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On a related note, at Capricon 32 in Wheeling, IL (just outside of Chicago), there's going to be a panel with Gene and Cory Doctorow (excellent!): http://www.kristine-smith.com/i…
19 Jan 2012, 17:54
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Having permission I can say that Michael Andre-Driussi and I are trying cook up a plan for that weekend. So even if we can't get a table, it would still be fun to get together wi…
19 Jan 2012, 17:46
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I think I'd like to go to this. I would be cool if we could get a table and sit together. But we'd need at least 10 to do that. Well, 9 actually. I think I know a mystery guest w…
18 Jan 2012, 21:53
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I'm not sure how that would matter in regards to whether or not I said that theories are challenged because there are simpler alternatives. The point is, I didn't say it. But, pe…
30 Nov 2011, 22:47
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That is in no way how I have described the challenges. However, you have _perfectly_ described the way that an unenlightened** challenger (such as I have been describing) sees his…
30 Nov 2011, 18:51
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I presume Silver Silk is like any other Mainframe entity. A part --and aspect-- of him can possess humans, chems, and animals. When the part returns to Mainframe, it's memories a…
30 Nov 2011, 17:51
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I believe that "calling them on that" is already documented in several dozen threads on this list. It doesn't work, because as I stated, the person believes his interpretation is…
30 Nov 2011, 17:44
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Unfortunately that is not the only way it happens. What very often happens is that someone suggests an explanation of an occurrence that is not explicitly declared or based on ir…
30 Nov 2011, 16:53
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Perhaps, but if your method of proof is to assert that there is an alternate interpretation, then you aren't proving anything except that there is an alternate interpretation.…
29 Nov 2011, 22:44
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No you don't. Silk saw Oreb fly out the window and immediately saw Mucor standing over him. Oreb might not remember entering the room, but he would remember leaving it. And there…
29 Nov 2011, 21:34
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You're still dodging...and being pointlessly argumentative. When you have written six posts attempting to clarify an answer to this question, then you can evoke parity between u…
29 Nov 2011, 21:21
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Also: Not everyone's interpretation is going to be useful to you. If you know in advance that there is no way you are going to be convinced by it, consider deeply whether it is w…
29 Nov 2011, 19:11
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It doesn't need to be a so-called extravagant theory for all these rules to apply. There are people with extravagant theories who have presented them in detail many times in the …
29 Nov 2011, 19:03
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That's an artless dodge, Antonio. I'll expect an answer to my question first.…
29 Nov 2011, 17:58
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I have admitted nothing of the sort. If I am going to discuss a theory, I approach it from the position, "What if it were true? What would I expect?". I have never said to anyone…
29 Nov 2011, 17:57
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Obviously, I believe that Wolfe has created a narrator for these stories who, while writing in first-person, is analogous to Horn and Nettle writing about Silk. That's not my in…
29 Nov 2011, 17:19
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Antonio, what do you suppose the point was in having Horn and Nettle write the story as opposed to an omniscient third-person narrator?…
29 Nov 2011, 17:12
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You know, ironically, I thought I answered that question in the text that followed. But I'll approach it in more detail. Answer: Because this is literature, and words can have mor…
29 Nov 2011, 17:09
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Because the text says so. But --guess what?-- that's NOT the only theory. Marc has posited that the whole event and Silk's communication with the Outsider was engineered by Pas …
29 Nov 2011, 16:37
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It is a logical error that people fall into. They argue from authority based on what they consider is "most likely true" or "the consensus". This liberates them from having to ex…
29 Nov 2011, 16:12
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Define "the same time or place". It is quite reasonable that they were under the same roof of a small residence at the same time. It's just that Silk didn't hear him until "minut…
29 Nov 2011, 15:54
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If it is you own theory, it always quacks.…
29 Nov 2011, 00:29
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Unfortunately, there are no odds-makers in literary criticism. Perhaps you mean "though THERE ARE REASONS for X, it may well be otherwise". Everybody thinks his theory is the mos…
28 Nov 2011, 23:36
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This is said so often. But if Typhon wanted Pas to possess Silk as the ruler of Blue, why didn't he do possess Silk at the Mainframe or immediately after? Or, for that matter, any…
28 Nov 2011, 21:33
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However, their memories have been tinkered with. If a Cargo would not have had a moment of striking recognition at Silk's appearance, I don't think a Sleeper would do any better.…
28 Nov 2011, 17:35
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Sergei, I read the conversation amid the Neighbor fires quite different from you, I suppose. What is the meaning of HePenSheep when he is asked if the Neighbors will him and he …
28 Nov 2011, 17:32
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That is a very logical assessment. But then you have to establish a theory of who built it and why it was built. I think those little trees in the broken dome are significant, bu…
28 Nov 2011, 17:27
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St. Jonas: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4063…
28 Nov 2011, 16:30
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Well, the ring he gets from Oreb is a different color. There are many ways for the Neighbors (or even Mother) to get the *same* back to the Rajan if that is what they want. The p…
28 Nov 2011, 16:25
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I really like this because it attempts to answer Mucor's comment about seeing Silk naked. Now, I'll keep my eye out for other references to Silk being naked. As I sense is the ca…
28 Nov 2011, 16:03
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Well, that would be great! I must say that it is illuminating to learn that during that all those years that I participated in discussions with you trying to reconcile events...whe…
26 Nov 2011, 00:43
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I've always thought it was weird that 'Guardati dal pelo rosso n? valse a toglierla la barba rossa del Redentore' suggests a tradition that Jesus had a red beard. That's another …
25 Nov 2011, 21:54
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By the way, what does "mosci" mean in Italian. I'm pretty sure it does not mean "Moscow" in this instance as Google says.…
25 Nov 2011, 20:14
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Then why did you offer that as your ONLY explanation for why the second Oreb was there? I know you said you didn't believe it Pas was possessing Oreb. That's why I said you were a…
25 Nov 2011, 19:15
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On the Trivigaunte floater Horn notes that her hair is colored red.…
25 Nov 2011, 19:04
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Well, Chenille's hair is actually brown. It is colored red. So Jahlee's red hair would have to reflect the way Chenille thought of herself. However, I believe Wolfe /is/ sending …
25 Nov 2011, 18:42
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Jahlee's mother fed on Chenille. When Jahlee fed on a drunk woman she developed a drunken slur which was more distinctly "Chenille" to the narrator than the sober version. I beli…
25 Nov 2011, 17:16
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Roy, I have no interest in arguing with myself but why would /you/ assert I can't do that when you are arguing with yourself right here? Roy says "I don't believe that Pas posse…
25 Nov 2011, 16:55
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Looks to me like someone's inhumi roommate left town without kicking in on his half of the rent. Sent from my iPhone…
24 Nov 2011, 05:21
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Antonio, did you know that there is a bacteria at the very end of a horse's digestive track that is vital to breaking down alfalfa? Without this bacteria horses could not digest …
24 Nov 2011, 00:40
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I don't think *anyone* is postulating this. Marc believes the vines fed on reptiles and spit out inhumi. I proposed that maybe they fed on Neighbors who were dream traveling tre…
23 Nov 2011, 23:17
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Maybe Roy will chime in on this. Well, he *did* kidnap her. The very requirement to kidnap someone assumes that no one could be procured to go willingly. I'm not sure it is obvi…
23 Nov 2011, 23:12
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You very well know that I believe the inhumi are connected somehow to the liannas. But the green man does not look like a Neighbor. I'm not absolutely certain that a Neighbor cou…
23 Nov 2011, 23:01
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It's such a strange coincidence that so many people pick poor little Gerry. The guy is always being backed into fights. How does one fellow end up with in so many unfortunately ho…
23 Nov 2011, 22:47
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Chapter 9 of "Calde of the Long Sun"…
23 Nov 2011, 22:33
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I have some problems with a couple presumptions in your time-line, and there are some important mentions of time that you have not brought up. However, I'm not inclined to critiq…
23 Nov 2011, 22:30
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Did you know it is possible to read my mind only from what YOU say?…
23 Nov 2011, 22:08
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Here's a few problems I have with the theory that inhumi are created from vines eating animal life: 1) Why do only the vines create inhumi? The trees produce everything else, ri…
23 Nov 2011, 22:06
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Although Fava dies in the snow, Jahlee travels with the Rajan on horseback through the winter. There are a lot of problems technically with flying high enough by flapping your wi…
23 Nov 2011, 21:20
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Yeah, when Silk meets his parents. I think their early evolution was a fluke as the Rajan says. They had this psychic ability to mimic and then one day they happened to feed on …
23 Nov 2011, 21:05
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