Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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a few points. I feel some of us are complicating things, myself included. I believe the troubled Chenile is on Blue when Jahlee feeds on her drunk. She and Auk have been freed o…
01 May 2009, 21:12
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I have?a facebook page, but don't have much content up yet except pictures due to an abysmally slow internet connection at present. Am I how you imagined me? I will try to upload …
01 May 2009, 17:36
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Son of Witz - God is not necessarily a character in Long Sun, since the enlightenment (minor spoiler but not much of one) of the outsider can have other psychic or preprogrammed ex…
24 Dec 2008, 18:03
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I will only say these comments put me heavily in mind of the cyclic murder of solar and vegetative deities and their proxy kings by their replacements Frazer studies in The Golden …
24 Dec 2008, 02:43
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well, mamelta and kypris both have blue eyes. I found on page 220 of epiphany of the long sun "he danced with kypris, who was hyacinth and Mother, too." which can either…
26 Nov 2008, 07:31
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well, first you must realize there are only a few people with blue eyes. Mamelta is one of them. On page 423 of litany of the long sun, "soon, he felt he would encounter Orp…
26 Nov 2008, 07:10
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I agree with Chris in his impressions of Wright - I feel like the ambiguity around the miraculous in Wolfe is necessary and important. The enlightenment of the outsider DOES wind …
26 Nov 2008, 02:29
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The complexity of Wolfe's symbols are beyond simple categorization. The claw is both a divine relic and an ordinary thorn. Severian is both the conciliator and a dupe of alie…
26 Nov 2008, 01:03
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I believe Craig mentioned we were meant to contrast Sev and Silk in a meaningful fashion and I agree, yet at times it is disturbing to do so. Silk is the better man by modern stan…
22 Nov 2008, 01:51
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As far as Thecla being the autarch's daughter, it belies huge thematic portions of the text. The exultant daughters are kept as insurance agaisnt rebellion for their middle cl…
18 Nov 2008, 20:45
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That extra o in "to" at the cukmination 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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I will stop after this since we risk getting far off topic and I think it is an irreconcilable difference of thought. Let me just say the banker is deemed unqualified to define ma…
06 Nov 2008, 20:25
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Good points Craig - and I appreciate your analysis rather than the attacks I feared. I think it is close to what Severian expounds. I don't really want to start a riot, but …
06 Nov 2008, 16:14
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Everyone kept asking me who I voted for. I dreaded the honest compulsion to say I have no interest in participating in an institution doomed to follow the lowest common denominato…
06 Nov 2008, 02:47
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The description of Sev is one of paleness punctuated by dark head hair - Thecla says he must stay out of the sun or his pale skin will burn terribly. This does not seem to jive in…
01 Nov 2008, 17:19
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good job dave I think her apartment has been changing especially with things like a safe she did not know about and east and west arbor. No offense, but the typo defense is especi…
25 Oct 2008, 17:27
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I normally don't think looking at other texts is extremely enlightening for Wolfe's works but I feel differently for Evil Guest. I happened to be looking on my computer an…
20 Oct 2008, 01:50
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The son of witz is most interested in the religious resonance of New Sun - let me direct you to the opening of Sword of the Lictor when Sev escapes the cataract at Thrax. Again an…
10 Oct 2008, 15:22
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talk of the description of food in evil guest prompted one interesting thing - at the end cassie says a certain food reminds her of when she was the green goddess and on page 119 R…
02 Oct 2008, 05:53
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In response to Pedro - Yes, I have felt since short sun came out that the ghost of pike was a future version of Silk. Oreb appears as a human spirit because he is embued with scyl…
18 Sep 2008, 00:43
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Dave , I agree jahlee attacks chenille after auk fixes the lander. one point about your number fourteen: the island where the pit was was made up of giant trees - the scene made H…
02 Aug 2008, 01:03
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of course the mistranslated latin is evoking the absence of a perspicuous possibility in language. A one to one ratio of a word and its meaning was abandoned long ago as a possibil…
22 Jul 2008, 23:37
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It is clear that there is some interpretive task left to the reader in Wolfe. Prophecies like "horn, you shall ride a beast with three horns" and then babbie showing up l…
05 Jul 2008, 05:27
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I don't have it handy but there are a string of numbers and letters underground when silk finds the seal of pas before he picks u mamelta that I always thought must mean someth…
04 Jul 2008, 18:36
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I remember it was something like six one, one seventy something pounds. probably a bernard hopkins type build. hey his nickname is the executioner and he wears a mask out to the r…
01 Jul 2008, 05:21
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well, it all depends on how much effort Wolfe put into the play. I don't find the idea that it could tell us something particular about particular characters absurd at all, but…
30 Jun 2008, 05:41
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Roy, certainly you have a good grasp on the literal text, but there are no problems at all in mapping fictive life events from a play in a fictive universe that is both highly styl…
29 Jun 2008, 06:33
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all right, all the beheaded saints has convinced me that it is no coincidence and that there is some real beheading going on somewhere, like st. dorcas coming back from the dead.…
27 Jun 2008, 08:11
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I never really put much speculation into the relationship between ultan and the carrot woman at the grave, but the conversation between ultan and sev about the drachm of sticky flu…
26 Jun 2008, 15:46
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the ability to pinch off a smaller mateworthy and somewhat autonomous limb is an interesting one to attribute to the monsters of the sea, and it seems to resonate with Mother and S…
20 Jun 2008, 16:58
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I always thought the retconned story of Theseus and the novascaputs with the enormous sea ship was indicative of the size of the monsters like abaia. the student's creation mus…
18 Jun 2008, 17:46
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if the jungle hut proselytes with isangoma are any indication then christ existed in urth's past. Also, that picture of Buzz Aldron and the old airless moon indicates at least…
16 Jun 2008, 21:22
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I am something of an obituary watcher. Algis Budrys appears to have passed away, born in 1931. I get a bit depressed when I think that Clarke, Lafferty, Butler, Knight, Williamso…
11 Jun 2008, 02:51
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I have had the suspicion that some cosmic body was being switched around at the eclipse -that aphetas planet was actualy switched with the moon, producing the increasingly fierce t…
10 Jun 2008, 16:42
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I apologize john I am exceptionally guilty of not citing with my travelling job and always accessing the internet through the phone. There is a scene in Lake of the Long Sun where…
10 Jun 2008, 01:20
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Roy stated that it was clear silk`s enligtenment was not just a cerebral incident but a work of the increate . I think it was both - the text is fairly clear that silk was one of …
09 Jun 2008, 17:36
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On an unrelated note, I do think that any discussion of the moral ambiguity inherent in Father Chris must confront the older version breaking down in tears when the young novitiate…
18 Dec 2007, 04:44
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Well, the face of time travel has reared its head again on the Urth discussion list. My arguments that Urth-Lune was Blue Green were never as important to me as the idea that th…
18 Dec 2007, 04:43
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Certainly I understand that the connection between Pleistorus and Ahura Mazda is a tenuous bit of second hand information that occurs in only a line or two of Soldier of Arete. I …
05 Apr 2006, 06:33
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Jeff made the extremely valid point that a change in the character of a Greek God would be exceedingly out of character. That was part of my original point: he needed to be clothe…
04 Apr 2006, 14:21
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This is another post I made in May of 2003 that I was most impressed with reading it again. This will be the last repost - just thought this was some important stuff. "Latro offe…
01 Apr 2006, 18:16
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Well, here are some textual bits that favor the idea that either Latro is in fact an avatar of Pleistorus or that he has somehow become divine through a communicable disease. Thes…
01 Apr 2006, 09:12
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Hmm. Just had to comment on this Lucius/Lycius thing one more time. Lucius means bringer of light, Lycius is the name of the wolfly aspect of Apollo. So in Greek these names wou…
01 Apr 2006, 04:33
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Just had a revelation from one passage of Soldier of Arete. Tell me if you guys think it is conceivable, or if Io's warning about Hegesistratus to latro means something else besid…
31 Mar 2006, 05:59
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I believe that the ghostly figure that watches over Svon is Ravd for two reasons: Able looks over himself from Skai, so he isn't limited by the physical laws of Mythgarthr. There …
28 Oct 2005, 20:11
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After looking over the discussion on the latter blog, I am a bit amazed to see how preoccupied with the idea of Severian as a Torturer these critics are, and how quick to castigate…
27 Oct 2005, 19:31
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As an addendum to my previous posts, the most startling change is the one that overtakes Svon. He runs repeatedly throughout, is trounced by Toug who becomes his squire, and then …
27 Oct 2005, 19:02
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I always vowed to look up Mani's claim of being a tutelary lars, which I assumed was a form of spiritual guide. The definition is below, but I was struck by Able's claim later: "I…
19 Oct 2005, 18:30
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I had some spare time recently to re-read The Wizard Knight. I thought there were a few interesting things I noticed this time. One cool thing I noticed: the first book is titled…
17 Oct 2005, 17:46
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one more thing about the chenille on blue theory: if Horn went back at the end of In Green's Jungles and repaired the lander with his body in it, and Chenille took it to Blue, the…
09 Aug 2005, 10:28
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