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Insects and plants have all sort of tricks to fight the cold, including antifreezes and allowing themselves to be covered with ice. Since we know they can't fly through the void …
23 Nov 2011, 19:38
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And it explains the fires on the plain on Blue's western continent.…
23 Nov 2011, 19:33
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aaaarrgh!…
23 Nov 2011, 19:25
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The Neighbors and Incanto's tale: When Horn clears the sewer, is that his real body or a dream one? I note the Neighbor tells him during that episode that there are two of him: …
23 Nov 2011, 19:25
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I think his nickname was "Legion" in middle school.…
23 Nov 2011, 17:40
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VERY directly. Blue is not warm enough for ... their seeds to hatch? eggs to sprout?…
23 Nov 2011, 17:38
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Definitely. And various shorts as well, and of course all of Latro. Thank god his narrators are not judgmental bores (like Wright can be).…
23 Nov 2011, 16:35
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Is it impossible to equate a clone with a son? After all, if you or I cloned ourselves, we would raise the result as a son. All we'd be doing is cutting out the middle, er, middl…
23 Nov 2011, 15:23
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Interesting observation. Or something about small men and big women? Note Incus calls Femur a "sibling," not brother or sister. Seems generally to be a sexually ambiguous family…
23 Nov 2011, 14:35
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Yes. He was helped after he set off, not before. He's recursive in a different dimension from the others.…
23 Nov 2011, 01:59
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Ah, of course. All the more reason for Mucor not to make a speech like the ghost of Xmas Future. Technically, she could have said, Psst, Silk---go to New Viron! But Silk would n…
22 Nov 2011, 21:39
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Why is that not the Silk she is looking for?…
22 Nov 2011, 21:24
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Yes, that's right. Moly.…
22 Nov 2011, 20:47
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That was indeed a strange moment, seemingly at right angles to what the surface story required.…
22 Nov 2011, 20:45
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Yeah, we seem to need some notation to bracket and specify some simple associative ideas, like "is" but you get tired of doing that. Analyzing Wolfe requires so many different "i…
22 Nov 2011, 18:58
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That "definiteness" is an interesting problem. I agree that the narrator waves a big flag about it and that this is a critical aspect of the event. But you must also agree that t…
22 Nov 2011, 17:43
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Me too. Arguments should be kept separate from personalities as much as possible---in both directions. I don't participate in this list for the scintillating personalities.…
22 Nov 2011, 17:26
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That's absolutely true. Blue especially is deceptively simple.…
22 Nov 2011, 15:40
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Once again you twist others' words to make them appear silly. You don't even bother to pretend the level of respect for others that requires you to properly quote their ideas. I'…
22 Nov 2011, 15:02
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Gerry, no sarcasm is silly if it gets an extremely stubborn person to pay a tiny bit of attention. Seawrack tells us. Read the text you adore so much. And by the way, YOU invente…
22 Nov 2011, 14:52
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Gerry, see Marc's and Lee's posts on reading between two simultaneous interpretations. Ever see Rashomon? Ever read "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"?…
22 Nov 2011, 14:47
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Osiris was both living AND dead, and that's why he became king of the underworld.…
22 Nov 2011, 14:43
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NO. Horn was a spiritless corpse. Babbie was right. I see. So again, humans and Neighbors are exactly the same and you can switch their positions to get really useful answers.…
22 Nov 2011, 14:42
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I've asked the same question, more or less, not really expecting a reply. To put it another way: if, say, 10% of a mind is always left behind, is 10% enough? Is it enough for so…
22 Nov 2011, 14:39
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I have thought this as well. However, it has nothing to do with plot, which is what is being worked out here.…
22 Nov 2011, 14:35
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I dunno. I think Mary said he looked a little "green" after he rolled away the stone!…
22 Nov 2011, 12:57
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We are all Fools in our own ways! No, I kid.…
22 Nov 2011, 01:06
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What, because it's not listed next to her name in the character list? You've completely backed away abandoned any pretense of discussion on that point. You've left all questions …
21 Nov 2011, 23:57
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But to what purpose? To merely emphasize that Horn was knocked really, really unconscious---hard enough to acquire Faerie powers? And Babbie was also really impressed---oh, but t…
21 Nov 2011, 23:54
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They would never ask anyone for help, ever.…
21 Nov 2011, 23:40
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Maybe, except that James and I actually can't stand each other for political reasons. ;)…
21 Nov 2011, 23:38
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Fair enough.…
21 Nov 2011, 23:37
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This is science fiction.…
21 Nov 2011, 23:36
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I remember thinking that's what happened to Severian. Fool me twice!…
21 Nov 2011, 23:35
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What else would you call it?…
21 Nov 2011, 23:28
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Not at all. Even if they simply let it unfold.…
21 Nov 2011, 22:13
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Yes. That Neighbor says they COULD do it themselves, but Horn would do it better. Perhaps it is in some strange way also true of Horn in the pit, even though it doesn't seem that…
21 Nov 2011, 22:13
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To be fair, some are quite sneaky. You read through, seeing through a few, then come to a passage that makes you uncomfortable, but you HAVE to accept it and go on. It's like a d…
21 Nov 2011, 20:47
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Fair enough.…
21 Nov 2011, 20:18
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I'm not sure how you know this but I agree. Typical Faerie behavior. Possibly. I said much the same thing (you called it "inane sarcasm") and suggested that it was a test of sort…
21 Nov 2011, 20:17
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I am unsure of this, but I agree that such sharing is far from fatal. Versus a tusked one .... there is a reason why Horn's boys are Hoof and Hide. Perhaps, although Nettle is n…
21 Nov 2011, 19:59
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Agreed. Resurrection is surely not a power to be handed out equally among them, but who knows. Maybe Babbie sees him alive (yes, he told Seawrack he was dead but he didn't say h…
21 Nov 2011, 19:55
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This means the sun had set 2 hours before Krait returned. When it was burning gold, it was dawn---any dawn. Wolfe jumps around, you see. A Neighbor who seeks to give some part of…
21 Nov 2011, 19:52
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That may explain why you're so hostile---you read looking for sarcasm. And btw James did not propose a "rescue mission." To even say that says more about you than you realize. Y…
21 Nov 2011, 19:47
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Correct. It doesn't appear to depend on anything. As far as I can tell---you haven't actually posted it.…
21 Nov 2011, 19:33
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Why are those problems? Did you read anything I proposed on those topics? Presumably, yes. Based on .... ?…
21 Nov 2011, 18:54
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In some mysterious way you refuse to reveal so that no one can prove you wrong. How do you know which Neighbor it was? Why do you assume the Neighbor who resurrected him is no l…
21 Nov 2011, 18:20
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I forget---does Nettle later relate being haunted by Horn? I know they got the manuscript eventually.…
21 Nov 2011, 18:17
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I get it now. Horn didn't tell Nettle he was a Neighbor, so ... he wasn't! I also failed to fully answer a question. I think the Neighbor was seeing what the new Horn would do wh…
21 Nov 2011, 18:16
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