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Rereading "On Blue's Waters," I came upon some of Horn's reflections on being a ruler: "My advisors, who are all good, well-intentioned men, are forever suggesting that I get do…
26 Mar 2009, 12:55
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Having seen "Doubt", I vote for Meryl Streep as Maytera Rose. Best wishes, Jack…
29 Jan 2009, 13:45
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Does anybody know which way the Whorl turns? I had assumed that if you viewed the Whorl from outside looking toward its front, it would turn clockwise. — But it could just as easi…
26 Jan 2009, 16:07
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People seem to have significant differences of opinion as to how far in the future Severian's Urth is. Is it a few thousand years in the future or a few hundred million? I lean …
01 Dec 2008, 18:30
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In The Sword of the Lictor, Wolfe populates Lake Diuturna with floating islands which move about with the wind. This, I had thought, was another strange and exotic invention that…
07 Sep 2008, 00:32
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Dave Tallman wrote: "Obviously they did not evolve the wheel. They got it from somebody who had already evolved. And this somebody could not put a cart or chariot aboard the sh…
04 Sep 2008, 14:59
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Does anybody understand what Wolfe is up to when he resorts to Latin in The New Sun books? He says, "Latin is once or twice employed to indicate that inscriptions and the like ar…
21 Jul 2008, 16:25
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Can any one think of a Wolfe novel or story in which he portrays a good society? When I re-read The Fifth Head of Cerberus, I realized that on the first reading I had missed h…
11 Jul 2008, 15:17
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Severian’s sword Terminus Est is a long, heavy executioner’s sword with a channel in the spine through which a river of mercury flows. The mercury changes the balance of the sword…
02 Jul 2008, 19:24
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find a source of exultant blood for Severian. He is tall compared to most people but at least a head shorter than every single exultant he meets. In other words, he is of armiger…
30 Jun 2008, 21:07
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"Severian is not actually the Conciliator. The Conciliator, as should be obvious to anyone who knows Wolfe's religious background, is Christ. In the timeline of the first Severian,…
16 Jun 2008, 00:03
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You contributors to these discussions have studied Wolfe's books much more thoroughly than I have. It would be helpful if you would cite the book and chapter that supports your…
09 Jun 2008, 18:05
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