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As noted in an earlier discussion of the Rubaiyat appearing in the forematter of URTH, the English translation considerably differs from the original. Wolfe credits translator Fi…
08 Sep 2014, 05:14
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Death itself will not release you!…
07 Sep 2014, 20:44
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If he's in the correct cycle but in a much latter era, then the son of Meschia not being born yet seems like a contradiction. Cain needs to be born before the autarch, doesn't he, …
07 Sep 2014, 02:28
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The naming of specific individuals suggests to me that a complete recycle of time is intended. Unlike some treatments of Norse myth or LORD OF LIGHT, where there are god roles pla…
06 Sep 2014, 23:37
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Nod being late suggests to me that the "correct" time for him to meet Cain would be even earlier; he was instructed wrt Cain, somehow became petrified, and reanimated during the …
06 Sep 2014, 14:18
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Negative, Captain. Rigorously correct logical reasoning is easily within the grasp of a typical person if they wish to seek it out. While logic alone cannot confirm the truth of …
05 Sep 2014, 15:26
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Publicity stunt; he later voted with the rest of the Senators to let it advance.…
05 Sep 2014, 03:23
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That is out-dated; the parliamentary procedure has been modified so that continuous speaking is no longer necessary.…
04 Sep 2014, 18:43
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Didn't they have something of an estrangement? I used to chat with Damon on the old GEnie network, and he seemed like they would have been prone to political disagreement.…
03 Sep 2014, 18:04
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Could it be that some other spacefaring race brings imitators from St Anne to Earth during the time of the Homeric Greeks, where they infiltrate as feys and elfs then are assimil…
03 Sep 2014, 17:44
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I believe there are a couple of mistakes here. "'I was thirteen, Severian, and I had a friend named Domnina....'" Thecla was thirteen, Domnina's age is not given. "'You must ta…
27 Aug 2014, 03:21
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Is she? She's considered a witch, and Merryn is at her disposal in the Stone Town, but that's not the same.…
22 Aug 2014, 02:21
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As long as they are not obviously female, a honed bison makes a fine bull. Perhaps even an Ethiopian bull, to Hellenize the difference in appearance.…
20 Aug 2014, 16:54
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I have, but I wouldn't call their narratives literature and can barely scruple to call them stories; word salad, maybe. Dude, if you want to tell people authoritatively what a st…
09 Aug 2014, 15:50
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Condolences on your personal Oleanna.. So can we look forward to a finished Aramani novel?…
04 Aug 2014, 04:37
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it being parts of different places can mean it is a subjective or reconstructed place, based on imperfect recollections or from the lives of different inmates - this would provid…
18 Jul 2014, 06:42
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Unless you mean literally in the atmosphere, there's no particular reason they would stop orbiting; they might not *work* after a century of solar flares, though. The perpetual …
18 Jul 2014, 05:30
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This can work, and it will also help the horizontal stroke with a wide swing against the greater movement arm with the liquid at the tip. But I don't see how it could be less tha…
17 Jul 2014, 03:09
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Yes, which is one reason I didn't suggest Germanium, unless the chamber is also a perfect thermal insulator.…
17 Jul 2014, 02:28
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Whatever word the Commonwealth's tongue had for it, if that was used and it was apparent from context that it was something we know today, mercury, G.W. would've writ the word we…
16 Jul 2014, 16:25
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G.W. says, "Latin is once or twice employed to indicate that inscriptions and the like are in a language Severian appears to consider obsolete. What the actual language may have …
16 Jul 2014, 15:47
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The translator G.W. transcribes it as "hydrargyrum", but it could be something more exotic.…
15 Jul 2014, 15:50
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IIRC he said he'd like to do more Soldier, but he's limited by his and family health.…
28 Jun 2014, 02:50
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I would say very likely, esp given the similar themes.…
29 May 2014, 16:34
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Remember the saying about 5 buildings per living inhabitant of Nessus; how many of those 5 building's former inhabitants are now interred somewhere at the necropolis? That's a lo…
04 May 2014, 23:51
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Yes, there is that approach ( I need to repost something of that nature here) where "God's creature" as Edwards calls Creation has no independent existence any more than the image…
25 Apr 2014, 15:18
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Yes, there is that approach ( I need to repost something of that nature here) where "God's creature" as Edwards calls Creation has no independent existence any more than the image…
25 Apr 2014, 15:18
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The projection of the dying man's sensations onto the party's attendees makes me think it is some kind of nested reincarnation, and the "tired of him" voice is his atman remarking …
25 Apr 2014, 00:22
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IIRC, he stated more strongly in the old GEnie days, that his first step in solving the mysteries of a Wolfe story is to find the figurative if not literal Gene Wolfe *in* the stor…
11 Apr 2014, 15:43
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IIEC Wolfe was fairly harsh on the emotional level in ascribing the cruel humor of a Turkish joke book to the Turks' lack of Christianity in the Jordan interview.…
29 Mar 2014, 12:01
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Google Ngrams' earliest hit for kalo is Narrative of a journey in the Morea, 1823, by Sir William Gell. P.376, "The people seemed rather pleased that I approved of their liquor, …
29 Mar 2014, 06:21
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URTH, Chapter LI: This seems like at least two generations, and even short ones would add up to 30-40 years, giving enough time for trees to grow and be made into boats and bowe…
14 Feb 2014, 15:04
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Sev's bower is at the water's edge, while the other three are on a walkable hill rather than a cliff.…
14 Feb 2014, 08:53
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Some they have, but as Sev notes in a few places, much of the gear is password protected. Jonas is widely traveled on Urth, including some time travel before his shipwreck. Also…
28 Jan 2014, 05:31
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I'd always presumed that Ymar was the first autarch, since he was present at the end of Typhon's reign, but I just went over all mentions of his name in volumes I-V and it's not …
21 Dec 2013, 00:46
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I don't personally see how Severian would ever be a clone. He *is* an aquastor duplicate for two stretches of URTH's narrative, as demonstrated by the dead material bodies left beh…
20 Dec 2013, 05:21
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I recall we are told that metal has become rather more precious in Sev's time. The mausoleum may be signified as out of that time by the unstolen funeral bronzes, perhaps similar…
19 Dec 2013, 07:17
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It's a fine place to store dead clones. Three closed coffins = three dead clones, or three timeline dopplegangers paradoxed away. Two empties would suggest Sev the narrator has o…
19 Dec 2013, 03:09
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A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant Embracing English, American ..., Volume 1 edited by Albert Barr re, Charles Godfrey Leland (1897) cites Outcasts of London by J. Greenwood for…
17 Dec 2013, 04:46
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They are intimately connected channels for his powers, and at times he may perceive them as separate selves. Particularly with the White Fountain, he has a sense of seeing himself …
15 Dec 2013, 10:43
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I think the other ppl are to account for the other slices of space around the point where the wrap-around effect converges. We don't see them because they are literally inaccessibl…
12 Nov 2013, 16:15
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The Yesodis substantially restore urth to its Edenic state via quakes and tidal floods and renewed solar output, but there are still some Citadel towers for Juturna to sit among af…
10 Oct 2013, 22:05
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A popular treatment in print was THE IRON SUN: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE WITH BLACK HOLES (ISBN 0525134905, 9780525134909). Disney did a film called THE BLACK HOLE, and Blue Oyster Cul…
11 Sep 2013, 00:01
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But all the stuff inside the sun's already colliding and touching. How is the axis and irection of rotation of the disk picked?…
09 Sep 2013, 14:16
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What force acts on the matter to prevent it from following the usual swarm of elliptical orbits instead of the disk?…
09 Sep 2013, 13:19
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Ah! "..../the kind of sand that artists call polychrome (because flecks of every color are mixed with its whiteness) is actually not sand at all, but the glass of the past, now p…
09 Sep 2013, 12:17
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In the late 1970s conception, a black hole is an Einstein-Rosenbridge to somewhere else; Abbadon in Urth's case. It's supposed to be literally sending part of the sun's substanc…
09 Sep 2013, 12:01
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Indeed, the Yesodis don't expect them to survive, which is why they settle the renewed earth with new people. It's really not fair to hold Wolfe to the standards of another 3-4 de…
09 Sep 2013, 06:03
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I'm not sure what you mean? What is it called? I would think that any volume of plastic would indicate either enough time for new petroleum to form, or that not enough time had ye…
09 Sep 2013, 04:35
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I have no idea, but it seems like no coincidence that *everywhere* in Sev's time anyone happens to delve into the earth, there is already evidence of previous diggers and builders.…
09 Sep 2013, 01:55
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