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I hope I am not being insulting in noting that the English pronunciation of Scylla usually involves a silent "c" like scissors or scintillating. This would bring Scylla's pronunci…
29 Aug 2010, 03:27
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Well, I'll try to present my Grand Unified Theory or spill my GUT as it were. It isn't that profound or unique and I doubt it will serve anyone else as an epiphany. But perhaps it …
19 Aug 2010, 20:09
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Ah, now I understand your reluctance to invoke time travel. That kind is a huge undertaking. But how much effort did Severian spend to travel to the future to see Ragnarok? A fligh…
18 Aug 2010, 11:58
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I used to think Severian might be already drunk by this point but somebody, Jeff maybe?, has just argued that Severian hasn't drunk anything yet. If the hilt was indeed heavy the…
16 Aug 2010, 20:53
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Given the geography and culture of The Commonwealth I think we've be far more likely to find someone named Jesus there than in Ireland. :- ) j/k of course.…
16 Aug 2010, 17:04
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In some earlier posts I listed a sequence of quotes from Malrubius, Apheta and Tzadkiel which seemed to show a progression of specificity, from talk of a cognate race of humans cre…
16 Aug 2010, 03:39
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With all the question flying around about Yesod I decided to really re-check the text on Brook Madregot. I felt the answers would be there and I do think I have a clearer view of …
16 Aug 2010, 02:31
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Jeff, in a previous post I wondered if hyperspace could have suns and planets. My understanding was that matter and energy don't really exist there (hence the meadow and brook of M…
13 Aug 2010, 17:37
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Ryan I have long wondered about the source of Talos' false coin. I think it gets too much attention to be meaningless. I don't think we are meant to think it comes from the Hierodu…
13 Aug 2010, 16:42
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I think that is interesting. I am not as intimately familiar with Long Sun as BotNS but my intutive impression has been that Patera Incus is a (probably non-practicing) homosexua…
13 Aug 2010, 16:09
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Ryan D., I liked your post. It was very long and especially difficult for me to read since I do not read people's posts in email form but rather straight from the Urth Archives whe…
13 Aug 2010, 04:26
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Perhaps I am not enough of an SF fan to know the what subspace is.(Like, "We've got some subspace interference Mr. Chekov" ?). But given that Yesod is a higher universe, would…
12 Aug 2010, 18:10
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Roy C. Lackey- I remember responding to that because I remember my mental head scratching at the suggestion it was a Paradise Lost knock-off (to my shame, I haven't read that).…
12 Aug 2010, 16:06
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Interestingly, I just made a very similar comment responding to a different poster: We must be careful or risk being accused of being the same person. Stockberm? David Lee Hoff? …
12 Aug 2010, 14:35
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I posted this theory a few years in the past but, at Dan'l's request I'm trotting it out again now. It seems like an appropriate time. We get a very nice tour of the Last House a…
11 Aug 2010, 12:27
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Well, this has been an even more surreal discussion than normal here. I think there may be something of an old guard, keepers of the flames of truth from the earlier years of this …
11 Aug 2010, 03:48
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Preliminary note- I think it is important to consider that if you are attempting to be forcefully domineering and authoritative in discussing a work of fiction which relies on an …
09 Aug 2010, 21:28
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Jeff Wilson's comment about Dorcas and the boatman brought this topic to mind. Rudesind as Inire has been discussed lately, but not the boatman I think. It is recognized that a wea…
06 Aug 2010, 14:32
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Yeah, that is my impression of what happened also. A bit of temporal inertia. I guess Jason Walker is wondering why he had to stop at that point in history on Urth. If he was ou…
04 Aug 2010, 15:03
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I think somewhere it is contrasted that the Ascians hope to eventually copy one individual over and over in the millions in their populatce. The Commonwealth hopes to eventually …
02 Aug 2010, 16:07
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Yeah, alzabo, avern, abaia, arioch..so many alien "a's" on Urth. Wolfe himself, in an interview, calls the Vodalus feast a "satanic eucharist". But we are to take Severian's fe…
30 Jul 2010, 19:54
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So, why doesn't Wolfe have Severian reject the Autarch's pharmicon at the last second and have him find the true, Increate-given, path toward becoming the New Sun and Conciliator? …
30 Jul 2010, 16:32
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Jeff Wilson- That last related tale puzzles me. The very large, very pale "pandours" suggest armed and armored siblings of Idas. Perhaps the pandours and undines are related. I t…
30 Jul 2010, 05:27
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I was just watching a National Geographic special on the mystery of the gigantic, many kilometers-long Nazca desert drawings in southern Peru. I thought about the Sun series, most…
24 Jul 2010, 03:51
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I think Severian dies and is resurrected as an eidolon several times (probably five). Oh, yes, I'd forgotten that line. Thanks Tony. It does seem rather explicit. A shame it can…
21 Jul 2010, 11:39
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As Severian's powers of resurrection are an echo of his ability to resurrect the sun? Hm, could be. Brother Severian, eh? Well, the bizarre sexual attraction between Severian and…
20 Jul 2010, 02:58
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In my last post under Patera Inire (which has a typo- should start- "I don't agree") I mention an allegorical answer I think best for explaining how an ocean-bound creature like …
18 Jul 2010, 06:02
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Well, not quite so simple to determine. But using these two clues together I found what I never had put together before. Thanks fellas! I always knew that the left head was blond…
12 Jul 2010, 23:40
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A number of years ago my brother asked me for something new to read and I gave him BotNS. After he read it he told me he had "figured out the secret". I was a little intrigued (tho…
10 Jul 2010, 05:51
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I agree. Antonio's posts seem truly sincere and heartfelt and thus are appreciated for those rare qualities. I don't know if it helps to say I understand his feelings and sympathi…
08 Jul 2010, 05:19
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Antonio, I feel your pain. For the longest time I could see all these clues and hints of clues but I had no idea what Wolfe was really trying to get at. Perhaps I still don't, but…
07 Jul 2010, 17:37
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Woo hoo! Well, Borski has also considered Ossipago and Palaemon as versions of Father Inire. I'm not sure about them. But I thought I was alone in considering the picture clean…
28 Jun 2010, 18:28
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An interesting perspective! I had tended to think of Mr. Million as a kindly great grandfather with a true soft spot for his boys (David too, yes?) who perhaps regretted the proce…
25 Jun 2010, 13:48
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My intent was to suggest the Wall of Nessus was needed to defend from enemies on all sides. I take the story of tall pale warriors riding in a ship with a deep voice coming from …
14 Jun 2010, 15:32
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In my fairly extensive review of Gene Wolfe interviews I've found him to be generally cautious and circumspect with regard to revealing the mysteries behind his literary work. But …
19 May 2010, 14:00
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