Posted from 2 addresses as Jeff Wilson, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com, Jeffery Wilson
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To show that many, many human societies have arisen, fallen, and been trampled unto dust, and the dust piled upon dust until it has become fused into rock. Wolfe may be one-uppin…
03 Dec 2008, 21:49
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I don't see how there becoming more popular over the chilliads or posing them back to back makes them significantly less plausible. Abaia and Erebus are large as mountains themse…
02 Dec 2008, 23:27
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The mountain faces are precisely as believable as Mt. Rushmore and Georgia's Stone Mountain.…
02 Dec 2008, 09:45
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It might even be the Underpants Gnomes' winter quarters. That rminds me, other than drinking Mate, lots of other current Age customs seem to have endured into Sev's era, includi…
02 Dec 2008, 00:32
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remaining at the surface should mean the structures get even more weather and erosion than if they were safely buried in detrius or middens.…
02 Dec 2008, 00:26
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Aristotle may have been the first to write down certain best practices, but the guidelines have been around a while.…
02 Dec 2008, 00:19
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but the author includes an explanation for the sailing spaceships - there's no suggestion of why time passes so differently at the stone town, Casdoe's cabin, and Saltus.…
01 Dec 2008, 23:48
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You can't have it both ways in a story that spans the timeline of ruin and geological change.…
01 Dec 2008, 23:23
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That's still not a "get out of internal consistency free" card.…
01 Dec 2008, 23:06
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They relate to the reckoning of time in years, which you've just said is a mistake, so I won't burden you with this spurious notation.…
01 Dec 2008, 20:47
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This already happens, except that it's even cheaper to dump the junk out on the ground in China where entire villages subsist on what they can sift out, instead of letting it be …
01 Dec 2008, 20:38
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The forested moon has to be superscience or an illusion or a deliberate fake, there being no other way to keep air on such a small body. none of the three are time-critical. Tod…
01 Dec 2008, 20:19
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The Stone Town would not have survived millions of years after the time of the Incas in recognizeable form. Plus, in the afterword of _Shadow_, "G.W." the translator of Severian'…
01 Dec 2008, 20:00
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Some of those tunnels go back in time and/or have still-working contrivances like anti-gravity or moving surfaces, so that "can't be too far away" might be longer than you think.…
01 Dec 2008, 16:36
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During the chilliads between our age of Myth and Severian's time, most extant buildings and underground structures will have served any number of purposes. Many underground locat…
01 Dec 2008, 15:45
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ISTR that it has been traced to the black beans thrown by a woman, and that the woman has been identified as Typhon's daughter Scylla, but I couldn't provide you with the provena…
30 Nov 2008, 20:36
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Yes - it would be unthinkable for him to write a graphic novel about characters and situations originally appearing in prose novels.…
29 Nov 2008, 10:30
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There's also a 1992 Steve Martin movie _Leap of Faith_ where a fake faith healer conman becomes so persuasive that when he leads the marks in prayer, unplanned non-fake miracles …
26 Nov 2008, 16:20
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I'm Brian, and so is my wife!…
20 Nov 2008, 03:49
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Doesn't the red star count?…
20 Nov 2008, 02:33
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He's Spartecus?…
20 Nov 2008, 00:56
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I think the Increate is more strongly identified with Severian than with out concept of God, and since that identity is behind the stagehands that are behind the scenes, it's not…
19 Nov 2008, 08:29
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But my opinion is that there is a still higher level of manipulation of the manipulators by the Increate, who in some way is or is in sympathy with Severian, perhaps in some Teil…
19 Nov 2008, 01:39
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ozone levels could be low after chiliads of neglect and seepage from old refrigeration units or Erebusforming.…
14 Nov 2008, 08:15
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I'm not sure that I agree, but Sev seems to agree that he has been manipulated by forces not unseen but privy to what is unseen, when he writes that he has backed into the throne…
14 Nov 2008, 08:10
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brunians at brunians.org, crushtv at gmail.com, and PMorris33 at aol.com, kindly trim the quoted material in your reply posts. You can read more about this genteel practice here…
04 Nov 2008, 17:21
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He does complain that he has lost his resistance to cold after wearing a shirt since his ascention IIRC, and at one point awakens to find ants crawling on his chest. Both would b…
31 Oct 2008, 19:38
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Which page?…
30 Oct 2008, 23:02
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This middle picture on this page? http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/newsun/art.html…
30 Oct 2008, 04:22
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The tower tops seem to have canard "fins" on their cones.…
30 Oct 2008, 00:22
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I think John Watkins meant, and I am more interested in, is there a point where Old Autarch asserts himself over the _narrator_, like Thecla seems to have?…
15 Oct 2008, 05:33
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_The Whisperer In Darkness_ stands out as somewhat Wolfean, with unreliable or downright mendacious narrators, cryptic nested epistolary stories, and alien conspiracies. Jolly go…
15 Oct 2008, 05:27
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Sev specifically says that the previous autarchs' memories are present but faint, only his immediate predecessor and Thecla are "there" enough to have initiative and identity of …
15 Oct 2008, 03:00
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rec.arts.sf.*…
14 Oct 2008, 16:56
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But why have those two memories in particular become entwined? Neither knew the other as a child, neither played in the other's play places, they probably weren't even toddlers a…
14 Oct 2008, 16:55
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I don't think synchronicity is the word for timeless properties of the universe, and including an extra Sephiroth to match the string theory du jour is plain numerology. A real b…
13 Oct 2008, 19:14
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I'm not sure that the Ancient Greek preposition is exact; some sources translate it as "Glory from Hera" or "Glory by Hera". When did it belong to Hera? I've only ever heard of i…
12 Oct 2008, 07:46
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There's something that doesn't compute here. I suppose a maiden could be a priestess of Juno, who is a goddess of fidelity as well as marriage, but after being raped or seduced b…
11 Oct 2008, 22:38
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I think it's likely that Thecla here is a typo for her sister's name Thea. But the really interesting thing is not only is Thecla's memory roused to the first person at the time…
09 Oct 2008, 05:14
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The chrisos is the coin Vodalus gave him. There is a bit of Autarch succession nearby, in that a circular room of books has been kept for three centuries pending the return of Au…
01 Oct 2008, 07:30
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A page after meeting Rudesind, Sev procceds to Ultan's study via an unrailed circular stair that descends at least 20 feet into darkness. He also passes some columns sculpted wit…
01 Oct 2008, 04:44
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Much of the Citadel complex is underground. In particular, the art galleries run as far as the House Absolute, which is entirely underground, and Hypogeum Apotropaic can be read …
30 Sep 2008, 05:30
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Is there a place where new additions are listed, regardless of section or category?…
28 Sep 2008, 17:56
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Sorry about that, you guys.…
28 Sep 2008, 17:53
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LinkedIn ------------ The Urth Mailing, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Jeff Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/366157709/o8psvOCd/ …
28 Sep 2008, 11:38
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I'm afraid that the second Suzanne Delage link has a bogus URL that leads to wolfe wiki admin login instead of an article. This might not be apparent when using the same computer…
28 Sep 2008, 09:14
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This article is not linked or mentioned at the URL given. It looks as though the article listing has not been updated to include it, though I was able to locate it by digging.…
28 Sep 2008, 08:53
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Every chance I get.…
23 Sep 2008, 04:27
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Jack Vance was a tremendous influence on both Wolfe and D&D.…
23 Sep 2008, 04:24
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The most recent edition is more influenced by World of Warcraft, which was heavily influenced by earlier editions of both. I've been a D&D player until I moved on to better thing…
21 Sep 2008, 09:11
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