:45
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This is mantis, speaking to the Whorl list. I've moved it over to Urth for no better reason than that I'm more familiar with that work: I tried to make this distinction myself on…
17 Apr 1997, 19:04
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This is from Reusch <newsun at freeway.net> : Severian tells us when and how he's writing "The Book" -- during his reign as Autarch. Sounds like favorable conditions to me, especial…
17 Apr 1997, 19:04
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Marching orders from mantis, m.driussi at genie.com : Mr. Wolfe has inserted several references to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and his "Meditations" into the Long Sun books. Here is a…
08 Apr 1997, 10:23
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This is from Jim Jordan: If you haven't already, grab copies of three of Robert Graves's magni opi: "I, Claudius," "Claudius the God," and "King Jesus." These will explain a grea…
12 Mar 1997, 18:41
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More on Pike-as-aquastor. These from David_Lebling at avid.com: This fits very nicely with Master Malrubius's explanation to Severian. Another mention of these creations appears nea…
27 Jan 1997, 17:05
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This is from "Fernando Q. Gouvea" <fqgouvea at colby.edu> : I came to a completely different conclusion regarding Patera Pike's visitation. If you've read "The Book of the New Sun," …
26 Jan 1997, 14:49
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This from Jim Jordan <jbjordan at gnt.net> : Since most people can't see gods, it's traditional to put the gods someplace inaccessible -- in the sky, atop a high mountain, deep in th…
07 Dec 1996, 14:52
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