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I am thinking "The Black Man" favors Latro because Latro has forgotten his tribalism and doesn't think to treat him like an outsider based on his race, and also because Latro is …
22 Jan 2010, 17:16
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I am thinking "The Black Man" favors Latro because Latro has forgotten his tribalism and doesn't think to treat him like an outsider based on his race, and also because Latro is …
22 Jan 2010, 17:16
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There's still a question of him being able to intercept enough sunlight to be more active than a slug. A man-sized silhouette in Earthly conditions intercepts less than 100 calorie…
18 Jan 2010, 02:44
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There is some precedent in that Wolfe began to say that he considers Urth to be in a previous universal cycle to ours, despite allowing the nigh-universal textev-based perception…
12 Jan 2010, 17:00
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Those more modestly equiped with Excel or Windows' built-in CALC.EXE can check this by treating it as a survival chance of .9997 per year, and raise that value to (for example) 1…
04 Jan 2010, 17:21
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Wtih mask, there are numerous image hits when one googles "severian", but as for without the mask - what actor in what role would you say he he resembles?…
25 Dec 2009, 03:41
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That's the archaic _educational_ sense, then, so one could say that Christianity was an artistic faith, as the arts were equally such. I was thinking you were using it in the sen…
19 Dec 2009, 20:22
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It is a conjecture that in the sacrament of Holy Communion the substance of the bread and wine literally becomes the substance of the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, while the s…
19 Dec 2009, 19:44
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Yes, two of them at the moment.…
19 Dec 2009, 19:34
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As long as they don't eat the limbs…
19 Dec 2009, 16:25
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Absolutely; I have the nth geenration copies of the written testimony penned by fallible men to prove it.…
19 Dec 2009, 16:24
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Unobservable phenomena and unfalsifiable hypotheses are scientific in neither the current sense nor that used a thousand years ago.…
19 Dec 2009, 09:57
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How about transubstantiation, and other unobservable unfalsifiables?…
19 Dec 2009, 03:31
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It's not which way your doxy swings, it's about the message before that. Protestants don't slice any material bits off of the Creed.…
19 Dec 2009, 00:40
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I think you have to depart from the Nicean Creed to achieve heresy, or at least to depart from Christianity. This was agreed upon in the ageas before the great schim between Roman …
18 Dec 2009, 22:58
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Oh, that I agree with. "The Revolutionary" is a pun on the part of whoever on Urth gave it that name, while at the functional level it is a contrapasso. The author chooses both, …
24 Nov 2009, 19:06
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Goodness, is it my turn in the barrel again already? I'm not sure what you mean by that answer, could you please explain ti at greater length, Adam?…
24 Nov 2009, 07:56
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It's less of a pun than a Dantean contrapasso, I would say. Like most activities on Urth, "tradition" is probably the largest reason.…
23 Nov 2009, 11:30
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I think it's a bit more specific version of the split-brain syndrome, which he also uses in "The Death of Doctor Island".…
21 Nov 2009, 20:45
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Making it too readable would detract from the ironic comment on manifestoi as a genre.…
21 Sep 2009, 05:59
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I believe Russell Wodell was the first to mention it here, just under a year ago.…
18 Sep 2009, 08:38
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I think decaf might be a better place to start. :)…
14 Sep 2009, 10:17
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Can you point to where he actually says something like this, please?…
29 Jul 2009, 07:54
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This is a single proposition. A logical argument has the form of two or more propositions.…
26 Jul 2009, 20:10
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I'd have to give him the benefit of the doubt there, as the corridors extend back through time and dimension, so that three lefts may not make a right. Severian further admits…
25 Jul 2009, 01:05
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The Roche-Eata mismatch is flaw in his memory, but not a grossly obvious one. The narrator seeks to recall the incident and does so, but the effort produces a false positive that…
25 Jul 2009, 00:53
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Oy! There's no begging of either question that I can see. Severian feels his memory is perfect because he can find no gaps in it *and* apparently neither can Palaemon. Until hi…
24 Jul 2009, 03:15
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Because it was coined to refer not to a premise but a conclusion supported in a specific, fallacious way, that of circular reasoning. Sev's claim is supported in a different fall…
23 Jul 2009, 15:49
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BTQ abuse makes the Baby Theoanthropos cry. http://begthequestion.info/ You can make a difference.…
23 Jul 2009, 00:53
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Janet Gleeson's _The Arcanum_ has the latest, greatest historical details of the story., with a summary on the page below http://www.amazon.com/Arcanum-Extraordinary-True-Story/…
03 Jul 2009, 02:13
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I'm producing a t-shirt design for the local IEEE student chapter, and was thinking about slipping in some sort of reference to "How I Lost The Second World War..." , perhaps sho…
22 May 2009, 02:09
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Wow! That totally slipped past me. So what does the moopsball game signify? A commentary on Damon Knight? I'm not sure what this is supposed to be, other than a sign of Wolfe's …
22 May 2009, 01:49
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In fact, I first read _Fugue State_ and _The Death of Doctor Island_ the same day because they were published as an Ace Double. :) I doubt JMF took more from TAD than from Moorco…
21 May 2009, 21:35
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But there is *also* a vector of frequent physical travel that the author tales pains to display, so that resonance explanation need not be valid. It may just be another of Green'…
21 May 2009, 17:00
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What's non-rational about people spreading artifacts, memes, and genes back and forth?…
21 May 2009, 16:00
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Sources differ. Supposedly he did check up years later, but records were not well kept if at all. Infant mortality was upwards of 50% all-round in part due to elective wet nursin…
21 May 2009, 11:30
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"Property rights are sacred, unalienable and a matter of faith. You believe in them or you don't."…
20 May 2009, 19:42
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Not able to explain the disrepancy works for me.…
20 May 2009, 19:38
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I won't say it's not bad, but it's not the _same_ as theft, and when people say it is they lose credibility. Do you consider letting people watch your TV to be theft?…
20 May 2009, 19:27
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Why can you take Jefferson's word seriously enough to determine that his necessity was valid, but dismiss Rosseau out of hand? If Rosseau came out and admitted later that he had …
20 May 2009, 19:21
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And yet, he continued to own slaves, to keep men made by that same Creator from their liberty and their pursuit of happiness for *fifty years* after he wrote those words. Who cou…
20 May 2009, 18:25
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I am so pleased to see you turn out in favor of native title! Absolutely. Buddha, Ben Franklin, Grover Cleveland, not a one of them worth listening to.…
20 May 2009, 14:25
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You can't get off the Whorl that easily!…
20 May 2009, 05:38
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I have witnessed more than one self-identified socialist state that their goal was the transfer of ownership of productive enterprises to their employees by constitutional amendm…
18 May 2009, 13:25
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There's more to it, like how poor the poor are to begin with, than how far the rich are above them. The Lydians didn't revolt against Croesus, after all. Socialism needs to borr…
17 May 2009, 11:24
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Does Wolfe employ a collective noun for a group of pilgrims, either when Sev is passing as a pilgrim on his travels or another time?…
27 Apr 2009, 18:44
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Is it really fake? He might have other things to do than watch out for antagonists.…
18 Apr 2009, 09:05
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I think it might best be done as a series of Sev's reminiscences, with 2-3 plot threads a piece, and one or two continuing along the arc. You'd also have some freedom from contin…
13 Apr 2009, 10:21
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lucrative? a hungarian novelist?…
12 Apr 2009, 08:52
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I've seen photos of Wolfe from that time and there was nothing flat or square about him - in fact in one he sorta looks like Stimpy.…
09 Apr 2009, 02:34
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