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Severian even says something much like this, doesn't he? Each of us is paraclete to one, fiend to another? Something like that.…
22 Jan 2009, 20:37
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Now that's just silly. The last cylon is Bruce Willis. He was dead all along.…
21 Jan 2009, 21:37
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Note that Baltar + Anders = Baldanders. Brilliant.…
21 Jan 2009, 20:50
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It's from after Long Sun. Severian is pretty clearly more than human in a demi-god sense while linked up with the New Sun in Urth. That does not make him an incarnation of the In…
21 Jan 2009, 20:25
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Somewhat OT, but you'll enjoy it. In Battlestar Galactica, insofar as there is a Christ-figure, it's Starbuck. Also, Starbuck and Severian have the same number of letters and sam…
21 Jan 2009, 20:05
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Why is the Jordan interview not the last word on this? The emphasis is my own. "*JJ:* The holy slaves [Heirodules], Famulimus or one of them tells Severian that he is the center …
21 Jan 2009, 19:31
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As, by a certain logic, is everyone.…
21 Jan 2009, 19:20
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Me either. I do think it throws it into doubt, though. Quetzal was either a sort of false prophet luring people to their deaths or a vampire who came to love the people he cared …
21 Jan 2009, 15:57
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I thought Horn was explicit about the monitor changing course based on the corpse.…
21 Jan 2009, 15:29
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I dunno. Had Quetzal ever seen the corpse of one of his own kind? If so, he'd presumably know what would happen and pick the planet he *didn't* want them to go to, right?…
21 Jan 2009, 15:23
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"or gods."…
18 Jan 2009, 02:34
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About this angelic stuff. I don't have the book at hand, but it's my recollection that, at Cassie's "raising," Cassie suggests that a "raised" human would be "like an angel, or...…
16 Jan 2009, 14:42
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The Plan gets subverted on several occasions, and there are any number of actors rhat might want to avoid a physical Pas.…
16 Jan 2009, 03:04
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"be-TRAYed by the GODS!"…
15 Jan 2009, 18:32
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He might be even better as Incus.…
15 Jan 2009, 17:01
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Kypris or, potentially, a flyer. If Silk is a special embryo with heightened leadership abilities, etc., then it's entirely possible that his purpose from the beginning was to lea…
14 Jan 2009, 19:12
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I don't think either of those is a problem. The Plan of Pas is in motion even during the period that Pas is "dead," and depending on what we accept about Silk's parentage, that fo…
14 Jan 2009, 18:59
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Brings us back to Pas.…
14 Jan 2009, 18:32
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I thought Pas was behind it...…
14 Jan 2009, 18:10
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I feel like Wolfe is making a somewhat common point with regard to American constitutionalism with the quasi-religious significance he gives to the Charter.…
14 Jan 2009, 17:42
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I like the Cassie = Margaret theory a lot more than I like the "two Bills" theory. This comic book stuff with "Robin" has basically convinced me. Note that the first female Robin…
13 Jan 2009, 15:04
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Yes I have, but as Son of Witz is on this thread (and now rkenneth as well) I didn't want to get into discussion of the next two books, which are also excellent. But yes, I did pi…
09 Jan 2009, 21:04
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I loved the ending of Lake, too--it's when I moved from liking the books to LOVING them. Just, right in the middle of this sort of religious mystery story, a full on BOND VILLAIN …
09 Jan 2009, 19:30
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As Mr. Beaver puts it in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, "There may be two schools of thought" on this question. It's possibly best to leave it at that.…
08 Jan 2009, 18:45
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Nothing we didn't already know, really. The freedom of the pirates is pretty clearly used for evil. I am wondering, however, what place An Evil Guest has in Wolfe's body of work.…
08 Jan 2009, 17:08
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I say them "MAY-terr-uh" and "PAH-terr-uh" too. "Maytera" must be pronounced like "matriarchy," but it seems to me that "patera" can be acceptably pronounced like American church …
07 Jan 2009, 18:27
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Wouldn't even have to be a lie per se... "I never saw you onstage (from the audience)".…
06 Jan 2009, 03:04
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Another point that may be of interest regarding red within or beneath blue. In Byzantine art, red is the color of divinity, blue the color of humanity. Christ is therefore often …
30 Dec 2008, 03:30
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An echo of Golden City Far?…
23 Dec 2008, 13:45
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Not only is loden a shade of green, but, as my wife just informed me, it's mossy green. This seems to me to connect Cassie to Disiri, the Queen of the Moss Aelf. Both get "elevated…
20 Dec 2008, 01:33
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This is a pretty convincing argument, IMHO. I think maybe we're looking at a parallel rather than an identity. Reis has used the Vincent/Norma relationship to mirror his relation…
19 Dec 2008, 21:05
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Hasn't written a best-seller?…
19 Dec 2008, 03:01
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Well, this rings a bell. Pulp of the 1930s, guy with powers who glasses used as a disguise and has a colleague/rival who's a detective and financial wizard with a cool car? We're…
19 Dec 2008, 00:13
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Did Reis write the play for Cassie? I was of the impression that Chase knew about Reis's play, and made Cassie into a star in order to infiltrate the play, but I don't know why it…
18 Dec 2008, 18:30
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I, ah, agree with this. I read The Dying Earth entirely because of Wolfe and this list, and I found it not to be too my taste.…
17 Dec 2008, 17:42
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Another, maybe too obvious, three candidates are Gideon Chase, the president, and the man the president calls John. Note that "John" isn't saying the three men are the "three most…
16 Dec 2008, 22:21
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The video is hilarious.…
13 Dec 2008, 16:36
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I agree with all of this. I was merely using the infamously opaque ending to Evangelion to express my bafflement at the theoretical physics. Also, uh, Witz and I had had a heated …
13 Dec 2008, 04:14
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Well, ok, but I still don't understand what Lilith has to do with anything, or why Shinji Ikari gets crucified on the Tree of Life. And what was the Human Instrumentality Project …
13 Dec 2008, 00:21
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Ok, I think I'm out of this discussion. Sorry.…
12 Dec 2008, 23:52
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This is the actual definition of begging the question.…
12 Dec 2008, 23:44
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Are you asking for my philosophical and theological speculation, or are you asking about the teachings of the ancient Christian churches? You may be right. But this is Gene Wolfe…
12 Dec 2008, 22:12
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He's a Sufficiently Advanced Alien. Such creatures are indistinguishable from gods from a mortal viewpoint (although not, of course, from the viewpoint of the Increate.)…
12 Dec 2008, 21:52
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Me either. Tzadkiel isn't playing at being God--he's either genuinely God's agent, or playing at being God's agent.…
12 Dec 2008, 20:54
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Yes. Severian's face was scarred by Agia in Citadel. When he returns as the New Sun, his face is healed. That, and the many years that have passed for her, is why Valeria doesn'…
11 Dec 2008, 21:44
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The standard Gnostic view was that Christ was an emanation of the true God, and so, yes, "elevated far beyond the false creator" (or real creator of the material world, whatever).…
11 Dec 2008, 20:07
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The sword Eterne in Wizard Knight is a Moorcock homage, isn't it?…
11 Dec 2008, 18:43
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No Doctor Doom?…
10 Dec 2008, 15:05
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How many Megatherians are actually named in the text? Four, right--Abaia, Erebus, Scylla and Arioch? If it's just these four, how plausible is it that all 17 megatherians are sim…
10 Dec 2008, 03:22
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This seems dead-on to me, except that I can't quite square the black beans with Apheta's claim that the Hieropeople were behind the black hole in the sun (or, in my pet Wild Theory…
09 Dec 2008, 21:23
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