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1. Why Patera Inucus is a woman... 1.1 The Letters to Fulmar In Lake of the Long Sun, Incus is attempting to say something to "My Dear Friend Fulmar". The Patera is trying to exp…
14 Aug 2010, 19:34
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Well, lets assume that life on a planet was intelligently designed...that it was an artifice. And lets assume that after that moment and for 3 billion years following, although t…
14 Aug 2010, 17:00
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Nicholas, Friendly (albeit unrequested) advice. The best way to get people to respond to you is to quote what they said and put your response after. u+16b9…
13 Aug 2010, 23:28
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True. But, assuming one lived in an environment where all life was intelligently designed, questions about how an undefined intelligent life might have arisen naturally in an som…
13 Aug 2010, 23:26
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As I understand the theory of Intelligent Design, it posits that some natural and biological phenomena/processes are best understood and predicted if they are addressed with sci…
13 Aug 2010, 21:49
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Oops! This should have gone out in this thread.…
13 Aug 2010, 20:13
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As I have said before, I think it is a mistake to analyze these stories to see how their settings (as opposed to their themes) conform to systematic theology. However, I'll play …
13 Aug 2010, 20:08
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So then, supposedly OUR universe is some Briah (n+)? Do I have this right? u+16b9…
13 Aug 2010, 19:24
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Made from ukaris? u+16b9…
13 Aug 2010, 18:28
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What are these coins made of that feels so greasy? I was thinking polished brass, but I don't know. Any metallurgists out there? u+16b9…
13 Aug 2010, 18:23
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I can appreciate the never-say-die attitude, but I think that part surely _must_ be settled. As Ryan pointed out in an earlier post, Malrubius says he is not sure but thinks the …
13 Aug 2010, 18:20
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Lee, As someone who has faced IMO not-always-fair-play from objectors to his exegeses, this is just the way it is. Those most likely to give your models and explanations the mos…
13 Aug 2010, 14:02
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Hopefully, some portion of mankind evolved into Cajun restaurants. u+16b9…
12 Aug 2010, 21:15
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I'm also perplexed by this statement but I am certain that it *doesn't* mean that Yesod is the mantavara immediately *after* Briah. Could it be that Tzadkiel was already travelin…
12 Aug 2010, 21:10
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I was thinking of the giant crabs wandering on the beach that the protagonist encountered much later in in the Future. :-) u+16…
12 Aug 2010, 20:46
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eh...It could be worse. Urth's future for humanity is at least better than what HG Wells foresaw The Time Machine. u+16b9…
12 Aug 2010, 20:21
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If it is a Wolfe novel, it is almost certainly not a 1 to 1 mapping. I the other fellow might have been a phyiscal or psychic clone. Or software epitome that was created long ago…
12 Aug 2010, 15:09
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I don't think Wolfe was considering the Noahtic covenant when he wrote about the flood. Does he mention it in the Sun cycle at all? The Noahtic covenant could hardly be as proble…
11 Aug 2010, 17:54
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Baxter jumps out of a window and ends up in Faeri or the Spiritual World of Black, werewolves, and dream-traveling psychics. He has to crawl back into the window and walk back to…
11 Aug 2010, 17:44
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If this is true, then how does this jibe with what Severian says in Citadel: "But the beings Humanity had shaped into what men and women wished to be escaped, opening a passage to…
11 Aug 2010, 17:19
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Have you read The Sorcerer's House? u+16b9…
11 Aug 2010, 16:20
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Lee, Does this explanation posit a meta-universe called, say, "Madregot"? u+16b9…
11 Aug 2010, 15:30
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The decision to leave seems to be his own. I can't know this emphatically, but that was my conclusion based the thread and conversations with him afterward. u+16b9…
11 Aug 2010, 15:11
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But Lee, there's no reason for the Hierogrammates to get involved in Briah if they came from there. The event that led to the creation of their race has positively occurred there…
11 Aug 2010, 15:08
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Lee, The problem is much bigger than this single phrase. As I detailed, that entire passage makes the construct that Yesod is in our chain of universes untenable, however much I…
11 Aug 2010, 13:47
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So how can Apheta say that Severian's friends are unborn? How can they be explicitly dead or unborn? I would think that in Yesod both would be true since it beyond the entire his…
10 Aug 2010, 22:47
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Well, she is saying that in Yesod they _are_ traveling back in Time, no? I'm not sure how to clamp this to what Severian said about Yesod in _Citadel_. This seems to draw Yesod a…
10 Aug 2010, 19:49
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This one is resolved easily enough. The Hieros were humans of a previous universe. They were of Severian's race. u+16b9…
10 Aug 2010, 19:28
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Well, the Severian says here that the technology is the same. Tzakiel (a Hierogrammate) IS the ship, right? So unless Tzakiel has a method of travel that is different from his br…
10 Aug 2010, 17:31
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True. In fact, just after this very passage Severian says that the power to travel the corridors of Time is the same for escaping the universe. "The hammer they wield is their ab…
10 Aug 2010, 15:27
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Since he sees a Big Bang or Gib Gnab, I think it is likely to be the temporal end of the universe. u+16b9…
10 Aug 2010, 14:54
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No. I recall some questions to which he answered "I don't think the story answers that emphatically" (or words to that effect). He might claim that the important plot questions a…
10 Aug 2010, 10:55
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What I meant to say was that I am not convinced that Fr Inire is an inhume or neighbor. One reason is that the inhumi seem totally consumed with reproduction and passing as huma…
09 Aug 2010, 18:41
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Was anyone else stunned that Merryn was human? I believe that what he said was that Quetzal was "an recent arrival" which does not rule out the possibility that other inhumi were…
09 Aug 2010, 16:26
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I'm not so sure he would be so cosmopolitan about the Korean War as this implies. Seeing what North Korea has become, knowing what the Soviet Union was like and what happened 25 …
09 Aug 2010, 13:16
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Actually, aspects of Larmarckism are making a comeback with the understanding that our bodies are determined by more than our DNA blueprints. The following is a link to an abstra…
05 Aug 2010, 14:15
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Well, if a "confession" is all that is sought, then, yeah, torture isn't useful for ascertaining the truth. But if the goal is information, and the subject _has_ that information…
05 Aug 2010, 01:19
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As night following day, as the birth of the New Sun and the flooding of Urth, this was inevitable. u+16b9…
04 Aug 2010, 20:36
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The best way to respond to random hostility on a listserv is OFFLINE. The poster will very quickly lose interest in the conversation and, ultimately, you feel more satisfied. u+1…
02 Aug 2010, 02:06
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The best way to respond to this sort of random hostility on a listserv is OFFLINE. I assure you that the poster will very quickly lose interest in the conversation, and --if you …
02 Aug 2010, 01:14
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What's to wonder? This pitch practically sells itself. u+16b9…
30 Jul 2010, 19:06
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Where does he do this? u+16b9…
30 Jul 2010, 17:23
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Hmm...No. "I am full. No thank you."…
29 Jul 2010, 18:30
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So true. There are few things more annoying (although many as annoying) than a debater who invokes Occam's Razor and then sits back and twiddles his fingers-- "Problem solved". O…
29 Jul 2010, 14:51
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Well, Wolfe apparently included an entire backstory to Typhon, to his parents, and to a couple of his children in the story of Frog and Fish. So I think he must have given it mor…
27 Jul 2010, 22:47
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Silk also has a red-gold beard. "At his washstand upstairs, he stropped the big, bone-handled razor that had waited hi his mother's bureau until he was old enough to shave, lathe…
27 Jul 2010, 20:25
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Well, for all I know, there are Mormons on the list who have very insightful knowledge about Wolfe's writings. So, if I had anything personally bad to say about their beliefs, I'…
26 Jul 2010, 22:25
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Do you mean in the sense that their histories would be roughly compatible? I'm not sure there could be any guarantee of that. u+16b9…
26 Jul 2010, 16:49
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Well, as I understand it, Mormon's believe in succession of gods who preside over their own planets and humanity. But not a succession of universes -- comparable to gnostic aeons…
26 Jul 2010, 16:40
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I thought the implication of the skull Severian finds at the bottom of the Gyoll after the flood is that he drowned when she met him at the beginning of Shadow of the Torturer. T…
20 Jul 2010, 15:24
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