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Bob King wrote... H'mmm. Bob, your long one-line paragraphs are getting cut off. Perhaps you can use the occasional carriage-return/line-feed? Well, yeah, I agree with that, at l…
12 Jun 2002, 20:47
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Through faith, of course. 8*) No, you see ... the point is that by participation, we're all right, even though it only happens the once. Don't think in time, think in eternity. O…
12 Jun 2002, 16:24
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Rostrum saith: Yes. But on the other hand, he also writes of having been allowed to tour and photograph the "surviving" buildings of that distant future period. Which seems to put…
12 Jun 2002, 16:18
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Crush: I suppose this is a question of interpretation... To me, the "in so far as there is a Christ figure" seems to me to be a way of saying that there really isn't, but if you h…
11 Jun 2002, 22:51
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Andrew responded to Crush... Well, an important point, which should not be glossed over, is Severian's experience with Loyal to the Group of Seventeen. It's clear that, despite t…
10 Jun 2002, 18:42
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Welcome, Crush. You wrote... Right. A big help with understanding this concept when I was much younger was John Donne's sonnet "Batter my heart, three-person'd God," which is one…
10 Jun 2002, 17:52
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Welcom, Andrew Reeves. Hiss, click click. While I'd not thought of it in those terms, I guess you could in fact describe it that way. But then, from the Catholic point of view (wh…
07 Jun 2002, 15:49
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Rostrum quoted me & wrote... Well, yeah; but then God says a lot of things that seem kind of redundant over the course of the Bible, and especially in Genesis. This doesn't strik…
05 Jun 2002, 22:07
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Nutria then Alga wrote... Genesis 4:14 But the LORD said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain …
03 Jun 2002, 17:26
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Sounds like you read a lot of the same popsci books I do 8*) (O'course, for all I know you may be an evolutionary biologist or psychologist in real life...) Yeah ... allowing fo…
31 May 2002, 15:50
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Matthew wrote... Actually, that had occurred to me also ... and immediately (inevitably?), the situation wrt the US and OPEC came to mind, with US in the rôle of the inhumi ... …
31 May 2002, 15:26
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Mantis mentioned that Mr Wolfe apparently had 5HC somewhat in mind as a model in writing tBotSS. Aside from the fact that this adds some dubeity to his claims that the twin-worlds …
30 May 2002, 21:40
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Oh. Well, you know we're all a bunch of pagan goddess-worshipping slaves of Rome, I presume, so what more would you need to know? 8*) Of course not -- St Paul is clear on this; al…
30 May 2002, 20:05
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Matthew quoted Adam quoted me... Well, fair enough ... I had considered that ungulate philosophers might well consider felids capable of moral choice also, but assuming the cont…
30 May 2002, 19:04
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Hartshorn wrote... It does indeed ... recall Krait's comment that humans are the cattle of the inhumi (from memory, haven't read that passage in a while...) This also ties into m…
30 May 2002, 16:25
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Apologies to those bored by such things... [quote deleted but fascinating] Well, that gets kind of problematic ... for example, we have a Gospel (really just a collection of ker…
30 May 2002, 16:13
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Going down the list, ultimately Rostrum will have replied to all this ... No, no ... my point is that there is no mention of an "Awan" at all. --D…
29 May 2002, 18:23
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These posts are fascinating ... I don't know if I "agree" with the overall interpretation, but it makes a good pile o' sense. One quibble: While I have no doubt that such a tradi…
29 May 2002, 17:39
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Alga, I apologize for miscrediting someone else's "list" to you. Antelopes almost certainly have a radically different opinion of lions than you do. For an antelope (at least on…
28 May 2002, 19:00
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And Mantis replied: Easily; a misinformed or ill-informed opinion is not valid. (Harlan's law: everyone is _not_ entitled to an opinion; they are entitled to an _informed_ opinion…
28 May 2002, 18:28
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and Matthew Malthouse replied: Matthew: while I may (and in fact do) disagree with one or more of the items in Alga's list, she's using a perfectly reasonable sense of the word "e…
24 May 2002, 22:08
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Roy C. Lackey wrote... Let's be a bit more quantitative about this ... "Evolutionary time" isn't really measured in hours, days, or years, but in a combination of generations, …
23 May 2002, 19:36
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I feel obliged to protest the use of the term "catholic" in this context ... it isn't that the Roman church didn't do more than its share of persecution of Jews, but that other ch…
22 May 2002, 15:20
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In response to my question... Mantis commented: Ah. Well, that's a matter of degree, I suppose ... Vancean irony, at least in what I've read, is in fact often quite strong, but I…
20 May 2002, 18:35
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Bingbingbingbingbing! I found myself thinking "Dunsanean" (or, occasionally, less flattering: "Bad imitation Dunsany") over and over again while going through TDE -- especially the…
20 May 2002, 18:11
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Can't speak for "people" but for me ... well, I have read it once, about four years ago. I remember enjoying it. I remember almost nothing else about it; it's on my "to reread pile…
20 May 2002, 16:19
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... which, as I understand it, is precisely _not_ what a suite or mosaic is -- you're talking about what in modern commercial writing terms would simply be called a series, stories…
16 May 2002, 15:09
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Mantis argued with hisself, kinda ... Why? She coined a useful term; that doesn't make her the final authority on it. The word "retcon" (which I didn't, actually, coin but saved f…
15 May 2002, 17:45
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Jeff Wilson claims that ...well, no; it isn't. In the case of peppered moths, no lost organs are reappearing; the a:A balance of certain alleles is shifting due to natural (or,…
15 May 2002, 16:08
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Regarding Le Guin's term "stoy suite," Mantis asks: Haven't read CANNERY ROW (actually I really only discovered Steinbeck last year, though I'd read & lvoed THE MOON IS DOWN in h…
15 May 2002, 15:49
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Phoebe observed: While that's a good generalization, I'd like to point out that the BAF series was also the originating point of Kurtz's _Deryni_ books, and leave it at that.…
10 May 2002, 16:55
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Hartshorn a ecrit: Definitely not APOCALYPSES, no, despite it containing absolutely the most wonderful counterfeit ever written about. I've reread APOC. too recently, I'd of rem…
08 May 2002, 15:27
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POSSIBLE SPOILERS for "Under Hill" if you haven't read it yet. Nacre counterchallenged: Well, there's some pretty sad Chinese-name-jokes of the level of the infamous "How…
07 May 2002, 21:53
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It appears in a number of places. Here's one version: http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/pgm.html…
07 May 2002, 21:20
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Okay, _I_ don't get that one. Would someone explain? -----Original Message----- From: Tony Ellis [mailto:LittleSense at necronomicon.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 12:03 PM To: …
07 May 2002, 19:06
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Mantis: Josh: Me: What Josh said -- that is my memory also, and what I was referring to. I'm a little frustrated because I reread the thing like two or three months ago and now …
07 May 2002, 15:13
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Yeah, that's basically it -- though I was thinking of it a little more straitly -- "Never think Maytera doesn't see you -- she has eyes in the back of her head." (And, of course, …
07 May 2002, 15:10
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Mantis said some stuff. Precisely -- they are parables, as I said the other week; but they are at least partially parables he tells to himself, for his own benefit. Dude, the who…
06 May 2002, 23:51
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Huh. And I took it as more of a dig at Lisa -- because she's right as far as she goes, but Wolfe is enough of an engineer to know that "they draw in more cold air than they warm" i…
06 May 2002, 20:05
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Josh G. points out that the "brown book" stories... Well, yeah. I guess my point is that they are not _factual_ within the universe-of-discourse. And, naturally, one of the runnin…
06 May 2002, 17:25
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<Shrug>. Wolfe uses fiction in his fiction all the time, Tony -- all the stuff from the "brown book," the story of Doctor Death, etc., etc. The puzzle is only to figure out what it…
06 May 2002, 16:28
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Jerry Friedman writes: Assume that the officer is Annese. Assume that the Annese not only are clumsy with tools (like knives), but are clumsy in a particular way. Then cutting a…
02 May 2002, 22:10
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Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is the Irish legend of the Salmon of Wisdom. Then there's always "Samhain." But I haven't read the story...…
01 May 2002, 22:30
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Jerry observed that: Or start a fire. Actually, here's a weird interpretation of 5HC: Suppose we presume that _everyone_, in all three novellas, is actually telling the truth -…
29 Apr 2002, 21:21
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For what it's worth... I've read somewhere that the primary sexual characteristic of the tom housecat is, uh, sort of barbed and tends to get stuck coming out. The evolutionary …
29 Apr 2002, 15:05
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Well, yes, but it's good evidence that the Shadow children were shapeshifters -- says nothing about the abos. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Friedman [mailto:jerry_friedma…
26 Apr 2002, 20:44
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H'mmmm. While interesting, this ignores two things. First, that _all_ the names in the list are of mythical or fictional places. (Yes, I know: Gondwanaland is a geological hypothe…
25 Apr 2002, 15:17
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Hartshorn said it pretty darn well: While I think it may be a stretch to simply say "they can," I think we can safely say "it appears that they can." I would suggest that in the L…
22 Apr 2002, 17:07
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First, I would say that, for a Catholic, the entire Bible is literally _true._ However, it is not necessary _factual_. This is functionally equivalent to what I believe you are try…
22 Apr 2002, 16:31
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H'mmmm. Well: First of all, the Pharisees essentially won -- if you look at modern Orthodox-with-a-capital-O Jewish practice, it's almost entirely descended from the practices of…
22 Apr 2002, 16:27
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