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Well, for sure! --Don…
08 Sep 2003, 16:42
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<html> Just dipping in for a moment, but Typhon and Baldanders are the same person thematically, as Crush suggests, in that they are both the two clearest representatives of the Og…
07 Sep 2003, 20:22
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Andrew, That's really interesting, especially as the content of THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is already inside The Book of the New Sun in that we get the text of Dr. Talos' play, whi…
08 Aug 2003, 17:00
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Teflon93 Obviously, he hasn't found the time to read it all yet, at that point. --Don Palumbo…
08 Aug 2003, 16:47
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<html> Mantis, Thanks! --Don Palumbo THE BOOK OF THE WONDERS OF URTH AND SKY in the Book of the New Sun? Does Severian still have it by the time he returns to Nessus as Autarch…
08 Aug 2003, 16:40
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<html> An easy question, but can anyone remember what finally becomes of THE BOOK OF THE WONDERS OF URTH AND SKY in the Book of the New Sun? Does Severian still have it by the tim…
07 Aug 2003, 17:46
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<html> Nutria, Wolfe is an engaging and surprisingly modest guy. I was once talking with him after having read only The Shadow of the Torturer (this must be at least 15 years ago…
10 Jul 2003, 16:47
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As a few people have said this, it may be worth pointing out that the Autarchs do not use the alzebo drug to pass on their memories. When the Autarch has Severian kill him and e…
09 Jul 2003, 17:05
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One interesting possibility as to why Severian is successful in bringing the New Sun is that he IS a professional torturer, or at least still has the mind-set and sensibility of …
09 Jul 2003, 17:00
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<html> Somewhere in BNS (it's at the end of Torturer), Sevarian talks about the writing process, comparing it to being a torturer, and says among other things that one of the tasks…
09 Jul 2003, 16:42
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<html> Of course, Wolfe is crass enough to copy, but he does it with such incredible style and intelligence, and never without giving it a twist of his own. BNS has Joseph Campbel…
08 Jul 2003, 20:55
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Craig, I'm rerererereading THE BOOK OF THE NE SUN now, and there are places in which Severian does learn something useful he had not noticed before in going over his memories. …
30 Jun 2003, 16:25
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<html> List, I know you have had an inconclusive running discussion regarding who these characters may be. Since just about all of the many apparent allusions in BOTNS are rather…
29 Jun 2003, 16:31
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