Index · 154 messages in 130 threads · 01 Jul 1998 – 05 Dec 1998

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• opened the Mantis by prion
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). I know she would eat me, said the mantis; but I want to understand why she does it. prion…
  02 Jul 1998, 20:01
• opened Black hole vs. wormhole
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). In looking through the archives, I've seen much discussion about the black hole at the center of Urth's sun which is causing it to die prematurely. H…
  02 Jul 1998, 19:52
• opened Thyme/Fauna
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). I'd just like to quickly note that if Thyme and Fauna are husband and wife, their names would be reversed from the animal/vegetable with male/female f…
  02 Jul 1998, 19:51
• opened Beuzec search
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). I'd like to thank Matthew Malthouse for helping look for the origin of Beuzec's name (saint or not could show if human or not). I'd also like to say …
  02 Jul 1998, 19:05
• opened hierarchy of days
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). Quite a while ago, either mantis or nutria (I'm sorry but I can't recall who it was) wrote about how each class in the Commonwealth was connected to a…
  02 Jul 1998, 18:59
• opened Torturers as priests
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). It seems to me that the original form of the torturers guild was the Roman Catholic Priesthood. Gene Wolfe has said that he believes Jesus Christ was…
  02 Jul 1998, 18:46
• opened Palaemon as Severian0
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). I was thinking about how Palaemon may be Gene Wolfe's original concept for how the story of Sev would go (The Feast of St. Catherine). Well, the orig…
  02 Jul 1998, 18:19
• opened Fifth Head of Cerberus, Beuzec
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). I'd like to thank mantis and Borski for their welcome and quick and informative replies. I'm going to have to think about how to find more evidence f…
  02 Jul 1998, 17:59
• opened old, cold, and bold
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). In Tracking Song, it seems that the tribes don't just represent modern animals, but Ice Age animals. They also are all giant varieties of current ani…
  02 Jul 1998, 00:57
• opened and brush your tusks after every meal
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). I don't remember if this issue was brought to a consensus, but I know that there was some discussion about what the Sleighers (in Tracking Song) were…
  02 Jul 1998, 00:45
• opened singing off the top of my head
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). There hasn't been much talk recently about Tracking Song, so I thought I'd bring up something mentioned but that I don't recall being responded to. S…
  02 Jul 1998, 00:34
• opened islands of the Commonwealth
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). A previous letter to the list (I'm sorry but I don't remember when) asked how the Commonwealth could be in a South America geographically similar to t…
  02 Jul 1998, 00:27
• opened Winnoc, Beuzec in Lexicon Urthus
  This is Sean Whalen (prion). In the Lexicon Urthus, Winnoc (the slave who was whipped by Palaemon as a young man) and Beuzec (Hethor's companion) do not have entries. Were they p…
  02 Jul 1998, 00:23

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