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One of my friends was talking about the "Castlevania: Symphony of Night" game for the Playstation and mentioned the sword Terminus Est. I guess it is a poison sword in the game.…
26 Mar 2002, 04:01
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All right, here is one more interesting thing I think that we should consider. In the chapter entitled Father Inire's mirrors in Shadow of the Torturer, the properties of light a…
25 Mar 2002, 19:18
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One of the biggest obstacles to my hackneyed (to the point of exhaustion) short sun interpretation is proving that Silk/Horn can move through time, and specifically proving that …
25 Mar 2002, 15:18
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As far as the analysis of the "two names" that have always described number five, I often think those were simply "number" and "five"; (in other words, I think the narrator has t…
22 Mar 2002, 16:25
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Someone asked why I bothered with the trematode/frog thing. Jerry previously commented that he hadn't seen anything that indicated these polyploid froggies X. Leavis might have …
21 Mar 2002, 05:33
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Hey, Jerry. Thanks for looking into that stuff more thouroughly. Here is something else: trematodes that cause extra limbs in X Leavis. (Anyone not interested in this should d…
20 Mar 2002, 02:44
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Roy gave this passage: "Every time I remembered something that happened there, I would think of something that's happened since I've been with you, some little thing or something …
19 Mar 2002, 17:30
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Has a prophecy ever failed to have two meanings in Wolfe? Someone pointed out that the beast with three horns is instantly discredited by the narrator. I have two words for you…
19 Mar 2002, 05:19
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Here is one more interesting lecture that talks about the creation of instant species. If you've had enough polyploidy, ignore it, but its terms are pretty cool. It tells that …
19 Mar 2002, 03:26
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This is quoted from Dr. R. Neil Jones. The link is at the bottom if you want to read the whole section yourself. "3. Polyploidy in animals is known in flatworms, earthworms leec…
19 Mar 2002, 03:10
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All right guys: here is a picture from an online lecture of animal polyploidy. Notice that the frog has six rear legs: it is probably 6N rather than 2N or 4N. It does happen in …
19 Mar 2002, 03:04
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to one of my comments about the vanished people on green,I was answered: "? When Horn first met the Neighbors, and they formally turned over possession of Blue to him as represent…
19 Mar 2002, 03:01
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In the second chapter of Shadow of the Torturer, which I happened to glance at quickly before I left my book in a temporarily inaccessible place, stated that Severian was certain…
18 Mar 2002, 17:33
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Andy stated: As I thought - Wolfe is obeying internally generated mythic imperatives in creating these patterns. He does not know if Ushas/Lune is Blue/Green, and he…
18 Mar 2002, 07:04
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Someone claimed the gravity on Blue and Green was similar. This is a pretty uninstantiated claim. The narrator can walk up a cliff with one hand and fight off inhumu with the o…
14 Mar 2002, 15:59
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No doubt I'm repeating myself again, but for Blattid: I think I did a pretty good job reconciling all the differences between the descriptions of Urth (saltier sea, different col…
28 Feb 2002, 00:31
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Jerry - also, right around this time in Return to the Whorl Hoof talks about how the voice of his father fades out like it was spoken "long ago" in a place "far away" during the …
27 Feb 2002, 05:29
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Jerry, The quote you bring up keeps emphasizing how old and ancient the world around the red star is. The distance is one of time. The present tense refers to the transtemporal…
27 Feb 2002, 04:42
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Yep, it was part of my claim that the two Scylla's are either the same or relatives (a younger sister or child, perhaps -> there is the scene in Return to the Whorl where Hoof lo…
26 Feb 2002, 01:21
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I was just sitting around reading Borges' Selected Non-fictions when I came across his review of Eberhard's chinese fairy tales. Does this sound familiar or what?! "The problem…
25 Feb 2002, 20:16
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I was just going to clarify a previous post, and I will stick to the New Sun books for this. I was positing that The Green Man and his continued existence represents "saved huma…
25 Feb 2002, 18:43
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Someone commented a little while ago on the obvious lack of a crucifixion in the allegorical schema of the Sun books... and it depends how allegorical you want to get. Terminus …
24 Feb 2002, 21:16
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I have a saved copy of Watts' Psalm 90, so I decided I would reprint it in its entirety here (the 1st part, anyway). Has anyone commented on how the theme of a saving flood in th…
24 Feb 2002, 00:37
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Two things: First, for Steve and William: Thanks for at least keeping my theories in mind, guys. I really DID put a lot of thought and time into them, so of course I'm going to…
23 Feb 2002, 01:40
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Steve commented that the appearance of the neighbors was before the pit. This is incorrect. There are neighborly artifacts and holy places before that, but in the pit is the fi…
22 Feb 2002, 00:52
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Rostrum: Thanks for responding to my idea that Silk can inspire others. Look at several of the other dream sequences in Long Sun: Hyacinth and Silk in a deadcoach, all the Scyl…
19 Feb 2002, 17:28
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Rostrum, I just thought of something else you might want to look at to make sense of the status of the information presented in the third person sections of return to the whorl: …
17 Feb 2002, 17:36
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Rostrum stated hard enough time believing that the Narrator recounted whole conversations to them verbatim, much less that he told them in detail about all the dreams he had in th…
17 Feb 2002, 17:32
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Some have recently speculated on the obviously disturbing lack of appetite in the narrator of the Short Sun books. Remember that in the chilly snows of In Green's Jungles the na…
16 Feb 2002, 22:45
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I was in error in attributing the Lysistrata to Euripedes: of course Aristophanes wrote it, right? Also, another big parallel with Eco's book and TBOTNS is the deluge: the man s…
12 Feb 2002, 22:46
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Since Paracelsus came up, and the elixer applied to swords that can heal or harm, I was reminded of the scene in Castleview which talks about the healing property of scabards and…
12 Feb 2002, 18:32
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This is just an observation, and it really doesn't mean anything. I just noticed that when Andy Robertson replies to a post, it uses the original senders ID on the archives (at …
11 Feb 2002, 21:25
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Woah! I never considered the connotations of the "magic" abilities that Silk obviously has until it was phrased in a previous post as "walk through brush magic." This seems to m…
11 Feb 2002, 15:36
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I'm so glad Mishima came up in this debate. If we pare down his ideas to their essential level: beautiful things should be destroyed before they become ugly -> by destroying som…
10 Feb 2002, 21:26
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Well, since it was recently mentioned that some Catholics miss the old Latin mass, I thought I would add that Wolfe is one of those. I have discussed his faith with him a little…
10 Feb 2002, 20:59
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Hey, has anybody interpreted that passage at the end of Return to the Whorl from the chrasmologic writings which talks about the trampled Hyacinth blooming beneath the shepherd's…
07 Feb 2002, 04:40
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And while I don't take "Hyacinth as possibly a man" seriously, there is a funny comment that Quetzal makes. When Silk says he disgraced his office and states he slept with a woman…
06 Feb 2002, 22:49
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Anyway, was any consensus ever reached in the old days about the phantom presence of Triskele being able to "speak" in Severian's dream in Shadow of the Torturer? Is the friend w…
06 Feb 2002, 22:42
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I was asked about my conversion of 30,000 leagues and 80,000 leagues before the list went down, since I claimed 80,000 leagues was currently the average distance from the earth t…
05 Feb 2002, 18:26
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Hey Joe, you said you first read the book in 1988? I think I read it in '89. My father used to work at an Air Force Base Commisary as the Head Bagger, and his #2 man was a big …
05 Feb 2002, 13:58
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Jerry, Joe has recently cross-referenced the two appearances of the "Green Mankiller" that appears once towards the end of In Green's Jungles and briefly in Return to the Whorl. …
05 Feb 2002, 05:35
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Joe said: been (so far) a son, student, lover, fighter, colonist, husband, father, mill builder, adulterer, sailor, quest taker....and more. Except for the …
05 Feb 2002, 05:31
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Hey Matthew, there are a TON of different places that comment on this. The easiest way to get a good (understandable no matter what your background in hormones and genetics) sam…
05 Feb 2002, 05:21
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Hey Joe. If you wanted another Fruedian association in Wolfe, then the name of the narrator Horn offers a few. I'm sure we've discussed the Shakespearian connotation of horns a…
03 Feb 2002, 18:42
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This is a pretty interesting debate on rebellion and government in the Autarchy. People seem to be getting a little heated about it now. Just keep in mind that a "just" fascist…
02 Feb 2002, 22:16
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It was very astutely noted by Rostrum (sorry if I got that wrong - a very long digest) that hybrids are the key, not plant genetics. Of course, that is also what I am saying - h…
01 Feb 2002, 18:26
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on the subspecies with tails in In glory like their star: Monkeys? They are more genetically similar to us than a lot of animals we lump together into the same species are to ea…
31 Jan 2002, 04:17
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I have no idea if this means anything or not: the description of the azoth from Return to the Whorl describes the jewel in the hilt as "a watery somewhat purplish stone" when Min…
31 Jan 2002, 04:05
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Hey guys. Remember how my theory of "corn and maize genetics proove that Blue is Ushas?" I just wanted you guys to read chapter 1 again with that whole plant genetic thing in m…
30 Jan 2002, 17:48
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Hey Joe. The pen case has some other odd things about it - the narrator claims he picked it up between the time he left Pig and the time he first glimpsed Olivine through the wi…
30 Jan 2002, 17:33
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