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I'm familiar with the concept of the Big Lie. The Bush administration used it often enough. I'm not talking about anything but what the Amendment says. It gives a purpose. The giv…
17 Mar 2009, 17:13
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This is a common myth. In fact, the Second Amendment is the only one of the Ten that clearly states its purpose -- which is that a well-ordered militia is essential for "security" …
17 Mar 2009, 15:25
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I'd like to but I'm unemployed & can't afford such things.…
13 Feb 2009, 18:49
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Nice picture. Very surprising music.…
13 Feb 2009, 18:49
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So am I, but I can't guarantee to show up at a thing. But I might. Depending.…
13 Feb 2009, 18:43
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Not to be3 fussy, but Severian doesn't "disband" the Guild, he "reforms" it.…
11 Feb 2009, 17:27
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I hate to post just to say "well said" -- but, Roy, that was well said.…
06 Feb 2009, 23:49
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David, No; the Cumaean is _not_ named for a witch out of the New Testament. Rather, she is named for the priestess-prophetess of Apollo at Cumae. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cum…
05 Feb 2009, 21:42
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True -- and "invert" seems gravitically-bound, which would not be applicable to a Being outside of spacetime. Also, the three "vertices" are coequal, so it doesn't matter which way…
05 Feb 2009, 20:06
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There's a wide space between "critiquing" and (a) calling people heretics and (b) dragging painful stuff like the sexual abuse scandals into the discussion at a point where they ar…
05 Feb 2009, 17:50
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Somewhat. But where Wolfe maps mostly to "conservative" values, I map mostly to "liberal" values (and I use the scare-quotes because I think neither of us really "is" a liberal or …
04 Feb 2009, 15:51
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David, "Guardian of the Sacred Texts" is childish and insulting. But I should lay my cards open on the table: I am, like Wolfe, an adult convert to Roman Catholicism. *Independe…
04 Feb 2009, 00:11
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They opened fine for me. Some of them took a little time.…
28 Jan 2009, 18:20
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We are in agreement so far. It is necessary, in interpreting Wolfe's work, to acknowledge his positions. To do otherwise is to wilfully misinterpret. I do indeed. It is an *assump…
22 Jan 2009, 23:55
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Interpretive violence. If that's too strong for you, OK. I have long since given up trying to make sense of this and accepted it as a canonical miracle in the Briahverse.…
22 Jan 2009, 23:01
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Agreed. Writers are free to create as many Christs as they choose, and to make them theoanthropoi, divine, etc. What is key here is that we are interpreting a work by a writer who…
22 Jan 2009, 22:46
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Perhaps. But Wolfe takes this as a given, and that is a fact that must be dealt with in interpreting Wolfe's fiction.…
22 Jan 2009, 22:18
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Bravo.…
22 Jan 2009, 22:17
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Actually... A person staring at "the skylands" will never be looking at the part directly opposite him/herself; the LS and/or the Shade will be in the way. So s/he will be looking…
22 Jan 2009, 00:27
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It seems obvious to-me that Mucor's body was intended for one of Typhon's children to inhabit when the Whorl reached its intended destination.…
21 Jan 2009, 16:52
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To be dead honest, I have no memory of this story whatsoever. I'll have to reread it before I jump in, and I'm in the middle of something else pretty dense right now.…
18 Jan 2009, 18:04
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Pas was dead: to begin with. He wouldn't have put anyone else in charge of That Embryo, now would he?…
16 Jan 2009, 16:23
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I got your Severian right here. Haley Joel Osmont. No, think about it, seriously.…
15 Jan 2009, 18:47
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No - Rowan Atkinson for Incus.…
15 Jan 2009, 17:05
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Keanu Reeves isn't sympathetic enough to play a torturer. No, really. Silk: A young Robert Redford Marble and Mint: CGI with unknowns as voiceovers Crane: Geoffrey Rush - don't la…
15 Jan 2009, 00:29
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There is a strong belief among many on this list that the embryo that grows up to be Silk was intended by Pas to be his own body when the _Whorl_ reached its destination.…
14 Jan 2009, 19:10
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You're right.…
14 Jan 2009, 18:27
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I'm going from memory but - doesn't he imply in his report to his superiors that he has sparked the "Silk for Calde" movement?…
14 Jan 2009, 18:16
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Crane.…
14 Jan 2009, 18:08
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"Alcalde" is Spanish for "mayor."…
14 Jan 2009, 17:18
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I don't want to start a whole theological argument, but I think you've reversed cause and effect here. It is not that acting morally allows us to receive Christ's grace; rather, it…
08 Jan 2009, 18:39
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That's not the Christian belief. The Christian belief is that *Christ* is what (who) sets us free.…
08 Jan 2009, 18:11
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No cut!…
08 Jan 2009, 03:51
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It wouldn't make any sense -- except that the human race's successors from the previous version of the universe and their servants and so on (the Heiro* group) guide evolution on a…
30 Dec 2008, 16:21
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A third possibliity is that the President did not know that Reise, Rosinquist and Rusterman were the same person.…
18 Dec 2008, 17:36
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Actually, Antarctica is the single strongest argument against my theory that the continents have shifted position noticeably by the time of BotNS: the Megatherian Erebus is named f…
09 Dec 2008, 22:47
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04 Dec 2008, 23:15
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There is a Delany list, but it doesn't get into theory discussions very often, alas...…
04 Dec 2008, 21:41
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I suppose my point was that SF is not (or at least is rarely) about prediction. Rather, it is (more frequently) about contemporary "reality," as viewed through the distorting/magni…
04 Dec 2008, 20:34
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Some say more. They are certainly equally maddening.…
04 Dec 2008, 18:50
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Are those our only choices?…
04 Dec 2008, 18:48
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And also Talitha (in the Book of Acts); and also the boy Elijah raises. Christ is unique in that nobody resurrects him, he does it himself.…
03 Dec 2008, 23:46
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Mark Twain summarized them pretty well in his essay "Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper." http://ww3.telerama.com/~joseph/cooper/cooper.html…
01 Dec 2008, 23:42
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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Matthew Groves <matthewalangroves at gmail.com Yes. I have no objection to Nessus being BA in the sense that it is also Byzantium.…
01 Dec 2008, 21:57
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Nessus as B.A. is *not* universally accepted. There is a small group, of whom I am one, who take it as given that the continents have changed by the time of the NS. It appears that…
01 Dec 2008, 17:14
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I am the Fox!…
21 Nov 2008, 16:55
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Here goes Dan'l with his nutty theory again... My ongoing theory is that one of Wolfe's basic themes/memes/working methods is to embed non-Christian cosmologies into larger Christ…
20 Nov 2008, 00:03
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To be precise: they are _all_ Uncreated. The Father does not "create" but "begets" the Son, and the Holy Spirit "proceeds" from them both. (This is slightly different for the Easte…
19 Nov 2008, 18:58
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Ummmm ... the Autarch supposedly has no children.…
18 Nov 2008, 18:38
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Ahhh... Con crud...…
18 Nov 2008, 00:49
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