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Not to look for a victim/donor, thought it might be a place to stash a recently deceased known sympathizer, in a pickle-barrel sort of way. I'm a bit skeptical that the bog would…
28 Sep 2010, 15:45
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Hello?! The Conciliator?!? Wields the Increate-given power to selectively turn back the clock? Jader's sister's illness doesn't subside and heal, it's just suddenly gone and she …
28 Sep 2010, 14:14
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Probably not, but their alien nature may be a plus in that they are not recognized as foreign matter. If they are something like animated sheets of graphite, a human body's innar…
28 Sep 2010, 13:59
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There don't need to be, any more than when Dorcas or Triskele revived. Were you reading the book manga-style? Typhon is already up and around and watching when Little Severian is…
28 Sep 2010, 01:58
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This doesn't distinguish them from Typhon, who owes fealty to no one else.…
28 Sep 2010, 01:52
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The memories supposedly only last a few days in the living beast, which could be in line with "normal" tissue rejection. It's also probable that the alzabo of Urth is altered fro…
28 Sep 2010, 01:46
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It's the "oldest pictures" (photographs seem not to have been reintroduced into the Commonwealth, possibly due to the lack of silver) that would serve to verify that a hypothetic…
28 Sep 2010, 01:36
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I was speculating aloud on that 2-3 months back. The only reason I can think of that Vodalus doesn't do both people from the wreck is that he anticipates having to give one up to…
28 Sep 2010, 01:31
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These are not representative samples of a virgin field; there's been at least one intergalactic empire carrying Urth's genome and human chauvanism outward, and that same chauvani…
28 Sep 2010, 01:15
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He also says that the huge volume and jumble of memories are the obstacles to his direct recollection, and he has to search for the desired ones among the great pile. This means …
27 Sep 2010, 05:33
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I've always thought that was the case.…
27 Sep 2010, 05:09
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In that case, what distinguishes autarchs from those rulers who are not?…
26 Sep 2010, 21:36
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Typhon's resurrection by Severian is not reasonably believable as a biological process, and I certainly did not casually accept it as one when I first read the books, or the thir…
26 Sep 2010, 21:30
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I mostly brought it up because it had slipped my mind earlier the last time Typhon's notional clones came up, and someone mentioned tissue rejection in support of Piaton being a …
26 Sep 2010, 05:47
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Then whose memories lie behind Ymar's? It might be the most familiar and the only commonly used one, but I find it hard to believe it is the only one during a time of active war…
25 Sep 2010, 19:14
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Reviewing the passage in SWORD, Typhon explicitly uses a whispered word to command the floating boat, counting against his mental command over the inanimate. Typhon may have been…
25 Sep 2010, 08:05
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I just posted a quote from URTH that seems to say that there were Autarchs before Typhon, and in SWORD Typhon answers to the title of Autarch without correction or comment to Sev…
25 Sep 2010, 05:14
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I'm very suspicious of the mandragora and how similar Severian finds them; I'd bet my flyer to your villa that it's only echoing Sev's expectations back to him and is otherwise a…
24 Sep 2010, 23:49
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I don't see a lot of textev for this; if Typhon's mental mojo is all that, why does he bother to physically drag Severian up to the observation windows to tempt him with a vision…
24 Sep 2010, 04:01
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Typhon is the first to carve his face into the western Andes, at least. The Autarchs that follow do likewise, but there semms also to be a succession of Autarchs before Typhon, o…
23 Sep 2010, 22:29
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... The rejection issues are swept with the same hand wave that includes all the sublime biological technology on Urth. The old autarch's detail on the way the analepict works i…
23 Sep 2010, 22:17
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I think that is the right subtext, but in-character it makes sense for "Typhon" to be an adopted name that is kept by virtu and itself becomes a source of more virtu as the owner…
23 Sep 2010, 21:53
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"Typhon" shares human anatomy with Piaton, who *is* saint-named (the original was martyred by having the top of his skull sawed off, per the physicians' original plan), and his m…
23 Sep 2010, 07:01
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Typhon/Piaton would be the beneficiary of the natural mummifying process of the Andes' higher elevations, that have preserved so many Incan bodies and lesser remains for us to fi…
22 Sep 2010, 03:11
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The sun references are intriguing, implying yet another time-loop, or perhaps that an autarch of the distant pre-Typhonian succession somehow knew something of what was to come.…
20 Sep 2010, 06:27
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Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon which is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula for gold, the Philosopher's Stone, …
19 Sep 2010, 19:17
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The constraint "in a creation now vanished" would limit it to some previous incarnation of Briah, since only Briah is spoken of to have by-gone, inaccessible existences. The onl…
13 Sep 2010, 15:47
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Andrew: Please note that the "we" of this determination consists entirely of Lee and the mouse in their pocket. The majority view (of those expressing opinions) seems to be that th…
12 Sep 2010, 05:23
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But Typhon has probably been through a lot of nurture in his time. The author can also play tricks, like reversing the video side-to-side, so that an asymmetrical face becomes me…
11 Sep 2010, 06:37
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"Wight" is also a person or a less-than-a-person, and it's roots' association with underground dwellings is ancient, though perhaps not as prominent as Tolkein's use of the 19th …
10 Sep 2010, 04:41
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This could be Baldanders' saracsm, since Severian who has the wonderful memory answers for her, and generally fills her empty vessel (heh). Baldanders' half-awakeness and dreaml…
07 Sep 2010, 16:11
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Texas is referred to as "the land of friends" in another Wolfe story of the period, "Feather Tigers", which also features alien inheritors and vanished races and colonialism.…
06 Sep 2010, 09:37
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The "Country of Friends" is almost certainly a reference to Texas, named after the the indigenous word for "friends". Texas is quadruply appropriate as the boyhood home state of …
06 Sep 2010, 05:49
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That is not how technical criticism works. By touting your hypothesis as a theory, you are implicitly declaring that it has the requisite axiomatic, logical, and empirical suppor…
03 Sep 2010, 23:46
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If you google on "cobblestone street" you can see lots of streets, sidewalks, and plazas paved with a variety of cobblesstones from natural found rocks to shaped and polished sto…
31 Aug 2010, 04:46
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I've thought about that some more. Valeria's family doesn't seem to be of especially poor means as they have servants and at least three towers to themselves, despite having dwin…
20 Aug 2010, 17:03
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Still not me; I'm not even following the thread, just scrolling past when this caught my eye. Maybe I should adopt an alias to avoid the whole JW ambiguity? Signed, "Clay Drums…
20 Aug 2010, 03:56
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There are several reasons: he still feels a fondness for her, having met her under unusual circumstances on his final juvenile adventure. She is a connection to a simpler time, h…
20 Aug 2010, 03:47
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Where? You mean Master Ash is really from the past instead of the ice-age future? An atrium is an enclosed or partially enclosed area adjacent to some larger structure or feature,…
18 Aug 2010, 21:22
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This sort of transcendental architecture may be more suitable for research and monitoring than meddling with causality, especially regarding Master Ash's fade from existence and …
18 Aug 2010, 17:48
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Light and gravity are common and cheaper than dirt on Urth, while time travel requires a huge undertaking on the part of creatures whose sublime resources are neverhteless spread…
18 Aug 2010, 06:20
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Jeff is fine. I asked about your opinion in particular. If you are so loathe to engage in the discssion even when directly interrogated, why should the discussion be tailored to…
18 Aug 2010, 05:40
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Sorry, I meant Malrubius. The resemblance of the other name to "Palaeontology" always makes me think of him as being the oldest and deadest.…
17 Aug 2010, 18:22
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Minimal hypothesis, plus we have it that Severian was discovered *by* time travelers already on the path to the throne, so he presumably had an origin without their direct interv…
17 Aug 2010, 17:58
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My counter-theory is simpler and avoids most time-meddling: 1) Ouen confirms that he had Catherine, who was dark and taken by the law for running off from "an order of monials." …
17 Aug 2010, 09:32
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Can you seriously say why it is more important for us to post less instead of you to be more selective? I don't follow every thread here any more than I read every line of the news…
16 Aug 2010, 22:32
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I agree it is un-necessary, but that's part of the evils of statecraft I mentioned some time ago. There are many false positives involved, but intellegence gathered under duress …
16 Aug 2010, 18:04
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Heh. It wasn't that I was apprehensive, I wanted very badly to be married. But I was extremely anxious about getting through the day and earnestly praying, "Please don't let me s…
16 Aug 2010, 17:26
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I thought about this after the "recent" DR WHO episode, "Gridlock." IIRC, the old show dodged comments on earthly religion, but the new show refers to it fairly often, and in thi…
16 Aug 2010, 17:05
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There's no indication or reason that the *blood* is fake. It might be animal blood if no recently dispatched clients or willing donors were available at the time. Severian can't…
16 Aug 2010, 04:39
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