Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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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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This weekend I am in the bay area, a city called Fairfield about thirty five miles away on interstate 80 from the book store mentioned. tried to stop in yesterday morning since I …
21 Nov 2009, 17:07
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In my heart I have always craved a benevolent fascism based on a compelling cult of personality. I always thought socialism had a lowest common denominator effect that squashed su…
20 May 2009, 00:51
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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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a few weeks ago I made the claim the island of the pit on blue was composed of trees. I am always travelling and so did not have access to my books until now. On page 161 of oBW,…
19 May 2009, 15:15
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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