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Not one of that kind at least. Most of the major and minor characters undergo changes equally or more profound, but in different ways. The shapeshifting of Foila's story and Tzad…
05 Dec 2010, 06:38
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It was a military academy as well as a college, various of which have been called citadels, and it has habitually been a clump of buildings of varying styles added at different t…
05 Dec 2010, 06:14
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I guess what I am getting at, why is it important for there to be more than one shapehifting, multi-body godlike being in the story? And why does the very different forms and beh…
05 Dec 2010, 05:52
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That would suggest that Severian and Dux Caesidius and Ouen are shape-shifting godlets, as they resemble each other in just as many respects. Agia and Agilus are even more alike,…
05 Dec 2010, 05:38
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Maxellindis' uncle was under constant observation by Eata for four or five years on their boat before *he* died, also during the time when Inire was actively serving Autarch Seve…
05 Dec 2010, 02:31
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I'm still hunting for archived images; there were not many of the older bldgs left when I went back a couple of years ago to document them. Back in my salad days of the class of …
04 Dec 2010, 19:25
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I think the main point of objection is that the Boatman visibly *dies* ten years before the Book mentions Inire is still around.…
04 Dec 2010, 09:55
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I think this is a wrong turn. The Jungle Sorcerer's wear visible, ostentatious claws to frighten and impress so they don't have to fight. Agia's are concealable, intended to pass…
04 Dec 2010, 09:20
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The analeptic makes it more actual rather than notional to be multiple people, though there is an identifiable point where she begins to be less of a separate person and more int…
04 Dec 2010, 07:08
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Aquastors vs Ediolons: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0017/0074.shtml Obviously, if aquastor Malrubius can watch the play and aquastor Triskele can chase birds, someone else…
04 Dec 2010, 06:46
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I hadn't included those as characters. I suppose that is a prejusdice on my part ingrained form being lambasted by my 9th grade English teacher for considering the dog in "There …
04 Dec 2010, 05:48
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As you know, Bob, it was somewhat customary for western sovereigns to do this, "we" including the notional persons of the state, the crown, the royal consort in unity, etc. and "…
04 Dec 2010, 05:39
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THE RAPTURE, a film I have recommended here previously, discusses this at some length, and reveals what may be the only doctrinally accurate way to go about hurting God.…
04 Dec 2010, 02:32
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Most of the characters are monkeylike because they are primaates, but some are more monkeylike than others. It is the non-primates who still look like monkeys that are significan…
04 Dec 2010, 02:27
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I agree, though this is more of a dsep cover as the human advisor to the Autarch. The cowled cloak is to let him "disguise" himself by removing it - you'll note that the shaman's…
04 Dec 2010, 00:54
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I. Sev acknowledges to Rudesind that Inire is an alien, but living on Urth as a human - disguise #1. II. Inire's letter mentions he had to travel south by other methods - implyi…
04 Dec 2010, 00:41
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I believe this is the masking motif's sibling motif of intuition and sophistry used to build the theme of inevitable and simple truth being revealed by the attempts to hide it. …
03 Dec 2010, 08:04
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Lee Berman quoth: This is no different from Wolfe's stated view of the real world, which he consideres Christian. Again, this is in keeping with Wolfe's view of how human belief …
03 Dec 2010, 01:02
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In their terms, they fled to Yesod from their iteration of Briah to escape the Grand Gnab. They subsequently discover they can open wormholes back into the current Briah from Yes…
02 Dec 2010, 20:44
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The only thing that I can think of is that Severian's potential ability to heal and raise the dead is a gift from the Increate in the same way Joseph was given the the ability to…
02 Dec 2010, 19:10
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There's a continuum - plenty of fearsome spirits accept blood when offered and some seek it out. The Shadow Children are fairly bitey. We don't know *what* is involved with abo …
01 Dec 2010, 05:54
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He effectively says the "evil does the work of the Increate, too" meme was planted by the Yesodis?…
29 Nov 2010, 08:35
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I'm not subscribed to such a one-sided view as that; He is equally the ultimate in evil and misfortune, since His sovereignty encompasses the universe and everything in it, but t…
26 Nov 2010, 22:38
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I'm pretty sure that Severian's destruction of Typhon shuld be seen to prevent an enormous amount of chaos; at the very least Typhon's return to the Commonwealth would mean a civ…
26 Nov 2010, 16:39
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Or the light hair could be premature grey, I suppose. At some point, Severian says he has a straight nose, but a straight nose is readily converted into a hooked or curved aquili…
25 Nov 2010, 18:57
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Dux Caesidius?…
23 Nov 2010, 05:27
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Ack! No, the Hieros are someone else entirely. I have coined the demonym "Yesodis" to indicate the non-human sapient races that inhabit Yesod, and this includes F, B, & O, Tzadki…
14 Nov 2010, 20:42
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Patches A new planet features a super-organism whose individual bodies all use patches of green fur to see, even the germs. In short order, the…
14 Nov 2010, 04:43
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I wouldn't say it is quite that one-sided; Juturna claims to be motivated by love, both personal and on behalf of Abaia and his minions in general. Her acts of assistance and suc…
14 Nov 2010, 02:00
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Well it provides foreshadowing of the flushing of the vinculum. It also gives a plausible reason for a lifelong dweller in urban medieval squalor to be familiar with the appearan…
12 Nov 2010, 07:49
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Barkeep, more oxygen for everyone!…
12 Nov 2010, 06:02
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Are we sure Jahi is a demon in the play rather than a Lilith figure? Cos Jolenta and Dorcas play two other characters who are overtly identified as the two demons in the play.…
08 Nov 2010, 12:54
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I think you will need to chose one of these two theses. If there is one, inevitable timeline, no involvement is required to arrange a meeting between Sev and Baldy, since there …
08 Nov 2010, 10:51
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That *is* an interesting idea, that Inire the mirror gazer might have his own train of gazers upon himself. Who could command Urthly primates the way that Hethor commands his cr…
08 Nov 2010, 08:32
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1) Exact quotation is good, but exact and comprehensive is better. 2) You have gratuitously mis-quoted me in a recent message, which rather undermines your claim to accuracy. It w…
07 Nov 2010, 12:13
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I think it is more likely to be the "other" Severians of previous iterations who may have been the helpers at the inn. This probably is intended to be understood to have happened…
07 Nov 2010, 06:02
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Theory? Aquastors Malrubius and Triskele are seen watching over Severian at least twice, Malrubbius owns up to it in "person", and Triskele demonstrates an invisible manifestatio…
07 Nov 2010, 05:00
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It's not meant as a diagnosis but an example of cognitive faults that may cause behavior one does not choose and so should not be faulted for. It's not wonder-worker that I take …
07 Nov 2010, 03:26
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Perhaps Holy Katharine was a martyred adherent of the faith established by John the Baptist, whose follower Judas had hung himself in remorse for his part in the Salome affair.…
07 Nov 2010, 02:58
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If that is the case, I regret doing so and would apologize except that threatens to initiate an infinite loop of renewing the forgotten offense in the act of apologizing to the t…
07 Nov 2010, 02:48
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I won't unilaterally re-involve people by naming names, but if you truly don't recall the considerable irritation other listpeople have displayed at your methods of justifying prev…
05 Nov 2010, 17:32
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Lee, this an example of the kind of selective reading that pisses off people. In the second sentence following Typhon calling the Conciliator a wonder-worker, he gives a perfectl…
05 Nov 2010, 13:15
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Speaking as a playtester for GURPS LOW-TECH (coming to a gamestore near you!): concrete is ancient; many Roman buildings include concrete and mortar construction, but it is very …
30 Oct 2010, 06:43
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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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Considering even Jesus Christ Himself still had wounds visible to the disciples after rising from death and a couple of days of decomposition, I'd say your standards are a tad hi…
30 Sep 2010, 02:30
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Severian disagrees; *everything* in his story is supernatural to some degree: "if the Eternal Principle had rested in that curved thorn...then it might rest in anything, and in f…
30 Sep 2010, 02:15
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The only problem with that is it would make the First Imperials more transcendent than the Yesodis. I also find it funny that trillions of people on millions of worlds progress a…
29 Sep 2010, 06:10
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Of course it's supernatural - but it can also be a time-bending effect, just like Sampson's strength was supernatural but also was physical manipulation. If there are other Sever…
29 Sep 2010, 02:07
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Thinking more about it, it makes sense for a size-changing, detachable-body-part giant to have decentralized viscera. There might already be hearts and lung tissue, notochords, e…
29 Sep 2010, 01:28
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Their chromatophores are quick, but not so quick they transcend entropy and conservation of mass-energy, unlike Jader's sister and Tzadkiel. Unless the fingerling was only hidden i…
28 Sep 2010, 19:29
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