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I'm amused that you find cloud nines - basic physics & geometry - to be less mundane than magical invisible water conjured by wizards!…
11 Nov 2009, 23:30
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I think it's pretty decent, and not too long. The language is sometimes a bit affected where I suspect Wolf would've been terser. eg. I feel Wolfe might've written 'But I find I am…
11 Nov 2009, 01:01
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Yeah. To tell you the truth, I was convinced that they were in the pantry, because you see, the linguistic evidence is obvious: 'pantry' is pronounced as 'pantree', or 'pan-tree', …
29 Oct 2009, 20:35
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Ah yes, how could I forget Father Dure? Although arguably the rest of Simmons' Catholic Church falls neatly into the lie category. This sort of thing is one reason I avoid literat…
22 Sep 2009, 03:12
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A google of the list doesn't show anything: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=Circus+of+Dr.+Lao+site%3Awww.urth.net But a more generic google shows someone has indeed identif…
14 Sep 2009, 16:00
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Well, in my first email I had public domain as a desideratum, and in my second I clarified/expanded that to 'Free' works. (Can't say I didn't try!)…
10 Aug 2009, 02:28
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Ouch. It seemed like a good idea to me - if I want to read French, then the logical direction is French->English, not vice-versa.... Amazon has a very impressive selection of Wolf…
05 Aug 2009, 16:22
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Well, I find French->English much easier; also, translations of anything by Wolfe would be derivative works and so copyvios. I'm sure Wolfe would not sue me if I happened to post a…
05 Aug 2009, 16:08
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Severian says often that he never forgets, although he eventually modifies this to he usually doesn't forget and implies he knows those periods of forgetting: "It is my nature, my…
29 Jul 2009, 16:57
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By token of their obscurity, aren't they appropriate for such a lexicon? (But looking mews and limes up in my newly arrived _Lexicon Urthus_ 2nd edition, I see no entries. How dis…
25 Jul 2009, 19:07
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That's a pretty good dictionary indeed. But I'm starting to think there may be no one dictionary Wolfe used - that one doesn't include 'hanger', 'queer' (as in 'queer it'), 'coypun…
25 Jul 2009, 19:04
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hm. I didn't catch the roots for limer or bucky. Maybe a Lexicon Urthus is in order for the Long Sun/Short Sun books? - -- gwern -…
19 Jul 2009, 07:43
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That's certainly better; it has a few others - bob cull, 'scavey' (Wolfe spells it 'scavy'), cank, to twig, mort (but does Wolfe use mort just for women?), cits (but just in the pr…
11 Jul 2009, 02:53
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 That's a nice link too. But while we're on the topic, what's the Urth.net consensus on the cant in the Long Sun? Did Wolfe make it …
10 Jul 2009, 12:16
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 The first time through that story, my head asploded as well, until I looked up the dates and realized that _The King in Yellow_ had…
02 Jun 2009, 01:11
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Actually, that isn't too unreasonable. Neil Gaiman's _Absolute Sandman_ collections will cost you at least $60-70 new. And they don…
21 May 2009, 18:42
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 - From Isohunt for the most part. Particularly impressive is one group which regularly releases batches of 'Science Fiction and Fan…
20 May 2009, 22:39
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"There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over. Most beautiful children are dead. Most soldiers, most cowards. The fairest wo…
20 May 2009, 22:15
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Oh sure. There're plenty of ebook copies. They're awfully handy for searching. I haven't even tried (I got the ebooks from some torrents when I was looking for Niven stuff), but I'…
20 May 2009, 22:14
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Ah, but on Usenet we could look forward to surreal humor, bizarre interjections, profound non sequiturs, tech holy wars etc. Here we can look forward only to tedious arguments over…
20 May 2009, 01:55
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I had resolved to ignore these various discussions, because they make the worst of the old Usenet flame wars look like collegial & productive symposiums... But I have to ask: 'mil…
20 May 2009, 01:45
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:) Or should I be reacting with horror instead at the possible resurrection of the topic I think you're hinting at...…
30 Apr 2009, 00:13
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No. It was 9 April; recent enough I couldn't get to it through my library. But looking through various reviews, it seems quite different from _Peace_; even the name comes from a d…
11 Apr 2009, 22:56
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Well, I've never actually read his Little Red Book. Perhaps if I had, I'd've found it a closer match,…
03 Apr 2009, 18:44
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The Ascians we aren't told much about, but I think from the Tale of the righteous Asican, we are meant to assume that the glimpses confirm our suspicious of a Chinese mandarin-styl…
03 Apr 2009, 03:15
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That's interesting. As pleased as I am to have my reading validated like that, I'm a little disturbed that it had to be by non-public sources! Was this discussion ever written up o…
19 Mar 2009, 12:33
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote: ... ... I've always taken this as being the opposite of what is said in _Sword of the Lictor_:…
18 Mar 2009, 23:27
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If I may, it is threads like these that make me wish Urth had a 'List Sniper' along the lines of SL4's List Sniper: someone empowered to official declare a thread dead, and to enfo…
18 Mar 2009, 14:36
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If I may, I believe we are omitting a major & fundamental question. How is babby formed?…
18 Mar 2009, 02:31
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I'll throw in a suggestion. Perhaps there is a slit in the cloak. Then he could have the baldric all tight around his body but the actual sword and sheathe would be outside the c…
18 Feb 2009, 01:56
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Perhaps you could add plague spots/disease spots? Like sunspots. (Although maybe shading is not doable for the t-shirt and just dark spots don't convey the sickliness.)…
14 Feb 2009, 17:33
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That was the next step, yes. I was hoping for the unofficial scuttle-butt, if you will; an official email might not've been much informative. Was it worthwhile for you?…
01 Feb 2009, 02:27
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 For Baldanders, I can't help but think Marlon Brando (with SFX); perhaps _Apocalypse Now_ era Brando. - -- gwern -----BEGIN PGP SI…
15 Jan 2009, 00:39
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Personally, talking ravens make me think more of Edgar Alan Poe than Shakespeare. - -- gwern -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version…
07 Jan 2009, 23:28
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I saw that one too. Perhaps it's just me - but AEG seems to have, for a Wolfe, been absolutely savaged in the reviews. Based on th…
07 Jan 2009, 15:26
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 This would be incorrect; you drastically underestimate the limits of computing. An area the size of a laptop could simulate entire …
31 Dec 2008, 15:06
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 "There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because…
13 Dec 2008, 03:53
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 In some of the interviews in _Shadows_, he talks about how as a kid he would go to the pharmacy, grab one of the pulp sci-fi, myste…
12 Dec 2008, 03:51
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 'more or less' :( Inasmuch as I wrote that article, could you elaborate on the less part? - -- gwern -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----…
05 Dec 2008, 14:58
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03 Dec 2008, 01:06
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Besides the issues with being on the wrong continent, I think another problem is that the site is in the middle of some real mounta…
01 Dec 2008, 15:30
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Son of Witz wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREKAAYFA…
19 Nov 2008, 01:00
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 For another take on the crab canon, I proffer an extract from one of my favorite books: http://www.evl.uic.edu/swami/crabcanon - …
14 Nov 2008, 22:27
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 No. Some are, but many aren't. For example, I just tried googling some quotes from an interview by Nick Gevers and by Melissa Mia H…
05 Nov 2008, 19:34
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05 Nov 2008, 19:00
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 No. He's quite serious about it. "JJ: That is an interesting perspective on it, I hadn't thought of at all. My wife had one of her…
05 Nov 2008, 18:41
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05 Nov 2008, 15:12
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On 2008.10.22 12:04:59 -0500, Stephen Case <scase at olivet.edu> scribbled 0.6K characters: Random comments: I certainly hear echoes of Wolfe; particularly the justification of ki…
22 Oct 2008, 19:35
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On 2008.10.01 16:27:51 -0400, Bruce Hayles <brucehayles at gmail.com> scribbled 4.7K characters: ... Hm, but how would this Librarian-past work? The librarians only take young ch…
03 Oct 2008, 20:02
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On 2008.09.29 20:41:15 -0400, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> scribbled 3.6K characters: We may never know, unless someone asks him 'Did you write that scene really…
03 Oct 2008, 19:50
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