-
Do we know anything about the other Autarchs? Perhaps they were all reared at the Order of the Seekers of Truth and Penitence. u+16b9…
19 Jul 2010, 19:09
-
Without followers, why would the Megatherians stay? Typhon surely would not have remained when the entire human population was reduced to....what a few dozen? I'm not sure why it…
19 Jul 2010, 19:02
-
Well, Palaemon is also referred to as "Master" in exactly the same way "that priests in the Catholic Church are addressed as Father". That is, it is his title. No one in the Whor…
18 Jul 2010, 04:44
-
The thing about inquiry is that you don't know if it's useful until you've done it. Is it? "Pater" means "father" in Latin. "Pateras" means father in medieval Latin. "Patera" is…
17 Jul 2010, 18:30
-
Are you really so sure about the use of the word "clearly" that you only require a single "?" ? u+16b9…
16 Jul 2010, 20:30
-
The homonymous naming is not incidental, neither in mythology nor, I believe, on Urth. In the cosmological sense, Gyoll is sometimes a river and sometimes a rock, but it is the s…
16 Jul 2010, 16:04
-
Actually and symbolically. That is the way I think Wolfe intended the parable of the Golden Book to be read. Have you not found and read Severian's autobiography? Have you not th…
16 Jul 2010, 15:50
-
I think you *might* be right. I mean, we are still left with the fact that his name does not match any naming convention in the book. However, even if you are right, this does no…
16 Jul 2010, 15:46
-
Master Ultan's Library is expansive and extends though Time as well. Your local library is an extension of M. Ultan's Library. Same with your local bookstore and the bookshelves …
16 Jul 2010, 15:31
-
Well, "Typhon *drives* his flock off of Urth" is more accurate I think. He also drives them off the Whorl. It is Silk (indirectly) and Patera Quetzal (directly) who *leads* the …
14 Jul 2010, 15:44
-
In this case, I meant "southerners" in the sense of any state that was on the right side of the Great Cause. ;-) That is, those who would use the term "yankee" as I did. My famil…
13 Jul 2010, 19:45
-
Ironic. "Loud" is the stereotype that Texans and other southerners have of yankees. And it is the stereotype that Europeans have of Americans. Perhaps if you don't like the idea …
13 Jul 2010, 19:26
-
Incidentally, "finire" means "to end" and also "to limit". Terminus Est also has these dual meanings, essentially. u+16b9…
13 Jul 2010, 19:16
-
Hear! Hear! Don't forget aquastors. Additionally, it is important to note (as I do fairly often) that Wolfe can be very free-wheeling when it comes to familial titles and associa…
13 Jul 2010, 16:48
-
As has been noted before, tBotNS has references to Robert Graves' "I, Claudius". It appears that Severian is, potentially, not the only one with parallels to Christ. u+16b9…
13 Jul 2010, 15:45
-
might BE Platonic, that is.…
12 Jul 2010, 21:06
-
Just when I'm ready to leave the Norse association behind, you pull me back in. You're right about Heimdall because he's the Norse Janus. The link between Janus, Pan, and Osirus …
12 Jul 2010, 20:50
-
My argument is that Fr Inire's interest in young girls might not be Platonic and yet still be procreative. Somehow, I never imagined Maitre making David "the old fashioned way". …
12 Jul 2010, 20:27
-
Oops! I meant V.R.T.…
12 Jul 2010, 20:22
-
I do! I like a lot. "Inuus" (the enterer) links to Inire's name, to Typhon as Pan, and to Typhon as the two faced Janus, god of doorways. If Inire=Inuus, then it would follow th…
12 Jul 2010, 20:10
-
Well, I'm the guy who argues that the word "inhuma" comes from a complex and multi-layered word association with the name "Dionysus", so swim at your own risk. Puns are a tricky …
12 Jul 2010, 17:23
-
Hm...let me make a distinction in terms: "chained to a rock", not "marooned" there. And by associating Fr Inire with Fenrir, I do not intend to say that Fr Inire was captured and…
12 Jul 2010, 08:40
-
I'm sure you caught this, but it was late and I failed to spell it out: Fr. Inire = Fenrir That's a pretty darn close anagram. u+16b9 //…
10 Jul 2010, 13:52
-
Plenty of reasons potentially. He's a wolf which would appeal to the author. Additionally, he's destined to be chained to rock until the end of the world. You don't think F. Inir…
10 Jul 2010, 07:29
-
Ouen is the Scottish form of Eugene. I just did a search and found out someone pointed this out 12 years ago. Pan is the only god to die within historical time (see Plutarch's L…
10 Jul 2010, 06:09
-
Fenrir…
10 Jul 2010, 05:49
-
And look! Now we're fine again. There's a lesson there about emotions. They seem as big and imposing as a house and an offense against them is a knife through your heart. Then yo…
10 Jul 2010, 05:48
-
Look, when one becomes exasperated, that's the time to take the conversation off-list. I want to apologize to Antonio and to anyone who read my just previous responses to him. I …
10 Jul 2010, 00:17
-
This is an excellent example of what I'm talking about. In the definition for Dorcas, Mantis places her status as Severian's grandmother in the commentary...a location that, in t…
10 Jul 2010, 00:00
-
No. You misread part of that. I did not call it a half-baked theory. I said this: If it was explained in terms at all before the late 90s, I'm unaware of it. It's not an issue o…
09 Jul 2010, 22:16
-
Wolfe does make mistakes. And he can inadvertently reuse ideas. A famous instance that he noted himself is that his protagonist in "The Other Dead Man" and the villain in "An Evi…
09 Jul 2010, 21:58
-
I actually got the insinuation. Subtle. Nice! "This ain't a democracy." But is today really the moment to call the cops? Perhaps a couple days ago, yeah. But today? On the other …
09 Jul 2010, 21:38
-
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. ~ Babylon 5…
09 Jul 2010, 21:23
-
No. This does not explain why the first question made no sense or was beside the point. It only shows that you preferred another term. You could have opted to answer the question…
09 Jul 2010, 21:09
-
Look. English is not your first language. I get that. But you are allowing your debility to make an ass of you. Also, didn't you just chide me for trimming messages for emphasis? …
09 Jul 2010, 21:06
-
I mean that they they are *clearly*, almost to the point of self-evidence, intended by the author to signal something. Or as Roy put it today in the initial post of the "Monkey B…
09 Jul 2010, 20:01
-
Read what? Still no citation? Tsk tsk. Five dodges now. Irrelevant question in this case. No speculated advantage. See what I did above? I used specific instances and showed how …
09 Jul 2010, 19:35
-
Knowing that the flooding of Urth is "bad" would require knowledge of what happened to all those people who were transported to other planets in Master Ash's timeline. Also, what…
09 Jul 2010, 19:13
-
I think should elaborate on this. Sure there were people who read tBotNS and said "Aha! Dorcas is Severian's grandmother." That Number Five's name could be derived from the text …
09 Jul 2010, 19:08
-
I don't know how it could have passed your notice that this issue was debated on this list in detail in the late 90s. u+16b9…
09 Jul 2010, 18:47
-
Bait the hook, then reel them in. You still haven't delineated the relevant differences between "Inire is Rudesind" and "Dorcas is Severian's grandmother". So this gives me a cha…
09 Jul 2010, 18:26
-
Sure. But anyone...probably any living thing...could be an aquastor. Why would being an aquastor help things along? u+16b9…
09 Jul 2010, 17:35
-
There are smilodons and giant sloths. I presume these are generally indistinguishable for the ancient extinct varieties. I really did assume when I first read this that we were t…
09 Jul 2010, 14:41
-
Actually, I'm pretty sure you haven't. Cite the email where you did. And it won't count unless you use the words "Dorcas" and "grandmother". If you have, I can't understand why …
09 Jul 2010, 14:38
-
The word "avacado" derives directly from the Aztec word for testicle and the fruit. Perhaps there are no avacados in the cooling Urth.…
08 Jul 2010, 16:12
-
What would be worse? The threat of spontaneous combustion should be sufficient. u+169b…
08 Jul 2010, 15:09
-
??? Here are the following threads you've responded to on this: Additionally, I've continued to pose the question on this thread. You didn't take the opportunity to explain how t…
08 Jul 2010, 12:30
-
err...thank you? or I'm outraged! Please accept whichever response is most appropriate. ;-) u+16b9…
08 Jul 2010, 10:49
-
For the record, I don't give a hoot about Rudesind and only a little bit about Fechin. Whatever Inire is, is fine with me. But what I don't like is cheap shots. And that is what …
08 Jul 2010, 04:46
-
This is not really the course of the argument as I saw it. I can come up with an equally tendentious synopsis of the course of this argument from the other side. To a large exten…
07 Jul 2010, 22:45
Urth Net