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it's not a hopeless cause, it just requires enforcement. I do it on playtest discussion lists all the time: I lay out the rules for subject lines, ask people nicely to follow the…
24 May 2010, 08:56
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In my experience, it is unless you have a moderator with the ability and the will to enforce pertinent subject linces. People don't participate in discussions to compose and reco…
21 May 2010, 14:01
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It's just Brunians' time of the month, it'll pass.…
21 May 2010, 04:03
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At least you're sincere about being insincere.…
21 May 2010, 04:01
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then why are you talking?…
21 May 2010, 03:54
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Doubtless Wolfe has read Twain. Does anyone see a particular influlence on Wolfe, other than the probably accidental superficial plot similarities between HUCK FINN and BOTNS?…
21 May 2010, 03:44
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I happen to agree with this very strongly, in that the qualities of the knowledge is often very heavily dependent on the qualities of the experience. I have objective knowledge t…
21 May 2010, 03:40
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I love you, man!…
21 May 2010, 03:11
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You do, if you want to meaningfully communicate about actual existence.…
21 May 2010, 03:09
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It's a HUCK FINN reference. You've yet to contribute to establishing their actual existence (as opposed to subjective existence), however.…
21 May 2010, 02:18
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Actual existence in a context that is beyond nature seems like a combination of attributes that is almost free of meaning. If the supernatural powers have ceased to provide fishi…
20 May 2010, 16:05
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How does the lack of free will prevent direct action against humans?…
20 May 2010, 01:21
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They might have similar diameters, but the Whorl is similarly long or longer lengthwise, and is visibly (from the outside) made from an asteroid. The Wall is overtly artificial and…
18 May 2010, 21:27
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The Wall's big, but not that big.…
18 May 2010, 14:54
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If you man the cock and the angel, that's the angel's opinion. However, the angel turns out to be wrong about the fundamental moral of the story, and IIRC the angel makes his sta…
18 May 2010, 14:01
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The preparation of the blade's metal and the mercury is within the means of a medieval society, but drilling the channel down the finished center and fitting it with a threaded s…
18 May 2010, 01:52
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True, but he has recently been given a +1 by the Holy Father: http://ncronline.org/news/ecology/pope-cites-teilhardian-vision-cosmos-living-host…
17 May 2010, 19:07
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Unless you dress it up real fancy, Teilhard de Chardin-style.…
17 May 2010, 18:39
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I think they interfere as little as possible both because they are at base moral creatures who know they constantly risk catastrophic changes in their "client" civilizations and be…
15 May 2010, 00:30
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Time travel. Once causality begins to loop back, there are no coincidences, no probability in the chain of events. What determines the chain of events is that it requires the lea…
14 May 2010, 18:21
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You agree it adds nothing, subracts nothing, and needs nothing in common. How then can we tell a linkage exists, and why should we even bother to check? We could more profitably …
11 May 2010, 03:27
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It has become increasingly common for big name SF authors to link together their various works as if they were intended to form a grand design from the beginning, lack of continu…
11 May 2010, 01:40
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I like to think that GW is a bit more original than that. There are also several multi-world structures in his existing works that seem incompatible like the Yesod-Briah-Abbadon st…
10 May 2010, 20:39
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I suppose this could lead back to John V. Marsch, though he presumably became a scholar only after losing his memory.…
21 Apr 2010, 07:13
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What about Clute, then?…
09 Apr 2010, 23:05
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Could be; it was maybe about 1996 when Neil and I discussed his theory that the other GEnie network Wolfe topic denizens like Mantiss and Joe Mayhew seemed to already know about. C…
09 Apr 2010, 21:52
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Some times it's madder than others: he was on the nose with all the clues that the 5HC narrator was "Gene Wolfe", but also nominated the alzabo as a sort of gene-seeking wolf.…
09 Apr 2010, 16:56
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But don't want to get so many going that we'd be swamped.…
08 Mar 2010, 21:38
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Good ol' Brunians, always the first to leap to conclusions.…
08 Mar 2010, 21:05
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While we are at it, what does he say about another early story? And I mistakenly reversed Bill's title. It is FANTASYLAND/AGGIELAND, linked from this page: http://cushing.libra…
08 Mar 2010, 08:01
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I am a fellow matriculant at Texas A&M and a couple of years ago I met Bill Page at his home, the infamous Monkey House. Bill is one of the curators of the University's SF collec…
08 Mar 2010, 03:19
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Did you see the thing last year? A predator microbe that becomes photosynthetic if it eats this other microbe, then fissions into the original separate microbes again? He said i…
28 Jan 2010, 07:43
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And Wolfe definitely loves his Herodotus; if you look at his portrait in _The Faces of Science Fiction_, it is perhaps the most prominently displayed volume in his basement libra…
28 Jan 2010, 07:09
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_Twister_ aside, I don't think she is intended to be the same cow that leapt over the moon. She had to run awfully far for refuge for a river nymph, across the Bosphorous and all t…
23 Jan 2010, 03:27
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I am thinking "The Black Man" favors Latro because Latro has forgotten his tribalism and doesn't think to treat him like an outsider based on his race, and also because Latro is …
22 Jan 2010, 17:16
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I am thinking "The Black Man" favors Latro because Latro has forgotten his tribalism and doesn't think to treat him like an outsider based on his race, and also because Latro is …
22 Jan 2010, 17:16
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There's still a question of him being able to intercept enough sunlight to be more active than a slug. A man-sized silhouette in Earthly conditions intercepts less than 100 calorie…
18 Jan 2010, 02:44
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There is some precedent in that Wolfe began to say that he considers Urth to be in a previous universal cycle to ours, despite allowing the nigh-universal textev-based perception…
12 Jan 2010, 17:00
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Those more modestly equiped with Excel or Windows' built-in CALC.EXE can check this by treating it as a survival chance of .9997 per year, and raise that value to (for example) 1…
04 Jan 2010, 17:21
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Wtih mask, there are numerous image hits when one googles "severian", but as for without the mask - what actor in what role would you say he he resembles?…
25 Dec 2009, 03:41
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That's the archaic _educational_ sense, then, so one could say that Christianity was an artistic faith, as the arts were equally such. I was thinking you were using it in the sen…
19 Dec 2009, 20:22
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It is a conjecture that in the sacrament of Holy Communion the substance of the bread and wine literally becomes the substance of the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, while the s…
19 Dec 2009, 19:44
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Yes, two of them at the moment.…
19 Dec 2009, 19:34
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As long as they don't eat the limbs…
19 Dec 2009, 16:25
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Absolutely; I have the nth geenration copies of the written testimony penned by fallible men to prove it.…
19 Dec 2009, 16:24
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Unobservable phenomena and unfalsifiable hypotheses are scientific in neither the current sense nor that used a thousand years ago.…
19 Dec 2009, 09:57
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How about transubstantiation, and other unobservable unfalsifiables?…
19 Dec 2009, 03:31
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It's not which way your doxy swings, it's about the message before that. Protestants don't slice any material bits off of the Creed.…
19 Dec 2009, 00:40
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I think you have to depart from the Nicean Creed to achieve heresy, or at least to depart from Christianity. This was agreed upon in the ageas before the great schim between Roman …
18 Dec 2009, 22:58
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Oh, that I agree with. "The Revolutionary" is a pun on the part of whoever on Urth gave it that name, while at the functional level it is a contrapasso. The author chooses both, …
24 Nov 2009, 19:06
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