Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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Very nice article, James - well written and, in my opinion, a very good description of everything that makes Gene a unique artist. 50-100 is super short ... you have to be a Heming…
17 Feb 2012, 15:21
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And I, at times a scientist, (biochemistry degree but not a practicing scientist now), a narcissist, and a Catholic, have no problem with OBJECTIVE ABSOLUTES. I am that most awful…
23 Dec 2011, 17:48
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--- On Wed, 12/14/11, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote: From: Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Gummed-Up Works…
14 Dec 2011, 13:21
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When you're done I'll tell you my Latro theory. I agree, you can't really spoil it, though you can spoil certain key scenes the first time through (oh yeah, don't worry too much a…
14 Dec 2011, 13:14
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So I guess I'm asking if SilverSilk was only reuniting with his greater part or "returning" wholesale to mainframe, where he could then flash a part of himself back to the body of …
30 Nov 2011, 17:41
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So was Silver Silk still in mainframe while he was trapped in Pig? I need to look it over again. I know he was trapped in Pig ... but is that a fragment or "all" of him? The cop…
30 Nov 2011, 17:38
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I also wanted to add very breifly that I think Gene has mastered the understated conclusions that don't feel like conclusions: saving Silk at the end of RttW is involved in that fl…
30 Nov 2011, 02:09
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I am almost certain the reason for the conclusion of Short Sun being the sacrifice of the eye (in flash back anyway) is simply that THAT is the moment when Silk is "saved"/rebooted…
30 Nov 2011, 02:04
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Thanks! The caveat here is that they are never very far off the marc.…
30 Nov 2011, 01:53
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I'm just going to barge in here, because I feel like this lack of "true" enlightenment is being a bit ... not misconstrued, but used in a secular anti-spiritual way I don't think i…
29 Nov 2011, 23:21
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Silk's description as a slender but fit guy WOULD NOT MAKE HIM SIMILAR IN BUILD TO piaton at all: he is described as somebody who could run all night, whereas, while Piaton is not …
28 Nov 2011, 18:06
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Ceryx is, I think, the other ambiguous one in exactly the same category as Typhon. It is not entirely entirely clear if he is alien or simply "magical" or "extra-ordinary", though …
27 Nov 2011, 21:55
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The only thing here is that he is from pre-conciliator times (as was Jonas) so it is not clear whether his alien name is indicative of his nature or the time he was named and alive…
27 Nov 2011, 21:27
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"I see I have confused the rings. Every single attempt to make an assertive claim in Short Sun is defeated by the narrator: big woman drinking when fed upon causes Jahlee to resem…
26 Nov 2011, 21:51
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Short Sun is so ambiguous, it is disconcerting at times, but I do think he waffles back and forth on the ring a time or two, but at one point he does claim it is Seawrack's ring. …
26 Nov 2011, 21:40
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The text is clear their memories were "altered" before being placed in the sleep... but I agree with you, you would expect a clone of the monarch to be somewhat recognizable. ---…
26 Nov 2011, 21:36
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I mean Silk (with Oreb too, I guess) leaving Blue somehow to go to the whorl at the end of Rttw: if the lander from Green was repaired and came to Blue, then there is a functioning…
26 Nov 2011, 16:44
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And there is that prominent nosed man with the scar on his eye socket in that same scene at the end of Chapter 7 of rttw or thereabouts that seems to have more importance than can …
26 Nov 2011, 01:14
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Quick question, James. If you don't think the big woman blitzed on something in the alley is Chenille, then how did the ring from Horn's body get to Dorp for Oreb to drop it in th…
26 Nov 2011, 01:11
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Something about Sinew and Krait? Krait is like Sinew in that the mother of Krait fed on the baby, I think (?)…
25 Nov 2011, 15:35
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The implication that there is a secret beyond the secret we know is that "Nettle must not know the secret", which would be difficult if he were writing it down, unless he is writin…
25 Nov 2011, 15:22
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Also, one more thing: in dorp, Oreb returns and the ring the body of Horn was wearing shows up. The narrator realizes its his old ring. How did the black ring get there? That be…
25 Nov 2011, 02:30
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Someone wrote me off list that they believe it best that I be more critical in my theories, because clearly Chenille was just on Green and there was no time to get to Blue, but the…
25 Nov 2011, 02:06
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It's at the end of chapter 7 in RttW. Jahlee drinks and drinks from a "big woman" drunk on rust. This matches chenille's description very well, a big woman who takes rust when sh…
24 Nov 2011, 20:33
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No, Jahlee was feeding on a drunken woman offscreen and she reminds the narrator of Chenille. It's because Chenille really did escape the basement, the narrator just doesn't run i…
24 Nov 2011, 20:21
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no, chenille is not possessed by Jahlee. Jahlee is running amok in dorp and feeds on the offscreen Chenille. Jahlee reminds the narrator of chenille, acting drunk. The reason is…
24 Nov 2011, 20:17
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I don't have a problem with inhumi jumping from planet to planet because astral travel is a pretty "unnatural" property anyway: they are not entirely normal physical creatures and …
24 Nov 2011, 18:01
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I thought Krait's similarity to Sinew was due to that feeding near reproduction cycle, but then later when Jahlee resembles Chenille and is drunk its because she fed on the greivin…
24 Nov 2011, 17:54
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There is a chapter titled, "Why are the inhumi like us?" and there is some indication that when the colonists, there food supply, are defeated, the inhumi will defeat themselves (n…
24 Nov 2011, 02:28
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Not entirely, entirely James. They have to feed on people or vanished people to really really be inhumi and sentient in the first place. Otherwise they are just parasitic vines w…
24 Nov 2011, 02:22
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Okay, the vines parasitized the trees and gained something of their function, but not the entire amount. When the vines feed on reptiles, they are like reptiles. And yes, the ent…
23 Nov 2011, 22:45
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And that isn't my theory quoted below, the lianas are the starting point for inhumi, the trees are the starting point for vanished people, both of which originate with old school h…
23 Nov 2011, 20:22
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I think this is backwards. The trees and vines both fed on sentient beings in the past and revert to their natural primitive state without that influx of sentience. The inhumi re…
23 Nov 2011, 20:18
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And from the statements that the inhuni lose with every triumph over the men on Green, it is certain they will regress with no sentient food: back to their animal/vinish origin. T…
23 Nov 2011, 20:04
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I think this is confusing chicken and egg, honestly. ontogeny recapitulates philogeny: the reptile stage of evolution shows that in the past they fed on reptiles before becoming m…
23 Nov 2011, 20:02
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My theory is that they are the morlocks of what becomes of the people of Urth, more or less, when the vines share human blood; vines sentient through preying on the man through the…
23 Nov 2011, 19:49
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And don't forget Juganu's or some other inhumi's truimphant "We are everywhere!" after going to Urth. I am sure they ARE native to Green. --- On Wed, 11/23/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry …
23 Nov 2011, 18:11
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The format got screwed up on the bottom, the part that is the second to last paragraph was not what I wrote, sorry. Also, I think I confused Hierax and tartaros, so sorry. --- On …
23 Nov 2011, 18:01
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My theory accounts for the fact that the recombinatorial power of the trees is incompletely bequeathed to their parasites, the lianas. They make a more degenerate race, but the tr…
23 Nov 2011, 17:58
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--- On Wed, 11/23/11, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote: From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Heirax is dead To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lis…
23 Nov 2011, 17:53
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Well, my problem with this assessment of Silk is that he has no real power to heal the sick and the dying, as Severian occasionally showed. He can only spiritually abet them - he …
23 Nov 2011, 15:02
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You already know my reading of that final symbol: the blood spilled into the ground springs up as vegetable life that endures even though ancient man is dead. And Horn too, really…
23 Nov 2011, 14:51
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I had thought about this a long time ago, but it gave me a very real headache.…
22 Nov 2011, 21:15
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I really don't try to make anything personal, if I am guilty I apologize. It is unfortunate though, the topics I care about tend to generate into these "deleted unread" categories…
22 Nov 2011, 16:35
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There was an exclamation point after No, no, No! Green is Urth! Two sentences - or a fragment and a sentence.…
22 Nov 2011, 14:55
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--- On Mon, 11/21/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote: . Anyone attempting In theory, I don't mind Gerry's skepticism; everyone has their roles. Yet the weirdes…
22 Nov 2011, 05:00
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Much the same reason I can't stand myself.…
21 Nov 2011, 23:46
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I think most authors CAN be read meaningfully on the surface level, even supposedly highbrow ones like Tolstoy et al, but Wolfe is THE most obscure, clever, tricky, cryptic fellow …
21 Nov 2011, 22:47
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heh heh heh. they are fun on a second reading to see through, but those plausible surface explanations get old when you are trying to delineate a very simple point. "Babbie is ask…
21 Nov 2011, 20:24
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Yes yes yes! The wind in the chimney! I have been looking for an explanation for that for years! wind and double darkness haunt the skies, etc.…
21 Nov 2011, 18:02
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