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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I was just wondering about the names of the cities in the Whorl and their meaning. Viron: Latin for a circle, center. Viron is surrounded by other …
13 Jul 1998, 23:43
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). When I looked over the Whorl Archives here, I was amazed to learn that Blood's father was Patera Pike. I also read the discussion of clues in the tex…
13 Jul 1998, 23:39
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I just read Wolfe's short story "The Green Rabbit from S'Rian." I noticed that the protagonist's name, Tev Noen, is actually Neon Vet backwards. Is …
13 Jul 1998, 23:31
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Has anyone noticed that the Autarch Appian's name is a homophone for apian (bee-like)? Any connection with the Honey Steward? Also, most bees are st…
13 Jul 1998, 23:29
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). When I looked through _Castle of the Otter_, I noticed that the names Ossipago, Barbatus, and Famulimus were mentioned, but that Wolfe said he had los…
13 Jul 1998, 20:30
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). When I was thinking about Borski's idea that Aunt Jeannine from _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ is an abo (which I believe), I remembered another point t…
13 Jul 1998, 20:07
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Mantis, when I looked through the _Lexicon Urthus_ and the Errata Sheet, I noticed that on the sheet you put the correction that Tokoloshe are from Af…
10 Jul 1998, 10:26
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). When I looked back over the archives, I found some comparisons of Silk to Moses, but I don't think the similarity of Silk fighting Blood to Moses and …
09 Jul 1998, 22:16
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). As I looked over the Whorl archives, it seemed to me that not everyone agreed that the planets Blue and Green were part of a double planet system, but…
09 Jul 1998, 22:09
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I've just finished reading The Book of the Long Sun, and thought I'd give some of the thoughts I had after reading the Whorl archives. The use of the…
09 Jul 1998, 21:40
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). William Ansley, I'm glad that you reminded me about the part in cues where the first bowling ball talks about the universe being infinite with your qu…
09 Jul 1998, 21:33
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Matt, I just added this as part of some of my previous posts of the theory that the torturers are the Urth form of Catholic priests. If they can chan…
09 Jul 1998, 01:28
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Matt, I just added this as part of some of my previous posts of the theory that the torturers are the Urth form of Catholic priests. If they can chan…
09 Jul 1998, 01:23
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). In the same book, there is a story called "How the Rabbit Lost His Tail." In it, the rabbit has a brother who has amazing powers. The rabbit goes we…
08 Jul 1998, 17:43
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I recently looked through a book called _Myths and Legends of the Sioux_ by Marie L. McLaughlin to try to find insight into the story Tracking Song, a…
08 Jul 1998, 17:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I recently reread Tracking Song and have seen some points that I don't think have been addressed earlier. First, at the very beginning of the story, …
07 Jul 1998, 22:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). SBear, I don't think that the black hole and white fountain are the same hole. If that were so, when they canceled each other out, which I'm not sure…
06 Jul 1998, 17:11
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). All right, I think Damien Broderick's evidence shows conclusively that a black hole could exist inside the sun. However, I still don't think that thi…
06 Jul 1998, 09:41
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I know that a while back it was a fairly big point of contention about the intelligence of the animals of Urth. Severian barely interacted with any a…
06 Jul 1998, 09:40
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Mantis, I don't doubt that if the sun became an accretion disk around a black hole it would last longer than if a black hole simple appeared at the ce…
05 Jul 1998, 21:05
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I don't think I know any sources that say what would happen if a black hole spontaneously appeared in the center of a normal star. I'm basing my argu…
05 Jul 1998, 11:20
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). When I saw the debate about A Solar Labyrinth, I reread it, keeping the previous discussions in mind. It seems to be about books (or fantasy books), …
05 Jul 1998, 00:29
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Jason, I've pretty much exhausted my knowledge about black holes, too, so don't worry. To explain that (admittedly complex) sentence, what I meant wa…
04 Jul 1998, 12:51
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Quite a while ago there was some discussion about how much energy was available from the planet Urth, and how much Abaia could get, as opposed to the …
04 Jul 1998, 10:21
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). The initial size of the black hole doesn't have much to do with the time for the cycle to complete. Any size of a hole would complete the process in …
04 Jul 1998, 09:47
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). In the Lexicon Urthus, mantis wrote that Apheta means starting place. It also is an astrological term for the giver of life. Another word that would…
03 Jul 1998, 08:52
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). It is possible Wolfe wouldn't have known or cared about the real effects of a black hole in the sun. However, since the story would be entirely scien…
03 Jul 1998, 08:38
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I'd like to thank William Ansley for the compliment. You know the old saying, "He who comes last works hardest." Actually, your idea about the Shado…
02 Jul 1998, 23:41
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I just thought of the fact that the Autarch Ymar ordered that the female Jailers/torturers no longer be allowed to be members because of their cruelty…
02 Jul 1998, 23:17
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I've just thought of some new evidence for the thing at the center of Urth's sun not to be a black hole. Do you know what a quasar or active galactic…
02 Jul 1998, 23:08
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Just an odd little thought about technology in the story Tracking Song. Cim, who's like a mink, has a mysterious rod (endieva) that probably uses ele…
02 Jul 1998, 22:37
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). In Tracking Song, the planet apparently relates to Mars, as many people have said (such as it's like the old pulp comics that always happen on Mars). …
02 Jul 1998, 22:24
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). In the Urth of the New Sun, when Severian goes back in time to the time when he becomes Apu-Punchau, I believe that when he is following the Brook Mad…
02 Jul 1998, 22:08
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Alga has a (half-joking) theory that the Cumaean is an inhumus. However, why don't Father Inire, Ossipago, Barbatus, and Famulimus know this? They a…
02 Jul 1998, 21:49
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Jason, thanks for addressing the issue of the object at the center of the sun in tBotNS, but I still know a black hole, of any size, would absorb the …
02 Jul 1998, 21:40
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I'm afraid I must defend my remarks on the nature of black holes. Jason Voegele asserts that a black hole is not a guzzler, but has only the gravitat…
02 Jul 1998, 20:36
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I have always had the feeling that the wooden plane in Free Live Free is the same as the ship Tzadkiel. Why? Well, they both are made of wood (thoug…
02 Jul 1998, 20:17
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I just had the thought that perhaps the struggle (and possible eventual union) between the Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals is parallelled by action or ch…
02 Jul 1998, 20:10
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). A while ago I think there was some question about how big Hethor's mirrors would have to be for him to get all those creatures through them. It's pos…
02 Jul 1998, 18:29
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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
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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
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). On June 29, 1998, Robert Borski wrote a comparison of the story the Hero as Werwolf to St. Paul, and other Biblical stories that I feel was very perce…
02 Jul 1998, 01:17
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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
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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
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