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I think the tender would primarily resemble a sailing vessel in that it would be likely to have a seaworthy hull for water landings and taking advantage of less-sophisticated …
03 Dec 2007, 10:51
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Pimsley says "natant" means swimming to the right, and applies to fish. Calling floating "natant" seems as figurative as sailing being called "volant".…
03 Dec 2007, 09:44
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Rather, it is subtle about different things than non-heraldic illustration. The relative position of heraldic animals' body parts, for example, conveys considerable information, …
29 Nov 2007, 05:31
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If "ship" can come to include "rockets and four masters and magical space time machines that traffic with other universes" over millenia, why must "volant" remain fixed in stone?…
29 Nov 2007, 04:53
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Then the ship on the tomb could be a picture of any thing remotely resembling a non-wheeled vehicle?…
29 Nov 2007, 00:06
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But it has to visually resemble *some* kind of ship to be recognizable as such, and... Apparently, there is only one capital-s Ship, distinguished from other, lesser ships by its …
28 Nov 2007, 21:12
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Volant means flying, but could figuratively mean the ship is depicted moving swiftly under sail power, vide The Flying Dutchman.…
28 Nov 2007, 20:41
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Do you have a cite supporting this? A bas relief of the Tzadkiel (polygon cross-section, with masts on all sides) would not really resemble a single water vessel. "Argosy" can be…
28 Nov 2007, 05:48
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I believe this is foreshadowing of the whole hting about aquastors, eidolons, and other projected people. I've always taken this to be a sign that the Citadel and the House Abso…
27 Nov 2007, 03:48
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Welcome to the monkey house, Pedro. Bionics (in the literal meaning of "mimicing life") seem to be fairly common in Severian's era, thus the confusion over Jonas' true nature, …
18 Nov 2007, 23:04
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Please do not use colors and other non-standard fancy formatting in e-mail intended for members of the general public; it makes the baby Theoanthropos cry and opens several cans …
16 Nov 2007, 14:56
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sorry, I meant "on Ushas".…
15 Nov 2007, 04:41
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Doesn't he? If the people who worship The Sleeper aren't on Briah, where are they? Their "tent" is more like a circus big-top made from advanced fabric that resists combustion a…
15 Nov 2007, 02:40
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There might be an admixture of Teilhard de Chardin in that through aeons of effort, mankind achieves salvation by producing/becoming the grace-giving Godhead. The cyclic nature o…
04 Oct 2007, 15:15
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"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" is an alt-hist story that involves the quantum mechanics of transistors.…
06 Aug 2007, 00:30
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My thought is that the body is that of a particularly loyal, devoted follower, and he is there personally to secure it for use in further binding and perhaps even converting peop…
26 Jul 2007, 00:14
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Baldanders may be taking the pessmistic, worst-case scenario that the Fountain's tides will be strong enough to remake the land as well as the water. Or, Baldanders may be simp…
25 Jul 2007, 05:36
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If the White Fountain is indeed a white hole, intended to undo the effect of the "black beans", it need not be on the order of a star in gravity well, only on the order of the be…
24 Jul 2007, 07:14
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If the neandethals were human, why is there a distinction made?…
21 Jun 2007, 01:03
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Because of the dual meaning of Aryan (notional fair-skinned race vs. Indo-European root culture). The movie opens with Ibn Faldan, an exiled Persian, being sent to Scandanaavia, …
20 Jun 2007, 12:35
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*snicker* This is literally the premise of _The Thirteenth Warrior_/_Eaters of the Dead_.…
20 Jun 2007, 01:58
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Perhaps _VRT_ imitates the cat to bite Marsch, then waits a day or two to make sure the sample takes and he can now imitate Marsch, then kills him? The other accounts of abo imit…
10 May 2007, 14:06
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you are welcome, and welcome to the list. But please, please, please, trip your replies, especially since you are using digest mode. you can read about best posting practices her…
08 May 2007, 03:57
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I believe that it also serves as a double-entendre in the first story; Maitre is also Number 5's figurative "mater", or mother, as well as his father.…
06 May 2007, 23:32
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It may be that he only had "sexual play" with Thecla, as he says Dorcas and Jolenta did. Thecla would not be likely to risk pregnancy by a commoner as long as she had some hope o…
26 Apr 2007, 04:48
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Please do not feed the energy creature.…
13 Apr 2007, 03:41
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This is do-able as in the recent _Alexander_, with a short sequence of Philip showing young Alexander the mystery cave and delivering his maltheistic rant seeded with trivia abou…
12 Apr 2007, 07:28
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That may be a Wagnerism rather than authentic Teutonic myth; some have it that the tarnhelm confers invisibility while the Rheingold transforms the outer form to match the inner …
08 Apr 2007, 07:53
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Rather, why does Severian choose, among the thousands of people he must have met in the course of the events described in the five volumes, only to record the hundred or so appea…
07 Apr 2007, 07:09
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Within the context of the Book + Urth's cosmology (as I and most listers understand it), there are no "candidates", only Severian, Who _is_ the New Sun. The various powers and po…
02 Apr 2007, 03:13
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We only know it was written that no one admitted being able to read what Latro writes. Even if this is true, someone could still sneak in and erase or scrape off a recent entry t…
01 Dec 2006, 05:34
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Remember, other people have access to the scroll, and even the Latro du jour may have had his temporary reasons for censoring it. GW can use all of the devices presumably employe…
30 Nov 2006, 17:09
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Now that I think about it, Latro can do this, though not reliably. Certainly in _Mist_, he revisits themes and topics hinted at earlier, and this is explained by him re-reading h…
15 Nov 2006, 02:46
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since the actual author isn't amnesiac, I don't see how this is a problem.…
14 Nov 2006, 07:50
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Presumably when they are judged old enough to be raised solely by men and boys, and there are no other obstacles to their induction. Such an obstacle might be a surfeit of client…
01 Nov 2006, 02:29
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but there are no other "Brothers" mentioned in the guild, and no way to become one mentioned in the discussion of the guild ranks. This would imply that not only has no-one becom…
27 Oct 2006, 04:47
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I don't think it is necessarily a contradiction. Since we are reading a translation, "take" may variously mean surgical removal as well as induction into the guild, either both …
27 Oct 2006, 03:36
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If the Masters use a machine to make an eidolon to serve as Holy Katharine, they could plausibly use a machine to make an eidolon to serve as a cook or a menial laborer. However,…
27 Oct 2006, 03:21
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I don't think it would be Severian's memory. Presumably, it would be someone available whenever the jailers guild was reformed into the all-male Brotherhood, long after the Conci…
26 Oct 2006, 05:13
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There's never more than two of the protagonist at once in "Zombies", and "By His Bootstraps" only gets up to three. The earliest mention of mass time duplicates I've found so far…
26 Oct 2006, 04:25
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Whose memory does the maid come from? Does this imply Brother Cook and Brother Porter are likewise eidolons?…
26 Oct 2006, 04:12
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"Straightening Our Stripes" is very close indeed, but unfortunately was painted in 1985.…
22 Oct 2006, 04:09
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Interesting; maybe it's a Fresnel lens dual image, or even some more exotic form of changing picture.…
22 Oct 2006, 04:01
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Amazon to the rescue: "The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff bearing a strange, stiff banner…
22 Oct 2006, 02:18
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I can't say it's without textev, given Hethor's paracoita speech. I'm telling you, she must be mom's khaibit du jour. The witches' tower. pampered existence, similar to the rece…
21 Oct 2006, 12:33
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I don't see where the ms mentions an earthrise?…
21 Oct 2006, 12:26
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other possibilities are: * a later Apollo mission * subtle difference in previous universe cycle * the picture is a painting based on the orignal photographs, possibly via multipl…
21 Oct 2006, 04:28
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It's not quanity of violence against women, it's the moral context. Is it presented as a crime? spoils of war? just desserts? pretext to arranged marriage? harmless fun?…
20 Oct 2006, 15:44
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I'll bite: Why protect one woman and her children if there are thousands more for you to knock up?…
20 Oct 2006, 05:01
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Please, there is some considerable distance between suspect and convict. Rather than doing it compulsively, Wiesel was reluctant to do it at all without considerable outside enco…
20 Oct 2006, 04:52
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