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I've toyed with the idea of a film adaptation of the first two Soldier books that takes place entirely in Latro's memory palace. He wanders the palace touching items, recovering s…
30 Apr 2015, 13:44
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All y'all better settle down, or I will start moderating. You in particular, Dan'l, I expect better of.…
29 Apr 2015, 04:39
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Flynn's _Eifelheim_, nominated for the Hugo in 2007, would serve as a better counterargument against the Puppies' claim ... Except that it was published by Tor.…
28 Apr 2015, 22:15
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I know for a fact that Vox Day and John C. Wright do.…
28 Apr 2015, 15:46
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Could this be a joke related to the maser/master mixup with The God and His Man?…
26 Apr 2015, 19:55
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"Superversion" as John C. Wright calls it.…
11 Nov 2014, 18:39
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I think you should add: I want to know if it's meant anything. If what I suffered -- if it's been worth it.…
04 Nov 2014, 09:29
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I usually use Google to search the two archives: Newer https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0#complete=0&q=site:lists.urth.net%2Fpipermail%2Furth-urth.net%2F+%22tree+is+my+hat%2…
29 Oct 2014, 13:54
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FYI: Michael Thayer is a known Urth member. Likely some application exposed his address book to malware, which is spoofing his email address. For that reason, I'm not adding the …
23 Aug 2014, 02:25
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Book of the Short Fiction, Book of the Long Fiction…
01 Aug 2014, 17:00
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That is an amazing and suprising interview. Not like anything others I've read before.…
28 Jul 2014, 06:20
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I want nothing less. If you're going to be salty, be very, very salty. It's not coincidence that the best High SF writers of the latter 20th and early 21st centuries* are Roman C…
29 Mar 2014, 23:09
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One might more generally say they are members of the body of the Christ. Except it's Lafferty we're talking about, on a Gene Wolfe mailing list, so yes, probably Catholics. Ecume…
29 Mar 2014, 04:19
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That's even better: a triple pun on soul, fish, and physics.…
29 Mar 2014, 01:22
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A naive Google search provides illumination: https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0#complete=0&q=%22kalo+pisicho%22 Turn "psycho" into "psuche", and you have "good soul". The g…
29 Mar 2014, 01:08
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"kalo" would be close to the Greek for "good". "Pisicho" doesn't seem Greek to me; more like greekified Latin. Because it's Lafferty, I'd place a strong guess that he means us to…
29 Mar 2014, 01:06
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I received mine as well. The physical quality is as Antonin described. I was displeased to come upon three errors on the second page of the first story (18). The name of the tit…
02 Feb 2014, 05:49
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From a comment to that post: "And [Gene Wolfe] is the Pringles face." http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/71/Pringles.svg/220px-Pringles.svg.png So the Leader/3rd B…
17 Dec 2013, 20:33
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It reminds me of the sexy werefox in The Sorcerer's House.…
10 Dec 2013, 02:09
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More questions: * Why does Leader look like Grafton's father? * Why don't people in the Land Across see Leader, a.k.a third border guard, under normal circumstances? * Why does Le…
08 Dec 2013, 05:18
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Members of the Unholy Way somehow acquired Russ Rathaus's voodoo doll, then used it to torture him. Butch was one of the police in on the doll trick Russ used to escape. Thus, he…
08 Dec 2013, 05:08
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I somehow came by a few of his works in text form. Let's see what regular expressions can do. I'll just search for "to " followed by any word ending in "ly". $ ls *.txt Death of…
31 Jul 2009, 16:05
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"In one kind of death the spirit also dieth, and this it hath been known to do while yet the body was in vigor for many years. Sometimes, as is veritably attested, it dieth with th…
10 Jun 2009, 17:02
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The list does have moderators. This particular one thinks that the cost of killing this particular thread is prohibitive.…
18 Mar 2009, 16:13
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What I said was not appropriate to this forum, and I apologize.…
05 Feb 2009, 14:50
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Son, if I may call you that, this is akin to declaring, "I'm not saying you're a son of a bitch, just that your mother is a foul-mouthed whore." Most of the rest of the inhabitant…
05 Feb 2009, 04:35
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I should add that I'm not responding to the other Matthew, but to those who attack the Roman Catholic church. I'll go even farther than he did and say that the discipline of celib…
05 Feb 2009, 04:24
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Ephebophilia is quite far removed from pedophilia, and conflating them does no one any good. Matthew (Not RC, BTW, FWIW)…
05 Feb 2009, 04:19
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Antarctica is alive! Perhaps it is possessed by Thulcandra.…
09 Dec 2008, 23:23
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Wolfe presumably knows--and expects us to know--that under the ice at the South Pole currently sits a continent. What's going on here? Is this one of those singleton clues Wolfe l…
09 Dec 2008, 22:42
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My relatives usually compose the audience.…
08 Dec 2008, 20:10
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You wouldn't think that from the looks I get when tipsily explaining my unified theory of existence.…
08 Dec 2008, 19:32
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Brunians, have you looked into the work of Endel Tulving? http://www.rotman-baycrest.on.ca/index.php?section=219 When I ran across mention of him a few years back, I was relieved…
08 Dec 2008, 19:20
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His wife was dead long before he took vows. What is the moral situation of a man who, as in _My Favorite Wife_, thinks his wife is dead and commits himself to another?…
05 Dec 2008, 20:15
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http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=1+Corinthians+15:42-49 The natural/spiritual dichotomy is misleading, and a result of troubled translation--though there aren't any major transl…
04 Dec 2008, 22:42
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Not to mention the imperishable body.…
04 Dec 2008, 00:21
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An excellent and well-reasoned argument. Bravo.…
21 Nov 2008, 16:19
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Hide the weapons from the women, in the case you should faint.…
29 Oct 2008, 16:31
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IIRC, the Neighbors intentionally infected the Whorl, the idea being that the behavior of the inhumi would provide insight into the human condition.…
21 Oct 2008, 15:46
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In defense of Pandora, it is worth re-reading, at the very least because it has so many of the notorious Lupine tropes. - mythological themes; subversion thereof - a lamed man, wi…
10 Oct 2008, 17:08
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+1…
21 Aug 2008, 14:16
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Tu quoque?…
14 Aug 2008, 21:14
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I think he'd just be an inhumu in good humor.…
14 Aug 2008, 20:19
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Last!…
13 Aug 2008, 19:45
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Unless you don't like gory horror novels, which these are, notwithstanding their SFnal milieu. This is not to gainsay Dan'l, just to warn you what you're signing up for.…
21 Jul 2008, 20:13
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I apparently hadn't read all of the following interview until today, because I was surprised at a few of the things in it. It contains the most candid answers I've ever seen Wolfe…
11 Jul 2008, 20:27
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Thrax, the name of the city to which Palaemon exiles Severian, is also the Latin name for Thrace. Alice Turner mentioned this in her mapping of the geography of Urth onto Earth (h…
11 Jul 2008, 14:23
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Jonas's story, minus the interruption: --- In the old times, the lords of this world feared no one but their own people, and to defend themselves against them built a great fortres…
11 Jun 2008, 16:39
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Dave, I've been reading your arguments with great interest. Please don't let our collective lack of response dissuade you from continuing. Matthew…
09 May 2008, 14:28
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Yes, please. mk…
22 Jan 2008, 22:49
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