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Typhon responds, "Why should gravity serve Urth, when it can serve Typhon?" I interpret this as an adjustable antigravity effect, where the sled and Severian's viscera fall freel…
14 Jul 2010, 04:05
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"When I admitted I did not, he scrambled down from the ladder like an aged monkey, seeming all arms and legs and wrinkled neck; his hands were as long as my feet, the crooked fin…
13 Jul 2010, 02:16
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"Bob" would've been funnier…
12 Jul 2010, 23:09
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Um....Didn't you think it was kind of odd the way Corwin's henchman Gamelon from a Shadow was able to one-punch Girard, the biggest, toughest brawler on the true earth? I see Ob…
12 Jul 2010, 22:34
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And regardless of genetics, the baby has to gestate somewhere. Rather than go to the expense of glassware, nutrients, and telemetery, a healthy broad-hipped woman is naturally su…
12 Jul 2010, 20:50
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That may have been a bit hasty, but the even though the fettered Fenrir was tied to Gyoll, Inire is awfully mobile about his duty station and commands means of egress and ingress -…
12 Jul 2010, 19:48
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He could leave at any time via the mirrors, or take a vacation of most any length via the Atrium or the Botanic Gardens. Severian thinks he has taken the post voluntarily: "We kn…
10 Jul 2010, 22:54
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Sev mentions the land abutting the ice in his time - there could come a point where even the rehabbed sun could not return the balance if the ice advanced far enough. They know S…
10 Jul 2010, 08:18
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Mantis mentioned that Sev describes his pouch as manskin on one place and doeskin in another.…
09 Jul 2010, 22:42
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I think it is more like, they let it happen as late as they possibly could without endangering the success of the New Sun. This meant a dying urth about to disappear under its fina…
09 Jul 2010, 22:05
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Yes, but the translator says that animal names are given by role rather than by taxonomy.…
09 Jul 2010, 05:11
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Sev may be poor at judging the ages of the very old, given his infrequent contact with them other than Master Malrubius. Casdoe's father Old Man seems to have been close to Fech…
09 Jul 2010, 05:09
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Albinism and baldness? Doesn't Baldanders have grey hair?…
08 Jul 2010, 23:50
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The avern duel is pretty knife-throwy.…
08 Jul 2010, 21:00
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Please do not feed the energy creatures.…
08 Jul 2010, 04:14
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If you mean the old man in Casdoe's cabin who talks about having been Fechin's friend as a boy, like I said, I can't explain it. But Wikipedia reports an Irish saint Feichin of …
08 Jul 2010, 04:13
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I've just recalled that Fechin is also known to the old man in the cabin, and am stumped about how to account for that.…
08 Jul 2010, 04:07
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Sure. I'm not too sure how much of a cover story would be needed, though. Tzadkiel's sailors don't seem to treat their time-travel like a deep dark secret, and Rudesind doesn't see…
08 Jul 2010, 01:58
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Well, he related how they become librarians. IIRC, curators also oversee the Botanical Gardens. I don't see that the Book of Gold would particularly attract kids suitable to garden…
08 Jul 2010, 00:55
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I considered that, but if tissue matching were necessary, he'd use a clone.…
07 Jul 2010, 20:55
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Juturna and the lot could be humans adapted to live underwater, like Baldanders, or their descendants.…
07 Jul 2010, 20:51
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I thought I'd mentioned Fechin = our Fechin already, and Rudesind was collected along with the paintings of that era to care for them.…
07 Jul 2010, 20:42
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Piaton!…
07 Jul 2010, 20:23
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By birth perhaps, but not by internal time. Inire made the time-bending and space-bending Botanical Gardens, and had some of Gyoll diverted to water the ancient purple creepers and…
07 Jul 2010, 20:19
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* It would suggest a serious rift in her family, since supposedly she had no family to take her in after being orphaned. * It would help confirm Watson as heterosexual, and his re…
07 Jul 2010, 17:07
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IIRC in "The Cat", on their second meeting he tests their memory of their first meeting. This would suggest a purpose of selection like the Torturers' and Librarians' testing of…
06 Jul 2010, 19:20
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Where does Inire display carnal interest in young girls?…
06 Jul 2010, 03:43
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It would not be much of a stretch for an immortal officer of the Autarch's court to have vetted and personally charged thousands of servants with being the Autarch's eyes and ear…
06 Jul 2010, 03:32
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There is a very strong mask motif in the BOTNS, so of course we look for a theme of multiple or at least dual identities that would be built or established with that motif. It's …
05 Jul 2010, 18:48
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I'd agree on texbook fascism then, but lynching and armed race violence go back to biblical times. There was also no shortage of mob justice and score-settling under the pretext …
04 Jul 2010, 16:57
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Shades of The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything! I wonder if the producers of VeggieTales would consider Wolfe one of their influences.…
04 Jul 2010, 16:14
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I'm not sure how much of this is humor or rhetoric. I'm not sure how you distinguish between persons and People. The 4th amendment, introduced at the same time on the same piece …
04 Jul 2010, 13:02
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Brother Cook doesn't even do all the cooking, though. "Soon there is scrubbing and kitchen work. Brother Cook performs such cooking as might be interesting or pleasurable, and th…
04 Jul 2010, 12:03
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"to secure a free State" covers defending against fascism. Self-defense and hunting would be matters reserved for the states, or more local units still. Yes, starting will all s…
04 Jul 2010, 07:29
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You're one crazy optimate! Rudesind is clearly Inire's body double.…
04 Jul 2010, 06:49
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I'm looking over references to them and otherwise to brothers. While writing of his apprentice days, Sev refers to brother apprentices and journeymen. After his elevation, it is …
04 Jul 2010, 06:35
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Eighth. While Wolfe was at one time a proto-millitary man in that he was a cadet at Texas A&M, he apparently found the jingoism and casual sadism sucked more than being a draftee…
03 Jul 2010, 23:04
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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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I still don't see it as necessarily hinging on Crowley's anything. How do you address the "lives" portion? Like this? http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/I_Cthul…
03 Jul 2010, 05:23
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I'm not sure what you mean. "Megatherians" is in the text. If "megatherion" is somehow tainted, why wouldn't he use somesthing less similar? It equally skims close "Megatherium",…
03 Jul 2010, 02:29
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Aleister Crowley, a notorious occult figure, called himself or at least identified with among many other labels, The Great Beast. Megatherian means "great beast." At the time of…
02 Jul 2010, 21:31
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or even "mortal sin"…
02 Jul 2010, 20:47
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Same as the other 'again', he had cleaned it twice before. "'Today I took the notion to clean it again. And it needs it see how nice it's brightening up? There's your blue Urth c…
02 Jul 2010, 19:51
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I don't think these are the same megatherians as the eponymous seventeen black magicians. Though some of the seventeen were doubtlessly in league with the mountain-sized crew, an…
02 Jul 2010, 19:41
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At the time "well regulated" meant kept in proper working order, like a clock that kept accurate time and chimed at regular intervals. Militia referred to the armed, able-bodied …
02 Jul 2010, 18:02
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The image of the earth begins about 820 pixel columns from the left border and extends to the 910th or so; the helmet begins about 740 and and extends to 1260. If the image is ro…
02 Jul 2010, 17:16
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I'm afraid not; the visor reflection also shows the other hand and the other astronaut well away from the flag. You know about the suppressed transmission, of course? No? Oh, wel…
02 Jul 2010, 16:31
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I think "entirely gold" is meant to convey the entire visor is gold colored, rather than merely a gold band across the eyes or some other arrangement of detail. Speaking of the …
02 Jul 2010, 15:53
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I do not think it matches the passage. To refresh: "The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff beari…
02 Jul 2010, 04:49
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Many such, though the perspective might be more from above than from the chronological end. Yesod doesn't seem to follow Earth-Urth-Ushas in time. In a a way, that would support …
02 Jul 2010, 02:48
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