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And I'm allowing myself to respond to literally! There is no denying the mythic resonance of the scene with the pit, the greenbuck, and Horn's 'death'. And now that I've just fre…
20 Mar 2009, 15:56
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I've got some cheap derivative credit default swaps I can leverage with you for those theories. Wanna trade?…
19 Mar 2009, 23:18
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We both know I don't subscribe to the Blue/Ushas theory, so I can't even begin to entertain your insane Ramblings, Son of. ;) Seriously, I think the black hole may have been impl…
19 Mar 2009, 23:06
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I can't imagine Typhon having knowledge of Ushas. Seems against the thematics to me.... And yeah, I've always interpreted that "killed their father" line as an acknowledgement t…
19 Mar 2009, 22:52
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I have always assumed "good fishing" was a Jesus reference. Fisher of Men and all that.…
19 Mar 2009, 22:49
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Yeah, I think so too. I just still am not finding resonance with the idea of Neighbor/Horn if that turns out to be true.... ....yet.…
19 Mar 2009, 22:28
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And, why would a neighbor, finally admitting what he is, if only to himself, choose to return to the Whorl, at the very end? Silk, yes, but a neighbor?…
19 Mar 2009, 22:12
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Well, I'll be looking for evidence of the Neighbor's personality manifesting in the book in this read through. There are plenty of instances of Silk manifesting momentarily throug…
19 Mar 2009, 22:09
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I'm not sure where you fall on the 'hierodules' argument, but hopefully, you are not one to see them as "insect beings" who have no divinity or legitimate connection with divinity.…
19 Mar 2009, 21:22
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Also, He-Pen-Sheep calls Horn neighbor man because of the ring seawrack gives horn: "When I asked what a Neighbor-man was, he laughed and pointed to the ring Sewrack had given me.…
19 Mar 2009, 19:53
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Ah. Well, my intent is not to sell anything. I saw something you said that made me think you might find it of interest. That's all. You can forget I mentioned it for all that i…
19 Mar 2009, 17:38
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Beelzebub's Tales is a true Golden Book, though not necessarily the best place to start. I think "In Search of the Miraculous" is a good place to start and ponder, and then dive in…
19 Mar 2009, 17:26
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You non sports person, you. No no, a Headfake is from basketball, when one uses one's head to broadcast a move in one direction, then moves one's body in another direction in orde…
19 Mar 2009, 16:26
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Brunians, There is a very similar system laid out by G. I. Gurdjieff, an Armenian mystic. He lays out a very cogent and beautiful cosmology which resonates nearly exactly with wha…
19 Mar 2009, 16:19
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There are some possibilities. Maybe Blue is where Abia's 'race' is from? I've always assumed Abia came to Urth at some point. Must have come from somewhere, no? And I am against…
19 Mar 2009, 00:02
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Oh my god. I think we just found the Evil Guest/Short Sun tie in.…
17 Mar 2009, 00:04
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See Graphic Novel Run. Run Graphic Novel Run! On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Matthew Groves <matthewalangroves at gmail.com…
17 Mar 2009, 00:03
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Hmmmm. I can't really get on board any of that. Although I can understand wanting to figure it out, as rarely is something laid before us like that without some purposful reason…
16 Mar 2009, 17:26
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I've had the rose idea for a while. I think I remember mentioning that your sketch could go even more in the 'rose like' direction, as it seemed to be clearly going that way. But…
17 Feb 2009, 19:48
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I think we talked about this before, but I am of the firm opinion that it should not attempt to look like Tzadiels ship at all. First off, Sev, writing Book of the New Sun, hadn't…
17 Feb 2009, 19:15
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:) I had planned that you would reach just that part by your birthday, but was unsure if I'd timed it right. Looks like that time I met you for lunch in Union Square was worth it…
13 Feb 2009, 17:02
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I'll have to go back to the books to find the quotes I'm looking for, but although they don't appear in the text as such, there are, from what I remember, references to other senti…
09 Feb 2009, 22:02
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Your point about the fall is an interesting one. I'll have to think about that, as it's a great point. This though, I don't get at all: "And why not a single instantiation of C…
09 Feb 2009, 19:27
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Man, I was just coming on to lay out some ideas only to see that you've beaten me to the punch on some of them, Witz. One of the big points that always roils around in my head wit…
09 Feb 2009, 19:11
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I guess that means it's just you Stuart. My Anti-Hamm blocker appears to be functioning.…
28 Jan 2009, 18:29
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Here are James pictures, which give an idea of what he is getting at. http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/9717/longsunix8.jpg http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7344/longsunpi…
28 Jan 2009, 17:53
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That is still pretty much how I see it too. I could imagine the spiral if it was a reaaaaaaaaly long spiral so that for any siginficant portion of the Whirl, it seemed much like t…
27 Jan 2009, 20:42
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I've heard that shade-as-pulse along the Sun theory before, but had written it off, because I'd assumed it meant that an entire chunk of the Whorl (in cross section) would be in da…
27 Jan 2009, 20:20
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Lol! That last bit about what I was thinking is pretty much exactly what I was thinking! When I picture that (and I was able to with your fine description) the thing that first p…
27 Jan 2009, 19:04
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Are one of you going to pony up with some drawings or are we going to have to arrange for a duel? Myself, I'd much rather see some drawings. I'm having a devil of a time seeing a…
27 Jan 2009, 17:19
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"looked across a benighted plain of naked rock." "The somber plain was pitted like the cheeks of a child who had survived the pox, and far more parren tha tne sheer clifss of the …
27 Jan 2009, 00:48
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That's why I don't want him in the conversation: No you guys, it's obviously THIS. *I smack forehead wondering how I could have missed it* and that is also why I'd be intensely …
22 Jan 2009, 23:47
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Witz, Let's make sure to keep Trey away from this conversation once he reads the books. ;) On the other hand, I'm intensely interested so see what he thinks of the books!…
22 Jan 2009, 23:28
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Yeah, I can't see it as anything other than opaque. However, now picture a slowly revolving shade over that bulb. There are points where the shade isn't completely covering the b…
21 Jan 2009, 22:59
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Witz said: "the fact that the Shade is not opaque, since you can see the skylands in the first place, so there would be additional reflected light." Shade not opaque? How do yo…
21 Jan 2009, 22:55
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Although, now that I think of it, the turning of the shade around the sun might, at certain times be aligned just enough to cast shadows over some areas, right?…
21 Jan 2009, 22:22
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21 Jan 2009, 22:21
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Never ever noticed that. Brilliant.…
21 Jan 2009, 20:58
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OMG Witz, didn't you love how Boxy from the original series turns out to be the final fifth cylon? What, oh, you said you DIDN'T want spoilers! Sorry!…
21 Jan 2009, 20:58
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Yeah, craig, I hear ya. I find a lot of resonance in the Cock and Angel story. One of the things I keep coming back to is that while there may indeed be some 'horizontal level' m…
22 Dec 2008, 23:34
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Yeah, I think we will forever bang up against a wall if we are looking at this linearly, with certain players crawling up the string, and other players moving up and down the strin…
22 Dec 2008, 19:16
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Holy smokes, Witz. I can't believe I never followed up on this before when you tried to point it out. That is incredible incredible stuff! I'll have to see out more!!!!…
13 Dec 2008, 01:06
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Sure, I'll grant there is a correspondance there. Hell, I've been arguing for the Christ correspondences while saying it's not a precise fit, so I can't really buck this one! So…
12 Dec 2008, 17:03
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Well, a big big difference here is that I don't see Tzadkiel asking for worship, or denying the Increate, or putting himself in place of the Increate. He acknowledges his nullity …
12 Dec 2008, 00:51
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Which is a nice tie in to Evil Guest, no? I know it's been discussed, but it did seem like an interesting way to maybe talk about the origin of the Megatherians. Except not reall…
09 Dec 2008, 19:45
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I think all of this is further complicated when we get into Short Sun and the Mother, right? I mean, this argues a bit for the extraterrestrial invaders theory, in my book.…
09 Dec 2008, 19:30
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So the big Gnab may just be a horrific extension of the Blue Screen of Death? My guess is that the entire Universe is run on Vista. It would explain a lot in the Urth cycle…
08 Dec 2008, 19:59
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Hmmmm. As to why they would want to stop Severian, I can only think that one of the stated reasons that these massive giants don't just wipe out everyone themselves is that they a…
06 Dec 2008, 00:05
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Ah. I'm currently re-reading Urth, so I'll look for that. Maybe, then, that is evidence that it's the Increates will at work after all, since that seems to be the future Sev has …
04 Dec 2008, 21:19
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Well, the flood of Noah was eugenics too, in a way then. The cultures and peoples of Urth have lost there way in BotNS. They dying sun is a direct reflection (and cause, and ref…
04 Dec 2008, 21:10
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