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No, not purposefully. My apologies if I have done so. I find these two statements to mean the same thing. Gerry, I am left a bit confused on your position: are earth religion …
19 Jan 2011, 01:31
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Sorry Gerry, I should have used better words choice that couldn't be taken as an accusation of lying. My position is that there are subconscious motivations underneath all the supp…
18 Jan 2011, 23:00
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Excellent, clarifying post Andrew. Thanks.…
18 Jan 2011, 14:26
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Yes. Loss of hearing provides a much greater barrier to speech than losing one's teeth. Yet deaf people have quickly (in evolutionary time) managed to develop a language as nuanced…
18 Jan 2011, 14:22
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I agree. A good point to remember. I shy away from such strong language in regard to interpreting science fiction but I tend to agree. As far as we know, from Horn's account of…
18 Jan 2011, 14:18
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Forgive me for being dense (and not fully following this thread) but are you saying Lemur is, in some fashion, Typhon? Might as well wonder at this point why Wolfe picks all pro-…
18 Jan 2011, 04:30
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I suspect a Celtic, Druidic origin to the name.…
18 Jan 2011, 02:54
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Gerry I will take your word that you do not feel delight in criticizing the theories of others but rather feel you are performing a public service. I think if you could be truly ho…
18 Jan 2011, 02:31
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LMAO good one Jeff! I really did laugh thinking of the green man giving some green woman the sexy smile on a date (being careful not to ruin things with that pesky alzabo laugh).…
18 Jan 2011, 01:57
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Tick weave, like tussah and chenille, can be considered a form of silk. I think the name grouping you are looking for might be found there. I suspect Roy doesn't but actually I …
18 Jan 2011, 01:47
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I think perhaps alternatives are disturbing. After all, the sky is only blue to those who choose to view it exclusively during daylight hours and from ground level. Alternate vie…
17 Jan 2011, 23:03
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I'm hoping it can be a starting point of further, more detailed insight. Good fishing! :- )…
17 Jan 2011, 20:30
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It is my understanding that early Christianity had some gnostic sects which interpreted things in a way that allowed for a demiurge. Other sects of Christianity got the upper hand …
17 Jan 2011, 20:27
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Gerry Quinn: > > I think the more obscure clues can often be pointers to the Why do you feel this way, Gerry? Your perception and wisdom are appreciated, Jerry.…
17 Jan 2011, 20:12
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I know of Fomalhaut but was a star named Rana (frog genus) mentioned in BotNS? James, your eye for detail on human-sized characters is great as is your astronomical knowledge. An…
17 Jan 2011, 14:21
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Adding the thoughts of you guys together seems to be clawing to the heart of the mystery. I'll mention again that a remora is a fish that latches onto a bigger fish in hopes of eat…
17 Jan 2011, 13:56
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That's the story of this List, isn't it? Desperate struggles to cling to a child molester in rebellion against a werewolfe.…
17 Jan 2011, 13:44
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James, like Spring Wind, Fish and Frog are surely mythic names. If Spring Wind= Typhon, who might Fish and Frog refer to? In the Long Sun story Vironese nomenclature offers a nice…
17 Jan 2011, 13:36
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This makes sense using an ideal version of natural selection. In practice, there seems to be a maintenance factor involved. Meaning that if an organism's structure is neutral in re…
17 Jan 2011, 13:21
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Not quite getting your examples. But perhaps not fair since you are dwelling into my own field of expertise. Sense of humor and musical aptitude seem to be social adaptations whic…
17 Jan 2011, 05:56
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I am interested. Some of it I've encountered before. The connection between Dionysus/Bacchus and Pan/Faunus is almost impossible to escape with the ubiquitous depictions of baccha…
17 Jan 2011, 04:35
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Well, some interesting discussion. I would agree with those who suggest the only way for the green man to work as he claims is to have super Yesod-algae which access and harness t…
17 Jan 2011, 04:07
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At the end of RttW we are supposed to believe that Horn killed Jahlee for feasting on Nettle (iirc) simply with a number of kicks. Or are we really supposed to believe that? For …
17 Jan 2011, 03:40
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I noticed when this was being debated six years ago it was observed that there is some confusion over whether St. Mamelta was male or female. Confusion does seem to reign here. …
16 Jan 2011, 16:44
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Well, when Severian was pre-pubescent they did meet in the Witches Tower. She answers the door and guides him to the Cumaean. But it seems implied in CotC that the Stone Town rooft…
13 Jan 2011, 14:50
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Yes, Gerry, I know that's how you feel. Trust your feelings. The farce is with you. :- )…
12 Jan 2011, 19:31
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oops, sorry. I had thought you were talking about events at the end of UotNS. Never mind. :- (…
12 Jan 2011, 18:31
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Why does Wolfe make it that way? Nothing he writes is by accident. Hiding it could be a way of saying, "it isn't there anymore..." ;- )…
12 Jan 2011, 18:29
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Not much to argue with there, 'cept maybe that the artificially (plus the nature of a black hole) is what keeps Urth's sun from being a red giant. Pink sun...pink sun..that sounds…
12 Jan 2011, 18:26
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We take it for granted and ignore that a terrarium relies on the presence of earth's massive gravity field which allows a thick atmospheric blanket to surround the terrarium. Atmos…
12 Jan 2011, 18:22
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Marc Aramini: > > The chapter title here is old lands and new, but the I considered posting a response under the subject: under the subject: Spiritual and Ecological Succession.…
12 Jan 2011, 18:09
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True but from my perspective there have always been similar massive problems. I've always felt it would be impossible to sustain a world with rain forest jungles and pampas and her…
12 Jan 2011, 17:45
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I don't understand this question. The Sun shines about as brightly on the Moon as on Earth. The main reason our Moon doesn't have plants is that it doesn't have an atmosphere. An a…
12 Jan 2011, 17:12
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This is an interesting idea that I hadn't heard before (from others). Do the hints about Severian you mention have to do with Merryn? Other things?…
12 Jan 2011, 13:21
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Sure. Let's remember that explanation for seeing the Red Sun from Blue was Antonio's. I only brought up Borges' Babel Library as a contribution to discussion of that theme. Adam T…
12 Jan 2011, 13:15
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Given Rudesind's words, this seems like the best interpretation of the text to me, with the fewest reader additions. Not if the astronaut picture was from our/earth's cycle. Whi…
12 Jan 2011, 13:04
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It may be that this fantasy was concocted from the idea that Typhon's astronomers, were so wrong in predicting the rate of decrease in the sun's output. Also contributing might b…
12 Jan 2011, 04:38
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Should have said Borges' Library of Babel. WOrth a read. Was probably an influence on BotNS cosmology. http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html…
12 Jan 2011, 04:19
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Yes. Thanks. But no thanks.…
12 Jan 2011, 02:36
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Yes, I would agree. I was only trying to answer that question with regard to Antonio's statement. (fwiw, Borges' Library also fits the bill). I would say that those of us who are …
12 Jan 2011, 02:33
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Ah, where is James Wynn? He'd might like this idea, at least metaphorically. His theory regarding the sameness of Spring Wind and Typhon involves Fish/Frog twin analogs of Romulu…
12 Jan 2011, 01:48
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Unless you understand the reason Sol went red before its time. It's because you are missing the spiritual side of the cycle.…
12 Jan 2011, 01:40
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Yes, this is certainly along the lines of my own thoughts on the matter. But, I still get a sense that this is more than just a symbolic, thematic similarity. There are ruins on Gr…
11 Jan 2011, 22:33
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Seems to be so. It would take a lot of space-time contortions to make the theory work. So, is that it? Is that all there is to it? An academic proof of incorrectness? For me there…
11 Jan 2011, 21:30
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Damn! I think this is an excellent point! I think postulations of domes and greenhouses are just post-hoc argument fabrications against your theory Marc. In 30 years of picturing…
11 Jan 2011, 20:59
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Such a perv! Adam you've been hanging around with Master Gurloes too much ;- ). But seriously, I definitely think the Whorl is oblong shaped; perhaps with phallic imagery intended.…
11 Jan 2011, 20:28
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For me, the Apheta face is a poetic/psychogical image and/or a peekhole for an observer. Yesod being a higher universe than Briah, any portal from it would appear luminous as energ…
11 Jan 2011, 19:48
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Actually, in my previous incarnations on this List, I used the traditional format to post, though it always seemed a confusing and unnecessarily cluttered. My current style is des…
11 Jan 2011, 18:11
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Okay, I think I understand your quandrary. You presented a very specific explanatory theory to Gene Wolfe involving a physical sameness of planets and you felt he affirmed it but w…
11 Jan 2011, 13:45
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I'm not sure I understand what you are saying Jeff. Especially about the COnfederacy family. Are there racial or religious issues I am unaware of? Am I being told to drop what work…
11 Jan 2011, 02:27
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