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When would people *need* to write a coherent reply without coinscribing or interleaving, or just plain bottom posting like I'm doing now?…
28 Aug 2006, 05:21
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It may not be inscrutable; hopefully, some new meaning emerges that is obvious in retrospect if X and Y are related by Z, but wouldn't otherwise.…
26 Aug 2006, 20:49
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I think you're going way too far here. We see *one* ET who shapeshifts, and that only in the afterthought book, URTH, while others demonstrate their reliance on mechanical disgui…
25 Aug 2006, 19:59
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My impression is that Nessus is underpopulated, with five standing buildings per inhabitant. The Eata conincidence I'll give you, but the others you likst are hardly that. My im…
21 Aug 2006, 04:20
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We can't assume it's natural because one of the Great Beasts (Erebus) lives in/on/as a volcanic mountain itself. They sap energy from Urth the same way the black beans/worms sap …
01 Aug 2006, 03:02
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Ahem. In _There Are Doors_, I recently reread where he writes (as Lara), "'[...]Perhaps three children. Perhaps three dozen.'" As it happens, a 12:1 ratio just about fits the mil…
29 Jul 2006, 05:17
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More ambiguous. At one point he says Urth is "perhaps a million years in our future." In _There Are Doors_,…
28 Jul 2006, 06:12
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I don't recall Domnina entering the chamber; wasn't she just in a mirrored hallway?…
28 Jul 2006, 04:39
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If Inire is really all those other people and in all those other places, he's likely a double agent posing as one of the sun-stoppers, the same way the Autarch is also a spy for …
25 Jul 2006, 03:22
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These last sound more like the doings of the Autarch, who is flat out shown doing sneaky things under assumed identities, unlike Inire who is only suspected of it.…
23 Jul 2006, 16:23
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Revelations provides for at least a second Incarnation. Meanwhile, the scripturally unique Flood *is* duplicated by the author. That sounds too close to a suggestion that belief …
22 Jul 2006, 22:24
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How can we tell the difference?…
22 Jul 2006, 03:34
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If there was no Incarnation, who was Crucified?…
21 Jul 2006, 17:17
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IIRC, he says it takes place "perhaps a million years" in the future, but the "perhaps" releases him from any responsibility of accuracy. The Stone Town certainly would not last …
20 Jul 2006, 07:21
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Works fine from here. Maybe if you gave up the evils of top-posting, the hierogrammates would allow you access.…
11 Jul 2006, 07:29
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I think it is, except for (as the author says) it being the previous cycle of creation, before our latest Big Bang. Though I am not sure if he is speaking as the same GW who is t…
10 Jul 2006, 08:30
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"Please do not offer peanuts to my god." Has anyone ever found the etymology of "punchau"?…
08 Jul 2006, 17:20
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I think this is more in Skinner's area, myself. Certainly Greeks and Romans were conditioned to see the past as a place of glory and names forever remembered, with the future a m…
16 Jun 2006, 04:53
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I've seen this claimed for classical Attic cultures as well; IIRC as recently as "It's Greek to Me" (Paperback) by Michael Macrone, Tom Lulevitch…
15 Jun 2006, 04:33
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some of it, but his work itself duplicates Wolfe's hard work.... Of course, wikifying the book is likely to produce new insights and discoveries that can be fed back into the new…
13 Jun 2006, 07:34
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No more alien than Doc Savage, or any number of other melanin-rich characters of literature. But Inire should have some obvious nonhuman feature to be considered a "cacogen," pa…
11 Jun 2006, 21:57
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However, Isangoma is butt naked; nothing to hide Inire's nonhuman nature or his ultratech gadgets.…
09 Jun 2006, 20:52
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Not quite; they mention an expectant couple next door. "Paul's Treehouse" has Paul living in the tree behind his parents' house.…
09 Jun 2006, 06:40
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I think shapeshifting works best if left to the order of creature that Tzadkiel is. Father Inire needn't change shape, because his human appearance is artificial, and can be chan…
27 May 2006, 04:43
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*shiver* Are you sure you're not Borski wearing a doggett-like mask?…
27 May 2006, 04:34
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Or rather, insect-like masks behind their face-like masks.…
26 May 2006, 04:51
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The various human-animal hybrids serving the autarch, from the mastiff men in the coach full of gold, to the anpiels, and perhaps even the ape-men in the mine at Saltus.…
24 May 2006, 03:38
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This sounds more likely to be the source of the boy in the tower than Severian's loins.…
21 May 2006, 20:46
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They are "great beasts" with occult power, as Aleister Crowley styled himself on occasion. Abaia and Erebus, being inhuman Things Man Was Not Meant to Know, also count as great…
20 May 2006, 05:19
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The question is more properly, "What sorts of things are Baldanders?" He isn't just one thing, and doesn't merely symbolize one thing. He's a tree, he's a man, he's a black magic…
19 May 2006, 04:51
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Interviews of many unassociated pedos over time and space. It's unlikely they would come up with the same fanciful answer enough times to be statistically signifigant for no reas…
19 May 2006, 04:44
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Pedophilia has been studied and profiled the same way most criminal pathologies have been. "Often" here means a behavior shared by a significant portion of the group studied. Li…
17 May 2006, 07:39
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The Wall, with the peculiar positioning of the guardsmen inside it, could be a huge, grounded spin-gravity generation ship, similar to the Whorl, but hollow on the inside and roo…
06 May 2006, 04:55
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It's arguable that the newly-breathing Apu Punchau left behind was the eidolon, while "Severian" was actually the "original". Or, it could be that when the light of the White Fou…
03 May 2006, 01:33
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As Mantiss has it, each exultant child has a clone (the khaibit, egpytian word for shadow) from which certain items are harvested, notably growth factors. Given the Exultants' na…
02 May 2006, 02:33
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Because the undines *demonstrate* it, via 1) Juturna's non-linear personal experiences 2) Juturna's pointing out the time-ward directions of travel to Severian 3) Idas' presence…
29 Apr 2006, 05:23
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If I recall correctly, Typhon was the *last* stellar tyrant, not the first, and actively sought to copy or surpass the accomplishments of his predecessors. Thus, the hieros could…
27 Apr 2006, 03:06
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I don't think this will work, as you're essentially doing a slightly-rearranged double-slit experiment. Empirically, one slit has to be slightly closer to the source on the same …
27 Apr 2006, 02:59
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I don't think you can support more than a few hundred centuries' separation between the eras. the stuff in the mines and mountain sides is easily explainable by the same technolo…
26 Apr 2006, 15:33
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This isn't necessary in a Christian allegory about an eternal Pancreator; just as Christ was present at the Creation before there was anyone to be saved, it's fitting that the Pa…
26 Apr 2006, 15:20
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The Resurrection would be a non-miracle in this sense, becasue there is nothing to prevent the atoms in a body from rearranging themselves into a pattern allowing that body to re…
13 Apr 2006, 04:07
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I mean things like disproving God's omnipotence by asking can God make a rock so big He can't lift it. This shortcoming is only valid in a superficial, rhetorical sense. Mathemat…
13 Apr 2006, 03:56
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Not in any meaningful way, given that the entire premise, that the speed of light remains constant relative to all observers, is violated by Father Inire's mirrors. '"'Since noth…
12 Apr 2006, 04:31
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I think Chris is probably thinking more along the lines of Aquinas, whose limits to God's power to do the impossible were more about the ability of humans to construct paradoxes,…
12 Apr 2006, 02:47
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Perhaps, but there's no guarantee that there are any plants still on Lune at the time of the narrative. Conflation and multiplication of identities over ages is a very strong th…
10 Apr 2006, 01:50
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Some of that is picked up as you go along, and some is spelled out in the afterword of SHADOW.…
10 Apr 2006, 01:32
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If you mean Ares could be injured by other exalted beings, that agrees with the Illiad. But it raises the question, what other exalted being was present in the temple to strike th…
08 Apr 2006, 07:25
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There's no meaningful distinction between "you" and a subset of "universe" in current physical thought. There's also no need to restrict news of the Christian Gospel to post-cru…
08 Apr 2006, 06:55
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That is just not supportred by the vast bodies of reproduced results. Relativity's predictions are spot on accounting for observed effects above the quantum level. It could use s…
08 Apr 2006, 06:45
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You have just begged the question.…
08 Apr 2006, 06:38
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