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I haven't posted to the list in a long while, but reading this made me spit coffee all over the keyboard, in hilarity and horror. "...a long fairy tale inserted inserted into the …
05 Sep 2013, 23:26
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John crowley for sure. The aegypt trilogy is top notch On Apr 17, 2012 10:47 AM, "Antonin Scriabin" <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote: Wolfe, Lafferty, Powers, MacDonald, and …
17 Apr 2012, 17:50
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No, sorry. Answered own spurious claim...carry on. On Mar 17, 2012 8:46 AM, "Jordon Flato" <jordonflatourth at gmail.com> wrote: Wait though, isn't Oannes a god OF the dogon tri…
17 Mar 2012, 15:47
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Wait though, isn't Oannes a god OF the dogon tribe of Mali, also (of the Sirius mystery fame) On Mar 17, 2012 7:04 AM, "David Stockhoff" <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: Appare…
17 Mar 2012, 15:46
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Jeff, yes, that was what I was trying to say. Thanks. I didn't take the time to lay it out correctly. My main point is that this uplifting of humanity is the purpose of the floo…
14 Mar 2012, 23:05
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In terms of animal forms in the work, the most striking for me are the masks of the hieros, which seem hideous monsters, but are creatures of urth. So here the alien presence is d…
04 Jan 2012, 15:45
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By which I'm implying that plutonium is a substitute for hot stuff, not sweetheart, since that seems like a more direct bio/chem slang replacement…
15 Nov 2011, 01:43
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Admittedly I havent closely followed this thread, but it strikes me that a tough talking chem like sand would certainly say "hello, plutonium" when he saw a beautiful woman instead…
15 Nov 2011, 01:39
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@stu: lmao. Indeed. Lane: I believe crow, like revenge is best served cold On Jul 6, 2011 8:58 AM, "Stuart Hamm" <hammstu at sbcglobal.net> wrote: Cut their funding!!! …
06 Jul 2011, 16:39
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Yes. Yesterday I ate the requisite amount of crow On Jul 6, 2011 8:12 AM, "Nick Lee" <starwaterstrain at gmail.com> wrote: It's no surprise you haven't read any of those books. …
06 Jul 2011, 15:48
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Oops. Clearly this is not the list. If I had bothered to read my original post, I'd have seen they were accepting nominations for the top 100 sci fi of all time. This is not 100…
05 Jul 2011, 22:45
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Having billed it as a 'best of all time' list, I'd say it's pretty lame. It is highly likely that this is a related but separate list. I'm hoping so.…
05 Jul 2011, 22:43
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Let me rephrase that 'many' to 'any'.…
05 Jul 2011, 22:31
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Well, they picked their list. Not having read many of them, I can't comment, but of course I think it's ridiculous to not include New Sun. http://www.npr.org/2011/06/30/137003853…
05 Jul 2011, 22:31
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As an aside back to what I originally posted in this topic (i.e. that maybe the Neighbors were really dream traveling inhumi) I want to make it crystal perfectly completely clear t…
16 Feb 2011, 01:09
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Gerry, you are of course correct. And while it doesn't discount my idea, it makes it semi-irrelevant. It is a fantastically beautiful knot which tickles my brain's erogenous zone…
28 Jan 2011, 21:21
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Isn't there a difference in what happens to the 'memories' or 'identities' in Severian as opposed to everyone else, including the Alzabo? Sev has the power to restore life. I've …
28 Jan 2011, 19:41
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The pronounciation of Ascia as uh-SKI-uh is a clear and prescient reference to ikea, which has homoginized our culture to a point even communism has to tip its hat too. Once again…
21 Jan 2011, 17:47
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I'm just saying, if you are going to be literal about stuff (being a bit cheeky here to be sure), then Ushas is the name of Urth after the flood. That is plain and clear, and unam…
11 Jan 2011, 22:35
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11 Jan 2011, 22:27
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But that's not Urth, that's Ushas. The green man lives on Ushas, not Urth. So if Wolfe was giving a literal answer to a literal puzzle he was either lazy, or wrong. So there…
11 Jan 2011, 22:25
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This is it for me. The interest in the resonance between Urth/Green and Ushas/Blue (my preference there) is pretty much flattened if we are asked to pretzel our understanding in o…
11 Jan 2011, 22:05
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Where does this idea of domes on Lune come from?…
11 Jan 2011, 22:01
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If Green is Urth (and hey, we're being literal here, so let's not get cheeky with this Urth/Ushas are the same thing crap) then Green would have to been in Severian's past, pre Ush…
11 Jan 2011, 21:48
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Gerry, none of that is supported by the text, damn it! On Jan 9, 2011 5:49 PM, "David Duffy" <davidD at qimr.edu.au> wrote: Goodo! I can see an episode of the _new_ Doctor alrea…
10 Jan 2011, 04:32
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I guesa what am trying to say is at a very basic level, at best Severian can only aproximate that pre nosh youth, because botns isnt a journsl, but memiors written after nosh and a…
10 Jan 2011, 00:26
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but we never meet that Severian...the one raised in the tower, and before Thecla's memories...we only ever hear from autarch Severian writing it all down. Sometimes he tries to m…
09 Jan 2011, 17:31
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But But But...does that mean the man apes of Saltus might have been MAN MONKEYS!!?!?? In fact, according to the NSOED, all monkeys were once called "apes"; that was the only word …
07 Jan 2011, 19:34
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Not to weigh in to much here, but while Gerry certainly snipes at theories, from my view Lee, you mostly take A LOT of personal swipes ar Gerry... Anyway, that is said in the spir…
04 Jan 2011, 22:01
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I was talking over this exact thing with Witz the other day. Witz and I are both of the mind that there is a progressive movement in Severian's Character toward giving allegiance …
03 Jan 2011, 17:35
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Oh my god i'm going to their up. Those are awful... On Jan 1, 2011 9:30 AM, "Daniel Petersen" <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote: Em, not so sure about that. Is Seawra…
01 Jan 2011, 17:38
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For the record, I'm pretty fully on board the idea that Horn goes into Babbie. It makes a lot of sense.…
31 Dec 2010, 20:14
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Well now thats just cheeky, marc! The way you wrote it made it sound as if you thought the new sun literally changed the leaf to a bug, which is not something we are ever even rem…
31 Dec 2010, 19:58
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That line about the leaf turning into a bug is a symbol, a day dream...not something that actually happened. How can that be used as evidence? On Dec 31, 2010 7:55 AM, "Marc Aram…
31 Dec 2010, 17:28
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Well, I don't think that is really a Trial per say. More of a Drama. A Passion, if you will. ;) The trial has been Severian's journey. I think some of the 'checking in' by the…
30 Dec 2010, 19:51
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Thanks Lee. I don't think I implied, or certainly didn't mean to, that they needed a Human's (severian's) permission to flood earth. Not at all. They need to find a Man who repr…
30 Dec 2010, 19:35
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Well, that is right. I suppose I'm not trying to make the argument that the older version is truer. In my opinion, the story is at once an esoteric one, for which serious hermune…
30 Dec 2010, 18:39
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And for the record, there is no matter of interpretation or puzzle pieces here. You're just wrong! Ha! ;)…
30 Dec 2010, 18:06
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It must have been a while since you've read these Lee! ;) Silks' body lost one on the Whorl, giving it to pig. He was then spirited away from the Whorl to become the Rajan, who i…
30 Dec 2010, 18:05
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Lee, though, really now. Turn a little to the left and try to see that you are capable of doing the exact same thing as everyone else in this regard. Hey, I was totally willing t…
30 Dec 2010, 17:31
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Yeah, dammit stu, when will we three finally meet in the flesh!! On Dec 29, 2010 5:33 PM, <hammstu at sbcglobal.net> wrote: Man, sorry I missed lunch...great ideas Sent from my B…
30 Dec 2010, 01:34
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Further, as a random riff here, it could be that the Neighbors, who failed to raise the Inhumu up themselves, see something in SilkHorn which gives them hope that humanity WILL rai…
30 Dec 2010, 01:19
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I'm intrigued by this notion you're playing out Lee. I'm not completely on board, but I really like the idea of the loss of purity in the human strain, so to speak. Especially wh…
30 Dec 2010, 01:16
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But Gerry has very valid points here. We have to look at the text. The most straight forward explination I can think of is that a Red star would be in much the same shape as Urth…
30 Dec 2010, 00:57
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Considering the Epic of Gilgamesh gives the story of Utnapishtim and a global flood far older than the old testament, and yet very similar in detail, I'd say it's something that go…
29 Dec 2010, 23:34
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Great point Gerry! Thanks.…
29 Dec 2010, 21:57
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I'm certainly not of a mind to believe the reason the Rajan ends up on Urth is purely metatextual. Any metatextual layer in these books must surely be accompanied by a more direct…
28 Dec 2010, 18:57
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Uh...i always thought the word was "last"...because that word ends the riddle and so completes it nicely. On Dec 14, 2010 9:50 AM, "DAVID STOCKHOFF" <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wr…
14 Dec 2010, 19:29
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If that horse is a wolf, then I think the case is closed! :)…
24 Jun 2010, 19:49
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Well, I'm certainly not making the case that he is literally Jesus. But he is far from the literal anti-christ.…
24 Jun 2010, 19:03
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