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I think it is mad industry to debate the single purpose of the Wall. Even by the standards of Urthly civilization at its height, it must have been a tremendous undertaking beyond…
14 Jun 2010, 09:54
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Are they? Aren't some made from a living person's impression of the subject, rather than from the subject's corpse? How did Severian merge with the meat? I thought it was only a …
14 Jun 2010, 05:27
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okay - so there seems to be a fairly short distance limit on BFO's method of branching off an eidolon, so normally they are only made of dead people for practical and safety reas…
14 Jun 2010, 00:00
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Why couldn't the eidolon stay at the stone town and the strangled meat go back to the future?…
12 Jun 2010, 19:10
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Why would that be bad? Does the trio have some influence over the eidolon of a resurrected Severian that they would not have over the all-meat resurrected Severian?…
12 Jun 2010, 16:13
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? A pedestrian's shadow can lay to the westward in the morning and to the eastward in the evening. Octans, the octant. It doesn't actually form a 45 deg angle now (1/8 of a circ…
12 Jun 2010, 00:48
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They guard the entrances to the Wall's innards as well as serving as gate security, customs, etc. Just like air bases have MPs serving as traffic cops despite writing tickets ha…
11 Jun 2010, 16:14
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Do we know for sure that Typhon built the Whorl, or did he appropriate it the way he did everything else on Urth when he set up his capital there? But those all have plot functio…
11 Jun 2010, 05:39
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Yes, the limerick is not just cute but technically accurate: There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was much faster than light; She set out one day, In a relative way And…
11 Jun 2010, 00:04
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That's true, but it is still tacking in the sense of rigging the sails at similar angles to get transverse propulsion - and since the speakers are originally educated as wet sai…
10 Jun 2010, 23:46
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The Wall may have been built to hold back the sea itself; the gate tunnels are easily sealed and presumably big, heavy slabs concealed inside can be driven deep into the river's …
10 Jun 2010, 09:31
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That's not entirely correct; if the light is reflected at an angle, it imparts momentum at an angle normal to the reflecting surface. For example if light traveling due north str…
10 Jun 2010, 07:38
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I agree that quote trimming is a very worthy practice, even if digest readers are often the worst offenders.…
10 Jun 2010, 04:36
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Yes, the pro-moderation anarchist, that's me. I didn't see any offlist messages from you, sorry. That's a consequence of the list owner allowing digest mode to the people who ha…
09 Jun 2010, 04:11
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Accelerating up to lightspeed then doing some trick to go FTL is a time-honored SF tradition including STAR WARS and going back at least to _STARMAN JONES_. Okay, a wall obvious…
08 Jun 2010, 05:17
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I do not feel it right for you to expect everyone else to modify their behavior to suit your reading preferences. Wait a minute - just two weeks ago you said "It's a good idea to…
08 Jun 2010, 04:56
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"old port" could also mean there have been no landings at all in some time. I believe that unsmeltables date from a much earlier time, similar to that from which the artifacts at…
07 Jun 2010, 18:23
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Yesod's too small in scope; just one enormous machine-planet.…
07 Jun 2010, 18:13
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Briah is a universe very much like our own, with lots of galaxies. All we see of Yesod is a huge planet-like mechanism that supposedly has an island or group of islands for each …
07 Jun 2010, 17:31
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Dude - we've got to quit feeding the energy creature or it will never stop.…
07 Jun 2010, 13:10
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I don't think anyone's asserted they are.…
07 Jun 2010, 13:06
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Then you can consider my forfeit is for you to leave off your notion of the game and continue under mine, as I am not terribly keen for a stranger who packs both heat and a disre…
07 Jun 2010, 11:51
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Ergo you agreed to play my game. Thank you!…
07 Jun 2010, 03:22
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If you can point out where I overtly agreed to play some other kind of riddle game, I'll apologize handsomely.…
07 Jun 2010, 01:43
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How do you feel about VeggieTales?…
07 Jun 2010, 00:59
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I don't think it's the technology so much as the shrunken labor and talent pool. There are gobs of still operable technology sitting around, but it's been at least millenia since…
07 Jun 2010, 00:56
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I specified a somewhat Wolfean riddle - the stakes and rules are equally Wolfean, i.e. a contest of riddle crafting where the solver's prize is the hidden information and the mak…
07 Jun 2010, 00:49
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Either way that's a fair guess at a partial solution, though I considered a book is a more suitable place to find writing than a silhouette. It's not meant to be a turnwise game…
06 Jun 2010, 22:30
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I'm afraid you've got that reversed from the texts. From the opening of URTH's Chapter XV Yesod: "...I now saw our universe, a circle no larger than an ebon moon in the sky of Y…
06 Jun 2010, 19:02
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It's not in _Shadow_, though some items are common to both.…
06 Jun 2010, 18:50
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I think that's enough of a head start for Brunians; the rest of you are invited to "play" and solve the riddle.…
06 Jun 2010, 05:01
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In Wolfe, a "robot" is often the most or the only reliable source of information. The can go wrong or be fed bad data, but they generally seem free of motivation to lie, though f…
06 Jun 2010, 04:51
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In the interview he said he disliked allegory wherever he smelled it. But that didn't stop him from producing some, however unintentionally.…
06 Jun 2010, 02:14
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I cut that loose a bit early. I just now reviewed a BBC interview from 71 and he says: http://web.archive.org/web/20040911093705/www.geocities.com/misctolkien/TolkieninterviewBBC…
05 Jun 2010, 23:12
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I cut that loose a bit early. I just now reviewed a BBC interview from 71 and he says:…
05 Jun 2010, 23:09
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My point remains that around this time (1936 or so) he placed the setting we know as Middle Earth in the literal past, slightly overlapping the historic era, with bloodlines cont…
05 Jun 2010, 23:01
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If you could peek into one of the other universes for the answer, that would still count.…
05 Jun 2010, 11:21
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Rather than reward laziness, I'll hand you a (somewhat) Wolfean riddle: My writ is three steps' march or four kilometers from my foot, behind the baseboards with everyone else's.…
05 Jun 2010, 04:17
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Israelites rather than Jews…
04 Jun 2010, 23:56
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It's my understanding that was how it started with he drawing distant time and CS Lewis drawing distant space, but as it took on a life of its own it became increasingly allegori…
04 Jun 2010, 23:32
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Why do you assume I'm speaking of linear time?…
04 Jun 2010, 23:24
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It's not just Wolfe and Gnosticism; the regular OT has Abraham, his "sister" Sarah, and the Pharaoah, plus some "my wife, my sister" action in the Song of Songs.…
04 Jun 2010, 23:11
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If I was in the "Urth preceeds Earth" camp, I might suggest that's why Sev feels as if he belonged there, standing where Jesus was meant to be. Or perhaps he merely feels it appr…
04 Jun 2010, 22:21
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What allegedly makes it obvious?…
04 Jun 2010, 21:01
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if only some of use were less so…
04 Jun 2010, 20:29
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The Sand Garden seems less of a challenge, and even if normal joes get lost, they're getting lost in some other time or dimension instead of one scheduled for demolition in 40 ye…
04 Jun 2010, 20:24
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That's my other concern with the "Urth preceeds Earth" theory: it seems like an awful lot of hand-wringing is done over the fate of Urth when it's a simple matter to stroll in th…
04 Jun 2010, 15:18
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That makes it even less likely - how does a person's sleeping mind select an images of an event from among all the events, ever? Imagine a radio that picks up not only every stat…
04 Jun 2010, 14:32
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Where did he get this education in the secret nature of reality? How did Mary Shelly pick them out?…
04 Jun 2010, 10:56
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How does Talos pick those ripples out from the ripples from all the other events in all of time, space, and dimension?…
04 Jun 2010, 10:23
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