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For comparison, the work "book" is shortly after applied to a reel of microfilm and a computer memory crystal as well as more conventional bound volumes of leaves and pages.…
31 Dec 2008, 05:54
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We worked out earlier in 2008 that the composition of the picture described does not match any of the publicized Apollo 11 photos. If it is literally a painting, the artist took …
30 Dec 2008, 06:29
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He does hedge a bit and sign it "G.W." rather than own it outright with a full name or implicitly by leaving it unsigned. The Appendix mentions numerous other artifacts from the …
29 Dec 2008, 00:00
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That would conflict with the duplicate implosion problem, wouldn't it?…
25 Dec 2008, 17:20
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Wolfe himself has since said that Urth is an earlier cycle than our Earth, but I think that may be retroactive continuity after realizing that drowning Urth would otherwise break…
25 Dec 2008, 05:38
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The link between his body and the power of the White Fountain is blocked on at least one occasion but his point of awareness remains in his body, puzzled about why the miracle …
25 Dec 2008, 05:08
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Right, however Jesus did have/has enduring union with the divine, post-Ascension. Severian seems to *lose* union with the divine, taking up once again mortal habits like sleeping…
25 Dec 2008, 04:44
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There's a problem in that deities by definition transcend the physical world, but Sev's first-person narrative remains largely linear and divided from that of "other Severians" f…
24 Dec 2008, 17:55
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On the other hand, the author may not have subscribed to the chaotic model of parallel universes, or of human development. The Corridors of Time might be organized in some way th…
24 Dec 2008, 17:01
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"Apu" is a title, meaning both god and mountain, and each Incan god has an associated Andean peak, but oddly Severian fails to have any sort of positive connection to a mountain …
24 Dec 2008, 03:56
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This is correct, as far as we know. Napoleon had free will, despite the existence of records in our time that detail every major and many minor decisions he made. However not all…
24 Dec 2008, 03:42
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I think it likely; numerous features of GW's military college campus seem to influence the architechture of the Citadel in the BotNS, as well as the Library and possibly Maiso…
19 Dec 2008, 19:33
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"Hiro Protagonist" is self-referential pseudonym that is also his brand name, and is part of his strategy to minimize identify theft.…
19 Dec 2008, 15:30
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Alien sapients seem deliberately off the table in the BOTNS, but as for your other question, I htink it's been fairly settled that the Hieros are the humans of a previous incarna…
14 Dec 2008, 20:40
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There are however questions of scale that can make them practically inaccessible. Also, it's more like "Science catches up to Anderson's _Tau Zero_" or Lee and Kirby's _Fantast…
14 Dec 2008, 05:39
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Not all of Evangelion's ambiguity is on screen: I had similar baffling experience "meeting" Asuka's US voice actress at a con. I kept hearing Asuka's voice in the tiny tower room…
13 Dec 2008, 06:07
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Aquastors begin as machine-sustained images that need not age, but can, as the machine operator's wish and skill may allow. An aquastor that lasts long enough to accumulate its own…
12 Dec 2008, 19:01
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I can see water-breathing as a useful edit to make in an aquastor, the exchange of water could speed the accumulation of "real" matter and get them off dependence on the sustaining…
11 Dec 2008, 22:32
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Where's the monster?…
10 Dec 2008, 18:47
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Perhaps he's thinking of another handful of magic beans, Jack.…
10 Dec 2008, 14:43
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Seventeen is the Urthly thirteen - _Lives_ can draw on all of the Age of Myth and such and just pick the 17 most lurid folks from the likes of Chernovog, Vlad the Impaler, Aleist…
10 Dec 2008, 06:03
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Existing volcanoes travel with the continental plates. In the case of Hawaii, there's a relatively stationary hotspot in the mantle that burns new ones through the crust as it pa…
10 Dec 2008, 05:37
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They could have been in hiding somehow, and then didn't bother with the shielding or whatever after he was dead. good guess, though small black holes are sometimes characterized …
10 Dec 2008, 05:28
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That was my thought at first, but Severian goes on to survive watery peril without a companion undine at hand.…
10 Dec 2008, 05:04
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Possibly. Abaia is said to be one of the Great Beasts, but so was Aleister Crowley in his time. The library book _Lives of the Seventeen Megathereians_ implies that many Great Be…
09 Dec 2008, 19:09
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Abaia could be an enormous, ageless leviathan grown from some earlier epoch's premiere thaumaturgist, like Baldanders begins to be during Severian's reign, or it could be somethi…
09 Dec 2008, 05:13
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How is physically traveling different from awakwning with otherworldly memories?…
08 Dec 2008, 21:03
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Hierogrammate means "holy scribe" , so there must be *some* paperwork and bureaucracy involved.…
08 Dec 2008, 19:24
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Good enough; can you describe anything about the mechanism for viewing or physically shunting to other lines?…
08 Dec 2008, 16:50
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But an *eater* of Severian could, and the Hierogrammates share memories much like users of the alzabo do, so if one saw the Increate, they all may have.…
08 Dec 2008, 16:47
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THe Hierogrammates seem to have an improved from of witness in that that absorbed fragments share with the main body and the main body with new fragments. They also demonstarte an…
08 Dec 2008, 16:44
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That is, Is there a timeline for every possible alternative outcome of every quantum uncertainty? Or is there some more selective criteria?…
08 Dec 2008, 16:28
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Is the tree of alternatives fully populated?…
08 Dec 2008, 08:54
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Separate God in each, or One for all and all under One?…
08 Dec 2008, 08:28
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They might have superior knowledge of God's will if their superior preception in time and space includes divine interventions like the literal words and deeds of our cycle's Chri…
08 Dec 2008, 08:21
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On the other hand, vanishing into the past is cool, they even did a Star Trek episode around it.…
07 Dec 2008, 05:27
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Which god is this, then?…
06 Dec 2008, 06:09
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So do it. It's very suspicious that a tongueless being from another universe is so succinct in their communication with a race they've never met before. Or perhaps they have con…
06 Dec 2008, 06:04
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Right - same with lots of people and the Kennedy Assassination, though the Zapruder film wasn't broadcast until 1975.…
06 Dec 2008, 05:43
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His argument is well reasoned, but it rests on some fine hair splitting that falls below the demonstrated level of lexical resolution of dialogue in the Book that is translated a…
05 Dec 2008, 22:08
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Can you pint out the the textev for the Heirogramates being behind the dying sun? I can point out that they *dont* likely have the resourced for an airlift (each archipelago on …
05 Dec 2008, 17:19
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It's a great story, and I disagree with the "equally maddening" review. If anything, the Soldier books are a hearty and satisfying double-decker sandwich vs BOTNS's too spicy 666…
05 Dec 2008, 05:14
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That's okay, the Soldier doesn't either.…
05 Dec 2008, 02:29
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Delany's the champion of the SF reading protocols theory, right? I suppose I am advocating a weak version of that, in that serious science fiction writers ought to be informed a…
05 Dec 2008, 01:40
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Is the imperishable attribute scriptural?…
04 Dec 2008, 05:51
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I don't think there's *any* cooling of Urth's core, from any cause, as we understanding here in 2008. The dimming of the old Sun and chilliads of environmental damage are more th…
04 Dec 2008, 02:52
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What a kind offer! What objective metric is being used by what fully informed party to judge the meaning of the text?…
04 Dec 2008, 02:21
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Petrification and fossilization can happen in as little as 100,000 years, and things might be sped up by the odd industrial spill of futuro-embalming fluid or nuclear bombardment…
04 Dec 2008, 00:45
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Petrified tree stumps are no problem, they can happen in as little as 100,000 years, and the pile of uncorruptive statue-bodies at Saltus demonstrate that a similar preservative …
04 Dec 2008, 00:26
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What about Lazarus, et al?…
03 Dec 2008, 23:35
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