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I've always assumed he was hearkening back to the Greek word 'mysterion,' which generally refers to knowlege that is unknowable, but also means knowlege that is secret, for initiat…
10 Feb 2009, 16:45
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Amen to that, Chris. I am full of responses to your idiotic assertions, witz, but I'm going to resist, because this conversation has little-if-anything to do with GENE WOLFE. If …
05 Feb 2009, 11:57
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Wow ... I don't comment much on this list, but ... damn. Do you suppose you could lay off the Catholics for a while? "Priest Rapists" are a result of the Filioque clause? Come on. …
05 Feb 2009, 02:08
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Hm, now that is interesting, Witz. Maybe if we combine this with Bruce's observation that Baldanders' hormones may be playing with his personality, and Dave's observation that he's…
29 Dec 2008, 19:12
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I'm wondering about the short section in Chapter XV ("Baldanders"), in which Baldanders seems to be talking in his sleep. Severian is half awake and responding to what he thinks Ba…
29 Dec 2008, 12:13
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I've checked the archives, but don't see that this has been discussed: what do you all make of the enigmatic reference at the beginning of Shadow Chapter X (The Last Year), where S…
13 Nov 2008, 12:01
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Thanks Adam. I did find those things in the archives (the reference to Borges is especially interesting to me). But I'm thinking all of that is pretty self-referential, and that s…
29 Sep 2008, 16:03
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Hello all. I'm emerging from underneath my rock to ask a question. I've read and re-read and re-re-read Book of the New Sun, and part of the fun is figuring out how each chapter,…
29 Sep 2008, 15:34
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