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The various human-animal hybrids serving the autarch, from the mastiff men in the coach full of gold, to the anpiels, and perhaps even the ape-men in the mine at Saltus.…
24 May 2006, 03:38
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This sounds more likely to be the source of the boy in the tower than Severian's loins.…
21 May 2006, 20:46
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They are "great beasts" with occult power, as Aleister Crowley styled himself on occasion. Abaia and Erebus, being inhuman Things Man Was Not Meant to Know, also count as great…
20 May 2006, 05:19
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The question is more properly, "What sorts of things are Baldanders?" He isn't just one thing, and doesn't merely symbolize one thing. He's a tree, he's a man, he's a black magic…
19 May 2006, 04:51
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Interviews of many unassociated pedos over time and space. It's unlikely they would come up with the same fanciful answer enough times to be statistically signifigant for no reas…
19 May 2006, 04:44
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Pedophilia has been studied and profiled the same way most criminal pathologies have been. "Often" here means a behavior shared by a significant portion of the group studied. Li…
17 May 2006, 07:39
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The Wall, with the peculiar positioning of the guardsmen inside it, could be a huge, grounded spin-gravity generation ship, similar to the Whorl, but hollow on the inside and roo…
06 May 2006, 04:55
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It's arguable that the newly-breathing Apu Punchau left behind was the eidolon, while "Severian" was actually the "original". Or, it could be that when the light of the White Fou…
03 May 2006, 01:33
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As Mantiss has it, each exultant child has a clone (the khaibit, egpytian word for shadow) from which certain items are harvested, notably growth factors. Given the Exultants' na…
02 May 2006, 02:33
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Because the undines *demonstrate* it, via 1) Juturna's non-linear personal experiences 2) Juturna's pointing out the time-ward directions of travel to Severian 3) Idas' presence…
29 Apr 2006, 05:23
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If I recall correctly, Typhon was the *last* stellar tyrant, not the first, and actively sought to copy or surpass the accomplishments of his predecessors. Thus, the hieros could…
27 Apr 2006, 03:06
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I don't think this will work, as you're essentially doing a slightly-rearranged double-slit experiment. Empirically, one slit has to be slightly closer to the source on the same …
27 Apr 2006, 02:59
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I don't think you can support more than a few hundred centuries' separation between the eras. the stuff in the mines and mountain sides is easily explainable by the same technolo…
26 Apr 2006, 15:33
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This isn't necessary in a Christian allegory about an eternal Pancreator; just as Christ was present at the Creation before there was anyone to be saved, it's fitting that the Pa…
26 Apr 2006, 15:20
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The Resurrection would be a non-miracle in this sense, becasue there is nothing to prevent the atoms in a body from rearranging themselves into a pattern allowing that body to re…
13 Apr 2006, 04:07
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I mean things like disproving God's omnipotence by asking can God make a rock so big He can't lift it. This shortcoming is only valid in a superficial, rhetorical sense. Mathemat…
13 Apr 2006, 03:56
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Not in any meaningful way, given that the entire premise, that the speed of light remains constant relative to all observers, is violated by Father Inire's mirrors. '"'Since noth…
12 Apr 2006, 04:31
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I think Chris is probably thinking more along the lines of Aquinas, whose limits to God's power to do the impossible were more about the ability of humans to construct paradoxes,…
12 Apr 2006, 02:47
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Perhaps, but there's no guarantee that there are any plants still on Lune at the time of the narrative. Conflation and multiplication of identities over ages is a very strong th…
10 Apr 2006, 01:50
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Some of that is picked up as you go along, and some is spelled out in the afterword of SHADOW.…
10 Apr 2006, 01:32
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If you mean Ares could be injured by other exalted beings, that agrees with the Illiad. But it raises the question, what other exalted being was present in the temple to strike th…
08 Apr 2006, 07:25
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There's no meaningful distinction between "you" and a subset of "universe" in current physical thought. There's also no need to restrict news of the Christian Gospel to post-cru…
08 Apr 2006, 06:55
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That is just not supportred by the vast bodies of reproduced results. Relativity's predictions are spot on accounting for observed effects above the quantum level. It could use s…
08 Apr 2006, 06:45
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You have just begged the question.…
08 Apr 2006, 06:38
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It should into present a problem with day-to-day living, but given the Whorl is of a size that towns are visible overhead, any activity involving flying objects will be visibly a…
06 Apr 2006, 05:48
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no slosh, and the tiny acceleration would be swamped in the effects of the Whorl's spin gravity.…
06 Apr 2006, 05:28
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Shrinkage works both ways, but when frames are brought back to relative rest, the one that has experienced greater acceleration has experienced less duration. However, I don't th…
06 Apr 2006, 04:29
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An aquastor wouldn't need to rest or breathe either, of course.…
05 Apr 2006, 04:55
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That may be, but the problem arises, where does the change go when the mortal passes, or the god separates form the mortal? Again, you have the problem of changing the world or h…
05 Apr 2006, 04:47
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I'm really not sure it's in keeping with the character of the gods for them to learn such life lessons. Since they embody natural forces and human psychology, a god leearning a n…
03 Apr 2006, 23:39
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It's still a lesson in conflict, and allowing the other man to win is a lesson in sacrifice and deception, both principles of warfare easily as important as skill with arms.…
02 Apr 2006, 21:44
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I'm not sure such frailty is in character for a Greek god. Perhaps it is the damage that makes Latro subject to direct divine manipulation.…
02 Apr 2006, 21:40
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It seems inappropriate for Hercules to tutor Ares either on wrestling or on the wisdom of throwing a wrestling match.…
02 Apr 2006, 08:43
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"X is Y's parent" and sometimes with "X is Y's parent's parent" is a formula often used to describe special patronage of mortals, usually rulers, by divine being X in ancient tim…
02 Apr 2006, 08:34
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In light of what we know from the latter books that he's quite accomplished at the intellectual business of chemistry and biology, I've thought he was putting on a dullard act, o…
28 Feb 2006, 07:31
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Is this sarcasm? As I recall, Baldanders is quite brainy on matters that engage him, and it's no surprise that he and Dr. Talos were able to locate one another, given their origi…
25 Feb 2006, 19:12
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Not necessarily a Wolfe-ism. I recall from a pre-BOTNS Reader's Digest article, a bright but mentally ill boy incessantly asking his caregiver if there was a color darker than bl…
10 Dec 2005, 05:02
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My mileage does, but only in that it seems to me that almost everything he writes has some comedic content, however black alg=pain, lagnia=arousal, phobe=fear; afraid of sadists…
19 Sep 2005, 23:10
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Texas A&M has a prominent veterinary school, it occupies several buildings on campus, some decorated with sculpted animal skulls. Part of the curriculum involves practicing surgi…
27 Aug 2005, 13:18
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It's a BIG library as described, and the locals could not hope to have produced enough writings of note in their debased state of civilizational devolution. Given the political …
26 Aug 2005, 23:06
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Or maybe, with typical family tunnel vision, 5 continues going up to the section he's already familiar with from younger desires for more story books. Besides, it's up some ricke…
26 Aug 2005, 22:46
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At the time Wolfe wrote the original story, he had not yet published any books to my knowledge. Maitre's books are probably his private volumes of notes on vivisection and theori…
25 Aug 2005, 07:46
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This sounds backwards. By top-posting, do you somehow mean the original post on top of the reply? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/1…
19 Jun 2005, 00:38
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Not to mention where crime and drug use is so prominent, even among the "heroes" of the story....oh wait, have you read "The Fifth Head of Cerberus?" :)…
13 Jun 2005, 21:54
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Perhaps; they are certainly an order of being below that of the Pancreator, but they and their servants have qualities and insights into the divine truth beyond that of mere mo…
03 Jun 2005, 17:22
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The biblical Jonah not necessarily a sailor, on his flight from Ninevah the LJV has him paying a fare, not joining a crew. In light of his established position and relations to …
27 Apr 2005, 21:37
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I had a similar exeperience after reading "The Boy Who Hooked the Sun" and then suffering through a Hawaiin vacation slideshow, only to be presented with a mural of a boy netting…
17 Apr 2005, 15:50
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Borges and his "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" were mentioned on last Sunday's (4/10/05) "The L Word" television drama on Showtime in the US, in particular as part of a curriculum w…
17 Apr 2005, 15:37
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There's at least a few furry fandom people reading wolfe. I've seen some fan art that seems to conflate the various bestials in New Sun with Mr. Million from FIFTH HEAD. And both…
25 Mar 2005, 19:09
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Could it be that Sulpicius ordered that the room be kept for him until he came back, as long as necessary, and they have simply followed the order, since no other Autarch has bot…
04 Oct 2004, 08:42
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