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Is Eurykles the mantis who capitalizes on Latro's inadvertent reanimation of the girl's corpse supposed to be the historical gastromantic prophet for whom Euryclides are named? O…
29 May 2018, 01:32
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I could say the same about Catholicism, but it's better for everyone for the disinterested to summon the Herculean effort to click and scroll to the next message as needed.…
25 Oct 2014, 16:52
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Paul Cook has a ranty go at books he doesn't consider SF, including BOTNS. He considers the presence of medieval and Arthurian tropes with poor sfnal world building like the Urth f…
05 Sep 2013, 21:52
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I was looking for completely different animal pictures when I glimpsed this and instantly thought of Lee, Triskele, and the apes. http://preview.tinyurl.com/kd7dmlw ( Papio cynoc…
10 Jun 2013, 06:57
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Found at I, Cringely, a technology blog: http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/09/off-with-their-heads-why-financial-regulation-stopped-working/ "Thirty years ago, when I was working …
15 Oct 2012, 05:42
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The recent "doubling the chromosomes" post suggests a possibility to me: the repetition of Holy Katherine's line, "Strike and fear not," may also suggest a similar constructive …
26 Feb 2012, 12:21
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Let me try the train analogy. I'll number the steps for reference. You guys that already know this will see that I have abstracted numerous distracting features out of this accou…
14 May 2011, 05:33
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An artist specializes in submerged sculpture; you may find the images of his work in place reminiscent of the Solar Cycle. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/23t7DA/24flinching.com/wo…
10 Feb 2011, 12:08
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I saw this image while checking Eckhart's quote on devils: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Meister-Ekkehard-Portal_der_Erfurter_Predigerkirche.jpg "das licht leuchtet in der fi…
09 Feb 2011, 23:41
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In URTH, Chapter XXXIX, "The Claw Of The Conciliator Again", Sev gives the new thorn to Typhon's guardsmen, establishing a one-off timeloop for it to come into his younger self'…
31 Jan 2011, 20:13
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...Santa brought me back issues of the SHADOW comic book, as discussed recently. Indeed, Gene Wolfe is credited with Script Supervision and the script is true to the book modulo …
04 Jan 2011, 09:05
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Some more constellations aged forward 50,000 years: http://news.discovery.com/space/changing-constellations-50000-years.html…
03 Oct 2010, 05:30
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The first couple of pages, featuring Master Palaemon: http://mordicai.livejournal.com/1772247.html…
09 Aug 2010, 20:42
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The brain-eating thing seems to be a secret, and as Vodalus says, they may reign a half century or a fortnight. But what story is told to the Commonwealth? What keeps people seek…
01 Aug 2010, 08:58
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Are Brother Porter and Brother Cook journeymen who never became masters? Or could they even be apprentices that never became journeymen?…
03 Jul 2010, 22:45
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A recently serviced vehicle for your viewing "pleasure". http://thereifixedit.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/129187855173854450.jpg…
02 Jun 2010, 10:27
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I'm producing a t-shirt design for the local IEEE student chapter, and was thinking about slipping in some sort of reference to "How I Lost The Second World War..." , perhaps sho…
22 May 2009, 02:09
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Does Wolfe employ a collective noun for a group of pilgrims, either when Sev is passing as a pilgrim on his travels or another time?…
27 Apr 2009, 18:44
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Droogs, I'm planning to attend Aggiecon on the Texas A&M campus the weekend of March 27-29. If anyone else is going to be there, would we like to meet up, perhaps for a tour of …
17 Mar 2009, 03:57
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LinkedIn ------------ The Urth Mailing, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Jeff Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/366157709/o8psvOCd/ …
28 Sep 2008, 11:38
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Just finished _The Hundred Secret Senses_ by Amy Tan. Another intricate novel-length story consisting of many internested and interconnected shorter stories, it again features a…
22 Aug 2008, 07:58
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THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER by Amy Tan I just realized that this book is like a fully worked out example of a Gene Wolfe puzzle story, only with a revealing resolution. It's got …
05 Jul 2008, 22:41
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Pringles inventor and plant inspector interred in Pringles' can: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080531/NEWS0104/805310357/1060/NEWS01 http://preview.tinyur…
01 Jun 2008, 20:05
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People (I won't embarass Bob, Iorwerth, Dan'l, or Matthew by mentioning their names), Please lay off the top-posting; it makes your posts very hard to follow. Even if your mail …
27 Aug 2006, 20:22
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Borges and his "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" were mentioned on last Sunday's (4/10/05) "The L Word" television drama on Showtime in the US, in particular as part of a curriculum w…
17 Apr 2005, 15:37
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No way. The White Fountain is a massive object, in both the physical and the prosaic senses. Converting Severian into energy and back into mass would yield no more than the origi…
07 Mar 2003, 09:13
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According to the History Channel, the Mattachines were an Italian tradition of court jesters who were indulged to "speak the truth" when appearing masked and hooded. Not to doubt…
01 Mar 2003, 17:18
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As I recall from a documentary some time back, Sara Winchester was disabled herself and much of the house is accessible with only 2-3 inch risers; a stout but gentle help ought to …
19 Jul 2002, 03:59
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I meant to present this during the most recent 5HC debate. I think that _The Odyssey's_ appearance in the first part is the key to unlocking not the entire book but at least the m…
02 Jul 2002, 00:25
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I'll bite; how did the prehistoric societies travel the stars without leaving any hint of their ability to do so in either the story or the archaeological record?…
26 Apr 2002, 02:38
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I have reread 5HC a couple of times lately, and some things Do Not Add Up. When Mr. Million calls the roll in FHC, Number Five is always first, then David, as a formalism. This su…
22 Mar 2002, 07:13
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The manned program, yes. Unmanned space activity is doing pretty good for itself. No problem, I think you earned it.…
21 Mar 2002, 03:45
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Thinking further on the Urth-Lune relationship has led me to wonder if there is any evidence that Blue and Green from the Long/Short Sun books could actually be Urth and Lune, the …
02 Mar 2001, 09:02
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I was contemplating the technology used to make and keep Lune green and forested and wondered, why couldn't the same effect be used to renew Urth, instead of involving the White Fo…
02 Mar 2001, 08:55
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Hey, I'll take it! Good thinking, and very appropriate. Any hints on pronunciation? I recall you recently mentioned having yet to ponder how Severian might go about bringing Ush…
05 Jan 2001, 13:31
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For gaming purposes, I am trying to name several Green Men from New Sun including one Green Woman. Inspired by Mantis' name lists in GURPS NEW SUN, I would like to give them suita…
04 Jan 2001, 16:28
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As the newest subscriber of the millennium, greetings! I've been reading Wolfe for about 12 years now, and re-reading for almost as long. :) The discourse here seems to be very wo…
03 Jan 2001, 19:45
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