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Just for the record, Borges didn't just work "at some library in Argentina" as one writer suggested. He worked at a city library from 1937 to 1946, when the Peron regime made him …
28 Apr 1998, 17:18
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I can't recall offhand which stuff is in which anthology, but I started off with FICCIONES and that alone contains a number of works that I think are pretty essential to understand…
21 Apr 1998, 13:06
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One of the more disturbing parts of the book actually. Severian suggests that Gurloes rather enjoys the prospect of rape and even remarks that he could manage it without the powde…
27 Mar 1998, 10:57
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I thought that it was fairly clear that the reason that Severian retains Thecla's consciousness is that he has a perfect memory, and thus the fleeting experience of Thecla that the…
25 Mar 1998, 15:48
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From: tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk (Tony Ellis) That was my initial strong impression as well. The robot parents argument doesn't seem outrageous either. Wolfean robots seem to co…
24 Mar 1998, 10:26
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Hmmm, just for fun I did an Altavista search on "Hethor" and came up with the following, from a page that gives a "Kabalarian" analysis of the name. "Severian" is not in there, bu…
18 Mar 1998, 10:51
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Hello My name is Dan Parmenter and I have just joined the URTH list. I was never on the WHORL list, mostly because I haven't read EXODUS yet and I wanted to keep my mind free of …
03 Mar 1998, 15:51
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