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I appreciate the feedback on my post and as always there's something edifying to be found, but I feel the need to clarify myself. I'm suggesting that Wolfe might have been influen…
03 Jun 2005, 19:30
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How serendipitous, that someone should bring up the voided cross just as I'm slowly rereading the LS. I'm just beginning chapter 2 of Calde and that voided cross has been on my mi…
16 May 2005, 16:43
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"I'm not sure that Garvaon's sacrifice would have been appreciated by Idnn had she known of it. In fact, I'm pretty confident she would find it reprehensible and offensive." That…
04 Jan 2005, 11:58
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Hey everyone, I'm moving to a new apt. so I'm posting early. I'll probably check my mail at the library but I don't know how much I'll be posting for a few weeks. There's plen…
28 Dec 2004, 16:39
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Hey everyone, I just finished The Amber Spyglass last night and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the entire trilogy. The only review I read of it was backhandedly c…
14 Oct 2004, 17:08
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Hi everyone One of the benefits of my soul killing job (it's not quite that bad) is that I have time to think of things like this. If Urth's sun has a black hole in the center …
11 Sep 2003, 03:40
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From http://216.239.41.104/ search?q=cache:vSmsO6PtHs0J:digital.library.upenn.edu/women/edwards/ pharaohs/pharaohs-4.html+ka-arms&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 : "Now, the Ka is a very inter…
07 Sep 2003, 01:38
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http://www.catastrophism.com/cdrom/pubs/books/saturn/ All this site shows is the table of contents and a synopsis but I'd bet dollars GW has read it. Anyone know anything about …
07 Sep 2003, 01:20
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Hey everyone, I just want everyone to know that I'm having a damned entertaining time reading Herodotus. I'm beginning book three and I don't know if it's the translation (U of…
07 Sep 2003, 00:22
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My bad, A Tamarind tree grows is South America. Tamarind the spice/fruit is from India. Still it doesn't change my basic premise. Don…
04 Sep 2003, 05:22
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Howdy Earlier last month or the month before a few people were speculating that Latro might be a Tarquin. If that's the case wouldn't that make him a descendant of Aeneas? A lo…
04 Sep 2003, 05:09
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http://www.levity.com/alchemy/caezza3.html http://www.theoi.com/Tartaros/Kholkian.html I was thumbing through the glossary of my copy of Apollonius' Argonautica when I stumbled…
04 Sep 2003, 04:57
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Hey, anybody out there?…
04 Sep 2003, 03:49
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I love dredging up this subject: A while back Crush (I think) brought up the fact that according to Graves, Gaia and Trivigante are the same. They shift their aspect from one t…
16 Aug 2003, 09:21
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Hi everyone, Andrew's post whipped me back to something that has been on my mind for a while: Typhon's nature. It is pretty well established I think that he is not a product o…
16 Aug 2003, 03:12
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Hi all, Unfortunately, I have woefully little to contribute to the understanding of these great books, but I've found the discussion going on here quite helpful. I just picked…
09 Aug 2003, 03:18
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Be careful what you wish for Crush: Sp'cifikly mythikly, our man James (not Keenan) Wynn he reads the Wolfe's words deciphers their meanin' (bows in false modesty, fruit misses by…
09 Aug 2003, 02:59
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That is utterly unbelievable. What a pathetic lot of juvenile, ungrateful, UNKNOWING, clueless idiots. I don't even know where to start. How about why bother to take a writin…
26 Jul 2003, 03:34
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All of this talk about Silk (the man who doesn't eat) put me back on the track of a question that's been nagging me. How does the Green Man repay Severian for setting him free? …
20 Jul 2003, 01:25
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It was written: How extensive is the Library again? My impression is that it contains every book written. It's meant to be Borges' infinite library. Probably Father Inire ha…
11 Jul 2003, 01:48
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This regards the significance of the name Horn: Etymology: AL HEEKA bull’s southern horn In Arabic, hakka is to scratch or gore. Hebrew HaKHaH is a fishing hook, and, of course, …
10 Jul 2003, 06:50
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Howdy y'all. It seems like my brain is on fire today. One of the arguments I have been expecting against my theory that Valeria is Severian's sister is the fact that Fish in t…
09 Mar 2003, 00:26
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I have two things to say here and the are more musings out loud than anything. The first is this: If Green is Urth (or Ushas) what does that say about Quetzal's dying intention…
08 Mar 2003, 23:47
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Hi everyone, Don again. This obviously needs a lot of work and support, but the ideas are sound, I think. The Book of Typhon part two: Silk as Typhon This segment is more spe…
07 Mar 2003, 04:56
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Hi everyone, Don here again (not Lisa though I suppose that's appropriate to the gender bending discussions of late :)) Below is what I've been contemplating in my abscence. En…
07 Mar 2003, 04:51
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Hi everyone, Don here. I'm back from a long hiatus and I thought I'd throw out a few odds and ends in no particular order of importance. First in my head, first from my fingers…
06 Mar 2003, 06:28
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Hi everyone, I'm no ethicist (no jab intended Crush) but Gene Wolfe is a wiley intelligent 70 year old man and he certainly knew that if he told Marc something there was a chance …
18 Dec 2002, 03:10
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Howdy y'all, A few posts back, someone wrote that they wished there was a Book of Typhon and a Book of Piaton. Well, I don't know about the second but I'm beginning to believe th…
25 Nov 2002, 07:13
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Hi everyone, All this discussion about Quetzal and his place on the Whorl got me digging around on Google and, while I didn't find quite what I was looking for (mythic references …
24 Nov 2002, 20:56
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There is none. :) But seriously folks, I just flew in from Green (Lune) and boy are my arms tired. Da Da. Okay, honestly seriously this time, I've been looking through the last …
22 Nov 2002, 05:21
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Against the "Whorl has been in orbit for thirty years" possibly in the text and possibly said by Wolfe in an interview I lay down my "longfather, culture hero of Ushas who left for…
19 Nov 2002, 07:24
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I don't recall this but I believe you. However, seeing the red star during his enlightenment on the Whorl is far from the same as seeing it in person from the ground on Blue. Don…
18 Nov 2002, 06:58
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Roy wrote (leading to other interesting musings): " Let us posit--strictly for the sake of argument--that Blue is Ushas. How does that affect the overall picture Wolfe has drawn i…
18 Nov 2002, 06:50
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Howdy all, One of (imho) Wolfe's first tricks in SS to give us the impression of Blue as an alien world is his introduction of the leatherskin, a terrible creature with three (gas…
16 Nov 2002, 21:27
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Jerry Friedman asks: "(Does Graves' Jesus have sex with Mary the Hairdresser?)" To which I answer (shocked!): Why no, no he doesn't. In fact he doesn't even have sex with his o…
16 Nov 2002, 05:42
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Crush says: "Silk is not only "aware" that Time has stopped. He says he was *outside* Time. The speed in which Time is moving at the "time" of his enlightenment is irrelevant to hi…
16 Nov 2002, 05:05
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Hello all, This subject is probably the most important one to me regarding the Sun Books. It's the reason I found this site and the ultimate reason I decided to join this list. …
15 Nov 2002, 07:26
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Hello! Thanks to you all for your warm welcome. I can't tell you how great it is to talk about these works with people who are more than superficially acquainted with them. It's…
13 Nov 2002, 08:32
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Ok, so here are some of my crazy theories vis a vis my "enlightenment" after reading King Jesus. A few of them bear directly on the current conversation regarding Typhon/Pas and h…
10 Nov 2002, 22:58
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Hello everyone. This is my first post, though I've been lurking around for months soaking in the great conversation and waiting for an interesting topic of my own. Whamo! As cha…
10 Nov 2002, 22:58
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