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How does it not? Eru/Iluvatar/God speaks the world into being (the actual act of creation is his word Ea: let it be), just as in Genesis. If the details vary, well, someone as inte…
16 Dec 2010, 18:19
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I'll let James speak for himself if I'm wrong, but I understood his saying that "Silmarillion does not align with the Bible" as meaning that it was not in line with Tolkien's actua…
16 Dec 2010, 17:08
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Yes, I believe that is correct.…
16 Dec 2010, 16:57
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Actually, Tolkien went out of his way to make the cosmology of the Silm. compatable (though only by some fast dancing) with Christianity. The "gods" are angels, etc.…
16 Dec 2010, 16:55
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Not to mention "graphic novel" and "serial art."…
15 Dec 2010, 23:05
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"Sci-Fi" is the sound of two crickets screwing. More seriously: "Sci-Fi" is a term made up by a publicity hack, in analogy with the then-popular "Hi-Fi" for "high fidelity" stereo…
15 Dec 2010, 22:37
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I believe that the Outsider is the first Person of the Trinity, God the Father, and thus distinct from Christ.…
15 Dec 2010, 22:33
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H'mmm. Well, I would have said that the usual science-fictional sense of "parallel universes" includes the idea that they are in some sense moving along in time next to ours. The "…
15 Dec 2010, 21:50
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In Catholic (and most Christian) theology, Christ is not tripartite; He is one of the three persons of the Triune God. He does, however, have a _dual_ nature, thus the Theanthropos…
15 Dec 2010, 21:36
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I think Wolfe would say that Dionysus was real, but not a "deity" in the sense that God is a Deity.…
15 Dec 2010, 19:55
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This is extremely poor (Catholic) theology. The Person named Jesus, the Christ, is and must be unique across all Universes. The birth of Jesus is the origin-point of the eternal Lo…
15 Dec 2010, 19:41
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As mentioned elsewhere, to describe Jesus as "enlightened and possessed by the Outsider" would be hideously incorrect theology. However, such a description might well address the p…
15 Dec 2010, 19:26
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There are suites on cruise ships.…
13 Dec 2010, 22:02
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Actually, you probably could on Tzadkiel's ship...…
13 Dec 2010, 20:54
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Um. That he isn't helping Valeria doesn't necessarily mean that he's not on Urth.…
13 Dec 2010, 20:02
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But it has Brian Eno on poop loops!…
13 Dec 2010, 19:29
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What is the sound of two bulls shitting?…
13 Dec 2010, 17:35
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The answer I gave twenty years ago and appears in various faqs: They both have inky quills.…
11 Dec 2010, 00:11
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I completely agree with Andrew. The Devil has many names, and admittedly each of them has a different flavor as to how he is characterized. But if you say "Lucifer" to an average A…
10 Dec 2010, 21:30
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David, Open the Googlebook and search for "werewolf." You'll get a link to page 37. Click the back-one-page link and start reading. I'm not sure what I think yet. --Dan'l…
10 Dec 2010, 20:29
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That can't be right because some scenes of the books take place at night. Can't recall if any take place during a full moon tho.…
10 Dec 2010, 17:45
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Frippiness might disagree...…
10 Dec 2010, 17:39
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Put a cork in it!…
10 Dec 2010, 16:51
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Certainly in the '60s and '70s my mother talked about working on her "doctor's thesis."…
09 Dec 2010, 20:47
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But do recall, please, that Wolfe is an American writer. (I almost wrote "an _essentially_ American writer," but realized that, while that is my impression, I have no real data to …
09 Dec 2010, 17:50
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While I am not necessarily buying onto James's theory here (though it has some merit and I may end up convinced), I should point out that the Jesus of the New Testament frequently …
06 Dec 2010, 22:29
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Almost; there are the bits and pieces about him in Long Sun/"the book of Silk," which was clearly written before the events of Short Sun begin.…
06 Dec 2010, 21:24
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But did it sharpen a razor blade...…
06 Dec 2010, 18:26
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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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Nice post. I generally agree with what you say about "the author's stated intentions or explanations of a text," for two reasons. The first is what Tolkien and Lewis called the "P…
01 Dec 2010, 18:01
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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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