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Thanks! I assumed that was the case from his poetic descriptions of engineering concepts, but given Dorcas and her flowers, and a hundred other examples, he seems to know his plan…
24 Aug 2000, 11:59
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Mantis wrote: As to what happened to cause this separation between logic and non-logic, it seems to me to be the same sort of scientific triumphs that we have seen in the 20th cen…
10 Aug 2000, 18:24
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Perhaps Severian is Pelagic in the sense that mankind's savoir achieves salvation for himself and Urth by an act of free will -- renouncing the life of cruelty and decadence repres…
19 May 2000, 12:36
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One quick and easy parallel is the use of proper names translated to reflect the original meanings of the words. Compare PKD's Horselover Fat with Seven Lions in Soldier.…
08 Mar 2000, 14:27
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I always understood that the chiliarch was protecting against news of Typhon's weakened, post-operative condition, and not the fact that he would be sporting two heads for a while.…
13 Dec 1999, 18:55
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Ron wrote: <<Mantis, you've done an admirable job of not bragging onlist, but I am dying Yeah! Any chance of an advance opportunity to purchase a copy for those of us on this lis…
02 Dec 1999, 15:41
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Rostrum wrote: <<On the other hand, it doesn't make much sense to assume the white hole is an eternal solution to entropy. All the stars are gonna die eventually (unless this is …
01 Dec 1999, 09:23
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Jim wrote: <<Well, I'd read Eco first, so I was set up for it. Good food for thought there, and thank you. Carlton…
27 Oct 1999, 18:04
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<<"My own thinking started by noticing that Blind Ultan is Borges..." >> Tom Urash wrote: <<That's brilliant! My love and admiration for BONS has just gone up another level. Borg…
27 Oct 1999, 17:16
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Not to shake that tired old stick at the question, but maybe the Claw had something to do with it. An alternative: perhaps the word "lead" as used in the text refers to something …
29 Sep 1999, 18:16
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