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Clipped. Should be... If the the Rajan can astral-travel, so can the Neighbors. It is certainly not a HUMAN ABILITY.…
10 Feb 2011, 17:34
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"Pike's Ghost" went to Pike's room, wore his callote, made noise. The fighters with the Rajan on Green fought and killed inhumi there. If the the Rajan can astral-travel, so can …
10 Feb 2011, 17:20
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I get what you mean about allusions, heaven knows. But I think this is different. We know the Neighbors left for some actual place, and the Neighbor says the _some_ of humanity c…
10 Feb 2011, 14:02
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Point taken. But Sinew, who mutinied against his father on Green, would not be seen as the same personality as Krait either.…
10 Feb 2011, 04:17
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I've thought about that regarding the Rajan and his association with Dionysus. It is Quetzal's parallel association with Dionysus that confirms for me that he was ensouled by Tus…
10 Feb 2011, 03:33
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There's a lot to like about this. My biggest problem has to do with the expedition being captured and enslaved by the inhumi. Without a thriving Neighbor colony on Green, there w…
10 Feb 2011, 03:28
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Dream-travel involves Time travel. The Rajan's appearance in the grandmother's tale proves it. The appearance of the astral traveling Oreb and the Rajan (as Pike's ghost) proves i…
10 Feb 2011, 02:40
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If they left when the Whorl arrived, it was more like 60 years ago, that is, around 40 years before the Exodus. However, your point is taken. I was overly glib in that response. …
10 Feb 2011, 02:35
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Except that it is difficult to imagine--based on the information available-- how they would do that. On the other hand, it is easy to see how they could have done it by infecting…
09 Feb 2011, 21:17
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Yes, what do Neighbors and sentient inhumi look like during soul travel? Honestly, I think the Neighbors that the resurrected HORN encountered were in astral form. There's a spec…
09 Feb 2011, 19:46
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Corrrection: The Rajan believed it necessary that the Neighbors ONCE had space ships. Indeed, it does seem logical that the Vanished People did not use dream-travel to travel to …
09 Feb 2011, 19:36
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It is, at best, inferrable. But it is a totally unnecessary presumption. Impossible. The inhumi must return to Green to lay their eggs. In your scenario, they would have to relea…
09 Feb 2011, 19:22
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Hmmm... crazy idea, but perhaps this is a good reason to reconsider one's reading regarding WHETHER the Neighbors transported natural-state inhumi to the Whorl. Perhaps this is a…
09 Feb 2011, 18:27
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Or, like a good engineer, we would assume that they accomplished the task with the methods at hand. Well, we do know that inhumi-powered dream-travel can get the Neighbors betwee…
09 Feb 2011, 17:55
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Because (unless someone can identity a Neighbor-ship) the only method of travel native to this system is via inhumi. I mean, if this were a story set in Polynesia in 1550 and some…
09 Feb 2011, 16:14
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Well, the fact that they knew Silk's body was soon to be available suggests they are there observing things. You make a good point though that the Neighbors can very well be acti…
09 Feb 2011, 15:44
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Is there any reference to the Neighbors having ships? If they have conventional spaceships, why did they have to wait for the Whorl to leave? u+16b9…
09 Feb 2011, 13:49
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http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/viron.htm…
08 Feb 2011, 19:47
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I don't see this as a problem at all. The many ways humanity is not an equal to the inhumi in intelligence. Within a few hours, Krait has "tamed" the resurrected HORN to the exte…
08 Feb 2011, 19:08
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This quote only says the Neighbors were infected humanity with inhumi. It doesn't say they brought them on the Whorl. That's one way they could have done it--if beings who can dr…
08 Feb 2011, 17:50
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http://www.capricon.org/capricon31/CC/index.php/reports/rep_schedule If you're near Chicago, you lucky bastard, Wolfe is supposedly going to be there this weekend. That panel "Suc…
08 Feb 2011, 15:57
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I just remembered that it is difficult for Dahlia to be Teasel's mother because Mint encounters her (and an old man whom I presume to be Hammerstone) at the end of Exodus. That's…
08 Feb 2011, 07:46
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Oh no! I thought Cage's hobby of collecting wild mushrooms one of those well-known facts about him. Maybe not so much. Perhaps that's just one more piece of loose trivia in my at…
08 Feb 2011, 06:19
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Mr. Hamm, honestly, when I wrote that analogy, I KNEW it would pull you from the woodwork. And, yet, it fit. I listen to much of his stuff and say, "He seems to know what he's do…
07 Feb 2011, 23:23
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I'll accept your opinion of her novels. I really only know her from her short stories..genre and literary. I recognize her technical ability, but I consistently have walked away …
07 Feb 2011, 22:31
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"I never understood any kind of border patrol when it comes to music. ~ Bob Dylan…
07 Feb 2011, 17:41
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It's worth noting that as far back as the 1970s Wolfe said that the only significant market for Short Stories anymore was in the SF genre (you'd have to include Fantasy and Horro…
07 Feb 2011, 16:46
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It is easy to think of "demiurge" as meaning "half-creator" because we often use "demi" to mean "something less than" or as synonymous with "semi" or "hemi". But actually it mean…
03 Feb 2011, 20:45
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It is an error (within Augustinian theology) to think of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as though they were different persons comprising a single entity...like Potto, Lemur, and Lo…
03 Feb 2011, 15:26
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No. I don't this is probably the case. John 1 says: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was with God in the beginning. All thin…
03 Feb 2011, 03:35
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Abraham met with God and two angels who told him about the birth of Isaac and the destruction of Sodom. "Increate" means "not created". "Pancreator" means "creator of all". It s…
03 Feb 2011, 00:21
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Well, I agree. But it is certainly debatable and I was only offering an alternate purpose for humans engineering of the alzabo. I wanted to show that there more than two possibl…
31 Jan 2011, 01:53
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Why should I show anything? Does Severian's analysis of why Becan Alzabo fought not impress you at all? He describes an equal merging of the desires between Becan and the animal.…
30 Jan 2011, 20:20
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That's the thing about Severian, isn't it? As risk of evoking Dionysus and getting Lee all stirred up <wink>, he's just that sort of character. If sailors come up against him, th…
28 Jan 2011, 22:16
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Your perspective is on rails, I'm afraid. For you, nothing could be seen as Becan fighting alzabo instincts--even the alzabo fighting to save Becan's family after having recently…
28 Jan 2011, 21:48
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eh...okay. I still think its a bit selective to say "Becan only wants his family devoured because the animal is using the human personality as a tool" and then say "When the alza…
28 Jan 2011, 19:36
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By the way... There is an alternate universe where stories taking place on the High Seas are as popular as stories about boy wizards are in this one. In that universe, Wolfe is …
28 Jan 2011, 19:09
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Hmm...why so? I would have said that possession in the BotLS was the just the opposite. As Kypris Chenille described it, the mind invader can choose to fully take over or ride al…
28 Jan 2011, 18:04
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This is the same method used traditionally by vampires. Traditionally, they fed on family members. Also, hyenas were said to also use human voices to lure their victims. Also, th…
28 Jan 2011, 17:12
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No. Well, not directly. Wolfe is tilling in the same mythological soil as the Sun cycle. But by the same token he is tilling in the same soil as The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Pirat…
28 Jan 2011, 15:56
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My favorite collection. I particularly enjoyed the "The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun". Unfortunately, that story revealed that Wolfe is capable of major mistakes in literary …
26 Jan 2011, 21:16
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I thought he was referring to Silk with his cane and a lion's head. Still, it is not a given that the signage Wolfe used for New Sun/Urth Sun could not be used in a different man…
26 Jan 2011, 20:38
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There's Sorcerer's House, An Evil Guest and Pirate Freedom, as well. But, let's face it, Severian, Silk/the Rajan, Latro, and Able are probably easily in the top 5 of the vast's …
26 Jan 2011, 20:22
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Able is the same. He's is predestined --even over-determined-- to defeat all comers and to rise to the top of any environment in which he is placed. Yeah, I'd agree that that Cer…
26 Jan 2011, 17:43
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I understand. I didn't mean to denigrate by name. But gods=aliens is a hard parallel to miss. In the future, I'll refer to it as the Bermanian Theory. Yes! Exactly! Wolfe is cap…
25 Jan 2011, 22:42
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Sweet! As you probably know, Noctua is a merging of Ariadne and Aphrodite in the Theseus story. I'm uncomfortable with your Chariots of the Gods theory at a thematic level becau…
25 Jan 2011, 17:31
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Well, I think the term is ironic, but I get why you don't. Hmmm...what a nice obscure reference. I like it! u+16b9…
24 Jan 2011, 16:41
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Wolfe has said in an interview that the Ascian (as-kee-an) / Asian false association never occurred to him at the time of writing but acknowledged that it was a reasonable infere…
24 Jan 2011, 15:02
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As in North Korea? Do you really think we could have pulled off such a blockade during the Cold War with China and the Soviet Union right off of Japan's coast? I think the idea …
19 Jan 2011, 20:43
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If you have another option, go ahead and say so. Don't leave me hanging. Make your case.…
19 Jan 2011, 20:13
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