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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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Sometimes ... and I want to be clear that I'm not singling anyone out here ... nor is this a recent but rather a recurring thing ... I get the feeling that there's a competition go…
24 Aug 2010, 20:34
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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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It's in the anthology GATEWAYS, a Fred Pohl _festschrift_ edited by Elizabeth Anne Hull (Pohl's wife). I've only read it the once, so I am not entirely sure what it's about yet...…
19 Aug 2010, 03:35
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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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Well, if we take Wolfe at his word when he says that Urth is a previous version of Earth, then, yes, that follows -- in particular ours is the one into which the Increate is actual…
13 Aug 2010, 19:30
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Right. Questionable: there is more than a hint that some kind of progress is made from Universe to Universe. (On the other hand, there's the question of entropy...) Might could, …
13 Aug 2010, 19:22
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Ummmm. I think that for Yesod to be "before" Briah doesn't necessarily mean that Yesod is a predecessor of Briah. Consider this diagram (time proceeds from left to right): YYYYYY…
13 Aug 2010, 19:02
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More specifically, the Hierogrammates were note. There is a reasonable case that the Hierodules are from Briah.…
13 Aug 2010, 18:23
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No, he's just increasing the luminosity of an insignificant sun in an unfashionable arm of the Mylky Whey galaxy.…
13 Aug 2010, 16:26
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Y'ummmmm, uhhhh, _what_ is remarkably bad theology? To whom or what were you replying?…
12 Aug 2010, 20:14
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Though this isn't my theory and I have no interest in defending it, my understanding is that this is another case of God taking what has been done for evil and making it for good.…
12 Aug 2010, 15:40
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I was thinking more of putting the responsibility upon the Hierofoos.…
11 Aug 2010, 17:50
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Only if you see the flood as being sent by God. If it's sent by a lesser being without God's prompting, that doesn't break the covenant -- God didn't promise to prevent creature-ma…
11 Aug 2010, 17:16
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Yes, absolutely; since _ex hypothesi_ Jesus is God, there is no such thing as "more spiritually advanced."…
11 Aug 2010, 17:06
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Let's take this one step further. The Hierofoos survived the death of their Briahtic Universe; Yesod is the vehicle by which thy continued to exist after their Universe ceased.…
11 Aug 2010, 16:35
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Translation?…
10 Aug 2010, 21:05
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I don't see this as a contradiction. "Your race" can refer to the human race of Yesod's iteration. No, I don't think so. All it means is that Yesod in its very late, fully develop…
10 Aug 2010, 19:34
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H'mmmm. This seems to imply that Briah and Yesod share a common timeline, and that Yesod is either before or simultaneous with Briah (so that one moment in Yesod can be meaningful…
10 Aug 2010, 18:41
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This is an interesting possibility ... perhaps Yesod is a higher cosmos precisely because the "Christ event," which is only foreshadowed by the Conciliator, actually takes place in…
10 Aug 2010, 17:03
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Almost. It fails (for me) because it doesn't take into account Wolfe's open statement that Briah is a previous iteration of _our_ Universe. This forces iterative Universes into th…
10 Aug 2010, 16:58
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I suspect that some of the questions we've considered ever-so-seriously would make Wolfe roll his eyes. I suspect that, confronted with some of these questions -- I'm NOT guessing …
10 Aug 2010, 01:44
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Well, that Dorcas is his paternal grandmother, and that the boatman was her husband. Marriage is not prima facie evidence of paternity ;)…
06 Aug 2010, 19:43
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Yes, Tim is a real sweetheart.…
04 Aug 2010, 19:23
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