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Roy says: Hmm...maybe. But why would Michael seek Able's help for a lord in Skai? Michael went seeking Able--seeking an Able that didn't exist when Able first met him. The idea of…
07 Dec 2005, 05:34
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This seemed pretty obvious to me. It was a sacrifice. All worshippers desire to have their sacrifices accepted by their gods. What is the benefit to humans to chop up an ox and bur…
07 Dec 2005, 03:44
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I don't see why it should be absurd. However much it took. it was *nearly* enough to kill Able. Able didn't know if it would require enough to kill him, and didn't care if it did. …
07 Dec 2005, 02:30
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From: "Chris" Yes, Able's relationship with Disiri changed during the final battle when he summoned and her people to fight and she came. Until he was able to do that, Michael imp…
05 Dec 2005, 23:34
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This is true. It believed that until around the 3rd or 4th century BC (after the books of the Bible were written), the Jews had no clear understanding of an afterlife. The Sumerian…
05 Dec 2005, 12:45
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Well, Able never took much off of anybody even before. He beat up Svon and also beat up some boy robbers (was that Toug?). J…
03 Dec 2005, 20:20
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I agree with hartshorn that this occurred in Skai in "the Age of Legends" (to borrow a "Time Bandits" term). What was the point? Well, that depends to some degree on what Wolfe th…
02 Dec 2005, 04:03
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That's an excellent point. Org *did* beat Able in hand-to-hand combat. I'm trying to imagine *why*. Able beat the giants, so it isn't because Org had no soul. Org beat Able by pick…
01 Dec 2005, 13:57
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I think it is an objective certitude that Able was a knight. While people thought he was crazy when he told them that Disiri, the Queen of the Moss Elves, had knighted him, no seem…
01 Dec 2005, 02:17
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"Don't understand it" is a given. Not "don't like it", I think. But it is a fact that TWK is "more of the same" from Wolfe: 1) An intricate,well written story with lots of intrigui…
30 Nov 2005, 11:15
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I feel some embarrassment at piling on against Roy for the crime stirring the most interesting discussion on TWK in a while, however, here I go anyway: Instead of defending a pass…
27 Nov 2005, 19:29
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I said: Roy quoted: Ah! I take it back. Trial By Arms in Wolfe's world is in agreement with the understanding of people in the "Dark Ages". J…
27 Nov 2005, 14:43
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Yes. But something very significant has happened since then. If Arthur Ormsby's account is to be believed, then he--by his initiative and actions-- saved the entire ship, its crew…
27 Nov 2005, 04:55
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Chris said: Well, he get's the string and bow from Parka. Since Parka's name identifies her indirectly with the Greek Fates and since that association (and the fact that she also …
13 Nov 2005, 03:03
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Bob, You ought to send your posts in Plain Text format. The body of your posts is currently being scrubbed on the online verion.…
06 Nov 2005, 06:18
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06 Nov 2005, 06:14
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Chris said: Perhaps, maybe, this was me. here: http://lists.urth.net/htdig.cgi/urth-urth.net/2005-January/000298.html I said: I'm not convinced one can map the entire story upon …
03 Nov 2005, 03:31
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Are we to believe that [Svon] stayed and protected Ravd's body? I think so, because the ghost of Ravd appears watching over him as he walks down a hall, according to Toug. Either …
28 Oct 2005, 12:17
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I'm simply appalled at this interpretation. As I recall, all she wanted nothing more than to get out of it. After the marriage took place she chose to do her duty. (Think of it as …
26 Oct 2005, 03:07
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25. "Does Green/Blue have anything to do with THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS?" No. Well, there questions and there are questions. Same for answers. I would very much like it if pe…
29 Aug 2005, 14:41
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I agree. I think is is obvious that Wolfe is riffing off some unidentified themes and references, and that he recycles some of his previously used ideas and motifs to employ them …
29 Aug 2005, 07:15
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Has Wolfe emphatically denied that Bleen is Number Five's system? I do remember him responding to Gevers' question as to whether it "would be useful" to view the systems as a the s…
29 Aug 2005, 07:04
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Actually, the section Number Five is looking in seems to be the "science fiction authors" section; that is, any authors who have written science fiction. The library seems to organ…
26 Aug 2005, 16:02
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Well, actually, the only ships that we are told the Neighbors ever built were *landers* not starcrossers. [2] leaves open the question of where the Perhaps, then, I don't reall…
24 Aug 2005, 17:36
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Sure. That seems to encompass the possibilities. But (inexplicably to me) a lot readers are *hostile* to the idea that the Neighbors are *in any way* the trees. It seemed so obviou…
23 Aug 2005, 20:56
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Why? They could have gone elsewhere via astral travel leaving their bodies behind. In fact, if astral travel requires that someone in the party has been to the destination before,…
21 Aug 2005, 12:10
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21 Aug 2005, 12:07
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Since Quetzal was on the lander, we know there were likely sentient inhumi on Green. Wolfe has *said* Quetzal was not the only inhumi on the Whorl. His existence shows that the inh…
17 Aug 2005, 04:49
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That's the problem with the whole timeline for SS. Sinew's kids seem too old (*maybe* they could *just* fit in the timeline, but I don't think so). At the end of RTTW, Hoof says hi…
16 Aug 2005, 18:33
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I missed this start of this interesting thread, so I'll just stick my toe in as I see an opening. *Pas* didn't do it "immediately". Silk and Auk did. It seems it took awhile for b…
14 Aug 2005, 20:43
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But, Roy, whatever the floorplan this passage causes you to imagine, surely the passage that starts with... "This way," Potto told him, and pushed him through a door and into a go…
12 Aug 2005, 22:06
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Roy said I've been trying to figure out how you have divided the room "full of lounging soldiers and armored men" from the room with Chenille, Marble, Blood, etc. I've read the sc…
12 Aug 2005, 05:42
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Roy says: I guess I presumed the reference made it clear that Silk was looking at Chenille, but you are probably right that I should have clarified that. Also, the "flaws" her pow…
04 Aug 2005, 17:12
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The actual reference: ****************** There! Two men and two women. He blinked and stared and blinked again. "Oh, Silk! My son! Oh, son!" She was in his arms and he in hers…
04 Aug 2005, 09:41
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---------------- ------------------ Perhaps y'all are right. (At least in this case I can't be accused of generating the evidence to fit a theory.) But I must point out that this…
04 Aug 2005, 05:14
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Don said: So, you figure that the Echidna interface is a security module that prevented the other modules from displaying their forms to the human "objects" if they do not meet th…
03 Aug 2005, 17:10
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(Tony and Thassocrat, please avert your eyes.) ************************** "When the last calde's will was read, it said, 'Though he is not the son of my body, my son will suc…
03 Aug 2005, 16:28
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In my recent posting with Roy, he suggested something I considered revolutionary. Since Roy usually fashions himself the anti-revolutionary, I found this amazing and worth consider…
03 Aug 2005, 10:12
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Well, Roy, most of your last response was merely argumentative. I guess we disagree about Jahlee and that's that. I wish you had tried harder, though. Oh. I see. You misunderstood…
03 Aug 2005, 07:57
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I said: Roy responded: I disagree. The Rajan didn't describe her at this point has having *many* faces. He is describing an event in the past but describes *her* in the present t…
02 Aug 2005, 18:15
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Roy says: I believe the "looks like I used to bit" refers to her black hair and maybe her eyes (I'll have to recheck that). Kypris used to look like Hy in the same way she used to…
01 Aug 2005, 20:42
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One could make that argument, but most people will never get around to actually crossing the line and buying a book -- particularly a $30 reference book -- if the same information …
22 Jul 2005, 09:58
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I said: Chris responded: I'm just supposing here, but if I were writing this story, having established Silk's remarkable perceptiveness, I would would have had Tussah *deduce* hi…
06 Jul 2005, 22:08
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I said: Chris responded: I'm just supposing here, but if I were writing this story, having established Silk's remarkable perceptiveness, I would would have had Tussah *deduce* hi…
06 Jul 2005, 22:06
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I said to Chris Chris responded: Perhaps that discussion occurred during the Missing Year. The details centered around the Mamelta appearance and Silk's dream in which Mamelta, …
05 Jul 2005, 10:35
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Where would I be without tangents? Weeeeeell, *Severin* is not necessarily *Severian*. 1) There are saints named of Severian, of course. One martyred in North Africa and one who …
01 Jul 2005, 12:52
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If we presume Sev investigated every tomb, perhaps his memory is the key. Why presume that? For that matter, why presume that Cilinia's tomb is written a script that Severian can …
30 Jun 2005, 14:21
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Oooooooooh! Now I *understand*. I went back and read your post and I must admit I wonder why I didn't see it before: http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2005-Ju…
29 Jun 2005, 06:54
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Yes. I am saying that Tussah KNEW he is a clone of Typhon. It is likely he even knew that Pas had that name on the Red Sun Whorl (the Rajan was aware of it). Lemur knows a lot of d…
28 Jun 2005, 16:36
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If you're offering a defense, it's a lame one. If it is an apology, it's worse. Take your best shot, but stand in the open as you do. I agree moving on is the best recourse, consi…
28 Jun 2005, 16:36
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