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In England (and in the Germanic countries generally, to a lesser extent) the axe was favored; on the Con- tinent (and especially in the Romance countries) the sword was preferred. …
22 Oct 1998, 13:39
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To which alga (Alice Turner) responded at 12:52 pm GMT: And Alex David Groce added at 1:52 pm GMT: As alga points out, the example that comes most readily to mind is Lilith. Alt…
22 Oct 1998, 12:07
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While I'll grant you that Islamic and Zoroastrian works aren't typically of great importance in our culture, Sergeant, I'd hesitate to suggest that Judaism is either pagan or conta…
19 Oct 1998, 10:16
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I'm not convinced that the literal question "Where did you get it?" is really at issue for Famulimus and Bar- batus here. I think it's the only way that they can ask the real ques…
16 Oct 1998, 14:14
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You may not be able to afford the Cheap Street _Empires of Foliage and Flower_, but if you can, or if you know someone who's got it, do by all means track it down. It is, to quote…
15 Oct 1998, 15:35
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You're right, of course; it is Decuman. So much for my memory. Mark Millman…
09 Oct 1998, 08:59
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You're right, of course. I should have said "some- thing thought to be magic". Which, as you kindly indicate, still permits my argument. Mark Millman…
06 Oct 1998, 09:26
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On 2 October at 11:48 pm GMT, Robert Borski said: To which Christopher R. Culver, on 3 October at 2:06 am GMT, replied: And Kieran Mullen, on 5 October at 1:25 am GMT added: Rob…
05 Oct 1998, 18:29
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And on Wednesday 23 September 1998 Robert Borski answered me: Thank you for the information. Naturally, "The River" hasn't yet been reprinted, and its only appearance to date is …
23 Sep 1998, 09:12
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I'm not familiar with "Four Wolves". Where can I find it? That's not the collective title for the "Red- wood Coast Roamer", "In the Old Hotel", etc., short-shorts, is it? Mark M…
22 Sep 1998, 14:56
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Just off the top of my head, I can offer the following possibilities: 1. They're not human, despite their appearance, and so humans don't look for the right signs of aging in the…
02 Sep 1998, 09:12
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. . . you get cancer. (Pace Eco.) Mark Millman…
20 Aug 1998, 13:13
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This seems entirely possible, though if I recall (and you've all just had a taste of how bad my memory can be) we're really given no evidence of how the castellan of the Citadel re…
15 Jul 1998, 12:04
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On 10 July 1998 at 9:05 GMT mantis sez: You're so right. I apologize. And my memory is so decayed. Mark Millman (whose memory is as perfect as Severian's; perfectly, as opposed…
10 Jul 1998, 17:39
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On 10 July 1998 at 5:42 pm GMT mantis sez: But a close reading of "The Map" will convince you that it's set immediately after Maxellindis' death; in fact, the corpse that Eata fis…
10 Jul 1998, 14:53
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to which William Ansley replied: and Peter Westlake (Spectacled Bear) added: The maze may be insoluble at noon because, in the ideal (i.e., equatorial) situation at least, the ma…
06 Jul 1998, 10:39
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As far as I can recall there are no stories in which Wolfe explicitly discusses evolution at all (and now, no doubt, someone will post the titles of several), though he perhaps com…
05 Jun 1998, 17:53
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Wolfe defends Lamarckism at least in part because he thinks that Jean-Baptiste Lamarck got a bad rap from modern science when the Darwinian model of evolution (there were several c…
05 Jun 1998, 15:45
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But, Dr. Wynken, we know that Phaedria has had cosmetic surgery and other procedures in order to make her more attractive and/or valuable, and that Wolfe specifically mentions that…
03 Jun 1998, 10:36
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About the word: "talus" is also both what should be the Latin spelling of the Greek "Talos" (and, with the Spanish terms and formal Church hierarchy of BotLS, Latin as a source of…
22 May 1998, 12:15
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mantis wrote on 12 May 1998: Sev4.5--traveler who dies of fever in the mountains. Giving us 13 Severians? Hmmm. Mark Millman…
12 May 1998, 09:53
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Hey mantis-- While I personally agree that the exultants, whether they are systematically (i.e., genetically) taller or individually (i.e., royally-jellied) taller, probably have …
01 May 1998, 17:22
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Personally, I've always favored the explanation that the exultant families were genetically engineered as aristocrats and military leaders. They're taller so that they will look m…
01 May 1998, 15:21
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I just re-read BotNS (in preparation for the lamentably lost Disclave discussion) and I've come to think that there is no difference (_pace_ mantis) between eidolons and aquastors.…
16 Apr 1998, 14:54
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to which Christopher R. Culver replied: But Severian, since he doesn't speak Chinese, might well not notice the tones--they're not that obvious to non-speakers even in Cantonese, …
17 Mar 1998, 15:43
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This is a public thank-you to alga for the information on Disclave. I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say that I appreciate your efforts. Mark Millman…
06 Mar 1998, 16:13
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This is another quick bibliographic note. "Tracking Song" was originally published in _In the Wake of Man_, a three-story anthology edited by R. A. Lafferty. I've forgotten the t…
02 Mar 1998, 16:51
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It may be relevant to this discussion to note that Kipling wrote a book titled, _Thy Servant, a Dog_, in which the Dog of the title refers to his master as "Own God" and to the mis…
02 Mar 1998, 12:22
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I'd like to make a contribution to the evolutionary argu- ment, if I may. Ach, ja. The flip side of the coin is that the driving engine of evolution--the cause of the differentia…
09 Feb 1998, 12:50
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