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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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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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