Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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Okay, I just can't ignore commenting. I don't think Silk is tri-partite in the way James Wynn does, I think the neighbor Horn is a separate body. My timeline is - ?Horn falls in t…
20 Dec 2010, 15:58
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Thanks James and Lee for your comments. If a theory is perceived at first as brilliant, it can be dangerous to elaborate too much to risk sounding ordinary once again, but let me t…
20 Dec 2010, 02:13
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Okay, the problem with the syncretism of Wolfe's universe is multifold for interpreting whether a "Jesus" exists. Some of Silk's "Enlightenment" seems to have scenes of the life of…
19 Dec 2010, 03:49
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One more point, all this talk of an "unknown" christ in Severian's Universe just seems wrong, wrong, very wrong. Even though Severian was later conflated with the Conciliator, thos…
18 Dec 2010, 15:51
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On the flood and whether it is a transgression of scripture - This is one case where the actual religion of the author has an influence on the way the book was written. A strict pe…
18 Dec 2010, 15:32
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Well besides identifying with severian there is a part of me that definitely identifies with hethor. I want to be the estrapade that grinds their joints at times. I have object…
05 Aug 2010, 07:31
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Of course Wolfe as an exmilitary man at the end of his seventh decade is going to have an affinity for weapons. My father, now seventy and an ex marine, always had a gun in the ho…
03 Jul 2010, 16:59
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Weird. For some reason I put Gene's name in youtube yesterday for the first time ever and this came up, and now here it is in the list immediately. Bizarre timing.…
17 Feb 2010, 17:09
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I merely believe it is evidence that some of the land mass of the islands are composed of giant trees. Whether or not it is that one, there are islands made up of trees on Blue, wh…
19 May 2009, 17:29
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Roy stated the person who shot gideon was a man. A while ago I thought the male dancer in the play with the initials d d who was described as "not a man" could be diana …
05 Jan 2009, 23:13
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I agree with Roy - Wolfe's subject matter leads us to posit all the possible things that can explain the unexplainable gaps, and often we latch onto the wrong explanations. For e…
29 Nov 2008, 05:39
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Chris raises some interesting points but if we don't accept the same assumptions there is no way to come to an agreement. In the absence of the relativistic statements you men…
06 Nov 2008, 21:53
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That extra o in "to" at the culmination of my previous post is no doubt the same o that turns God to good in Evil Guest…
06 Nov 2008, 20:40
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It seems to me that the special genetic nature of the possibly artificially created vanished gods is that they can eat and reassemble the genetic material of their victims as a sor…
22 Sep 2008, 23:04
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This is probably my article, which M. Wynn was kind enough to host all these years. http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/chras-writers/marc-aramini1.htm also, cornsilk is a common phrase…
19 Sep 2008, 15:48
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pedro, the exit of horn into babbie is more than riding. He reposes under a huge tree, the vanished gods of the neighbors, and this allows his transference as he was earlier trans…
18 Sep 2008, 19:58
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the alteration/switching of the rings in short sun is something else that bothers me, and I feel that there is something very important about it. Certainly the liana staff silk car…
01 Aug 2008, 17:48
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well, remember that blue eyes were very rare in the whorl, and silk was one of the fe with those attributes. are iceberg eyes blue? I am certain that the embryo silk was born of …
01 Aug 2008, 16:00
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I certainly agree that Horn's essence flees into Babbie under the big tree at the end of On Blue's Waters where Silk begins to take over, but I need to look at this Scylla …
31 Jul 2008, 21:27
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Society often works in just such a tiered moral fashion, with the good of the many (ie laws and government) justifying and assigning the taking of life, as any executioner would be…
12 Jul 2008, 05:29
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no, no. inhumi are not trees. they are the strangling liana vines living off the vanished god trees.…
08 Jul 2008, 22:33
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Roy states that the last castellan had died generations ago, and further asserts that if the castellan can be related to Valeria then indeed nothing in the book means anything. Un…
26 Jun 2008, 18:52
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I don't think that the different universe issue is necessarily a problem if ossipago famulimus and barbatus ( from the top of my head I know I murdered those names) sev and th…
10 Jun 2008, 19:55
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of course the problem with this switching is the vast disparity in time between apu punchau and the new sun…
10 Jun 2008, 17:02
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----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: (urth) How list works and questions to mailers Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:03:59 From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> To: matthew.k…
11 May 2008, 16:06
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sorry roy, hadn't checked my email for a few days. Yes, I was about to post something to that effect - Wolfe is a reader of fiction, and while he researches his novels, I think we…
19 Jan 2008, 04:24
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As someone who obsesses about weight unnaturally from years of boxing at 126 lbs, I found it interesting when Wolfe described Severian in an interview, saying he was about 6'1'' or…
04 Jan 2008, 13:53
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Here is the quote: "Our guild buries its own dead beside the wall ... but the keepers of the Bear Tower leave theirs to be taken away by others. He was the smallest of those dead…
24 Dec 2007, 01:36
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great stuff, and I especially was always puzzled by the zen like koan where Ymar gets up and follows the dog (remember, he sits under a tree, and all manner of men and women come b…
23 Dec 2007, 18:41
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--- Pedro Pereira <domus_artemis at hotmail.com> wrote: What I feel when I read My fervent belief is that short sun shows the nascent rise of the green man and his ilk on Ushas …
21 Dec 2007, 14:44
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In the last decade and a half I have noticed an increasingly sentimental nature in Wolfe's characters, an absence of the sinister silences we see in 5HOC and Peace and New Sun or h…
18 Dec 2007, 14:41
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I do agree with the old idea that the voided cross has been voided by taking away the crucifixion imagery and the body of christ from it and assimilating it into Typhon's family to…
22 Jan 2007, 07:30
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Why not just get a strong guy and take over his Incidentally, on a non-gene tangent, Bruce Lee was my Halloween outfit this year due to some similarities in size and physique. c…
30 Nov 2006, 04:59
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I won't go into many of your questions, but I am confident Silk is Typhon's biological son, with Kypris/Mamelta his mother. In the tunnels, he vows he won't sleep until his mother…
30 Nov 2006, 04:54
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His mother was mad at him for desecrating the temple. She influenced the wound.…
09 Apr 2006, 06:59
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<thalassocrat at nym.hush.com> You must know I'm a huge proponent of the idea that Silk can become unmoored in time, if he focuses on location. The biggest argument against time …
06 Apr 2006, 04:26
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I never understood the importance of Latro throwing the match. Maybe it does have some thematic importance in terms of Latro's development: going from a bloodthirsty mercenary to …
03 Apr 2006, 04:02
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Yet this doesn't explain why Latro is explicitly called Pleistorus on two separate occasions, whereas Basias, who bested him, is never identified as a god, despite the fact that he…
02 Apr 2006, 09:12
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I rather like this idea - Ares gets stuck in his head because of the injury. Hmm. The only other cogent solution I can think of is that, since Ahura Mazda is the God of good, a…
01 Apr 2006, 21:50
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I did a google search on Pleistorus, and was surprised when one ofmy own posts was one of the first things to come up. My argument hasn't changed much in three years, I guess, her…
01 Apr 2006, 18:09
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Sorry for all the typos in these quotes - I also meant "is Pleistorus incongnito as Latro" ... not Ares there. Should have edited the post before I sent it. Marc…
01 Apr 2006, 09:16
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Interesting. Thanks for the information about Lycius. Certainly Drakaina is the lamia that supplants Eurykles. That actually makes more sense if Lucius is the wolf in terms of th…
01 Apr 2006, 04:04
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In correspondence, Wolfe once indicated to me that he had written a novel before Operation Ares, that had "entirely too much plot" that was more like a mystery novel than SF. He s…
23 Feb 2006, 07:23
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An interesting post, Roy. I think somewhere in the text they go over how difficult it is for someone to maintain their form in a higher realm: Disiri is somewhat invisible in the …
11 Nov 2005, 23:02
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I rather liked Chris grafting of a psychological frame for WK - Dante framed the universe as a thing inside God's mind, and this was used by Wolfe in Peace. It also makes, I think…
08 Nov 2005, 04:08
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I was constantly amazed at the classification of Wolfe as a second rate, one trick pony writer on that blog. second rate? ;( Only to third rate readers. Long Sun, Short Sun, an…
27 Oct 2005, 20:25
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This whole discussion of Idnn's change in character is pretty interesting. I think Wolfe makes it pretty clear that all of the characters except perhaps Ravd start off as contempt…
27 Oct 2005, 18:55
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This was one of my theories. First off, her name begins with Ma, as Pas starts with Pa. She has blue eyes, something Crane says is very rare, and so does Silk. Silk descends the…
05 Jul 2005, 13:04
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The big, huge problem with getting specific instances of Silk in the third person "HE" of RTTW whorl scenes is that they weren't written by a witness - they are 3rd person - and wh…
11 Jan 2005, 17:22
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Adam said: My point was that Wolfe has consciously constructed the book in such a fashion - not Silkhorn. Marc…
06 Jan 2005, 22:20
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