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Inire's letter is written awfully small for a guy with foot-long hands.…
27 Jul 2010, 14:09
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This is another old post come unstuck in the works: Oh, no, there are huge amounts of correspondence here - you see how often the same digit appears in series, or in the same gro…
27 Jul 2010, 14:04
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It's more than likely Abaia's would see to it that his seed survived in Juturna, if such a thing were possible, and there are some really off-putting reproductive strategies amon…
27 Jul 2010, 14:00
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That's fascinating. In isolation, it may not have been clear that my post refers to the idiom being of the English language in contrast to French or whatever other language with…
27 Jul 2010, 13:57
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Heh. On another list, made up of fellow A&M matriculant fen, there were so many JWs that we were assigned numbers. I am Number Five. Did I ever tell you about the "real" Second H…
27 Jul 2010, 10:33
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The burial metaphor appears to be solved in Sev's final encounter with Rudesind in CITADEL: "...I wanted you to see there has been a lot come before you. That there was thousand…
27 Jul 2010, 05:28
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I wonder if Steven Bowen would care to comment on the individual character of Mormons still with the LDS Church, and how this might reflect on the themes of of false religions cu…
26 Jul 2010, 22:58
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If Rudesind is secretly Inire, Inire has also hidden this from the Old Autarch, and presumably from as many autarchs as overlap a false-Rudesind's plausible lifetime. Also, "you…
26 Jul 2010, 22:46
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Quabbalistic as well. But if you come up with a sufficiently self-consistent abstraction, it will probably resemble some model sooner or later. This can also be taken as confirm…
26 Jul 2010, 21:06
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The narrow, deep canal-streets are consistent with the use of gondolas, which would have been the most efficient means of transport via the fixed-width stargates before the Goa'u…
24 Jul 2010, 19:29
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For such a focussed scientist, he seems to be spending a lot of his personal time putting on plays.…
22 Jul 2010, 05:19
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Baldanders likely assisted Dr Talos with her makeover, and so would have a lot of associations with her that others would not. Also, Baldanders is really old and despite his prol…
22 Jul 2010, 03:46
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If the original, all-meat Severian lasted until the Ship, the skull from Gyoll can't be his, nor a symbol for his mortal remains since he didn't leave any. I'd taken it to symbol…
21 Jul 2010, 19:45
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I. Figuratively and posthumously. II. She recalls a family business making cloisonne pins or summat. III. It would make the closest thing the Book has to an innocent person into a …
20 Jul 2010, 21:18
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I interpret this as the Yesodis collecting a gene sample so that the White Fountain can be attuned to him; this may also explain some of Juturna's transcending of dimension, since …
20 Jul 2010, 20:50
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Is he also an aquastor/eidolon at the time he finds the skull, though? Presumably an aquastor can be tuned to not need air, but Aquastor Malrubius says the spacecraft from Yesod …
20 Jul 2010, 16:55
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Juturna doesn't seem to have literal resurrection, though she does save the life of Severian after he has ceased to breathe. But maybe she was preventing him from discovering his…
20 Jul 2010, 04:25
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Typhon goes on to explain that his trusted ship commanders fled, leaving him without means of egress. He apparently did not believe in the personal escape craft, or perhaps was t…
19 Jul 2010, 21:48
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The Old Autarch was apprentice honey steward, and spent his childhood in a town near or perhaps above the House Absolute. Immediately previous autarchs probably weren't torturers…
19 Jul 2010, 21:35
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Or perhaps she survived through her gift of superhuman powers, similar to her brother, Severian?…
19 Jul 2010, 14:00
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Zeus and Pas might not, but Prometheus would like he did during the last divine regime change. The old Autarch is a double agent for the Commonwealth and for Vodalus; Inire can …
19 Jul 2010, 05:28
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Yes, that's what I was thinking, which can coexist with usual SF trope of the Fake Religion As a Secular Tool (see Dune, Foundation, The Day After Tomorrow, Cat's Cradle) even as…
18 Jul 2010, 22:29
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The problem with this is that Juturna and Baldanders are both sea-dwellers by the time of Sev's return. Juturna says her kind swim between the stars and supposedly Abaia's seed c…
18 Jul 2010, 07:50
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This seems ambiguous to me; the religion doesn't have to be sincere or true to achieve the ends of the people that promulgate it. Perhaps the Pelerines are on the opposite side o…
18 Jul 2010, 07:41
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If Patera is connected to the Inire, it may be via its Latin usage: a ritual vessel for carrying libations ready to pour or drink but with a dry bump in the middle for steady han…
17 Jul 2010, 17:52
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He sees 4D on several occasions, generally whenever something departs into the Corridors of Time "in that direction I had never seen until I watched the ship vanish into it from …
17 Jul 2010, 17:43
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Where do the many eyes come in? Why don't other people share the same snakelike appearance when looked at tin the same way by Sev?…
17 Jul 2010, 06:58
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That depends on if we are reading the translation of the first copy, left behind, or of the second, written aboard the Ship. I personally think he wrote the second to keep his mi…
17 Jul 2010, 06:51
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The indignant label given by painted figures to their disagreement with the artist's semiotic choices, despite remaining on the firmament of his easel for the completion of their…
15 Jul 2010, 18:52
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Hey, my first semester roomie was from Midland! This was the same year Baby Jessica fell down the well. I have a gaming buddy and a publisher from the same law school. For those…
15 Jul 2010, 05:47
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The two need not be mutually exclusive. The whole Confederate movement was about maintaining the member states' unique identity and destiny as much as possible. And all the membe…
15 Jul 2010, 04:42
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Continuing the visit to Cosmology Corner, the above imagery is actually a fairly accurate description of physicist's Andrei Linde's form of linked expansionary universes.…
15 Jul 2010, 04:02
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I'm not sure what you mean by recent. The black hole/white hole thing still had some currency at the time of writing despite 1975's "discovery" and rapid acceptance of Hawking ra…
15 Jul 2010, 03:57
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Not Southerners? Brownsville is as southern it gets, Pardner.…
14 Jul 2010, 21:57
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There are a few latter period ones, like the giant flying robot warriors guarding Typhon's mountain citadel. Of course, in the conceit of the Book as Dr Talos mentions, their exi…
14 Jul 2010, 19:34
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yes, exactly! only more briefly. IIRC, Lem does a bit of this in his CYBERIAD.…
14 Jul 2010, 19:22
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Typhon responds, "Why should gravity serve Urth, when it can serve Typhon?" I interpret this as an adjustable antigravity effect, where the sled and Severian's viscera fall freel…
14 Jul 2010, 04:05
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"When I admitted I did not, he scrambled down from the ladder like an aged monkey, seeming all arms and legs and wrinkled neck; his hands were as long as my feet, the crooked fin…
13 Jul 2010, 02:16
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"Bob" would've been funnier…
12 Jul 2010, 23:09
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Um....Didn't you think it was kind of odd the way Corwin's henchman Gamelon from a Shadow was able to one-punch Girard, the biggest, toughest brawler on the true earth? I see Ob…
12 Jul 2010, 22:34
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And regardless of genetics, the baby has to gestate somewhere. Rather than go to the expense of glassware, nutrients, and telemetery, a healthy broad-hipped woman is naturally su…
12 Jul 2010, 20:50
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That may have been a bit hasty, but the even though the fettered Fenrir was tied to Gyoll, Inire is awfully mobile about his duty station and commands means of egress and ingress -…
12 Jul 2010, 19:48
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He could leave at any time via the mirrors, or take a vacation of most any length via the Atrium or the Botanic Gardens. Severian thinks he has taken the post voluntarily: "We kn…
10 Jul 2010, 22:54
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Sev mentions the land abutting the ice in his time - there could come a point where even the rehabbed sun could not return the balance if the ice advanced far enough. They know S…
10 Jul 2010, 08:18
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Mantis mentioned that Sev describes his pouch as manskin on one place and doeskin in another.…
09 Jul 2010, 22:42
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I think it is more like, they let it happen as late as they possibly could without endangering the success of the New Sun. This meant a dying urth about to disappear under its fina…
09 Jul 2010, 22:05
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Yes, but the translator says that animal names are given by role rather than by taxonomy.…
09 Jul 2010, 05:11
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Sev may be poor at judging the ages of the very old, given his infrequent contact with them other than Master Malrubius. Casdoe's father Old Man seems to have been close to Fech…
09 Jul 2010, 05:09
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Albinism and baldness? Doesn't Baldanders have grey hair?…
08 Jul 2010, 23:50
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The avern duel is pretty knife-throwy.…
08 Jul 2010, 21:00
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