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In 'The Hobbit', the dwarves see a white "hart" in Mirkwood and and try to shoot him down but all their arrows go awry. The narrator says that if they had had their wits about th…
20 Mar 2009, 19:05
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John Watkins seems to be better at explaining these things than I am. Yes, this is exactly the way I see it. Except for this: there is *some* kind of memory possible if the reani…
20 Mar 2009, 18:48
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Do you mean this in the way the Shadow children were? And in the way that three children were who were turned into a flock of geese in Peace? I think there is probably something to…
20 Mar 2009, 12:04
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I'd have examine the text with that in mind, but even if it were true, I can think of a couple of explanations. One is that the Raja is acting as he knows Horn would. If you've r…
20 Mar 2009, 04:08
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By george, I think he's got it. J…
20 Mar 2009, 03:51
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Umm...but he was killed on Green by his own men, right? (hello Actaeon)…
20 Mar 2009, 03:25
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Well, the Neighbors aren't hanging around Blue and Green, are they? They've said they're moving on. It's humanity, now granted the deed to Blue that is leaving. The ending is a my…
19 Mar 2009, 22:37
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In "An Evil Guest" one of the characters says that the term "banshee", which means "woman of the faerie mounds" means that they are one of the "gray neighbors". In folklore/myth…
19 Mar 2009, 22:03
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Wow! You miss four words and it really changes the meaning. I checked and you're right. So I checked my old copy and, yep, it had a bad printing of the end of that line. arrg! Th…
19 Mar 2009, 21:38
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This could get interesting again, so I'm moving this conversation to a new thread. Just because I'm that way, I'll mention that in The Book of the Short Sun, the Raja gives a ve…
19 Mar 2009, 19:41
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I'll put that together tomorrow evening. J…
19 Mar 2009, 18:33
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I was not aware of the connection between Horn and Actaeon. I wrote my essay on Aristaeus before I'd read tBotSS. That's really interesting. The essay is here: http://www.urth.org…
19 Mar 2009, 18:30
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That route actually works a little if you use the Short Sun = Sol. But I've seen Marc take such awful thrashings trying to justify the presence of the Neighbors and inhumi on Urt…
19 Mar 2009, 17:51
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An even simpler explanation that doesn't contradict Raja/Horn/greenbuck is to say that Babbie was becoming Horn via an innate psychic ability to merge his personality to a human …
19 Mar 2009, 15:47
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Well, the individual explanations I offer have a way of cascading toward my conclusion. It's something that has to be taken as a whole. I recognize that. If one acknowledges that t…
19 Mar 2009, 15:12
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If someone truly believes that having a firearm in the house makes them a target for robbery, then they should put a little sign in their window: "This house is a gun free zone."…
19 Mar 2009, 14:35
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There are casual hints about this on the level of the one Stuart Hamm offered, but I don't think it ever gets any clearer than OBW (HB) pg 272 "'My name is Horn.' I offered him my…
19 Mar 2009, 14:29
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The question of whether Wolfe views souls as physical/wave or metaphysical entities is still an issue of debate. He treats them as both. But think of Abel's discussion with Mani …
19 Mar 2009, 11:45
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Roy, Do you have a link to an actual refutation of where the second Oreb came from in Silk's room, and how the Raja showed up in the Grandma's story? Part of my...well, let's ju…
19 Mar 2009, 11:18
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When tBotSS starts, it is the Raja who is writing. Not only is he Horn, but he is also Silk. He has already flown to Green and died, returned to the Whorl, and come back to rule.…
19 Mar 2009, 05:09
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No. It makes the Raja the Mediator between the Neighbors and Mankind: Both Neighbor and Human. Remind you of anyone? J…
19 Mar 2009, 02:54
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It's here: http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/chras-writers/default.htm See http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/ for the whole site. J.…
19 Mar 2009, 01:56
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I was an enthusiastic proponent of Marc's Blue Earth theory, because it was an attempt to resolve some open puzzles originally rather than must shrug your shoulders, and because …
19 Mar 2009, 00:43
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Well, it *does* afford Wolfe the opportunity to (once again) explore the concept of the Trinity and to provide a rationalized example of it. Also, Wolfe (once again) get's to prov…
19 Mar 2009, 00:30
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Yeah, that is a problem. They actually intend to catch a ride on that plane and get Robert to medical care. Perhaps they are only inspired by the Moffats. There is simply no way …
18 Mar 2009, 23:11
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If you believe, as I do, that they are the missionaries Robert and Mary Moffat (Robert was a former gardener), then I would say it was in the past. This would mean that the Time …
18 Mar 2009, 20:42
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No, no, no. The Neighbor in the form of a greenbuck whom Horn was chasing when he kilt hisself _became_ _Horn_: reanimating him and taking on his identity. Neighbors seem to be m…
18 Mar 2009, 19:28
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Yes. Tussah too. Next time you read SS, read it with the possibility in mind that Horn is Typhon; the first hint is when Horn gives his little lecture to his family about Pas havin…
18 Mar 2009, 19:15
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And there my friends is Horn riding the beast with three Horns...for Horn is a clone of Typhon, and the Neighbor who reanimated him is Horn (so he says in his meeting with the Ne…
18 Mar 2009, 18:50
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I don't think that sort of thing can be forced. The guy who turned me on to Wolfe started NS four times before gritting his teeth and pushing through it. After I read it, I was c…
18 Mar 2009, 17:18
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Absolutely no offense taken. And no derogatory response intended (no serious one anyway). It's just your comment had so many European charming preconceptions about Americans. Ima…
17 Mar 2009, 17:27
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This is such a quaint, European view of Americans. It's so cute! :-)…
17 Mar 2009, 17:15
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[snip] This is positively so. I don't want offers spoilers, so I'll just say meet here after you read Exodus from the Long Sun. J…
17 Mar 2009, 16:31
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I find this to be the biggest straw-man in the whole debate on the 2nd Amendment. The amendment states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,…
17 Mar 2009, 15:46
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Not to nit-pick, John, but the 14th amendment was an actual amendment to the constitution. It explicitly altered the rights of the states to make laws in very limited areas. It was…
17 Mar 2009, 15:26
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I would argue that the intent was self-evidently for it to cover every conceivable type of weapon. The constant constitutional crisis the US finds itself in --not just for an arm…
17 Mar 2009, 15:02
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For record, (although I like the choice of Syrinx on a lot of levels) a literal transcription an pronunciation of Syrinx's name would be "Surigx". Not all that different from the p…
17 Mar 2009, 12:34
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I've always presumed her actual name would be from the mythology of Japan, China, or Mongolia, due to her features: "sharp chin, very high cheekbones, and tilted eyes". But then…
15 Mar 2009, 23:33
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Oh no! Pointy-headed pedantry! can't....stay..awaaaaake....<clunk>…
29 Jan 2009, 02:17
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Try using Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. I don't know why but sometimes that makes a difference for graphics. J…
29 Jan 2009, 02:14
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Wolfe said: "Where is the difficulty, unless all the valleys run parallel to the Long Sun? Naturally they don't. " It never occurred to me to read this as a river valley, probably…
28 Jan 2009, 02:55
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I didin't receive anything posted on the list since noon until just now. I sent Jordan some pictures that are apparently in line with the Whorl as Matthew envisioned it. But now …
28 Jan 2009, 01:32
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Although I think Wolfe *does* have characters lie and never get called on it, I think the story is true. There's simply no other way IMO that Blue could be inundated with inhumi at…
27 Jan 2009, 05:57
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Inhuma Inigma>I kind of had a problem with this as well in that The BOLS and BOSS are a single novel. The Inhumi are among several dangling threads that are not tied-up until the …
26 Jan 2009, 14:12
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Tim: Jeff Mostly because I don't think it will matter. I've essentially re-stated (former engineer) Wolfe's answer to this question half-a-dozen ways and the only response I'm …
26 Jan 2009, 04:38
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P.S. Trust me. There are far more important plot elements in The Book of the Long Sun that are far, far more subtly presented.…
25 Jan 2009, 23:34
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You are assuming he thought it all strange that the Whorl would cast shadows. If he made a rough model of his Whorl, he would have seen shadows and just recorded what he saw. J…
25 Jan 2009, 23:30
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<snip> This premise is only true for areas directly on the other side of the Long Sun. In the cases of areas just on the edge of Nightside (from Silk's perspective, deep in Nigh…
25 Jan 2009, 22:43
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Jeff: Only that the valley's *plane* tilts, say, 15 degrees (perpendicular to the LS axis) into the *idealized* curve of the Whorl. Also that the valley be somewhat deep and si…
25 Jan 2009, 22:01
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Remember that I am only trying to explain that Wolfe has not defied physics in having Silk see shadows in some valleys. I think I've got everyone to admit that it is possible so …
25 Jan 2009, 20:00
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