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The one I'm thinking of is _City of Angels_ with Meg Ryan and Lucas Cage, and it's a remake of a German film, _Wings of Desire_.…
29 Jul 2010, 20:46
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She appears as a clump of many serpents to Severian's second sight, the way Dr Talos's face looks like a stufffed fox's. She doesn't actually unmask, other than sword-swallowing th…
29 Jul 2010, 20:44
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Hello? Abaia.…
29 Jul 2010, 20:10
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I was kind of in to it until they stole his shoes. "Wait...the shoes also fell from grace?"…
29 Jul 2010, 20:06
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Gene Wolfe did live in a world where "chicken hawks" were occasionally treated sympathetically in the media, particularly when their exploitees turned out to be gay runaways, who…
29 Jul 2010, 19:23
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How does that work? I don't see losing the wings would be equivalent to gaining mortal flesh.…
29 Jul 2010, 18:57
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"This is the End" - you know, like the Doors' song, the one with the killing and the incest and the masked executioner with the special blue rock and the ancient buildings and th…
29 Jul 2010, 18:54
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The BOTNS seems to disagree with you; there is a green megatherium at the Well of Orchids, and we have green sloths today who get their color from algae growing on/in their pelts…
28 Jul 2010, 18:55
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That's "eye color" in the middle. Continents' influence aide, Mendelian genetics has blue eyed parents breeding true, and blonde haired parents as well. Dark haired parents can ha…
27 Jul 2010, 20:58
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Generally darker hair dominates over lighter, though hair can appear as lighter colors at longer lengths and with increasing exposure to the elements. Red hair counts as a form of…
27 Jul 2010, 20:49
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Maybe. A family connection would be a good motivation to become a double agent, and equally good for convincing the other side that you have become a sincere double agent when you …
27 Jul 2010, 20:21
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Rudesind and the Old Autarch both say that Inire stationed Rudesind in the House Absolute. Rudesind later says Inire is his master, and Severian speaks as if his inherited memories…
27 Jul 2010, 18:26
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It sounds to me like Sev is getting a little too full of himself; the heady influx of power and wisdom and confidence from his new state of being leads him to hastily decide he has…
27 Jul 2010, 17:25
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Are you calling him a naviscaput? And yourself a headless naviscaput?…
27 Jul 2010, 15:16
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Inire's letter is written awfully small for a guy with foot-long hands.…
27 Jul 2010, 14:09
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This is another old post come unstuck in the works: Oh, no, there are huge amounts of correspondence here - you see how often the same digit appears in series, or in the same gro…
27 Jul 2010, 14:04
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It's more than likely Abaia's would see to it that his seed survived in Juturna, if such a thing were possible, and there are some really off-putting reproductive strategies amon…
27 Jul 2010, 14:00
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That's fascinating. In isolation, it may not have been clear that my post refers to the idiom being of the English language in contrast to French or whatever other language with…
27 Jul 2010, 13:57
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Heh. On another list, made up of fellow A&M matriculant fen, there were so many JWs that we were assigned numbers. I am Number Five. Did I ever tell you about the "real" Second H…
27 Jul 2010, 10:33
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The burial metaphor appears to be solved in Sev's final encounter with Rudesind in CITADEL: "...I wanted you to see there has been a lot come before you. That there was thousand…
27 Jul 2010, 05:28
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I wonder if Steven Bowen would care to comment on the individual character of Mormons still with the LDS Church, and how this might reflect on the themes of of false religions cu…
26 Jul 2010, 22:58
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If Rudesind is secretly Inire, Inire has also hidden this from the Old Autarch, and presumably from as many autarchs as overlap a false-Rudesind's plausible lifetime. Also, "you…
26 Jul 2010, 22:46
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Quabbalistic as well. But if you come up with a sufficiently self-consistent abstraction, it will probably resemble some model sooner or later. This can also be taken as confirm…
26 Jul 2010, 21:06
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The narrow, deep canal-streets are consistent with the use of gondolas, which would have been the most efficient means of transport via the fixed-width stargates before the Goa'u…
24 Jul 2010, 19:29
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For such a focussed scientist, he seems to be spending a lot of his personal time putting on plays.…
22 Jul 2010, 05:19
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Baldanders likely assisted Dr Talos with her makeover, and so would have a lot of associations with her that others would not. Also, Baldanders is really old and despite his prol…
22 Jul 2010, 03:46
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If the original, all-meat Severian lasted until the Ship, the skull from Gyoll can't be his, nor a symbol for his mortal remains since he didn't leave any. I'd taken it to symbol…
21 Jul 2010, 19:45
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I. Figuratively and posthumously. II. She recalls a family business making cloisonne pins or summat. III. It would make the closest thing the Book has to an innocent person into a …
20 Jul 2010, 21:18
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I interpret this as the Yesodis collecting a gene sample so that the White Fountain can be attuned to him; this may also explain some of Juturna's transcending of dimension, since …
20 Jul 2010, 20:50
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Is he also an aquastor/eidolon at the time he finds the skull, though? Presumably an aquastor can be tuned to not need air, but Aquastor Malrubius says the spacecraft from Yesod …
20 Jul 2010, 16:55
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Juturna doesn't seem to have literal resurrection, though she does save the life of Severian after he has ceased to breathe. But maybe she was preventing him from discovering his…
20 Jul 2010, 04:25
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Typhon goes on to explain that his trusted ship commanders fled, leaving him without means of egress. He apparently did not believe in the personal escape craft, or perhaps was t…
19 Jul 2010, 21:48
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The Old Autarch was apprentice honey steward, and spent his childhood in a town near or perhaps above the House Absolute. Immediately previous autarchs probably weren't torturers…
19 Jul 2010, 21:35
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Or perhaps she survived through her gift of superhuman powers, similar to her brother, Severian?…
19 Jul 2010, 14:00
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Zeus and Pas might not, but Prometheus would like he did during the last divine regime change. The old Autarch is a double agent for the Commonwealth and for Vodalus; Inire can …
19 Jul 2010, 05:28
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Yes, that's what I was thinking, which can coexist with usual SF trope of the Fake Religion As a Secular Tool (see Dune, Foundation, The Day After Tomorrow, Cat's Cradle) even as…
18 Jul 2010, 22:29
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The problem with this is that Juturna and Baldanders are both sea-dwellers by the time of Sev's return. Juturna says her kind swim between the stars and supposedly Abaia's seed c…
18 Jul 2010, 07:50
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This seems ambiguous to me; the religion doesn't have to be sincere or true to achieve the ends of the people that promulgate it. Perhaps the Pelerines are on the opposite side o…
18 Jul 2010, 07:41
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If Patera is connected to the Inire, it may be via its Latin usage: a ritual vessel for carrying libations ready to pour or drink but with a dry bump in the middle for steady han…
17 Jul 2010, 17:52
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He sees 4D on several occasions, generally whenever something departs into the Corridors of Time "in that direction I had never seen until I watched the ship vanish into it from …
17 Jul 2010, 17:43
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Where do the many eyes come in? Why don't other people share the same snakelike appearance when looked at tin the same way by Sev?…
17 Jul 2010, 06:58
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That depends on if we are reading the translation of the first copy, left behind, or of the second, written aboard the Ship. I personally think he wrote the second to keep his mi…
17 Jul 2010, 06:51
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The indignant label given by painted figures to their disagreement with the artist's semiotic choices, despite remaining on the firmament of his easel for the completion of their…
15 Jul 2010, 18:52
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Hey, my first semester roomie was from Midland! This was the same year Baby Jessica fell down the well. I have a gaming buddy and a publisher from the same law school. For those…
15 Jul 2010, 05:47
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The two need not be mutually exclusive. The whole Confederate movement was about maintaining the member states' unique identity and destiny as much as possible. And all the membe…
15 Jul 2010, 04:42
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Continuing the visit to Cosmology Corner, the above imagery is actually a fairly accurate description of physicist's Andrei Linde's form of linked expansionary universes.…
15 Jul 2010, 04:02
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I'm not sure what you mean by recent. The black hole/white hole thing still had some currency at the time of writing despite 1975's "discovery" and rapid acceptance of Hawking ra…
15 Jul 2010, 03:57
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Not Southerners? Brownsville is as southern it gets, Pardner.…
14 Jul 2010, 21:57
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There are a few latter period ones, like the giant flying robot warriors guarding Typhon's mountain citadel. Of course, in the conceit of the Book as Dr Talos mentions, their exi…
14 Jul 2010, 19:34
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yes, exactly! only more briefly. IIRC, Lem does a bit of this in his CYBERIAD.…
14 Jul 2010, 19:22
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