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Severian Gumby: I've got a piece of Thecla lodged in me head....…
05 Dec 2010, 06:58
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But Muslims would also agree that there was nothing terribly revolutionary about Isa's teachings; they would say that he taught the same Qu'ran as Musa and Muhammed.…
03 Dec 2010, 19:57
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That's an interesting take, since there are event-parallels to the three major events shown in Jesus' adult life before He begins His public ministry: that is, the baptism, the wed…
03 Dec 2010, 19:30
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Oh, dear. We're back to the ad-hominem crap.…
03 Dec 2010, 19:01
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Okay, that's pretty convincing, actually. I still think the cowled guy in the House Absolute is Inire too. Yeah, that does give a little oomph to the shape-shifter theory...…
03 Dec 2010, 18:57
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2010/12/3 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: Actually, there's nothing terribly revolutionary about Jesus' teachings, though they were unusual coming from a Second Temp…
03 Dec 2010, 18:33
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Son of Witz wrote (03-12-2010 18:04): Ummm ... This could simply mean that Inire was in the north at the same time as Severian, could it not? And why would we assume that he was t…
03 Dec 2010, 18:30
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Do we? How?…
03 Dec 2010, 17:35
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That's a reasonable question for the "Horn died in the pit" theory to deal with. Because the quote (deleted) is mediated through the Next Generation of Bluvians, and so subject to…
02 Dec 2010, 18:59
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The sun was restored by its being implanted with the White Fountain, Severian's "star." The WF was created by the mating of Severian and Apheta, and became his so-to-speak alter eg…
02 Dec 2010, 18:02
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I think I addressed this obliquely in a recent post. No, I don't beleive that there is any place in New Sun, or the first-person sections of Short Sun where the Increate acts dire…
02 Dec 2010, 17:42
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Marxism does not only inform Jameson's arguments; it constrains that conclusions he is able to reach, and to read him usefully (and especially to read him against other, non-Marxis…
01 Dec 2010, 22:36
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Spot on: my implied distrust of deconstructionism should show that I am very much in sympathy with Lewis's position as expressed in the deleted quote. Facts are facts, and the text…
01 Dec 2010, 22:20
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I'm sorry, but this is nonsense. Is it out of place to discuss why Sarah Palin has written her book "America by Heart," or why Al Franken wrote "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell …
01 Dec 2010, 21:36
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I don't have a dog in this race, I haven't read Wright, but speaking in terms of general theory -- if there are important facts (internal to the text or _maybe_ about the author) t…
01 Dec 2010, 17:03
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... or a bean?…
30 Nov 2010, 16:22
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I've always taken it to imply that Severian made other trips to Typhon's era. Of course, it could also be just a case of the tale growing in the telling, that there was just the o…
05 Nov 2010, 20:43
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The Autarch wears Prada?…
30 Sep 2010, 20:27
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Crown of thorns would leave some pretty distinctive scars I should think...…
30 Sep 2010, 17:27
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Or Passilk?…
30 Sep 2010, 17:23
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We're talking about something more than imprints in the case of Thomas putting his fingers and hand into the wounds...…
30 Sep 2010, 16:53
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That's a little confusing - He seems to have had the wounds only when they were convenient. On a couple of occasions, people who knew Him well would not recognize Him after the res…
30 Sep 2010, 15:20
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While it's true that 100% of the life forms we know are carbon based, we are looking at a very localized sample. We have no idea what chemical or other bases may actually produce l…
27 Sep 2010, 19:51
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Hemocyanins (also spelled haemocyanins) are respiratory proteins in the form of metalloproteins containing two copper atoms that reversibly bind a single oxygen molecule (O2). Oxyg…
27 Sep 2010, 15:58
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Ummmm. Typhon is the _last_ Monarch. That there were more than one is evidenced by the chain of mountains carved into the likenesses of Monarchs; that he is the last is evidenced …
23 Sep 2010, 20:07
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I don't know what Jeff had in mind, but to me Typhon's and Baldanders's names suggest that they have left the human race and become monsters.…
23 Sep 2010, 15:52
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2010/9/22 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: That's a very modernistic/democratic approach ... people in feudal societies don't wonder where their taxes are going, they…
22 Sep 2010, 16:49
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I suspect that the sequence went something like this... 1. Wolfe decided to write what became tBotLS, a book about a generation ship that actually succeeds in getting its "cargo" …
21 Sep 2010, 18:55
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Nor do I. However, this is assuming that the energy sources available to Typhon are limited to those we know and love in the 21st Century. The Whorl may be powered by zero point en…
21 Sep 2010, 17:27
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Lee, The Whorl is at leasdt 300 years old internally -- it is at least a thousand years old in sidereal time. And Typhon is not "still alive" when Severian meets him; he is either…
21 Sep 2010, 16:40
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A link would be nice?…
16 Sep 2010, 19:49
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Given Wolfe's geographical history, he probably pronounces "iron" as one syllable: "eyrn."…
15 Sep 2010, 18:54
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I agree about Greek, and don't know much about Etruscan stuff, but take it from a Catholic: the rituals and forms of the Chapter are dead on parodies of Catholic forms and rituals.…
14 Sep 2010, 17:29
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However - since you have (correctly in my opinion) opened up the can-O-worms of parodied Catholicism - it might be argued that a polytheistic religion, where all the gods are membe…
14 Sep 2010, 16:44
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Good lord, man. Are you suggesting that Seawrack's name is a Polish joke?…
30 Aug 2010, 18:26
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I don't think that precludes the idea of a Biblical reference. Wolfe packs meanings into his words like sardines into a tin.…
30 Aug 2010, 15:33
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote: \> For me it is a small intuitive leap to further assume that the angels and I think angels would …
27 Aug 2010, 16:50
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Antonio, I bow to your expertise in how words derive from one another; though I find etymology endlessly fascinating I am far from expert in it. I never meant to enter the argumen…
25 Aug 2010, 20:48
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That seems to be a gimme. Really? I pronounced it TIE-fawn. I deeply mistrust anyone who claims to know how the ancients -- ANY ancients -- pronounced things. Unless the Greeks l…
25 Aug 2010, 16:24
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Honest, you shouldn't. That post has been gradually brewing ever since "the Neighbors are the Trees."…
24 Aug 2010, 21:30
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Ryan, I disagree with nothing you say below, and yet I suspect we disagree on what it means. Severian and his life are manipulated by the Hierofoos, to be sure; but only within th…
19 Aug 2010, 19:25
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Ryan, Let's further break this down. There appear to be three possibilities: 1. Severian's journey is entirely happenstance 2. Your "loose parameters" model 3. Your "one large …
19 Aug 2010, 19:12
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Two, actually: Baldanders is named for a monster in Borges' _Book of Imaginary Beings_, who comes from German literature -- where he is a shapeshifter, in fact.…
18 Aug 2010, 18:10
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Forgive the top posting; I am trying out posting from a new phone. Is there any textual evidence that inhumi can duplicate the appearance (let alone the personality) of a real, sp…
17 Aug 2010, 00:32
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I'm trying. And this topic seems important enough to use my fourth (I believe) for the day. I agree with Mark. The list is getting a little out of hand, and a lot of the current d…
16 Aug 2010, 21:25
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I think you're missing the point. If there's no resurrection, nobody dies.…
16 Aug 2010, 18:57
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Well, I see the fact that the maid springs up, picks up the head, and walks off with it... ..._and that nobody in the Guild appears to be surprised by this_... ...as militating a…
16 Aug 2010, 18:32
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Of course, theism begs the question in an isomoprhic way; it ignores the question, "And where did God come from?"…
14 Aug 2010, 00:57
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Sorry for the accidental send of a meaningless message. Here is what I intended... Let me clarify: I am not a Bible-crazy. However, I do believe that Wolfe's work is best understo…
13 Aug 2010, 20:11
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I presume that the presence of the true Theanthropos in our Universe either (a) causes the sequence to end, or (b) causes it to change radically. Applying the apocalyptic books of …
13 Aug 2010, 19:51
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