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Yes ... it seems that Spring Wind is much more Green Man than Typhon ... and I have noted the Green Man feeds off the light of the New Sun in something I am writing up now. The st…
15 Sep 2014, 19:26
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It's strange indeed, but the ubiquity of oil everywhere in Forlesen and the fences around the buildings as if for defense really do seem lifted from the life of Frick, the name of …
15 Sep 2014, 16:09
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Okay, all I was implying was that the undines are known as the brides of Abaia. This scene is where Sev is rescued by the undine Juturna, who casts him up, and he sees the statue …
15 Sep 2014, 15:55
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There is a very matrix feel to Forlesen after the fact but nobody wakes up from this nightmare. Especially with the black and orange machines eating the buildings at the end of the…
14 Sep 2014, 23:23
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The names Abraham, edna, Adam, and Emanuel must have some significance to the garden / fallen man imagery as well.…
14 Sep 2014, 21:07
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Well the new universe could have been created based on frick's business model. Frick has praisers in the form of sycophants. builders who move the universe could be the cloud high…
14 Sep 2014, 20:58
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I read it years and years ago ... didn't really remind me of Wolfe at all. Definitely reminded me of a bit of Beckett's Molloy trilogy/Waiting for Godot and RA Lafferty (though muc…
14 Sep 2014, 16:34
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There is a statue of Nox/night in the second chapter of Book of the New Sun after Juturna casts him out, linking that scene directly with Abaia.…
12 Sep 2014, 18:34
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sorry I was sending an attachment of a word document to finish working on the write up and in my autopilot state I sent it to the urth list instead of myself. A big picture for Fo…
11 Sep 2014, 01:52
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Well.. I guess my big problem with it is the idea of no Christ in a previous iteration, because that is something that we see more clearly in The Wizard Knight - knightly medieval …
10 Sep 2014, 16:41
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Yes, we need to see the goal mankind strives toward, the real point of Severian's narrative, transcendence into something else and the yesodis. If all these characters have access…
10 Sep 2014, 13:55
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When Vodalus says that Urth has been named thus since the utmost reaches of antiquity, it is a pun on the sound. It sounds the same but is spelled differently - the same name but …
09 Sep 2014, 20:11
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Rudesind at one point says that he was "supposed" to tell Severian something but then messes it up. I don't mind the ape associations with Inire at all (how else to describe all th…
09 Sep 2014, 18:49
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Lewis Carol especially is inconceivable without the presence of Christ in history. He would have a completely different life story and his introductions are so heavily skewed by a…
08 Sep 2014, 13:51
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That section quotes Mt. Nebo and the Bible quite explicitly. Jonas quotes Lewis Caroll and knows the origin source of The Tale of the Student and his Son and as the labyrinth of Cr…
08 Sep 2014, 13:39
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What do you think of Robert and Marie and their Bible missionary work in the Jungle Hut? Cross-cyclic hijinks in the Botanic Gardens? No Christ in their bible? A trick of the mir…
08 Sep 2014, 13:37
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hmmm ... but all the probabilities add up to .665 then ... and if he eats all six, he's GOING to eat the egg on one of those days ... sometimes I feel like probabiity is the most …
07 Sep 2014, 20:17
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Thanks. (Almost every Middle Eastern name in the text is from the Adventures of Hajji Baba, and interestingly enough, the detective sent to look for Nadan at the start of the book…
07 Sep 2014, 14:13
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And to be fair the coming of the New Sun isn't really a reboot of the entire cosmic cycle, just a local rebirth for Urth into Ushas. The play connotes the end of urth shall be like…
06 Sep 2014, 15:40
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Protestant…
06 Sep 2014, 14:31
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Right, the correct time to meet Cain would have been fifty million years earlier. I think the insistence Urth is a previous iteration is a retcon of the Jordan interview to avoid P…
06 Sep 2014, 14:30
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I'm trying to remember if it was Knight or Avram Davidson who wrote a negative review of Castleview.…
04 Sep 2014, 13:47
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Having said that, I think Wolfe has "preferred" party line readings that pierce the first level - Victor replacing Marsch is obviously, with the memories Marsch has of abo life, su…
03 Sep 2014, 13:46
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Harkening back to Gerry's comment here ... Wolfe's very nature is so cryptic sometimes the final structural layer really is a trick. Face to face at the 2013 Nebulas Kim Stanley R…
03 Sep 2014, 13:28
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One more quick point - when the barrier around ste Anne falls, Sandwalker asks his mother what color his eyes are "now". Of course she answers that eyes are green, but this , coupl…
01 Sep 2014, 21:32
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Thanks Richard. It is a bleak book for sure, but one of my favorites. Ultan's library finally put up my essay on it, but you are already familiar with the thesis from here - it i…
01 Sep 2014, 21:19
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The Italian version translates the entire "like glass/grass grow to any eye not of me" doggerel to hide Vodalus' coin completely differently in the first and last books. I haven't…
27 Aug 2014, 19:41
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I don't know what Wolfe's policy is on answering translator's and editor's questions, but he sure won't answer any of mine about his work anymore, and hasn't since like 2003. He do…
27 Aug 2014, 16:18
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Well, it does a little bit, because aude complains nobody told her the chatelaine had a pet.…
27 Aug 2014, 15:27
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It could be the Dickens virus of Doctor of Death Island if we were so inclined ... sounds like a plan.…
27 Aug 2014, 14:11
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Luckily, we still have the description of the girls legs on Ste. Anne as grotesquely long and like staffs which jives with the heronlike walk of abos in "A Story" and we still have…
27 Aug 2014, 13:42
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Here's a New Wave SF trick to do: in half the texts have the landers instantly replaced by imitative abos who believe themselves to be human, in the other half have Veil's hypothes…
27 Aug 2014, 13:34
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I am positing that "they" in the ace paperback shifted mid sentence. Now we have to guess whether an editor who didn't get it or Gene changed it.…
27 Aug 2014, 13:32
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The editor who changed "then I walked into the room" to "then Horn walked into the room" did it without Wolfe's knowledge and he is mad about it. I really think an editor changed …
27 Aug 2014, 13:29
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son of a gun what version of the text do you have?!!!! In the ACE paperback it says "When he came close to them they extended hands, open, and smiled; but THEY did not understand o…
27 Aug 2014, 13:27
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Do you think my assessment of the problematic timeline in The Map is accurate? It's been years and years since I read New Sun - going through it again now. Ironically I know New S…
27 Aug 2014, 06:00
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Thanks I will look it over again.…
27 Aug 2014, 05:52
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The parallel between Inire and mr smith in a solar labyrinth seems apt. That solitary child lost in the maze at noon when the maze itself disappears ...…
26 Aug 2014, 20:12
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I don't think the larval- lemur talk is a silly tale. I think it references the hieros and hierodules. Odilo just doesn't know about that.…
26 Aug 2014, 19:51
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So is "hooking" that golden fish dangerous? I always wondered if this was related to the new sun, though the fish is considered a minor mirror dweller. Inire might be literally cl…
26 Aug 2014, 19:49
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That darkness and gloom of creation Gwern mentioned is evoked is because this is a Halloween story dressed as sf/fantasy, for what it's worth.…
26 Aug 2014, 19:37
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The other issue is that if Inire has done something to get the cat back that costs the good part of her soul and innocence, it makes Inire truly a diabolical figure. His strict ord…
26 Aug 2014, 19:33
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Sounds good. I did mean to imply it was something of her lost innocence, and of course odilo sends it to leocadia on purpose - he gets revenge for lomer and sancha.…
26 Aug 2014, 19:19
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No lee, I think he was a shadow child, which is very different than an abo. I think Abos and shadow children have completely different life cycles. Thus he is persecuted. Everyon…
26 Aug 2014, 13:52
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No problem, I appreciate your close reading. I was on the lookout for things like the House of 31 February and got overzealous. I am glad you are reading them over! My pace has ac…
25 Aug 2014, 20:10
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there is an old saying 30 days has September april something and November and when I was writing it I messed up the third month as May, then thought I edited it out when I looked a…
25 Aug 2014, 16:37
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forgot to edit that out I guess. thought I caught it.…
25 Aug 2014, 16:36
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Marsch had already been to St Anne and been replaced when he met Number Five. They look at each other and instantly recognize a few things - Marsch sees Number Five is a clone and…
25 Aug 2014, 14:21
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And no, you don't need to come back with the drug saliva bit confusing the guy and having nothing to do with microorganisms. Like I said, believe whatever you want.…
25 Aug 2014, 00:23
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Cool, you can believe whatever you want. If you want to view the final scenes as outright lies that's fine, but there are textual hints that explain them as something beyond lies.…
25 Aug 2014, 00:20
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