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Very sad news. Condolences to his family. JD…
15 Apr 2019, 23:33
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Personally I've never been convinced by the 'powers only available after the White Fountain light reaches Urth / is above the horizon' theory (even though this is clearly posited…
31 Dec 2011, 01:35
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Possibly Jacob, who was wounded in the 'thigh' (read: groin, I strongly suspect) when he wrestled with the angel? However ... David, is it possible you were thinking of Robert G…
29 Oct 2011, 20:24
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Dan'l, sorry to change the header and divert the thread but as I've often noted before I will not receive my list mails back unless I do this. That's Sky Mail aka gmail for you :…
07 Aug 2011, 00:42
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Sorry can't remember as of this moment if I'm supposed to be top-posting, bottom-posting or interlining, these mailing lists get confusing they all have different rules and I don…
09 Mar 2011, 00:39
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Seawrack lost her RIGHT arm, amputated just below the shoulder by mysterious means (“some kind of sea-creature” an inhumi? her adoptive 'mother', trying to cling to her? what?). …
25 Jan 2011, 22:58
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Also through most of Agia's and Sev's journey to the Sanguinary Fields, she's obliged to hold the bodice of her stage-costume gown up to her chest because it got ripped in the Ju…
21 Jan 2011, 00:21
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still less are they the gods/bufes of the tunnels. Her 'children' are the lynxes (medium-big cats) to whom Silk is introduced in the course of his first excursion into Blood's ma…
20 Jan 2011, 01:06
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I've mentioned this on list once before but this seems pertinent again - Robert Graves invokes both interpretations of the 'wounded in the thigh' trope for the Messiah, in his no…
14 Jan 2011, 23:33
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lol!!…
12 Jan 2011, 03:17
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(in UOTNS) The sailors have a proverb regarding the bad luck incurred if one kills a Port o'Lune man. That's about the only reference in the text to doings on Lune. jd…
12 Jan 2011, 01:36
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I think I see what you are driving at Marc, forgive if I get this wrong. To me there's no problem with Silk/Horn et al astral travelling to Severian's Urth - it is probably their…
12 Jan 2011, 01:27
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Have to say I think it possibly does matter when discussing Urth = Green/Blue or Lune = Green/Blue or whatever. To me there is one thing that stands out here and argues against a…
12 Jan 2011, 01:18
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Again apologies for absence should have responded to various things earlier. Don't know about St Croix (must actually read 5hoc sometime!) but I'd kind of assumed (on no specifi…
12 Jan 2011, 01:04
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+1 jd…
07 Jan 2011, 00:18
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Have had to shut up for a week or so for reasons unconnected to the list, but have to say Dan'l, I have some sympathy with your frustration. This isn't a competition ... is it? i…
06 Jan 2011, 23:43
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Don't know if it's helpful or not but it appears to me at least that toward the end of RTTW Cilinia / Scylla (a thirteen or fourteen year old girl, who has suffered the huge misf…
21 Dec 2010, 01:38
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Just re-reading BoTLS and wonder now at the reason for the inclusion of a 'dog-headed ape' in the list of creatures viewed by Silk right near the start of the story when he still…
07 Dec 2010, 02:57
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I concur. Also, it is deducible from the text (Dorcas remembers going to buy clothes for her child, remembers looking after a child and so forth) that if Dorcas died in childbirt…
06 Dec 2010, 03:20
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*NO ONE* expects the Seekers of Truth And Penitence!!! (sorry couldn't resist :) ) jd…
06 Dec 2010, 03:01
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Very very quick additional on this - so sorry I can't be on list more often, there's lots of stuff I would have liked to respond to but so much! Really don't mean to start hares …
04 Dec 2010, 04:06
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Sorry I appear to have missed the original reference (I get overwhelmed with internet stuff quite often, blame my age) but regarding Ash and Vine, I have always assumed that thes…
01 Dec 2010, 01:23
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I think the claw is actually on the godling's thumb? Silk/Horn sees the aforementioned appendage whilst the godling is cradling him upon his/its hand and it's pretty clear from t…
01 Dec 2010, 01:08
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Just a quick thought - this is true in terms of a being named Dionysus or similar, but there *is* a wine-god, isn't there? I'm sure there is a passage in vol. 3 of Long Sun where…
30 Nov 2010, 02:30
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thanks for your response Lee and also to others, I'm just catching up. Yes, that is exactly the reference I was thinking of. IMO Wright either misses it, or chooses to disregard …
30 Nov 2010, 02:09
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Just a quick enquiry as to whether any other lister has read David Wright's 'Attending Daedalus' which is an expansion upon the author's Ph.D thesis and was published by Liverpoo…
29 Nov 2010, 01:46
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Not at all sure what this means but anyway ... Why is Typhon known as Pas on the Whorl? (btw, I am sure there was a thread regarding this question on the list fairly recently, …
28 Nov 2010, 02:49
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Uh.... Severian? :)…
28 Nov 2010, 02:32
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Monkeying with the message header for the customary gmail related reason, sorry about that. And to all listers everywhere on the feast of our Patroness. :) (snippage) I note th…
25 Nov 2010, 23:36
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Yes, Big Sev actually asks Typhon why he didn't warn them about the ring, acknowledging that Typhon was revived and aware and watching them even as they stumbled about the lower …
28 Sep 2010, 00:27
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'k, granted. However V's followers don't seem to find anything too abnormal in being invited to such a dinner (and there was obviously a tribade in there somewhere!) I suspect s…
28 Sep 2010, 00:10
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Is there any evidence that anyone did? I don't see it. There's that 'perhaps' in Severian's musing (really, he has no idea at all how far back the 'inherited' memories go; he has…
27 Sep 2010, 01:56
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Not impossible; just very very improbable :) Unless it is to be believed that all lifeforms everywhere in the universe share a common biochemistry, it's about as believable that …
27 Sep 2010, 00:56
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OK, got all that, and granted; but the point I was attempting to address was not re: the notion of clones/'test tube (human) babies' or a putative clone cohort (of which I know n…
26 Sep 2010, 01:46
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Surely the operative word here is *'perhaps'*? jd…
25 Sep 2010, 23:21
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True, that's made quite explicit in BOTNS On the contrary I believe it is stated quite clearly in UOTNS that Mount Typhon is the first to be carved in this way. Severian-the-Con…
23 Sep 2010, 21:46
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There is no seed of doubt sown anywhere that Piaton is anything other than a human being - so it may be notable (perhaps) that there's no suggestion in any of Typhon's speechifyi…
23 Sep 2010, 21:27
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Just for fun also, why not also compare and contrast this list with the effusions of Fr. Inire in his first letter to newly-minted Autarch Severian - I think these trump even Jol…
09 Sep 2010, 23:58
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+1…
24 Aug 2010, 21:33
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Yes, the stuff about mailservers is all true - hadn't previously grokked it as a common factor, but *Sky Mail has also been a bastardized version of gmail* for about the last 3 y…
10 Aug 2010, 00:25
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Apart from a sad little man ... Well. It's been suggested in quite a few places afair that 'Nessus' could be a linguistic corruption of 'Buenos Aires'. Kind of works. On the same…
09 Aug 2010, 00:36
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Of course, this kind of record would have been routine for any 'client'. Re: the second point - Well yes, one might *indeed* expect these details to be recorded, especially if s…
09 Aug 2010, 00:07
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Sorry for monkeying with the subject line again, I want to get my own posts sent back to me and this is the only way I can get Sky's mail server to do this. And apologies *again*…
07 Aug 2010, 01:14
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thank you thank you thank you that's it of course. should never post without the book of course, apologies. jd…
06 Aug 2010, 01:20
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Just wondered if any more knowledgeable person on the list had any suggestions about this query, which has bugged me for years. Severian speculates early in *Shadow* that the eld…
06 Aug 2010, 01:16
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So could his Order - 'black' (OK fuligin) clothing, prohibition of marriage, primacy of absolute obedience ('Torturers Obey') and their method of selecting recruits: other than b…
06 Aug 2010, 00:55
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I don't think this can be quite accurate since in the context of Severian pretending to have forgotten the rule about 'clients' ' words, Master Gurloes reminds him of the 'bad ol…
06 Aug 2010, 00:37
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Thanks for the response (I think); I don't remember mentioning the Vulgate in my post. And it wouldn't be 'finire est' either would it? Finitus Est actually. JD…
29 Jul 2010, 21:08
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Don't know whether any have; but regarding BOTNS did you know that Innovation attempted to produce a *comics* series back in 1993? I think it was originally supposed to be a 12- …
29 Jul 2010, 00:32
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Have to say the first time I came across the name of the Sword, the meaning I grokked immediately was 'It Is Finished'. Admit right now that other translations are more than like…
29 Jul 2010, 00:25
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