Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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I can't sleep. If my genetic recombination theory is right, Horn went through the process of being eaten on Blue when he fell in the vine pit (he fell in a tree) and the genetic…
09 Jan 2002, 10:23
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Hey guys, just one more thing that stresses the importance of plant genetics: Wolfe goes to great lengths to talk about the genetics of corn, how to cross it to get white and red …
09 Jan 2002, 07:49
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I am posting this long exposition here in praise of the various features of the Short Sun that make it worth reappraisal. If you don't want to read it, feel free to skip it. If…
09 Jan 2002, 06:23
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And, in case my vast knowledge of genetics surprised any of you, I really do have an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Notre Dame ... Unfortunately, I got tired of lab wo…
09 Jan 2002, 05:33
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Matthew so kindly pointed out: Maybe there was a bottlekneck effect that really favored multiply limbed or allopolypliod mutation (and by the way, in plants, you can usually doub…
09 Jan 2002, 05:23
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For Joe, who said: more likely to be in glasses, no? I do think there is something to this, but re-reading the relevant chapters didn't help me work it ou…
09 Jan 2002, 05:03
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Another thing of interest: Horn notes, before leaving, that Nettle should be very careful of the tides during confluence. Since Green would be much, much, much closer than we ev…
09 Jan 2002, 04:02
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All right, guys. Finally got some real information that is pretty cool. At confluence, Green is 30,000 leagues away (every six years). At one point, someone mentions that at t…
09 Jan 2002, 03:55
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All right, with all this talk of the differences between the environment of Blue and the environment of Urth, with one of the big ones being that "green" (lune) was a lot closer,…
09 Jan 2002, 03:48
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I want to thank Andy R. and Michael Andre-Druissi for at least looking at that Blue as Ushas time-travel theory, and at least considering it. Yes, I think Typhon wanted loyal su…
08 Jan 2002, 03:54
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Michael Andre-Druissi states The Claw bends time in THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, and Severian travels through time in URTH OF THE NEW SUN, yes. But Silkhorn's trip to …
06 Jan 2002, 23:08
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In response to my crazed and unorganized theories involving Horn in Babbie and Neighbors as some kind of tree or something, Nutria kindly (and thoroughly, in a much more organize…
05 Jan 2002, 19:11
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Wolfe is what we call a Nerd, in this decadent age, and in a better one would call an Artisan. His interest is in working quietly, cunningly, and well; his hope is to be r…
05 Jan 2002, 02:45
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In response to my theory that Horn is in Babbie, Nutria wrote a Neighbor calling to Horn as a "baby." I don't see evidence that Horn can "transmigrate his soul" in any …
04 Jan 2002, 18:17
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First, I'd like to say I think I found something pretty cool, but I'm not sure if its been discussed before. It's weird, but there is a ton of evidence for it (or at least a lit…
03 Jan 2002, 16:21
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Very interesting stuff about the Maternal paganism in Wolfe, Nutria. Thanks for sharing your conversation with Wolfe. Hey Andy, when you say I'm being too literal, do you mean a…
03 Jan 2002, 03:21
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I can see how Wolfe might like Lawhead for his portrayal of a pagan religion being transformed into a simulacra of Christian monotheism in the few books that I've read by him (In…
02 Jan 2002, 22:10
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All right, this will be my last post for tonight. (I guess I have nothing else to do - I keep thinking of new stuff - hopefully someone will find SOMETHING worth discussing). Ne…
02 Jan 2002, 02:20
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Have we been able to account for the presence of the strego with the talking bird in Inclito's mother's first story? What does that story reflect in the work as a whole? Here i…
02 Jan 2002, 01:59
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Since it seems like there is very little going on in the discussio lately, I'll continue posting my crazed observations. What have we made of the narrator's staff in The Book of …
02 Jan 2002, 01:22
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Thanks for the kind words about my idea of female spys in the Book of the Short Sun, Alice. I myself am fascinated by the appearance of Dr. Crane's ghost near the end of Return …
30 Dec 2001, 02:03
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Please forgive me if this post repeats older material and rips off anyone's ideas. The computer I am working on now is so painfully slow that to review the archives would take a…
25 Dec 2001, 16:33
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I recently observed that Return to the Whorl is available for download on one of those Microsoft Readers. Does anybody know if the typos that had somehow crept into the hardback…
16 Nov 2001, 16:40
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Hey, Endy: even though I haven't read the new Wolfe story, I'm assuming that the five called time would simply deal with our common representation of the dimensions,(line, square…
03 Sep 2001, 10:16
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Since someone mentioned Wolfe's foreshadowing of Scylla as Oreb again, I just wanted to point out that Wolfe always places two seemingly unrelated things together, side by side i…
03 Aug 2001, 18:43
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With all this talk of fake books, I just wanted to point out that someone has really written a Necronomicon, I saw a copy in Barnes and Nobles, purporting to be the ancient book.…
15 Jun 2001, 10:49
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If the inhumi all refuse to feast on human blood since they become "good" from good humans, then their offspring would return to mindless animals. There is nothing to prevent th…
25 Apr 2001, 10:12
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Before, I wrote to which rostrum replied: Here is a quote from an online interview accessible through Paul Duggan's web sight. "GW: I suppose yeah. Yes. Somewhat the same conce…
20 Apr 2001, 07:08
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Well, all this debate about mechanical versus biological godlings leaves me to bring up an example of the human-looking ubermensch from Lake of the Long Sun: councillor Lemur had…
19 Apr 2001, 17:16
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James Jordan wrote As far as I remember from a Wolfe interview, I thought he identified Madame Serpentina as pride (she is a haughty wench) and Stubb as Envy. I think Wolfe waf…
18 Apr 2001, 23:15
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I really don't see why some are so distraught over Wolfe's use of a really big Godling or astral travel. Severian's relationship with the new sun seems equally mysterious. How …
18 Apr 2001, 08:53
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Here's another theory. Adam and Nutria said On the contrary, I think the editors do have a valid reason to say that in fact SILK returned instead of their father HORN in some unk…
09 Apr 2001, 23:02
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Adam said: What about those explicit errors in On Blue's Waters where he calls his son Horn and then concludes that he caught the ball, he won the game? How much more explicitl…
05 Apr 2001, 17:54
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Since I've only read the short sun books once (quickly) I'm sure I missed something, but in RttW it seemed to me that Mucor was quite dead and that her manifestation on the whorl…
04 Apr 2001, 09:32
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I think someone has already mentioned that the gashing of the flesh is a typical pass time for mourners (see Orpine's funeral at the beginning of Lake), so I read Silk's mutilati…
27 Mar 2001, 23:08
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Sorry... I'm a cradle catholic. Both my parents are Roman Catholic as well... I'll respond to some of the other commentary to my post after I have time to consider the implicati…
27 Feb 2001, 15:54
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I normally only post to the Urth list, but due to the minimal amount of congress there in recent weeks I have decided to subscribe to the whorl list as well. The recent trend in …
27 Feb 2001, 12:09
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Thanks for the response, Nigel. Another big part of the novel Red Star involves a problem with putting aside individualism. The least individualistic earthman (Leonov) the mart…
12 Feb 2001, 15:10
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A few years ago I had to read an old russian science fiction novel called "Red Star" by Bogdanov for a Russian History class. In it, a young political activist in Russia is taken …
10 Feb 2001, 11:20
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Has anyone thought of a good middle name for Will Shields from Castelview? I at first thought that Everyman would be an acceptable one given the ubiquitous nature of arthur's desc…
17 Jan 2001, 08:32
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I have always read the final lines of the text of Peace as a redemptive purification, a return to the "brand new" state of the ax which is so originally used as a metaphor for puri…
13 Nov 2000, 21:36
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One of my favorite lines in the whole Book of the New Sun (I'm sure this has been commented on before, but I haven't had the chance to peruse the old archives) is in The Citadel of…
16 Aug 2000, 13:06
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Hey! Sorry to bother you all with this, but does anybody know how to get rid of all that garbage that appears when I post, repeating the message all broken up and taking up useles…
14 Aug 2000, 12:52
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I have never been convinced by the argument that Merryn the witch is Sev's sister. A recent rereading of The Sword of the Lictor has almost convinced me that Pia is at least a cand…
13 Aug 2000, 23:13
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