Posted from 2 addresses as Jeff Wilson, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com, Jeffery Wilson
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So the flood is so widespread as to make no differenece. Hmm...the agonies being offered to the Increate suggests it is a non-divine party doing the destroying, but who?…
28 Sep 2004, 22:10
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The flood may not be world-wide; indeed if the Increate is the God of the Old Testament, that would be in keeping with His promise not to destroy the world by water a second time…
27 Sep 2004, 08:00
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try http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_01.html http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_02.html…
17 Sep 2004, 14:10
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Perhaps the White Fountain is bright-era sun seen through the time tunnel sent by Apu Punchau to fetch the other-era earth. I like the idea, and it validates my time-twisted jour…
04 Jul 2003, 04:25
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They are opposites in that Ahriman is as foolish as Ormuzd is wise, and their agreement to make war to decide rulership of the world was slanted to favor Ormuzd, but Ahriman acce…
09 May 2003, 04:15
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She's not a Heinlein reader, she's damn near a Heinlein character! She described her own sexual responses similarly, with her "boing" being a close cousin to Deety's onomotopoeia…
22 Apr 2003, 00:18
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I don't find sprunging nipples to be an inappropriate idiom, and neither did my ex-wife. The spiggots remark I will give you, but I find Clarke's depiction of sex to be poorer st…
20 Apr 2003, 06:21
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Mine has note testifying to both symptoms - Is this some hybrid ZY beastie? (thank you, by the way, belated though it is!) JEff…
12 Apr 2003, 23:36
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It =is= possible, if the biological parents are also =Typhon's= biological parents. (Or whoever's.)…
12 Mar 2003, 01:04
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No way. The White Fountain is a massive object, in both the physical and the prosaic senses. Converting Severian into energy and back into mass would yield no more than the origi…
07 Mar 2003, 09:13
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According to the History Channel, the Mattachines were an Italian tradition of court jesters who were indulged to "speak the truth" when appearing masked and hooded. Not to doubt…
01 Mar 2003, 17:18
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In the US, there's a much more prominent antecedent, the schlocky _THING WITH TWO HEADS_, starring Rosie Greer (as the body) and Ray Miland (as the new head). As far as non-homa…
10 Feb 2003, 00:32
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There may be more reproductional derrangements in the Otherworld than is spelled out. It's possible that many men and women are infertile or lacking in libido, some or all of the…
01 Feb 2003, 03:35
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=All= as usual? Is there something we don't know about Typhon or Baldanders?…
25 Jan 2003, 08:18
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That's an accurate translation. Our glorious republic was settled and founded by people who owed money to numerous other people in distant parts, after all.…
13 Oct 2002, 17:09
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Newt Gingrich co-authored _1945_ with professional SF writer William Forstchen. It was published late in 1995, but portions including a sex scene deleted from the final text were…
03 Sep 2002, 03:31
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As I recall from a documentary some time back, Sara Winchester was disabled herself and much of the house is accessible with only 2-3 inch risers; a stout but gentle help ought to …
19 Jul 2002, 03:59
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I meant to present this during the most recent 5HC debate. I think that _The Odyssey's_ appearance in the first part is the key to unlocking not the entire book but at least the m…
02 Jul 2002, 00:25
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There is precedent, with the royal jelly of the exultants. This would make Typhon an alien. While he =is= a tyrant from another star, he's should be human as he is descended from …
19 Jun 2002, 06:38
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[Undine Discussion] See below. Juturna =says= she serves Abaia. But the Undines are absolutely not into high-tech gadgets, since they slosh around naked all the time. I think An…
19 Jun 2002, 06:20
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The transcript does not render your question clearly at all; what exactly =did= you ask him, if you can recall at 11 years' remove? Is it possible to dodge the promise some other…
17 Jun 2002, 00:55
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Well yes, =Yesod= is a previous universe, an extension of one, or at the very least, a place settled by refugees from one according to Mantiss.…
12 Jun 2002, 01:28
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Did he explain why he has completely reversed his statements in the appendix of Shadow? Where is this "fact" documented? Whay can't this just be regarded as allegorical? The cr…
11 Jun 2002, 02:36
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The mammal's return shows that the function can return, even if the original organ does not. The dolphin's dorsal serves in place of a fish's, even though the original bony structu…
23 May 2002, 05:29
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I thought we just worked out that Dollo's Law is =not= about function; dolphins swim just as good as fish if not better.…
22 May 2002, 05:15
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In that case, I sit corrected but I don't see the relevance; the function returns even if the anatomical detail doesn't. The Frenchmen don't give the suspected abos a medical exam,…
20 May 2002, 06:03
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But Dollo's law is crap; it's violated by marine mammals, and moths that alight on trees in once-polluted areas.…
11 May 2002, 04:58
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Big fish in a small pond. I'm not sure if it counts, but given the time of year it begins and the passage of time, TBOTNS can be read as an incredibly grandiose "What I Did On …
09 May 2002, 04:54
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This I've heard of, but it is not specifically mentioned in the story, and it would contradict the dependency the abos have on their physical bodies. "A Story" has ghosts and the W…
29 Apr 2002, 04:38
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I try to do the same, but since Wolfe brings the archaeological record into the story, you have to really think about what he's trying say. There is no mere mention and dismissal o…
28 Apr 2002, 09:21
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I meant _earthly_ archaeology record; where are the remnants of the residences, strip mines, steel mills, chemical plants, fuel refineries, and other features expected of an indust…
27 Apr 2002, 06:00
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I'll bite; how did the prehistoric societies travel the stars without leaving any hint of their ability to do so in either the story or the archaeological record?…
26 Apr 2002, 02:38
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Not true; many processors have multiple instruction piplines inside that let them do multiple operations each clock cycle. A Pentium I averaged one instruction per Hertz, but that …
24 Apr 2002, 06:03
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Sure, the microcephalics may have problems, but then so does Oreb; he can't put more than two syllables together. Being a populist doesn't mean your figures are to be dismissed ou…
24 Apr 2002, 05:29
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There's sin learned from others, Unoriginal Sin. :) Seriously, it's generally accepted among all but the most reactionary Christians that Jesus' sacrifice redeemed everyone from or…
24 Apr 2002, 00:40
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How do you explain the remarkable similarity of form and the ability to interbreed, then?…
24 Apr 2002, 00:10
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I'm sorry, but you are mistaken; we've had simulated worm and insect brains for a few years. Another worm or fly might find the difference plain, but the comparative function's bee…
24 Apr 2002, 00:08
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There are numerous documented cases of microcephalics with normal mental functionality; a lot of the human brain is redundant, something that is mentioned as a performance boosting…
22 Apr 2002, 04:59
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Vaguely recalled from a transcribed radio interview of Wolfe: "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" was written about 1971-2; Wolfe used it for a workshop story where Knight was teaching. …
19 Apr 2002, 06:26
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"Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com It's moving away, a fact available to SF writers through such obscure channels as the "Peanuts" comic strip. This is because of an obscur…
12 Apr 2002, 05:02
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No, because 1) Lune shows signs of Urthlike gravity in TBOTNS, and 2) Silkhorn's statement could be an acknowledgement of the varying apparent sizes of the bodies during his travel…
06 Apr 2002, 06:19
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There is a touch of 17 in the MIT-centric engineering culture: < http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/random-numbers.html >…
28 Mar 2002, 05:44
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I have reread 5HC a couple of times lately, and some things Do Not Add Up. When Mr. Million calls the roll in FHC, Number Five is always first, then David, as a formalism. This su…
22 Mar 2002, 07:13
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The manned program, yes. Unmanned space activity is doing pretty good for itself. No problem, I think you earned it.…
21 Mar 2002, 03:45
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No offense taken, even had you been sincere; looniness is far from the worst or least common accusation I typically receive. :)…
11 Mar 2002, 03:07
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A superb inference, Mantiss, and I see no reason it could not have been part of GW's thought on the subject. I rather think that if true, some information from the original suff…
11 Mar 2002, 00:22
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I think that this bears closer examination. Rather than a device that literally summons demons (just as the Book contains hierodules rather than literal angels), I think that the R…
05 Mar 2002, 15:21
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They may not be completely ignorant, but it is plain that they parrot a lot of the lost teaching without really understanding it; they have some general idea, but the details are l…
05 Mar 2002, 07:16
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I'm with you so far, No kidding. Some times he is even *gasp* mistaken! The Whorl doesn't need to do anything "numinous," only to be subject to the plans of the Increate. I am su…
03 Mar 2002, 04:17
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So it makes it pointless to build the moon to the size of Mars when you already have a Mars-sized body, namely Mars. Rudesind and others of his society can't be expected to be …
02 Mar 2002, 06:37
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