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For the 99th time, Rudesind is TALL. He makes a ladder look like stool when Sev comes across him. Saying he is old and bent and looks like a monkey is double counting; being ol…
03 Dec 2011, 01:54
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This seems culturally relative, and not particularly of a BotNS-wide culture; in Norse myth, which is very much a part of the mix, missing body parts indicate the opposite outcome …
02 Dec 2011, 22:10
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This is suspect, however, because Rudesind is the senile one; putting the word alone in a sentence even gives it extra emphasis.…
02 Dec 2011, 06:09
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Wolfe has a negative comment on animal sacrifice? And when did Skip do Chelle's mom? I thought he repeatedly rejected her?…
24 Nov 2011, 06:24
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Aren't you overlooking a word? IIRC, it said, "No, Green is URTH!" or did it say, "No Green is URTH!"…
22 Nov 2011, 05:35
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I think it's the Yesodi's plans to mold the humans into the Hieros, who will ultimately unite with the Yesodis and with God. Everyone who can encourage others to spiritually grow…
20 Nov 2011, 07:06
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An open platform that descends, yes. There is no particular thickness of natural rock visible inside the machine planet, only human-like figures and mobile machines tending stat…
19 Nov 2011, 23:48
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I think you are reaching here, Gerry, and if it's to make a point that point is eluding me. There might be a reflected image of the sun visible *in* the surface of a turret, but…
14 Nov 2011, 04:03
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I live in a pretty rural area, so it's often handy to explain how my more egg-headed interests aren't so far fetched after all. Just Friday, I was wowing 'em with how clowning is…
14 Nov 2011, 04:02
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Hello? Sacred cattle of the sun? Sundogs are among several luminous circular phenomena associated with the sun, and could be seen as nooses by ancient peoples. http://en.wikiped…
13 Nov 2011, 14:28
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Apollo attempted to track the cattle and Hermes conventionally, but could not because Hermes was clever enough to reverse the tracks. Hermes also was clever enough to hide the ca…
13 Nov 2011, 06:30
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Google and Wikipedia are valuable reference tools, but the value is in how much subject matter they cover and how accessible they make it. The mere fact of a given item's inclusi…
13 Nov 2011, 05:31
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Apollo not a hunter? God of the bow, stalker and slayer of the python, tracker of stolen cattle, stalker and taker of infant Hermes, relentless pursuer of Daphne, co-stalker and …
12 Nov 2011, 20:53
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I wonder if this is also a hint about bowdlerized translations from the Victorian era. Some here are apparently unaware of the degree that Khayam's verses were admittedly transmo…
11 Nov 2011, 04:47
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Larry Niven is not a particularly hard SF writer, and his planetary and biological sciences are a fairly weak area. He does have at least two marginally habitable planets with no…
11 Nov 2011, 04:01
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Pod people? "They're here already! You're next!"…
09 Nov 2011, 14:14
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The movement is no more metaphorical or supersonic than that required to ascend a staircase to board a plane or a descend one to enter a subway. It seems very likely to me that t…
08 Nov 2011, 01:51
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I believe that the original intent was for the original ms left behind to have come backward through time-bending architectures along with other artifacts into G.W.'s hands; doub…
07 Nov 2011, 20:58
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If they stop Severian, why not the Green Man? *everything* in the books that is present in Urth's physical plane before or after entering higher dimensions and/or transcending ti…
07 Nov 2011, 16:51
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I was just asking Nick Lee about his opinion, not taking up once again yours that we've discussed exhaustively.…
07 Nov 2011, 16:32
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I see both, but that does not convince me that both are intended to represent the same person, or that either person has a philia for fur stoles or feathers.…
07 Nov 2011, 03:29
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From the end of Chapter XXII: "The sphere was like a wall. At its center, just as I had seen it pictured on board, was the ship. I have written that I sought to stop. It was diff…
07 Nov 2011, 03:17
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Pretending to be a bent, old man works, since most people don't want to see more. This easily affords him the old shaman disguise, since the covered face and the exposed physique…
07 Nov 2011, 02:49
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FB&O are hierodules and they come from Yesod. They also spend a great deal of time in Briah. Inire claims relation to the same hierodules and has devices that directly access a h…
06 Nov 2011, 22:27
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I think the question is more, if Green is Urth, where did Blue come from? Perhaps Blue is Verthandi, made over by the Hieros before their departure. I'm actually a bit encourage…
06 Nov 2011, 22:05
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I thought of it after hearing about "Iraqis" this and "Saudis" that for years on the news, who are of course as varied among themselves like any large group of people, perhaps t…
06 Nov 2011, 21:25
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When do the Green Man or Inire display their shape-changing ability? Are they attested to do so in the story somewhere?…
06 Nov 2011, 21:16
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Once, humankind evolved into "the Hieros" (high ones), who created the creaturs that later became the hierogrammates (holy names) from human and unintelligent extraterrestrial DN…
06 Nov 2011, 04:32
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The Green Man represents "good" genetic engineering; algae uplifted to join with humanity, to uplift humanity from material need and greed to join with God. The Yesodis are the …
06 Nov 2011, 04:13
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If Green is Urth, and the vine-covered ruins are a long-abandoned Nessus, then the Neighbors are the remnants of the final, most ambitious uplift of the _actual_ human-cognate Hi…
06 Nov 2011, 03:50
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Why would that occasion disqualify the list in that way?…
05 Nov 2011, 17:02
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In American English usage, the silver screen is the large one on which motion pictures are projected, and it has been since before the invention of television. The motion picture…
05 Nov 2011, 02:55
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While fossils can last for millions and billions of years, remains can become fossilized in as little as a few thousand years. If the cliff in LICTOR, ch XIII was an old landfill…
03 Nov 2011, 19:18
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The cliff face with strata of artifacts could easily be the result of an earthquake, or it could have been a mountain that was extensively tunneled and filled with artifacts the le…
02 Nov 2011, 22:59
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He receives that wisdom from Aquastor Malrubius, yes. It is from Dr Talos, I believe, that he hears about stories and other ideas percolating back and forth through time, which h…
01 Nov 2011, 15:15
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His slug does in several of the sorcerors at least. Which would be somewhat apt, since Hector thinks he is killing Achilles but does in Patroclus instead.…
26 Oct 2011, 14:00
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I think the inevitable comparison to Spandau Ballet would detract from it, and I shudder to think what sort of T-shirt Son-o-Witz would draw for them!…
26 Oct 2011, 13:54
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I did not say this. Again, Lee, please be more careful about your quoting.…
26 Oct 2011, 13:48
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Good one, Thomas!…
26 Oct 2011, 13:46
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No, that's right. But since L17M is possibly a book of similar age as the monstrous presences, it's not a sure thing they were sufficiently established in legend at the time of i…
25 Oct 2011, 07:57
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He doesn't drink until after the ceremony, so drunkeneness doesn't cut it. It could be just straight nerves, I recall being similarly warped in my perceptions on my wedding day, …
25 Oct 2011, 06:46
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When was the old Autarch de-Appianed? I missed that. Sure, since they are megatherians, though perhaps not the same people as depicted in _Lives of the Seventeen Megatherians_.…
24 Oct 2011, 22:08
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How would she survive being beheaded umpteen times?…
24 Oct 2011, 17:48
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Talos could be a voracious if infrequent patron perhaps, but it would be beyond impractical and inadvisable for an itinerant actor to check out cartloads of rare volumes.…
23 Oct 2011, 20:11
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Some of the provided answers are pretty spectacular - the citadel towers are actually rocket ships, the giant cataphracts are a mix of mountain-carving construction machinery and…
22 Oct 2011, 23:06
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Talos' cosmic knowledge could easily have come from FB&O's wisdom-spreading audiences with Baldanders. His society knowledge can as easily have come from his association with the u…
22 Oct 2011, 15:25
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There's a real-world idea similar to it called "Anonymous Christianity" - the redemptive power of the sacrifice truly was for everyone, even those who had no way to hear about it. …
22 Oct 2011, 12:41
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But Isangoma equally clearly thinks Marie can't see them or sense them another way, or he wouldn't need to annonuce their arrival. I think he feels their vibrations or notices thei…
21 Oct 2011, 23:42
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It would be interesting to see if there are any references to rainbows on Urth. This at least is consistent with the Long Sun and Short Sun books, where Christianity seems to be a…
21 Oct 2011, 23:27
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Perhaps Inire is only a cousin to the heirodules because he was specially made to include Urthly human seed. Alpheta mates with Sev so that his seed can be integrated with the Wh…
21 Oct 2011, 04:50
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