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As you know, Bob, it was somewhat customary for western sovereigns to do this, "we" including the notional persons of the state, the crown, the royal consort in unity, etc. and "…
04 Dec 2010, 05:39
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THE RAPTURE, a film I have recommended here previously, discusses this at some length, and reveals what may be the only doctrinally accurate way to go about hurting God.…
04 Dec 2010, 02:32
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Most of the characters are monkeylike because they are primaates, but some are more monkeylike than others. It is the non-primates who still look like monkeys that are significan…
04 Dec 2010, 02:27
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I agree, though this is more of a dsep cover as the human advisor to the Autarch. The cowled cloak is to let him "disguise" himself by removing it - you'll note that the shaman's…
04 Dec 2010, 00:54
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I. Sev acknowledges to Rudesind that Inire is an alien, but living on Urth as a human - disguise #1. II. Inire's letter mentions he had to travel south by other methods - implyi…
04 Dec 2010, 00:41
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I believe this is the masking motif's sibling motif of intuition and sophistry used to build the theme of inevitable and simple truth being revealed by the attempts to hide it. …
03 Dec 2010, 08:04
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Lee Berman quoth: This is no different from Wolfe's stated view of the real world, which he consideres Christian. Again, this is in keeping with Wolfe's view of how human belief …
03 Dec 2010, 01:02
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In their terms, they fled to Yesod from their iteration of Briah to escape the Grand Gnab. They subsequently discover they can open wormholes back into the current Briah from Yes…
02 Dec 2010, 20:44
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The only thing that I can think of is that Severian's potential ability to heal and raise the dead is a gift from the Increate in the same way Joseph was given the the ability to…
02 Dec 2010, 19:10
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There's a continuum - plenty of fearsome spirits accept blood when offered and some seek it out. The Shadow Children are fairly bitey. We don't know *what* is involved with abo …
01 Dec 2010, 05:54
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He effectively says the "evil does the work of the Increate, too" meme was planted by the Yesodis?…
29 Nov 2010, 08:35
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I'm not subscribed to such a one-sided view as that; He is equally the ultimate in evil and misfortune, since His sovereignty encompasses the universe and everything in it, but t…
26 Nov 2010, 22:38
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I'm pretty sure that Severian's destruction of Typhon shuld be seen to prevent an enormous amount of chaos; at the very least Typhon's return to the Commonwealth would mean a civ…
26 Nov 2010, 16:39
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Or the light hair could be premature grey, I suppose. At some point, Severian says he has a straight nose, but a straight nose is readily converted into a hooked or curved aquili…
25 Nov 2010, 18:57
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Dux Caesidius?…
23 Nov 2010, 05:27
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Ack! No, the Hieros are someone else entirely. I have coined the demonym "Yesodis" to indicate the non-human sapient races that inhabit Yesod, and this includes F, B, & O, Tzadki…
14 Nov 2010, 20:42
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Patches A new planet features a super-organism whose individual bodies all use patches of green fur to see, even the germs. In short order, the…
14 Nov 2010, 04:43
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I wouldn't say it is quite that one-sided; Juturna claims to be motivated by love, both personal and on behalf of Abaia and his minions in general. Her acts of assistance and suc…
14 Nov 2010, 02:00
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Well it provides foreshadowing of the flushing of the vinculum. It also gives a plausible reason for a lifelong dweller in urban medieval squalor to be familiar with the appearan…
12 Nov 2010, 07:49
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Barkeep, more oxygen for everyone!…
12 Nov 2010, 06:02
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Are we sure Jahi is a demon in the play rather than a Lilith figure? Cos Jolenta and Dorcas play two other characters who are overtly identified as the two demons in the play.…
08 Nov 2010, 12:54
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I think you will need to chose one of these two theses. If there is one, inevitable timeline, no involvement is required to arrange a meeting between Sev and Baldy, since there …
08 Nov 2010, 10:51
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That *is* an interesting idea, that Inire the mirror gazer might have his own train of gazers upon himself. Who could command Urthly primates the way that Hethor commands his cr…
08 Nov 2010, 08:32
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1) Exact quotation is good, but exact and comprehensive is better. 2) You have gratuitously mis-quoted me in a recent message, which rather undermines your claim to accuracy. It w…
07 Nov 2010, 12:13
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I think it is more likely to be the "other" Severians of previous iterations who may have been the helpers at the inn. This probably is intended to be understood to have happened…
07 Nov 2010, 06:02
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Theory? Aquastors Malrubius and Triskele are seen watching over Severian at least twice, Malrubbius owns up to it in "person", and Triskele demonstrates an invisible manifestatio…
07 Nov 2010, 05:00
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It's not meant as a diagnosis but an example of cognitive faults that may cause behavior one does not choose and so should not be faulted for. It's not wonder-worker that I take …
07 Nov 2010, 03:26
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Perhaps Holy Katharine was a martyred adherent of the faith established by John the Baptist, whose follower Judas had hung himself in remorse for his part in the Salome affair.…
07 Nov 2010, 02:58
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If that is the case, I regret doing so and would apologize except that threatens to initiate an infinite loop of renewing the forgotten offense in the act of apologizing to the t…
07 Nov 2010, 02:48
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I won't unilaterally re-involve people by naming names, but if you truly don't recall the considerable irritation other listpeople have displayed at your methods of justifying prev…
05 Nov 2010, 17:32
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Lee, this an example of the kind of selective reading that pisses off people. In the second sentence following Typhon calling the Conciliator a wonder-worker, he gives a perfectl…
05 Nov 2010, 13:15
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Speaking as a playtester for GURPS LOW-TECH (coming to a gamestore near you!): concrete is ancient; many Roman buildings include concrete and mortar construction, but it is very …
30 Oct 2010, 06:43
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Considering even Jesus Christ Himself still had wounds visible to the disciples after rising from death and a couple of days of decomposition, I'd say your standards are a tad hi…
30 Sep 2010, 02:30
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Severian disagrees; *everything* in his story is supernatural to some degree: "if the Eternal Principle had rested in that curved thorn...then it might rest in anything, and in f…
30 Sep 2010, 02:15
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The only problem with that is it would make the First Imperials more transcendent than the Yesodis. I also find it funny that trillions of people on millions of worlds progress a…
29 Sep 2010, 06:10
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Of course it's supernatural - but it can also be a time-bending effect, just like Sampson's strength was supernatural but also was physical manipulation. If there are other Sever…
29 Sep 2010, 02:07
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Thinking more about it, it makes sense for a size-changing, detachable-body-part giant to have decentralized viscera. There might already be hearts and lung tissue, notochords, e…
29 Sep 2010, 01:28
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Their chromatophores are quick, but not so quick they transcend entropy and conservation of mass-energy, unlike Jader's sister and Tzadkiel. Unless the fingerling was only hidden i…
28 Sep 2010, 19:29
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Not to look for a victim/donor, thought it might be a place to stash a recently deceased known sympathizer, in a pickle-barrel sort of way. I'm a bit skeptical that the bog would…
28 Sep 2010, 15:45
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Hello?! The Conciliator?!? Wields the Increate-given power to selectively turn back the clock? Jader's sister's illness doesn't subside and heal, it's just suddenly gone and she …
28 Sep 2010, 14:14
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Probably not, but their alien nature may be a plus in that they are not recognized as foreign matter. If they are something like animated sheets of graphite, a human body's innar…
28 Sep 2010, 13:59
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There don't need to be, any more than when Dorcas or Triskele revived. Were you reading the book manga-style? Typhon is already up and around and watching when Little Severian is…
28 Sep 2010, 01:58
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This doesn't distinguish them from Typhon, who owes fealty to no one else.…
28 Sep 2010, 01:52
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The memories supposedly only last a few days in the living beast, which could be in line with "normal" tissue rejection. It's also probable that the alzabo of Urth is altered fro…
28 Sep 2010, 01:46
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It's the "oldest pictures" (photographs seem not to have been reintroduced into the Commonwealth, possibly due to the lack of silver) that would serve to verify that a hypothetic…
28 Sep 2010, 01:36
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I was speculating aloud on that 2-3 months back. The only reason I can think of that Vodalus doesn't do both people from the wreck is that he anticipates having to give one up to…
28 Sep 2010, 01:31
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These are not representative samples of a virgin field; there's been at least one intergalactic empire carrying Urth's genome and human chauvanism outward, and that same chauvani…
28 Sep 2010, 01:15
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He also says that the huge volume and jumble of memories are the obstacles to his direct recollection, and he has to search for the desired ones among the great pile. This means …
27 Sep 2010, 05:33
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I've always thought that was the case.…
27 Sep 2010, 05:09
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In that case, what distinguishes autarchs from those rulers who are not?…
26 Sep 2010, 21:36
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