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Not just having a human nature, but bridging the gap between mankind and God; the Outsider's extension into the mortal realm. "God and sinners reconciled." I'm not sure what the…
06 Feb 2009, 15:26
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I don't see how this indescribability can extend to Christ; isn't the whole point of Christianity that Christ is the personally accessible part of the Deity?…
06 Feb 2009, 09:21
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Jonas' recognition of the notules from his travels to other planets is textev that the creatures are summoned, rather than conjured or transmogrified. The possibility remains th…
04 Feb 2009, 10:29
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I'm not convinced this is the same cat transformed; IIRC it could more easily be a catlike creature Inire supplied to distract the girl from her loss with novelty. Bonding ensues…
04 Feb 2009, 04:28
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Outsider forbid we use technically accurate geometric terms when discussing geometry. Lest I seem too much of a grinch, I want to thank everyone who provided visual aids for the…
29 Jan 2009, 07:31
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Planes and lines can't be congruent, by the definition of congruence.…
28 Jan 2009, 15:46
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It's possible that the Silk is opposite from the middle of a long day section, so it is high noon as well as in the middle of the day overhead, but that the valleys are in the da…
28 Jan 2009, 05:57
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I suppose that counts as "beyond the shade" in that the bowls are farther away than the shade is, though the direction is off about 30 degrees.…
28 Jan 2009, 04:24
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Anyone can snail mail a drawing to me at Jeff Wilson 21 Big Oak Ln Texarkana TX 75503 and I'll be happy to scan it, upload the image to my website, and post the URL here.…
27 Jan 2009, 21:42
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Always the best time for a duel!…
27 Jan 2009, 21:34
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This indicates the original asteroid was massive enough to flatten gross irregularities into a plainlike smoothness, and of a sufficient scale for its spheroidal curvature to loo…
27 Jan 2009, 18:01
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In near-planetary space without the protection of an atmosphere, the side of a body toward the sun will be hotter than the daytime side of the planet. It might be possible for a …
27 Jan 2009, 04:54
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In this scenario, does "to the rim" mean the valleys are each filled to their respective rim, or does it refer to some larger container, like the Whorl itself perhaps?…
26 Jan 2009, 11:16
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I'm willing to be persuaded, but not by repeated assertion. If you can imagine a scenario where a valley inside a spinning, hollow asteroid can have a line of sight to an observe…
26 Jan 2009, 10:59
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I mean, I have reviewed the same body of work on spin-gravity space stations available to the author when he wrote the books. Typhon's bits of anti-gravity technology left over f…
26 Jan 2009, 00:54
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Why don't you use a compass and a rule to draw this situation, and upload a scan of your drawing so we can literally see what you mean?…
26 Jan 2009, 00:39
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Are you thinking that the valleys are past the end of the solar tube, so that the tube is not over head but to one side only? Yes; in addition to being a lifelong buff of space r…
25 Jan 2009, 20:53
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Make that an exposed section of a right circular cone, to be analytically and geometrically precise.…
25 Jan 2009, 20:37
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Are you privy to the particular "hollowing-out" process used? There are several, even now.…
25 Jan 2009, 19:12
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Why don't we see more hunks overhead then?…
25 Jan 2009, 19:08
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I think he means that, for example, a symmetrical, conical mountain need not point straight up toward the solar tube.…
25 Jan 2009, 18:33
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That would require tipping the base at a greater than complimentary angle with the slope of the mountain, that is, a degree for every degree short of a sheer, vertical cliff, and…
25 Jan 2009, 18:29
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What holds the mountains up?…
25 Jan 2009, 17:28
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That would require some Dali-esque topology, with mountains hovering overhead between the solar tube and the valley floor.…
25 Jan 2009, 05:53
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You're outside of a planet, not inside a spinning asteroid.…
25 Jan 2009, 01:56
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Relativity dictates any asymmetry will eventually lead to tumbling, so it needs to be pretty close to avoid instability over ages of travel.…
24 Jan 2009, 05:32
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Spin gravity would require all the local upward directions to point inward to the same axis where the long sun is to be found, preventing shadows of any appreciable size to be ca…
22 Jan 2009, 14:32
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Rich text and HTML are bad for e-mail and make the baby Theoanthropos cry. Plain text is the original and primary international standard for e-mail and the only format guaranteed…
31 Dec 2008, 06:18
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Where do photos of the American Civil War come from then? Indeed, Rudesind may not see any difference between stellar tech reproductions of a photograph and of a photo-realistic …
31 Dec 2008, 06:12
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Assume? We are specifically shown the insides of the Yesodi's planet is crammed full of machinery, and specifically told each archipelago is dedicated to the destiny of a galaxy …
31 Dec 2008, 06:04
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How is this possible?…
31 Dec 2008, 05:56
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For comparison, the work "book" is shortly after applied to a reel of microfilm and a computer memory crystal as well as more conventional bound volumes of leaves and pages.…
31 Dec 2008, 05:54
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We worked out earlier in 2008 that the composition of the picture described does not match any of the publicized Apollo 11 photos. If it is literally a painting, the artist took …
30 Dec 2008, 06:29
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He does hedge a bit and sign it "G.W." rather than own it outright with a full name or implicitly by leaving it unsigned. The Appendix mentions numerous other artifacts from the …
29 Dec 2008, 00:00
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That would conflict with the duplicate implosion problem, wouldn't it?…
25 Dec 2008, 17:20
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Wolfe himself has since said that Urth is an earlier cycle than our Earth, but I think that may be retroactive continuity after realizing that drowning Urth would otherwise break…
25 Dec 2008, 05:38
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The link between his body and the power of the White Fountain is blocked on at least one occasion but his point of awareness remains in his body, puzzled about why the miracle …
25 Dec 2008, 05:08
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Right, however Jesus did have/has enduring union with the divine, post-Ascension. Severian seems to *lose* union with the divine, taking up once again mortal habits like sleeping…
25 Dec 2008, 04:44
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There's a problem in that deities by definition transcend the physical world, but Sev's first-person narrative remains largely linear and divided from that of "other Severians" f…
24 Dec 2008, 17:55
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On the other hand, the author may not have subscribed to the chaotic model of parallel universes, or of human development. The Corridors of Time might be organized in some way th…
24 Dec 2008, 17:01
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"Apu" is a title, meaning both god and mountain, and each Incan god has an associated Andean peak, but oddly Severian fails to have any sort of positive connection to a mountain …
24 Dec 2008, 03:56
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This is correct, as far as we know. Napoleon had free will, despite the existence of records in our time that detail every major and many minor decisions he made. However not all…
24 Dec 2008, 03:42
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I think it likely; numerous features of GW's military college campus seem to influence the architechture of the Citadel in the BotNS, as well as the Library and possibly Maiso…
19 Dec 2008, 19:33
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"Hiro Protagonist" is self-referential pseudonym that is also his brand name, and is part of his strategy to minimize identify theft.…
19 Dec 2008, 15:30
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Alien sapients seem deliberately off the table in the BOTNS, but as for your other question, I htink it's been fairly settled that the Hieros are the humans of a previous incarna…
14 Dec 2008, 20:40
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There are however questions of scale that can make them practically inaccessible. Also, it's more like "Science catches up to Anderson's _Tau Zero_" or Lee and Kirby's _Fantast…
14 Dec 2008, 05:39
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Not all of Evangelion's ambiguity is on screen: I had similar baffling experience "meeting" Asuka's US voice actress at a con. I kept hearing Asuka's voice in the tiny tower room…
13 Dec 2008, 06:07
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Aquastors begin as machine-sustained images that need not age, but can, as the machine operator's wish and skill may allow. An aquastor that lasts long enough to accumulate its own…
12 Dec 2008, 19:01
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I can see water-breathing as a useful edit to make in an aquastor, the exchange of water could speed the accumulation of "real" matter and get them off dependence on the sustaining…
11 Dec 2008, 22:32
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Where's the monster?…
10 Dec 2008, 18:47
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