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I promised to enter a few of my favorite Wolfe quotes. The sources are obvious, so I'll omit them :-) "I destroyed the Dream-Master as He has been sacrificed so often, de…
05 Jun 2006, 22:34
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Hmmm... I'd recommend that you work with your pharmacist until they get the dosages right. Sure, the colors may no longer be as bright, but I think the payoff in ability to f…
25 Jan 2005, 14:23
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Oops! Sorry. I forgot that you had said you were limiting your analysis to Oz stuff in these posts. My apologies. Yep :-) I don't agree. It may not be exceptionally wel…
19 Feb 1999, 12:13
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(1) Is it worth pestering SJ Games? If they perceive fan interest, it might help. (2) Would you sell copies of your manuscript? Kieran Mullen Kieran M…
20 Nov 1998, 17:20
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Sometimes. Hmm. Latest Nobel prize in physics (fractional quantum Hall effect) was not based on theoretical predictions, but pushing the experiments to a different regime of pa…
14 Oct 1998, 23:59
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It seems reasonable to me. We see Typhon through Severian's eyes. To the average citizen, Typhon is some nigh-omnipotent figure who is the source of all authority. He evolves int…
04 Oct 1998, 20:25
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I thought there were at least two reasons: (1) The resonance with the word "world". Wolfe likes wordplay. (2) If you are living on the surface of a cylinder and look down it, …
15 May 1998, 14:03
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Question for Mr. Wolfe: It's pretty broadly indicated that Silk was gestated from a frozen embroyo as Mucor was. This has some nice symbolic effects ("virgin birth", the her…
16 May 1997, 11:25
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This doesn't persuade me. Holy Katharine is not the patron of Nessus, only of the torturers. St. Catherine (of the St. Catherine's wheel fame) was martyred (IIRC) on a burning wh…
22 Mar 1997, 21:06
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