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Hey Nicholas! Welcome to the Monkey House. My mother is also an aged grandmother, but she ended up explaining the plot of The Boy Who Hooked The Sun to me without knowing it, as …
02 Jul 2010, 01:16
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Preach it, Brother Ant?nio!…
01 Jul 2010, 16:15
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Tzad cops to #3 although he has the luxury not only of seeing how the machinaitons turn out from his perch in Yesod, but of potentially being able to undo any changes that turn o…
01 Jul 2010, 15:33
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The "man on the moon" shot shows Buzz Aldrin's gold faceplate reflecting Neil Armstrong with the Earth over *his* shoulder, but no flag is up yet, though there is a prominent fla…
01 Jul 2010, 15:12
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A composite of iconic images, as you speculated. The Apollo 11 photo of Buzz saluting the flag has the grey regolith and the gold visor as well, but it was earlier Apollo 8 orbit…
01 Jul 2010, 15:02
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If it's a composite, it could be a composite of anything, and I think it's a bit of a knock to say the pulp covers are more inspirational than actual pictures of actual spacemen …
01 Jul 2010, 03:13
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So _demons_ build the robots?…
30 Jun 2010, 18:40
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How is that relevant here? Do you prefer that people use "assemble" instead of "create"?…
30 Jun 2010, 18:28
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That makes a certain amount of sense - it avoids the problems of depending on unreliable fleshy creatures, which could appeal to angels as beings of the spirit, but Tzadkeil and …
30 Jun 2010, 15:04
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Sev mentions children who arrive with clients are sized and distributed accordingly. If there is no Dad or other next of kin available to take the client's child at the time of the…
30 Jun 2010, 00:41
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Technically, most published books have several pages printed on a large sheet of paper that is called a signature when it is folded for attachment to others to form a volume. The…
29 Jun 2010, 19:01
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Why then does each "page" have two numbers?…
29 Jun 2010, 18:12
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Fechin being a historical painter sharing a name with a painter whose paintings can be attested as originals by the subject makes wonder if Inire didn't collect them and Rudesin…
29 Jun 2010, 16:32
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'It gives about half a page to each. There are seven hundred and forty- six pages.' Unless Gurloes is like Rainman, he got the page count from the last numbered page. Traditiona…
29 Jun 2010, 16:21
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Okay, I can buy that Inire would come out to help the old Autarch in a matter of life oe death and given his fame and distinctive appearance that he would be in disguise, but tha…
29 Jun 2010, 15:59
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Maybe *Wolfe* likes monkeys are writes about them in preference to the other inconsequentialities that go unrecorded. Why is that?…
29 Jun 2010, 01:30
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They're both. Exultants have greater height genetically, and enhance it further by harvesting hormones or actual glands from their khaibits. This modification for greater height ma…
29 Jun 2010, 01:19
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Maybe Severian likes monkeys so he writes about them in preference to the other inconsequentialities that go unrecorded.…
29 Jun 2010, 00:54
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Is Inire known to travel in time, himself? Or is he the station master? IIRC, there are four characters who may travel in time without artifice: Severian, Juturna, the Green Man, …
28 Jun 2010, 20:00
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I bet they have one hell of a Mardi Gras there.…
28 Jun 2010, 04:03
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I'm not sure this can be a valid controlled experiment other than on the purely genetic level, where technically #5 is the control (no introduced variation) and David would be th…
27 Jun 2010, 20:22
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He may mean all the clones to come, as he is inextricably on the same track as Maitre and his predecessors. He's also probably lying to himself, but at the same time leaving a wr…
24 Jun 2010, 13:04
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I think they are of a race and in league, but not the same person. Ossipago's quite gruff, while Inire's kindly; Ossipago goes where he is needed, Inire holds down the fort. The L…
23 Jun 2010, 21:10
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The only controllers we can confirm are FB&O. Inire is almost certainly one, and some of the squatty, long-armed characters suspected to be him in disguise might be his aquastor pr…
23 Jun 2010, 17:46
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They are like the tactile holograms in various media, particularly the doctor from Star Trek Voyager. They can appear just to one person mentally, or they can be objectively visibl…
23 Jun 2010, 16:35
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It must seem so unfair that they did everything *right* and they still end up getting caught because the mark was superhumanly immune to the invariably fatal avern. Severian bel…
21 Jun 2010, 01:45
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I think the poppet's stretches in the box are not suited to anything like a vertebrate: the bit about smiling when it closes so she can be smiling when it opens indicates her mus…
20 Jun 2010, 17:42
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Perhaps Agilus and Agia are the remnants of a race or a bloodline of sexdoll-people, engender for that purpose and of similar origin as the mastiff-men and the cat women. They lo…
20 Jun 2010, 08:31
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That's not to say that proper motion has no part to play in the Book. it puts a fuzzy upper limit on how many 26,000 year cycles can pass. Starting about 03:30, this episode of C…
20 Jun 2010, 08:14
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Most constallations' component stars have no physical association among them and only appear to lie closely together as seen from Earth. This lack of unity means proper motion wi…
20 Jun 2010, 03:17
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Maybe it's meant to descend from chimera - a creature assembled from parts. And an issue of Typhon, I see!…
20 Jun 2010, 02:59
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Here's a video of a pitcher getting beaned. Right after the crack of the bat, there's a *tok* of the ball-skull collision. IMO the bat's crack is sharper than the skull's *tok* ,…
19 Jun 2010, 16:51
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After many chiliads of racial mixing from mechanized travel, there would be a much smoother distribution of "Asian" features. Severian has seen many people with broad cheekbones…
19 Jun 2010, 15:55
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The Torturers' yearly pageantry employs a woman not seen between times, has an identical appearance over the decades, and engages in the staged artifice of not just surviving but…
19 Jun 2010, 15:24
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Would that be the outfit with Daria, that was going to rob the gold from the mastiff-men's stagecoach?…
19 Jun 2010, 14:52
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Bless you, man. Agia's no saint - I'd say that given her record of sacrilege, multiple murder, and treason, she's about as unsaintly as they come, in a league with Baldanders an…
19 Jun 2010, 14:10
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Gunnie and Idas attack him, but they're not small.…
18 Jun 2010, 21:54
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FWIW, Wikipedia says in Capek's original play the robots are based on a chemical process.…
18 Jun 2010, 08:48
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Dude, top posting and not-trimming quoted material makes the baby Theoanthropos cry. This sounds very much like some folk magic, suggesting Agia is part of a mystery cult. The …
18 Jun 2010, 06:56
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Maybe it's a clue about the wall, rather than her head.…
17 Jun 2010, 16:56
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Perhaps she has a plate in her head? Sev's comments on Jonas indicate that functional prosthetics are not particularly remarkable in the Commonwealth. Or she could just have a s…
17 Jun 2010, 07:22
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The notional translator of the BotNS signs his notes at the end of Volume I as "G.W." G.W. is a fictional Gene Wolfe, very similar to but much less informed than the author. This…
17 Jun 2010, 07:01
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I recall that the green Lune is said to be 50,000 leagues away, which we have generally taken to mean 150,000 miles and indicate that it has moved closer somehow. Maybe instead, …
17 Jun 2010, 05:34
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Welcome to the Monkey House, Ryan! That is some fine animation on your 2009 reel there.…
17 Jun 2010, 05:15
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And yet, Severian was able to cross this continent within a shift worth of air, as I said to IIRC Roy the last time this came around. There's just no consistent detail on the siz…
16 Jun 2010, 11:24
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Between the Age of Myth and Severian's time? Probably at least 2-3. It's the same math as the wall's height vs sight distance; the higher they fly, the more acres of hungry infan…
16 Jun 2010, 03:38
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That's at odds with Wolfe's worldiews and other stories from the period, like "Beautyland". He considered/considers non-Christian societies to be tainted and given to cruelty, an…
15 Jun 2010, 08:47
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Wolfe makes a point of many Earthly species being extinct by Sev's time, and eagles are endangered even today. There could be a similar shortage of the highest flying gesse, perh…
15 Jun 2010, 03:36
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Abaia and Erebus are mentioned as if in league together on several occasions. Perhaps Abaia is the slightly humanlike of the two who marshals the more humanoid forces of the Asci…
14 Jun 2010, 15:41
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There's a distance-to-horizon calculator here: http://boatsafe.com/tools/horizon.htm a 1-mile Wall would be visible for 97.8 statute miles. Perhaps league has an ambiguous mea…
14 Jun 2010, 15:16
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