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I try to do the same, but since Wolfe brings the archaeological record into the story, you have to really think about what he's trying say. There is no mere mention and dismissal o…
28 Apr 2002, 09:21
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I meant _earthly_ archaeology record; where are the remnants of the residences, strip mines, steel mills, chemical plants, fuel refineries, and other features expected of an indust…
27 Apr 2002, 06:00
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Not true; many processors have multiple instruction piplines inside that let them do multiple operations each clock cycle. A Pentium I averaged one instruction per Hertz, but that …
24 Apr 2002, 06:03
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Sure, the microcephalics may have problems, but then so does Oreb; he can't put more than two syllables together. Being a populist doesn't mean your figures are to be dismissed ou…
24 Apr 2002, 05:29
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There's sin learned from others, Unoriginal Sin. :) Seriously, it's generally accepted among all but the most reactionary Christians that Jesus' sacrifice redeemed everyone from or…
24 Apr 2002, 00:40
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How do you explain the remarkable similarity of form and the ability to interbreed, then?…
24 Apr 2002, 00:10
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I'm sorry, but you are mistaken; we've had simulated worm and insect brains for a few years. Another worm or fly might find the difference plain, but the comparative function's bee…
24 Apr 2002, 00:08
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There are numerous documented cases of microcephalics with normal mental functionality; a lot of the human brain is redundant, something that is mentioned as a performance boosting…
22 Apr 2002, 04:59
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Vaguely recalled from a transcribed radio interview of Wolfe: "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" was written about 1971-2; Wolfe used it for a workshop story where Knight was teaching. …
19 Apr 2002, 06:26
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"Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com It's moving away, a fact available to SF writers through such obscure channels as the "Peanuts" comic strip. This is because of an obscur…
12 Apr 2002, 05:02
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No, because 1) Lune shows signs of Urthlike gravity in TBOTNS, and 2) Silkhorn's statement could be an acknowledgement of the varying apparent sizes of the bodies during his travel…
06 Apr 2002, 06:19
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There is a touch of 17 in the MIT-centric engineering culture: < http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/random-numbers.html >…
28 Mar 2002, 05:44
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No offense taken, even had you been sincere; looniness is far from the worst or least common accusation I typically receive. :)…
11 Mar 2002, 03:07
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A superb inference, Mantiss, and I see no reason it could not have been part of GW's thought on the subject. I rather think that if true, some information from the original suff…
11 Mar 2002, 00:22
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I think that this bears closer examination. Rather than a device that literally summons demons (just as the Book contains hierodules rather than literal angels), I think that the R…
05 Mar 2002, 15:21
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They may not be completely ignorant, but it is plain that they parrot a lot of the lost teaching without really understanding it; they have some general idea, but the details are l…
05 Mar 2002, 07:16
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I'm with you so far, No kidding. Some times he is even *gasp* mistaken! The Whorl doesn't need to do anything "numinous," only to be subject to the plans of the Increate. I am su…
03 Mar 2002, 04:17
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So it makes it pointless to build the moon to the size of Mars when you already have a Mars-sized body, namely Mars. Rudesind and others of his society can't be expected to be …
02 Mar 2002, 06:37
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No. During the Apollo program, the measured amount of gas surrounding the moon remained fairly constant, despite each landing adding an amount of gaseous exhaust equal to the origi…
01 Mar 2002, 00:50
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If the Whorl traveled through a region of space that curved back upon itself, then it's reasonable that the old Sun would be visible back along the way they came. There's no partic…
28 Feb 2002, 00:30
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I am still hopeful that Blue and Green turn out to be Urth and Lune in _Planet Of The Apes_ fashion, though perhaps in an era =before= the Whorl left. Roger is an acknowledgment…
25 Feb 2002, 00:31
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"algophilist" is more what we call masochism. It sounds more like Jolenta toyed with Severian, to see how much misery he would endure for a chance to sleep with her than anything r…
05 Feb 2002, 05:30
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Indeed. Perhaps the NP is himself a replacement from another timeline where he was a junior politico. References to disasters and unrest that we don't see could be pointing to even…
09 May 2001, 14:31
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I haven't read the story, but it seems clear to me that an extension of the president's current term is being implied. The Changer could be suggesting that he can keep the presiden…
08 May 2001, 13:48
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Could there be factions among the powers of darkness? Since while Abaia and his undines would be unable to function in the Ragnarok future, Erebus is already in the midst of the fr…
10 Mar 2001, 13:52
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More thinking reveals what might be a sort of inverted literary allusion in the black beans/black hole matter. (I've pointed out numerous examples of inverted parallels and analogi…
08 Mar 2001, 23:03
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Then again, can we be sure that's all they represent? Who is responsible for putting the black hole in the sun?…
07 Mar 2001, 18:08
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Then again, can we be sure that's all they represent? Who is responsible for putting the black hole in the sun?…
07 Mar 2001, 18:08
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Urth-normal gravity is would be expected if Lune's atmosphere was to be retained without some sort of container. The current moon's gravity is not strong enough to retain air. BOTN…
04 Mar 2001, 18:01
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