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Surely you don't think I'm unaware of that? u+16b9…
24 Aug 2010, 20:02
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Everything you say here is 100% true. Absolutely true. Everything. Including that Hy is human and Fava is an inhuma. However, don't be fooled by appearances. Horn said Hy *could*…
24 Aug 2010, 17:44
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yes. no. no. u+16b9…
24 Aug 2010, 17:28
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...oh, but she's a woman...she's all woman...every little bit...so don't freak out.…
24 Aug 2010, 15:44
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I mean she IS Fava: the inhuma the Rajan meets in "In Green's Jungles". I can't gather all the references right now. I'll try to do it this weekend. u+16b9…
24 Aug 2010, 15:38
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Yep. That's the bird. Thanks Roy. u+16b9…
23 Aug 2010, 20:26
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Man! That would be cool. However, I think your email system is probably dropping all Lee's posts in spam or something. I'm showing he's sending to the list and I see his posts on…
23 Aug 2010, 15:25
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I'm the guy who once proposed (after just finishing "Long Sun") that maybe Hyacinth was a male chem who transformed herself into Hyacinth -- in some way I didn't understand, but …
23 Aug 2010, 14:29
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Just to clarify. I don't mean Silk IS Fish, but that he is a clone of Fish (with improvements). u+169b…
23 Aug 2010, 13:59
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It was a typo. I meant Typhon's daughter, Cilinia/Scylla. At the end of "Return to the Whorl", Silk travels with Scylla-in-Oreb (essentially, the last remnant of Scylla). She is …
23 Aug 2010, 13:41
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Premise 1: Pas & Kypris = Typhon & Mamelta = Spring Wind & Bird of the Woods (The character list in Book of the Long Sun includes "Chico", Mamelta's parrot. Mamelta never mentions…
23 Aug 2010, 12:52
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Lee, Perhaps this works for you in The Book of the New Sun, but how do you incorporate it into The Book of the Long Sun? Some see Silk as a clone of Typhon. Others think he is t…
22 Aug 2010, 22:01
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Wolfe pronounced it "rice" with the "i" held as in "rise". Further, Wolfe described Ries as the perfect villain: "a man who falls just short of being a hero". u+16b9…
20 Aug 2010, 21:37
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Funny. Unless Wolfe has changed his mind, there is a character named REES [phonetically represented because I don't know how it's spelled.] I asked him whether the similarity in …
20 Aug 2010, 14:53
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There is a sense of something of like this in "The Book of the Long Sun" as well. Tussah said "Though he is not the son of my body, my son will succeed me." But Horn pointed out …
20 Aug 2010, 00:20
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One quibble. We use dogs to sniff out drugs and bombs because we lack that ability ourselves. The Hierofoos are the ideal imagined by the Hieros. But they are not necessarily the…
19 Aug 2010, 23:04
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Thematically, this also makes sense because after the procession, the text says: "It is very late-three, my watch says." Three o'clock is the hour of Christ's death. Additionall…
19 Aug 2010, 17:47
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Definitely do! So you don't think Typhon is human? I might have been more likely to believe that before "An Evil Guest". But the similarities between Typhon and Bill Ries make m…
19 Aug 2010, 14:47
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But, as you know, determining which clue is the right one is the trick. Scylla on the Whorl is software entity and she came with the Whorl. When we do meet her in the Short Sun b…
18 Aug 2010, 15:47
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I don't guess I mind, but out of curiosity, how did I get to be Jeff Wilson? When I say Scylla, I mean the megatherian of Urth. The reason I suggest it is only that the original S…
18 Aug 2010, 13:58
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It just occurred to me that Blue might be Scylla's home planet. u+16b9…
18 Aug 2010, 12:25
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Fava, or so I believe. When her body died, her soul was left behind in Dreamland. The connection between the Neighbors and Mother is key, whatever it is. There's some kind of co…
18 Aug 2010, 11:31
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Well, they are there for *him*. Because he knows where the clues are and he knows where the clues are *not*. I'm sure he thinks it's perfectly obvious who that guy was with barna…
17 Aug 2010, 21:41
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Mark, Label me chastened. I hereby promise to play by the rules from now on. Although I'm doing it "by rote" without any real comprehension of the problems of those who want it…
16 Aug 2010, 23:15
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Well, the inhumi were such masters of disguise that almost nothing they did would surprise me. The Neighbors could easily dream-travel their way to the Whorl and aid Quetzel's a…
16 Aug 2010, 20:57
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On page 2 of Shadow of the Torturer, Severian makes an error of fact regarding whether Drotte or Roche said the men were carrying pikes. There is no doubt that Severian makes mis…
16 Aug 2010, 20:29
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What makes you think they were there before the Whorl orbited B&G? I'd really like for them to have been on Urth but I doubt there is anyway they could. Didn't the Neighbors say …
16 Aug 2010, 20:20
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Wolfe has said it already in the text in many various ways. So, properly, you should say "anything *more* Wolfe can say". As for you, Roy, the majority of the most important proo…
16 Aug 2010, 20:16
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Alice Cooper used to have himself beheaded during his shows at the turn of the 70s decade. It's an old illusion. This scene parallels the both the story of the Green Knight and t…
16 Aug 2010, 19:13
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I see your point. But for me, I see proofs (which, granted, are of a nature that you might not find compelling) that --without these letters -- would have strongly inclined me to…
16 Aug 2010, 16:47
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If the beings in another iteration are sufficiently different from humanity that they could not be called human, then I suppose different rules would apply just as they do for in…
16 Aug 2010, 16:14
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Well, remember that in the Book of the Long Sun, the Outsider...the Increate of all Briahs...reaches out to Silk with the image of Jesus on the cross. if Sev's iteration of Briah…
16 Aug 2010, 15:22
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: My point, snarkily formed, was that humanity had a redeemer, just not in Sev's iteration of Briah. u+16b9…
16 Aug 2010, 15:06
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But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the …
16 Aug 2010, 14:22
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: This is cool. I detailed why Incus is a woman for general informational edification, rather than for help working out the theory. As I said, it's a point of fact for me--beyon…
16 Aug 2010, 14:13
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I'm not really "frustrated" with Roy, because, knowing him on the list as I have for quite a while, I realize where he is coming from. And I know that, often, I can't possibly ge…
16 Aug 2010, 13:24
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I said before that I don't think the settings (as opposed to the themes) of the Sun Cycle should be scrutinized theologically. For that reason, I don't really like the idea of a …
16 Aug 2010, 12:09
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This seems quite plausible. u+16b9…
16 Aug 2010, 11:47
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Roy, I don't think you and I are going to come to an agreement about this. Your statement "The two underlined parts of the [first] note are not related" is an "Uncle Andrew" mom…
16 Aug 2010, 09:44
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This was another JW...or a cognate if Josh was right. u+16b9…
16 Aug 2010, 02:05
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??? This is a strange argument. It would be mildly scandalous to be alone with a woman in an augur's residence at night. It would not be at all wrong for augurs to be in the casu…
16 Aug 2010, 00:53
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heh "letter" not "email".…
15 Aug 2010, 18:15
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Hmm..Interesting, since fulmar means "foul gull". Thanks. u+16b9…
15 Aug 2010, 18:12
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Tomayto Tomahto. Me neither. When Incus writes "our friend Bee. Bee himself." and then decides "Fulmar would be utterly thrown off the scent by _the male pronoun_", he is not re…
15 Aug 2010, 18:10
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The valet had been altered by Incus. Thus, "satisfaction" at asking how long since he had received his wages. Therefore, having already seen the chem and knowing full well what t…
15 Aug 2010, 15:40
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I think Viron must use linnaean taxonomy or a close cognate of it. At least is an old system that was employed by the Whorl imagineers of Vironese culture in the same way that th…
15 Aug 2010, 14:41
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That doesn't really work. 1) The valet was a male chem. "Nor would the trouble and loss of time go entirely unrecompensed; he, Incus, would at least have the satisfaction of inqu…
15 Aug 2010, 14:29
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Well, it wouldn't be much of a secret and it is hard to imagine that either the Charter or Vironese society would care much. Spider certainly doesn't bother to hide his preferenc…
15 Aug 2010, 06:37
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One other association that I meant to point out: a) hymen (derived from the Greek for "membrane" b) tympanic membrane in the ear drum c) incus (a bone in the ear drum) u+16b9…
14 Aug 2010, 19:50
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Well, Lee did. ;-) Some people --present company included-- are just better at making astounding conclusive leaps than others. u+16b9…
14 Aug 2010, 19:36
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