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On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 9:28 AM Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com The narrative has Sev flat out lying to Vodalus, despite having taken his coin and sworn allegiance, and to …
07 Sep 2018, 15:21
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Isn't there a brief discussion of menstrual supplies when she's packing for Woldercan?…
21 Mar 2018, 00:46
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Casdoe, Dorcas, Jader's sister, Thecla, and Valeria don't particularly strike me as falling neatly into that taxonomy. How would you categorize them?…
28 Apr 2015, 21:40
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This is the third year of Sad Puppies log-rolling, so Correia's nomination last year is not an overlooked counter-example. However, there are numerous earlier counter-examples tha…
28 Apr 2015, 21:26
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I was about to say that BOTNS has numerous non-foil female characters with various degrees of agency. And Sev doesn't even bang all of 'em!…
28 Apr 2015, 21:14
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That's a part of it; the David and Goliath metaphor is built into our culture and of course Goliath was champion of the Philistines. IIRC this was also used to mean uncultured re…
26 Apr 2015, 18:10
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I believe it is a compound insult, drawing from Bulwer-Lytton's "the great unwashed" and the secondary sense of unrefined and uneducated that arose from a minister's metephorical…
26 Apr 2015, 00:58
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"He has been taken now, poor Tommy has, and transported as we hear. His tale has remained with me, however; thus I set it down." All this requires is that Tommy does not return w…
23 Apr 2015, 16:23
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I think there is an obvious alternate interpretation; Tommy disappears and rumor and hearsay fill the gap with him being taken and transported, when he was instead "taken" by the…
23 Apr 2015, 08:06
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"Idolatry" is similarly similar to "Latro" than "Monolatry".…
22 Apr 2015, 18:20
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Maitre went fourth.…
18 Apr 2015, 03:10
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Are we your experimental subjects, Maitre?…
17 Apr 2015, 03:30
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"I used to read, aboard ship. Once I read a history. I don't suppose you know anything about it. So many chiliads have elapsed here." I said, "I suppose not." "So different from…
27 Jan 2015, 05:02
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I believe it is personification, and a faithless door will not serve its intended purpose like a faithless servant does not serve as intended. The mausoleum door is stuck open so…
24 Nov 2014, 06:36
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I think the fourth question covers that, actually.…
04 Nov 2014, 09:16
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The chiliarch inquired, "Autarch, has he the freedom of the House Absolute now?" "He does. He is indeed a creature of evil; but so are you, and so am I."…
29 Oct 2014, 15:12
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I've lead mailing list discussions and peer reviews for a gaming publisher, and even a hand-picked panel of referees of games with hundreds of pages of rules and an average of mo…
26 Oct 2014, 21:37
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I'm game, but it seems unlikely based on past experience.…
26 Oct 2014, 05:21
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I would guess that is Sev tumbling into the bog in the Botanic Gardens where he finds Dorcas among the other preserved corpses.…
25 Oct 2014, 16:43
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Well, rewriting A=>B as ~A V B gives (~A V B) & (A & ~B) which is not satisfiable because the right group requires A to be true and B to be false, but the left requires either …
18 Oct 2014, 23:49
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Which is one reason I didn't make that statement. I'm saying that artifacts can exceed the capabilities of their mortal creators as well as lack some of their flaws, which is one…
17 Oct 2014, 15:02
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Tzadkiel admits to it access of the numerous futures and pasts of his purview and articulates a bit of his use of them on a couple of occasions, so, yes. Negative, Severian clea…
17 Oct 2014, 14:51
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I wrote that, not Rick. On the contrary, I am saying that art transcends the flaws of history, because the cave paintings implicitly record things about people who did not yet ha…
17 Oct 2014, 06:53
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Branching is not the only form of choice for Sev. Juturna enunciates his choice of direction in URTH XLVIII: "Juturna pointed like a village woman directing some lost traveler, h…
17 Oct 2014, 06:40
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If you already know that the modus ponens is unprovable, and are familiar with reflexive equality which is axiomatic, why are you bothering to hold up modus ponens as an example …
17 Oct 2014, 05:55
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The massive experimentation confirms the earth is not a sphere, does not have uniform acceleration due to gravity, and this was first suspected by flawed people no later than the…
16 Oct 2014, 06:29
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To whom are you addressing this brusque rebuke, may I ask?…
16 Oct 2014, 06:13
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This is not correct. Humans and pre-humans have made numerous constructions that transcend the limitations of the homind condition. Cave paintings, however fanciful, record the e…
16 Oct 2014, 06:10
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Well, other than "dark matter", a concept invented to explain the discrepancy between the amount of mass in other galaxies observed by quantity of radiation vs that observed by a…
16 Oct 2014, 05:58
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I think rather the Increate need not take a direction because He wills the directions into being, and is already omnipresent along all the directions thusly created. However, Se…
16 Oct 2014, 04:54
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That is known as modus ponens (the method that affirms), but that's short for modus ponendo ponens (the method that affirms by affirming), and as the longer Latin name implies, i…
16 Oct 2014, 04:39
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The catechism writes manage it. Apparently equivocation is part of your limitation. Using, or rather mis-using a word like "incomprehensible" in a discussison of cognitive science…
12 Oct 2014, 01:54
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What third options do you offer? He adjusts everything; this is the sort of theism where nothing happens or even exists without God willing it the way nothing changes or appears o…
12 Oct 2014, 00:51
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It can go either way with the invention/discovery of Peano arithmetic. Can you show us some place gravity as we process it here does not work that way?…
11 Oct 2014, 03:18
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Indeed, I was directing traffic to the history of Godel and Hilbert, so more effort could be devoted to being more informed and less to blather. x messages a day is a problem, in…
11 Oct 2014, 03:07
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But your justifications for what you are saying are crap. We know other minds might respond to the same actuality with different concepts because *human* minds already respond to…
11 Oct 2014, 02:59
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I believe this is somewhat backwards. God's omnipotent, omniscient, and eternal character exclude any process of decision or choice-making on His part. He is changeless and perfe…
11 Oct 2014, 02:39
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Er, no, because the concept does not depend on the actuality. The numbers necessary for math can be entirely notional, and in fact the numbers are *always* notional and abstract.…
10 Oct 2014, 17:05
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We have that now, it's the difference of validity (true in every circumstance under consideration) to satisfiability (true in some circumstances). There are various algorithms to…
09 Oct 2014, 20:52
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This does not make it sound any less reasonable to me. There is no particular need for all the puzzles to be of the same difficulty or the answers to have the same verifiability.…
06 Oct 2014, 04:58
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I believe Wolfe's stated in at least two previous interviews that he doesn't give that information out because it would cheat the careful reader of the pleasure of discovering it…
05 Oct 2014, 22:59
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It wasn't obvious on the original black and white seasons of the show, but he could change to match Tim. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/myfavoritemartiantvguide.jpg…
21 Sep 2014, 14:06
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Perhaps to subtextually indicate that something is not right with the false divinities of the Whorl.…
20 Sep 2014, 15:31
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The Hierarchs are said to be the creatures of the Hierogrammates, so they are among "the other Yesodis" I mentioned. FB&O are not among the tongueless Hierarchs, as they are able…
20 Sep 2014, 01:34
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Do you mean literally the vanished Hieros, whom are only referred to but are said to be the orignal human race ascended beyond the cycle of bang-gnabs, or the Hierogramates, who …
17 Sep 2014, 16:00
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Perhaps the Father Ash future also has rebirth when the red giant Old Sun begins to embrace his children, melting the ice then crisping their crusts... Ask/Baldur springs anew fr…
17 Sep 2014, 15:24
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This would explain Typhon's rapid apprehension of the time displaced Conciliator, but other Hellenic names do *not* relate to Ship-sailors, Nessus for one.…
17 Sep 2014, 04:25
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Uncle Martin did have time travel....…
16 Sep 2014, 17:03
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Remember Tzadkiel's story that the original exalted human race built his from animals, so an association with animals and beastmen and apes as the most humanlike of animals is no…
11 Sep 2014, 15:20
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I've long been one of the people pooh-poohing Lee's notion of Inire as a multiple creature and shapeshifter like Tzadkiel, despite them being at opposite extremes of the visible Ye…
09 Sep 2014, 18:43
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