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Sorry Gerry, I didn't mean to offend you. You have to admit that your choice of listing Knowledge of God, Science, Economics and card playing was an interesting collection of acti…
20 Mar 2012, 19:57
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You got me right, Antonin. I think the misunderstanding came from Gerry, perhaps due to a certain anti-relativist position he may share with many Americans of my acquaintance. Wi…
20 Mar 2012, 19:35
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Thanks, I appreciate the rephrasing. It can help sometimes. Yes, surely Severian, Silk and Horn have undergone massive personal, spiritual changes during the course of the story.…
20 Mar 2012, 18:53
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I agree about the fascination. And Wolfe's use of a first person narrator throughout the Sun Series ensures we understand that all we are hearing is filtered through human percep…
20 Mar 2012, 16:45
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I had the impression but in a quick search I didn't find any of the passages I thought I'd find. Fair enough. But God is jealous of idols his followers might worship and He is ev…
20 Mar 2012, 02:04
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I agree. I suppose the main difference in our views is that I see an evolution of God from being more like a powerful person in the OT to being more infinite as we move to Christ a…
19 Mar 2012, 20:21
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Yes, exactly. I am suggesting that God seems to change through the course of the Bible (OT and NT). Anthropologically I certainly accept that this could be the result of changes …
19 Mar 2012, 20:12
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David Stockhoff: What's the evidence that Typhon is bisexual? Yep, you guys did a good job listing the evidence. The erection in Severian's presence, the tribute, the painting. A…
19 Mar 2012, 19:50
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I appreciate these suggestions. I'm not happy either with using the term "gnostic" but it still seems to come closer to what I mean. The Catholic Encyclopedia calls gnosticism: …
19 Mar 2012, 14:34
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Like Pig? Argh, surely not so low on the totem pole. Unlike our modern Christian world where only God and Man exist, the Sun Series seems to have a rather well-stocked hierarchy …
19 Mar 2012, 04:04
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Yes, I was jealous also. Only a 6 hour drive too. But a family with small kids can make such a trip difficult to arrange. If only it had been a week later... Ah well. Thanks for…
19 Mar 2012, 03:57
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Sorry I didn't meant to be oblique. Summing up the evidence, I think Jurupari is a reference to Abaia and generally signifies (like the chicken with needles through the eyes) an …
17 Mar 2012, 23:10
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Heh, funny. I do picture Dr. Crane as jewish. Edward G. Robinson would play him in the movie. Anyway, I purposefully only said that SF is a genre highly populated by atheist though…
16 Mar 2012, 14:15
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Funny, I had a similar experience. Actually I never read Narnia (still true) because my first exposure to Lewis was around age 12 when I was given The Space Trilogy as a gift. Out …
15 Mar 2012, 19:47
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Daniel, there has been much militant atheism found in the media in the past few years so I understand your concern. I don't think it is has a good basis when it comes to the Lupive…
15 Mar 2012, 19:30
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I tend to agree. I wish Wolfe had gone a little further to explain exactly why he thinks such creator gods were not deserving of worship. I think that would reveal his personal be…
15 Mar 2012, 19:16
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Sheesh. For me this is such an incisive question. I think showing Tzadkiel evolving through so many phases including different levels of beast, levels of man and levels of angel i…
15 Mar 2012, 16:37
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But, heresy aside, can such views be considered as leaning toward gnostic? I had a discussion/debate with James Jordan a long time ago and he professed a personal belief in "mode…
15 Mar 2012, 12:56
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I don't think that's true. Perhaps you could post my inane rant to remind me? Perhaps that's so but then it applies to all those others with whom I happen to agree with. You do…
15 Mar 2012, 11:59
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Yes. Or you could argue that earth culture such as Catherine's story, Frankenstein and the Rubiyat have echoed down the corridors of time back to Urth, as Dr. Talos describes. Yo…
15 Mar 2012, 11:46
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Agreed. Good points. In truth I don't understand the arguments of those who insist Briah can only be described as a christian place. It seems like a stubborn attempt to cling t…
14 Mar 2012, 19:55
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Craig Brewer: I disagree. In the Master Ash episode, he makes it clear to Severian that almost the entire population was rescued from the freezing Urth. Making it clear to the …
14 Mar 2012, 19:03
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I still think people are significantly kinder and more peaceful across the world now than they were 5000 years ago. Moreover Jeff, I think your expressed outrage is an example of…
14 Mar 2012, 14:41
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Yes, but Earth's population is in the 10 figures. Anthropological estimates suggest pre-civilized humanity died at a rate of up to 25% from warfare/violence. Accuse me of optimism …
14 Mar 2012, 12:37
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Perhaps so. But perhaps at a different speed. There is nothing to rule out the possibility minor changes between iterations such as a moving of the Andes to the east of S. Amer…
13 Mar 2012, 20:44
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Thanks Antonio. I have noticed your linguistic knowledgeablity before and I always appreciate your help in this area. Maybe if I amend my statement from "english" to Indo-Europea…
13 Mar 2012, 02:18
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I think this misses Antonio's point and does miss mine (and I think the point Wolfe is trying to make). Of course there are spritually bad things in our world. There always will…
12 Mar 2012, 04:11
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Hm. I'm not aware of any Muslim members of this board. If there were, would they find evidence of their faith in the Sun Series? Perhaps in the numerous star and moon reference…
11 Mar 2012, 17:15
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Thanks Nick. My own response to Gerry would have been about the same though probably less erudite. This is Dan''s view also and I can see the validity. My own initial view was th…
11 Mar 2012, 04:39
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Thanks Craig. That was fanstastic! I'd seen excerpts from that interview before but never the whole thing. One significant thing I noticed regarding the previous debate (whic…
11 Mar 2012, 04:31
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I am not familiar with that one. I'd appreciate a link to it very much if it the identity happens to come to mind. I am familiar with a Wolfe quote saying that Jesus, given his s…
10 Mar 2012, 15:49
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Nice post Dan'l. I can actually see how this scenario explains the situation in an equivalent way to the the idea that Christ is someday coming to Urth in its future. I can see h…
09 Mar 2012, 18:25
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Because it isn't. Quasi-Christian symbols and concepts can be found from pre-Christ times on earth. Notably in the Egyptian and Roman cultures from which the Whorl society is most …
09 Mar 2012, 18:10
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True, early on, vis Agia, iirc. And at that point in the story we might be prompted to think the god in humanform referenced is Jesus Christ. But as the story progresses I think Th…
09 Mar 2012, 12:38
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Heh. Thanks for a very well written post Daniel. We haven't interacted in here all that much so I can forgive you for mistaking me for some militant atheist with an agenda like Ric…
08 Mar 2012, 15:26
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By your own principle, Wolfe would not put Christians in his story by mentioning them 0 times. You are suggesting that Wolfe is presenting a future in which we can degenerate into…
08 Mar 2012, 15:06
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Well, I answered that before, but apparently not suffiently. I take this as Wolfe's way of saying that a Jesus-like figure appeared on Urth but it wasn't Christ. The concept of Chr…
08 Mar 2012, 12:48
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I agree. And I find Dan'l's earlier, similar post expressing thing almost exactly as I would express my own personal views. Clearly, Wolfe is also very aware of the human bia…
07 Mar 2012, 23:50
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No offense taken, Daniel. I am more concerned that I have offended your beliefs, which I did not intend to do. Still, you might correctly infer from my name that I was raised in t…
07 Mar 2012, 18:12
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I think this may be the very crux of our disagreement, and perhaps applies to Dan'l and Jerry as well. I know it is canonical in modern Judeo-Christianity that the God of the Jews…
07 Mar 2012, 14:25
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For me also. If there is agreement on this concept I think any other disagreements are fairly inconsequential. Agreed! I've always maintained that Urth is not a hopeless world.…
07 Mar 2012, 14:07
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Well, I tend to agree. I think "The Increate" mentioned in the Sun Series does represent the one true God. However I think "The Pancreator" and "The Demiurge" represent something d…
06 Mar 2012, 20:10
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Heh. The funny thing is that I would tend to agree with you if your position was that pagan/gnostic religious references were primary in the Sun Series. That is what seems obvious…
06 Mar 2012, 18:33
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Perhaps we can all agree that what we see as "primary" might say more about who we are than what is clear in the books. Allusions to pagan mythology and Christianity are both th…
06 Mar 2012, 03:01
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For me the reference to Silenus and Silvanus is similar to the earlier "Bird Of the Woods" reference to Rhea Silvia. The Latin name doesn't refer to a bird but I think we are sup…
05 Mar 2012, 21:19
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I'm not comprehending this post. I am suggesting that most/all the improbable occurrences are connected to him, including the eclipse. That perhaps it is Severian's doing and not…
11 Jan 2012, 06:04
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Wrong story ;-). That's the beginning of Shadow and we are all the way to the end of Urth. Severian has gone through some changes in the duration, yes? Anyway, there is no suspici…
10 Jan 2012, 18:15
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Hm..who would be a major lord, in this case? Anyway, I'm curious where you get the comparison in size to "island". I'm curious because in Severian's first view of Tzadkiel he…
10 Jan 2012, 17:41
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I don't see why. Can't a beast have a biography? Especially a sentient beast. The examples of this are too numerous to mention but "mega" implies large size. It isn't too hard to…
10 Jan 2012, 17:26
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Well, there is a significant contingent who think the exclipse was caused by Tzadkiel's ship and I acknowledge and respect that. My objection are: Until that point, when he is d…
09 Jan 2012, 19:04
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