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I believe that it also serves as a double-entendre in the first story; Maitre is also Number 5's figurative "mater", or mother, as well as his father.…
06 May 2007, 23:32
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It may be that he only had "sexual play" with Thecla, as he says Dorcas and Jolenta did. Thecla would not be likely to risk pregnancy by a commoner as long as she had some hope o…
26 Apr 2007, 04:48
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Please do not feed the energy creature.…
13 Apr 2007, 03:41
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This is do-able as in the recent _Alexander_, with a short sequence of Philip showing young Alexander the mystery cave and delivering his maltheistic rant seeded with trivia abou…
12 Apr 2007, 07:28
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That may be a Wagnerism rather than authentic Teutonic myth; some have it that the tarnhelm confers invisibility while the Rheingold transforms the outer form to match the inner …
08 Apr 2007, 07:53
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Rather, why does Severian choose, among the thousands of people he must have met in the course of the events described in the five volumes, only to record the hundred or so appea…
07 Apr 2007, 07:09
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Within the context of the Book + Urth's cosmology (as I and most listers understand it), there are no "candidates", only Severian, Who _is_ the New Sun. The various powers and po…
02 Apr 2007, 03:13
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We only know it was written that no one admitted being able to read what Latro writes. Even if this is true, someone could still sneak in and erase or scrape off a recent entry t…
01 Dec 2006, 05:34
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Remember, other people have access to the scroll, and even the Latro du jour may have had his temporary reasons for censoring it. GW can use all of the devices presumably employe…
30 Nov 2006, 17:09
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Now that I think about it, Latro can do this, though not reliably. Certainly in _Mist_, he revisits themes and topics hinted at earlier, and this is explained by him re-reading h…
15 Nov 2006, 02:46
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since the actual author isn't amnesiac, I don't see how this is a problem.…
14 Nov 2006, 07:50
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Presumably when they are judged old enough to be raised solely by men and boys, and there are no other obstacles to their induction. Such an obstacle might be a surfeit of client…
01 Nov 2006, 02:29
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but there are no other "Brothers" mentioned in the guild, and no way to become one mentioned in the discussion of the guild ranks. This would imply that not only has no-one becom…
27 Oct 2006, 04:47
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I don't think it is necessarily a contradiction. Since we are reading a translation, "take" may variously mean surgical removal as well as induction into the guild, either both …
27 Oct 2006, 03:36
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If the Masters use a machine to make an eidolon to serve as Holy Katharine, they could plausibly use a machine to make an eidolon to serve as a cook or a menial laborer. However,…
27 Oct 2006, 03:21
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I don't think it would be Severian's memory. Presumably, it would be someone available whenever the jailers guild was reformed into the all-male Brotherhood, long after the Conci…
26 Oct 2006, 05:13
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There's never more than two of the protagonist at once in "Zombies", and "By His Bootstraps" only gets up to three. The earliest mention of mass time duplicates I've found so far…
26 Oct 2006, 04:25
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Whose memory does the maid come from? Does this imply Brother Cook and Brother Porter are likewise eidolons?…
26 Oct 2006, 04:12
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"Straightening Our Stripes" is very close indeed, but unfortunately was painted in 1985.…
22 Oct 2006, 04:09
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Interesting; maybe it's a Fresnel lens dual image, or even some more exotic form of changing picture.…
22 Oct 2006, 04:01
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Amazon to the rescue: "The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff bearing a strange, stiff banner…
22 Oct 2006, 02:18
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I can't say it's without textev, given Hethor's paracoita speech. I'm telling you, she must be mom's khaibit du jour. The witches' tower. pampered existence, similar to the rece…
21 Oct 2006, 12:33
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I don't see where the ms mentions an earthrise?…
21 Oct 2006, 12:26
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other possibilities are: * a later Apollo mission * subtle difference in previous universe cycle * the picture is a painting based on the orignal photographs, possibly via multipl…
21 Oct 2006, 04:28
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It's not quanity of violence against women, it's the moral context. Is it presented as a crime? spoils of war? just desserts? pretext to arranged marriage? harmless fun?…
20 Oct 2006, 15:44
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I'll bite: Why protect one woman and her children if there are thousands more for you to knock up?…
20 Oct 2006, 05:01
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Please, there is some considerable distance between suspect and convict. Rather than doing it compulsively, Wiesel was reluctant to do it at all without considerable outside enco…
20 Oct 2006, 04:52
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No, it's not, but I'd be a pretty superficial reader if I never wondered why an author writes what he writes.…
20 Oct 2006, 04:39
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If you check the quotations, David Duffy brought it up; I just did a little deconstruction on it.…
20 Oct 2006, 04:36
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No more so than most people. Murder mysteries were already established as a category of polite literature before she chose to write them; misogyny isn't. With Stephen King, I do…
19 Oct 2006, 15:00
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If an author complusively wrote novels about Jews being tortured and killed, I'd at least suspect him of anti-semitism. The Latro books are great counterexamples for the suggesti…
19 Oct 2006, 05:02
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misogyny isn't the same thing as sexism…
19 Oct 2006, 04:17
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Twain had no problem with black people; he paid for more than one to attend college, among other philanthropies. However, he had little use for Indians, other than as the unsympa…
19 Oct 2006, 03:17
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I agree, I was just playing along with the red herring theme. Twain wrote about his own society, in which esentially everyone was a racist, largely in a time when racism was ensh…
18 Oct 2006, 05:42
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That counts; what they have to say can be considered relevant without the involvement of a man to make it so.…
17 Oct 2006, 16:02
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And he was himself an admitted and practicing racist.…
17 Oct 2006, 15:59
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Mez Smith was an equal member of The Committee, and Quilla is both a willing exploiter of her sex and the rescuer of the nominal hero. They also have the essential conversation a…
17 Oct 2006, 02:52
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It's just that Wolfe seems to be really fond of including misogynist characters and situations in his stories.…
17 Oct 2006, 02:51
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An sufficiently wealthy exultant lady could have a series of khaibits, each one sustaining her youth and beauty for a few years, then replaced by another, newer one. Thus Holy Ka…
16 Oct 2006, 23:32
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Possible; what is "G.W."'s reasoning for using Latin in the text, again? The passage where the ambiguity of English is ridiculed indicates they aren't speaking English, nor the si…
14 Oct 2006, 22:33
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It is, at least among historical humanity. Dark hair is dominant over light, with red incompletely recessive to dark and incompletely dominant over light. Of course observed expr…
14 Oct 2006, 22:24
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This, at least, is explainable as evidence of the use of flyers by the exultants other than strictly between their estates and the Autarch's demesne. Exultant children could easi…
07 Oct 2006, 22:15
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"motif"…
08 Sep 2006, 16:01
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VV's novel, _THE UNIVERSE MAKER_, combines the two themes (as you can probably guess from the title), as well as the Wolfean theme of an emergent, higher ethical order emerging f…
08 Sep 2006, 05:32
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Do you mean the Bible? Particularly, "turn the other cheek"?…
08 Sep 2006, 05:23
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I believe Dan'l is employing a metasyntactic variable here, rather than making a typo. The "higher" beings are much too manipulative to be considered holy fools.…
08 Sep 2006, 02:51
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Truly separable? Jeff…
02 Sep 2006, 05:46
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As a counterexample, top-posting has apparently addled one poster here to the point where he replies to my post as if you wrote it, complimenting you on a sig that it does not co…
29 Aug 2006, 05:11
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Perhaps it was mentioned then, but the narrator redacts the dialogue to avoid writing it, becasue he still has those memories lurking within.…
28 Aug 2006, 06:10
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Considering the way Thecla's memories loom and threaten to take over whenever she is called to mind, perhaps avoiding the old Autarch's personal name is an attempt to keep *that*…
28 Aug 2006, 05:28
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