Posted from 5 addresses as Marc Aramini, maa32, aramini1, marcaramini, A Aramini, Marc A Aramini, Marc
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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 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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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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----- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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The interesting thing about a lot of these Dickinson poems to me is that they always seem to have that old hymn rhythm: a thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone shor…
09 Aug 2005, 10:25
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We know that after an inhumi feeds on a human, it is not only their child that assumes some of that essence, but themselves as well for a brief time. A few years ago, I had posi…
09 Aug 2005, 10:19
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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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