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Fine. Consistant with what TBotNS tells us. We also know from TBoyNS that Man went into space, there were human empires of which Typhon's was neither the first nor the greatest. …
20 Mar 2002, 12:10
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Oh bugger! Looks like the brush was a bush after all. :( I just pray there isn't a typo in there. :) But then: "that engendered life in whatever objects it fell upon" leav…
20 Mar 2002, 11:55
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Too much. She's altering *her* memory. The experiences she treasures replacing the past that distresses her. The use of language reall isn't that ambiguous: there is only one po…
20 Mar 2002, 11:45
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This put's me in mind of Arthur C Clarke's "The City and the Stars" In simplest terms the adventurous emigrated leaving the conservative behind. Human society in the galaxy subseq…
13 Mar 2002, 17:41
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Alien in culture. But Typhon knows that Earth/Urth is the original home of his race. And from the stars, Typhon says so when talking of his lost empire and the one he intends to …
13 Mar 2002, 16:20
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For this it doesn't matter if Blue=Ushas or not: any of the explanations requires a system stable enough for the history of the Neighbours etc and so far I don;t think we've come u…
12 Mar 2002, 17:58
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I think that's why I didn't like the word: the punitive aspect was strongest in my mind and my dictionary emphasises 'deserved' which I cannot see. As for redemption, four definit…
07 Mar 2002, 10:37
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Perhaps the word "Accessible" should be in there? The Commonwealth of Severian's time has access to space flight but only as provided for them, not to do with as they will. The t…
06 Mar 2002, 13:14
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There is a mistaken premis here. ECT can induce changes, physiological and emotional, that themsleves can lead to suicidal tendancies. Here I write having observed the effect cul…
06 Mar 2002, 12:53
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If Why "Retribution"? The Increate's servants seem to be looking for - or even forcing - some sort of redemption in Man. If they are responsible for the wounding of the sun (a vi…
06 Mar 2002, 11:54
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Out of curiosity does anyone have near to hand an estimate of the mass of the solar system, what proportion of that would be in the small bodies and what proportion of those metals…
06 Mar 2002, 11:17
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Anyone can google, that's what they say, easy. Anyone can google, any old day, easy. It's all so simple: Relax, let go, let fly! So someone tell me, why can't I? I can dance a ta…
05 Feb 2002, 13:02
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How do you come to algophilist = ghoul-lover? I parsed that as pain lover, ie sadist, or aproaching that. Matthew…
05 Feb 2002, 11:54
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Do you have referebces please? Matthew…
04 Feb 2002, 12:38
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Questions lead to questions lead to questions... Was this quality which the Hierodules particularly chose to judge? Was Severian to be judged on the same criteria as previous Aut…
01 Feb 2002, 15:48
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Thankyou, you did. Wheeee! ;-) Matthew To unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe" to ||list_request_address|| Questions or problems: write ranjit at moonmilk.com…
29 Jan 2002, 12:18
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Sure. Chuck the firecracker through the mail box and run away. You haven't addressed what we know (explicitly, not by assumption or guesswork) of Typhon/Pas and the origin of the…
09 Jan 2002, 12:12
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By what conversion? 30,000 Geographical Leagues Marine Leagues = US Mile 90,000.00 103,569.94 Statute Mile 90,000.18 103,570.15 N…
09 Jan 2002, 10:15
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Methinks a chat with Richard of Occam would be good for you. :-) Matthew…
08 Jan 2002, 12:17
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You might say that the ring is destroyed by the malice as well as the greed of Gollum. Baldanders is greedy for many things (technology, sensation, etc) but actually disdains the …
08 Jan 2002, 12:11
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I've read "Taliesin", the first of his Aurthurian cycle. It was excruciatingly bad. Simply bad use of language. Normally I'm quite uncritical on a first reading and if I get thr…
08 Jan 2002, 10:34
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Makes me think Thrax... :-) Matthew…
10 Dec 2001, 12:33
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Alas no. Between the time when Delany planned the diptych and wrote Stars... and it was published then getting on with the second the AIDS issue hit and Delany said that his world…
31 Jul 2001, 11:37
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Presumably this is a branch of the Library of the Unseen University. Go armed with bananas. Matthew…
12 Jun 2001, 11:02
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Oh, c'mon! There ain't *still* poor readers who don't know that, are there... Matthew…
06 Jun 2001, 14:25
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The blowing of rams horns brought down the walls of Jherico. So I read that as calamity ensues. And seeing as how the ram's blowing his own the next universe along is a right hum…
23 May 2001, 14:22
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Where does it say that a Presidential term is only four years in *that* universe? Matthew…
09 May 2001, 14:58
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I take Baldander's "were" as deliberate, he's talking of the past. Then add what we know of Nessus growing upstream - quite normal for urban areas with poor sanitary planning where…
09 May 2001, 14:02
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In the shriving scene soon after reaching Viron which I read (in a rather befuddled state) last night there's a comment that Horn would come up to Pig's knees. It jarred me becaus…
20 Apr 2001, 16:01
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Another 'I can't quite remember' I'm afraid but is it not said early on that the boy children of condemned prisoners who could stand under a certain bar were taken into the torture…
18 Apr 2001, 13:25
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no mention of C J Cherryh's "Sunfall"? M…
15 Jan 2001, 14:39
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OED sea-wrack. Forms: see wrack. 1. pl. Property cast ashore by the sea. Obs. 1548 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 61/1 Terras de Terbert, cum manerio, molendino et lie sey-wrakis earundem. …
07 Sep 2000, 08:08
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.... A "hand" could plausibly be the length from heel to fingertip - in my case 7 inches or alternatively the span from thumb to little finger-tip 9 inches. Matthew *This is W…
24 Jul 2000, 09:02
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Health warnings should be applied: this weighty tome bids fair to break wrists. It may also wreck sleep paterns. Matthew (Yeah, foolishly I read the night through and now can har…
10 Jul 2000, 13:24
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This list is normally a quiet, reflective and above all intellectual place; but right now you'll have dozens of people feverishly scouring the yellow pages to discover which categ…
12 Jun 2000, 14:17
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Grrr... Just fired off a misserable message 'casue the other URL was duff then this pops up making me feel curmudgeonly. However the new one just says "Ultan's Library is current…
08 May 2000, 13:34
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"Sorry... but the page you are looking for is no longer on Tripod (or you may have mistyped the URL)." Matthew *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long S…
08 May 2000, 13:25
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Aescelus? (pardon my spellin') Matthew…
08 May 2000, 11:37
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I might be dreaming, conflating other stories or just misunderstanding but I have the recollection that Typhon came to and 'conquered' Urth determined to make it the centre of his …
15 Mar 2000, 11:34
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Of the suggestiong made the only one that I'm immediately familliar with is Delany's "Neveryon" storied both begining and ending with (iirc) "The Tale of Gorgik". Reading ST I had…
08 Mar 2000, 10:31
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although the world of Middle Earth has no overt worship or ritual that's not quite the same thing as saying that there is no religion. One profound difference between Middle earth…
23 Nov 1999, 18:39
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How many Sevs? How many different histories might Sev remember of himself at different times? And how many memories may not be his own but conflated from the alzebo: regardles of …
09 Nov 1999, 02:20
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Oh, nothing so subtle at all. Just trying to distinguish between daring-do, gung-ho leading from at the front, once more unto the breach stuff a la Harry V and the way sensible ge…
05 Nov 1999, 10:46
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Claudius might not have "lead" armies into battle but he did, iirc, command them. Graves recounts the strategies of the battle of "Burnt Wood" (Brentwood, Essex, England) including…
04 Nov 1999, 11:05
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Reading this I was suddenly struck by the posibility of hubris on Wolfe's part. Sure, Cyby as apprentice to Ultan; Ultan knowing exactly where to lay hands on so many books, and …
28 Oct 1999, 11:07
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OED: basil1. Herb. Forms: 5 (basilicon), basile, 6 basyle, -yll, bazil, bassel, 6,7 basill, 6, basil. [a. OF. basile, ad. L. basilisca, f. basiliscus basilisk: the Gr. name of the…
22 Jul 1999, 11:13
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Last week a line about crown, diadems and mitres was quoted - alas I forget by whom as I don't have the mail any more, neither do I have the books to hand so cannot quote directly.…
22 Jul 1999, 10:53
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Aha! You may not grow rue in your herb garden but some people still do, myself included. I believe that it has a use in aromatherapy an herbal medicine. About the only use I make o…
22 Jul 1999, 10:38
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I'd offer two reasonable solutions. First _if_ Jonas sailed Tzad's ship then the vessel in which he crashed might have been some tender or shuttle. Perhaps more likely; Tzad's sh…
03 Jun 1999, 09:17
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Perhaps my mind is too deep in the gutter but my first thought on reading that was maybe the symbolism of Sev entering a Sidero/Suit that had female characteristics would have been…
26 Apr 1999, 11:02
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