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Let me take a shot at it. 1) I would suppose that when Tautaros says "when the first people came here" he means "came to the Whorl generally". 2) As they traveled deeper into th…
16 Sep 2010, 20:25
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Jack, the title is misleading. It was not an interview performed by Mantis. He only acted as a go between for members of this List asking questions about the Book of the Long Sun…
16 Sep 2010, 18:51
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: I do remember -or imagine I remember- an interview in which someone tried to pin Wolfe down about Pike's ghost. As I remember it, they asked was Pike's ghost a real ghost or w…
16 Sep 2010, 14:29
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I'll recombine two threads here... But, Roy, the citizens of Trivigaunted were not _unaware _of the other gods. They merely only honored Sphigx. So their memories of the Typhonic…
15 Sep 2010, 20:39
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"Iron girl" is two syllables if you have a Texas accent. u+16b9…
15 Sep 2010, 18:53
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At the end of RttW Oreb says "Good Fishing". This statement as odd on a number of levels, of course, but one way that it did is that it felt like a FAIL regarding Oreb's character…
15 Sep 2010, 18:17
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The concept of monotheism as a central doctrinal signifier was foundational to Islam from the beginning. "There is no god by God" is the first doctrinal tenant of a Muslim. As f…
15 Sep 2010, 14:59
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Typhon could not have prevented those closest to him from knowing that, and those are the ones he had to fear and control. While the Ayuntamiento had reasons to keep their chem-n…
15 Sep 2010, 14:35
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Blanko: white (town) Morello: a sour cherry or, possibly "bitter" (general) Torda: petite one (servant) We've gotten so used to names being carefully selected. It's strange have …
14 Sep 2010, 22:51
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A tyrant must induce people to obey him. Would anyone obey a robot? Mamelta's attitude toward them makes me think the idea would be preposterous. Secular tyrants like Stalin and …
14 Sep 2010, 20:34
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Me either. Here's the text: 4. /Was what Silk saw in the manteion Pike's ghost, or an aquastor, or what?/ -- It was seen in the manse, not the manteion; it wasn't machine made. …
14 Sep 2010, 17:37
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I agree. The shriving. The "sign of addition". It all says "Roman Catholic!" in all-caps. But "augur" and the practice of "augury" is from the Etruscan religions. "Sybil" is a La…
14 Sep 2010, 17:36
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Also, the veneration of the Holy Family and saints. All of these were all presented as evidence, by Islamic competitors, that 8th c Christianity was polytheistic. While there mi…
14 Sep 2010, 17:22
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That seems to be the implication based on the analogous situation with Scylla. Pas was wiped from the Mainframe. Fragments of him survived in Patera Jerboa, and IMO Oreb and Sand…
14 Sep 2010, 16:40
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There are downsides to chem bodies as the Ayuntamiento discovered. Being downloaded into a chem body might reasonably give Typhon no more actual legal status than uploading his p…
14 Sep 2010, 16:27
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Even people strongly disinclined to "clone-theories" have recognized strong associations between Silk and Typhon/Pas. I suspect Wolfe --who left far more subtle narrative details…
14 Sep 2010, 15:28
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I disagree. He has loving memories of his mother but, heck, she was his only living relative and she only died a few years previously. As for being metrosexual, I don't see it. R…
13 Sep 2010, 20:56
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Okay. It's beside the point here. But as I say, it was a good point at the time. u+16b9…
13 Sep 2010, 19:45
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They suck because they do. Compared to Hoof and Hide, the name connection of Horn to Sinew is almost an insult. It's like saying "Technically, you're my son but..." On the other…
13 Sep 2010, 18:39
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I hate to get picky about the text but there is absolutely no emphatic reason to believe that Typhon would be singularly identifiable from either his Pas-avatar or the iconograph…
13 Sep 2010, 17:31
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I'm back and released from my imprisonment. I also had trouble relocating these references by normal hunt and peck methods. I've started another pass through the books. But I'm …
13 Sep 2010, 16:03
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Xiphias, Pike, Fish What's that? I thought I heard the sound of someone's head exploding. Never mind, I'm sure it's nothing. u+16b9…
02 Sep 2010, 05:52
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Of course! They thought Hy was at the head of an invasion of the Guard! Oh. So Xiphias was just doing as he was told. Except he wasn't told to watch out for small prostitutes. An…
02 Sep 2010, 04:14
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I'm guessing this was accomplished with memory wipes such as the Sleepers underwent. The original cargo had no memory of Typhon as a flesh-and-blood Calde'. Only as a god. It se…
01 Sep 2010, 20:52
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I'm not sure how this would makes sense, from a story-telling perspective unless it were revealed somehow. Why have sleepers? Why have embryos? Why have a Plan? u+16b9…
01 Sep 2010, 19:33
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Why do you say that? Chenille is certainly a big woman. "Ignoring him, Blood pointed to the still form beneath the sheet. "Somebody get that out of sight. You there. Chenille. Yo…
01 Sep 2010, 19:00
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I'm not sure I see how this is evidence of anything. There are any number of causes and reasons that Tussah -- who grew up under conditions far different from Typhon -- would hav…
01 Sep 2010, 18:37
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I don't want any confusion about this. Although Hy said she wanted to take lessons from Xiphias I don't recall any that she actually *did* it. Also, Hy didn't just best the pilot…
31 Aug 2010, 19:30
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It's funny. If I were going to give a theme to the Long Sun/Short Sun novel, I would say it is /Transformation/. Rose into Marble. Marble into all the things I say she became. Mi…
31 Aug 2010, 19:06
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I like this reference on a lot of levels. Check the article on Melusina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melusine) that linked to in the syrenka article. Incidentally, while we're …
30 Aug 2010, 18:46
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I could not agree more. Literally. I do not believe more agreement than I am currently pulling off is humanly achievable. Any more, and I risk flipping all the way around into op…
30 Aug 2010, 16:09
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Hmm...like the sound of that idea. I wish it were true. No. I really don't have an answer. But I know what I'm looking for: When people hear "something that sounds like", they he…
30 Aug 2010, 14:36
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Whatever name Horn heard, I'll find it hard to believe it didn't start with an "s" in the first syllable and end with a K or "chi" sound. u+16b9…
30 Aug 2010, 12:43
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Dave, Good on you for fingering these. I'll respond about this tonight. u+16b9…
30 Aug 2010, 12:40
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Really, as Wolfe originally envisioned /The Book of the New Sun/, there was no real change at the end. His publishers urged him to write /Urth of the New Sun/. It was a bit of a …
30 Aug 2010, 12:36
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: Oh no! In a Wolfe story I must insist that if a misidentification occurs, it is accurate in some way. Yes, there is the clone theory available. I used to like it a great deal.…
30 Aug 2010, 03:12
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As I told you then, I'm inclined to trust Marble's observations above the motivations Hy gave to her abductors for sending them on errands. Does it not bother you just a little b…
30 Aug 2010, 01:22
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I think we should be looking for him elsewhere in the story, as well. I believe this is a puckish answer. Hyacinth has at least two "mothers" mentioned in the story. Here Wolfe i…
29 Aug 2010, 13:06
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Should be "in the grandmother's story" u+16b9…
29 Aug 2010, 02:20
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Tell you what. Now I'm feeling a little guilty. I don't want to play peek-a-boo. I'll give the synopsis without the textual proofs and give the rest later. Actually, others will …
29 Aug 2010, 01:50
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Oh no! I'm quite certain Orpine herself is significant somehow. I believe she is Blood's daughter (thus a connection to Mucor), but I think there is more than that. Her murder wa…
29 Aug 2010, 00:38
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They are not just dreams, but, no, I don't have an answer for this one, because it is tied up in the significance of Orpine -- who is a key centerpiece in Silk's enlightenment. A…
28 Aug 2010, 11:18
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"I see my light come shining from the West down to the East" My jailers have not deigned to release me. Like the Student making Son, I must beg for more Time. I only hope that I …
27 Aug 2010, 19:37
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Has Waggish read An Evil Guest? Also, Wolfe has always been a populist right-winger. Last year at this time I heard him say (as I reported then): "The form of government I favor…
26 Aug 2010, 14:07
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This is what Mr Waggish said about 7AN in Dec. 2009: "The multiplicity of interpretations of 7 American Nights suggests to me that no, it will never be figured out. There are too…
26 Aug 2010, 12:40
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Have we not learned from reading Wolfe that there are no "coincidences" of this sort? The Greek FATHER of Winds is the Cantonese GREAT (larger and more dominant personage of) Win…
25 Aug 2010, 21:40
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Well, I'm not a linguist so I can't begin to break it down. But each language has it's own special tendencies to change over time. And the vowels change the fastest. The most com…
25 Aug 2010, 15:50
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What I am saying is this. We know Silk is a clone-with-improvements. I proffer that he is a clone of Fish. From Calde of the Long Sun, Chap X: "Silk did not hear Sand's reply; …
25 Aug 2010, 14:41
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LOL Well, *I* think the Neighbors *are* at least some of the trees, so there ya are. And the Rajan did refer to the trees as "sleepy" which is what you'd expect from dream-travel…
24 Aug 2010, 22:08
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I am feeling a little singled out. Look, it's not really a baroque or complicated explanation. It's not intuitive, but it's founded on one pretty well-known event in text. And l…
24 Aug 2010, 21:23
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