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Reply: Item #4094777 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# William H. Ansley, Hello and welcome! Yes, "The Cat" is a part of the Urth Cycle. And it is a puzzling tale. Personally …
16 Apr 1998, 00:07
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Reply: Item #6224292 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Terry Nickolette, We might better call this "Severian's sense of Mercy"; but even so, it is (still) a tangle. Each act Sever…
08 Apr 1998, 00:11
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Reply: Item #2403193 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Kevin, Hello and welcome aboard! To answer your question--I believe it is a large typo that first (and last?) appeared in …
29 Mar 1998, 03:51
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Reply: Item #2092170 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# alga, Could you rephrase your question(s)? Are you asking about Kabbalah (in all its wooly forms), interpretations of the …
17 Mar 1998, 22:48
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Reply: Item #5234791 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, Re: OXFORD BOOK OF SAINTS, yes, I remembered your practice of judging a reference book by its index (or lack thereof)…
16 Mar 1998, 15:01
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Reply: Item #3560425 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# "BEOCCA AND HETHOR, monks and martyrs of Chertsey (Surrey), killed by the Danes in 870. The memory of these monks, supposed…
14 Mar 1998, 19:59
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Reply: Item #0108252 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# alga, I'm already signed up for Disclave. Hope to see you there! =mantis=…
04 Feb 1998, 14:59
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Reply: Item #1005628 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Xury, Juturna, the undine who saved Severian in SHADOW and tried to drown him in CLAW (probably the first time =she= met …
29 Jan 1998, 15:19
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Reply: Item #0147191 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Correction: The text tells us: (1) autarchs who fail the Test are unmanned; (2) there have been autarchs since Ymar, and he…
27 Jan 1998, 14:39
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Reply: Item #3642999 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Wes Parsons, Ah-hem, er, why yes, I =did= write an essay called, "The Death of Catherine the Weal and Other Stories," in di…
22 Jan 1998, 03:41
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Reply: Item #6535242 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Terence Nickolette, The presumed detail of Severian's family tree was one of the earliest topics of working out TBOTNS, beg…
07 Jan 1998, 01:53
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Reply: Item #3792019 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# cephalothorax, Hey there, hi there. Re: religion in the Commonwealth and/or TBOTNS. Sure, go ahead--document for us your in…
21 Dec 1997, 00:23
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Reply: Item #2574347 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Happy Anniversary! =mantis=…
29 Nov 1997, 17:20
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Reply: Item #8207739 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Tony Ellis, Re: significance of withholding ending. Absolutely--I mean, even Severian might balk if he was told up front…
25 Nov 1997, 16:24
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Reply: Item #0905837 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# A few quick notes (because I just can't stop myself): 1) I say the play has seven acts and they probably describe a divine …
20 Nov 1997, 02:15
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Reply: Item #8062114 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Talon, The Severin/Severian notion is pretty interesting and I'm glad you are still kicking it around. You could build it …
06 Nov 1997, 18:09
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Reply: Item #7198344 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Sgt. Rock, Hey, nice tie-in re: electicity and the weapon! How'bout Cim as "firefly"? "Glowing?" Check! "Star-like?" Che…
31 Oct 1997, 17:36
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Reply: Item #2695614 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# John Bishop, Re: analogous location of land in TS (India vs. anywhere else), you raise good points. But also there is the te…
23 Oct 1997, 00:15
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Reply: Item #0184328 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Talon, Re: Wolfe's convention schedule. The last one this year was (probably) CONTEXT X in Columbus Ohio (Oct 3-5). Next …
22 Oct 1997, 16:03
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Reply: Item #9713026 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Uh, make that "moving =against= the direction of rotation rather than with it." That is, if I understand it correctly, the…
08 Oct 1997, 05:38
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Reply: Item #9690381 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Michael Bowman, Re: the different editions, from Clute's STROKES: "Even the limited edition of the book [FREE LIVE FREE] .…
25 Sep 1997, 00:59
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Reply: Item #7562733 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Michael Bowman, From URTH-MAN EXTRAORDINARY: "B15. FREE LIVE FREE "Ziesing (hb) 1-8, 12-84, 496pp, $45.00 . . . " …
24 Sep 1997, 20:27
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Reply: Item #7613260 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Rostrum, Re: Soldier series as your favorite, you are not alone--I've met others who feel the same way, but also a number o…
16 Sep 1997, 20:53
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Reply: Item #4917410 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# . . . and Nutria is king of Cordwainer Smith readers! (Which makes for an odd couple royale. <g>) (Those NESFA volumes ar…
11 Sep 1997, 22:42
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Reply: Item #2797678 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Rostrum, alga is queen reader of Cordwainer Smith, so she will give you the best pointers, but I cannot help myself from s…
11 Sep 1997, 19:14
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Reply: Item #6279912 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Rostrum, These days I hold my breath and hope that more typos aren't added. <cue: ranting about omnibus of Vance's PLANET …
10 Sep 1997, 15:47
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Reply: Item #4346774 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, Sioux as French for "cutthroat" (er, "cultellarii"?) now =that= is very interesting, since it ties in =exactly= with …
29 Aug 1997, 00:14
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Reply: Item #8145139 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Xury, Vodalus describes himself as revolutionary, but notice that his plans (and Thea's dreams) are usurpation of the thron…
18 Aug 1997, 15:50
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Reply: Item #9797840 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# alga, Gene Wolfe is very cagey about those n-th generation prisoners of the antechamber, the ones Jonas talks to and then k…
15 Aug 1997, 15:16
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Reply: Item #0962161 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# lasrach, Right, there's the tassled hem (or whatever) of the pelerines which Severian gets in the stone town (presumably gi…
12 Aug 1997, 22:16
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Reply: Item #4247449 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# alga, Oh, you're right that the scarf on the Whorl isn't given a color. The peach-color is by association with Blood's h…
12 Aug 1997, 13:59
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Reply: Item #5721678 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Nutria, Ah, there you are! Re: "Tracking Song" and FIFTH HEAD. While I'm really =not= trying to paint TS as a miniature to …
09 Aug 1997, 22:44
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Reply: Item #4596281 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, Since Joan Gordon wrote that stuff and I read it years ago, even though I didn't remember it at the time, I also owe …
08 Aug 1997, 20:45
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Reply: Item #9835448 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# alga! Wow, great stuff. First off, to add to your notes: Re: Ice Age, it seems that the Great Sleigh-ers (heh) are involv…
03 Aug 1997, 20:11
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Reply: Item #1324261 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Nutria, I've been reading TBOTNS again, gathering up all sorts of strange new threads . . . But to get back to your words …
28 Jul 1997, 16:33
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Reply: Item #8744137 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Matt Freestone, Interesting point, and it is true that I seem to have taken the crazy Pete passage out of (spaghetti-like) …
20 Jul 1997, 23:51
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Reply: Item #8855844 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, "The Changeling" is collected in GENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYS and CASTLE OF DAYS. Under "Homecoming Day." =mantis=…
16 Jul 1997, 15:45
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Reply: Item #0156759 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, The PEACE/Proust aspect of "Suzanne Delage" is probably the fact that the narrator is sitting/lying in the old ho…
15 Jul 1997, 14:00
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Reply: Item #8155535 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# alga, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY She spoke to me of myself, my family, my social background. She said: "Oh, I know your parent…
13 Jul 1997, 20:14
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Reply: Item #1388846 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# bee and r., The line in question: "The ribbons that held your mask," I said. "They're still there." We are taking this as li…
02 Jul 1997, 14:00
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Reply: Item #6323607 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Tercel, Re: "shaggy," that's it on the nose, in coarse slang according to OED. Verb and workhorse-of-all-modifiers. FWIW…
01 Jul 1997, 20:02
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Reply: Item #3107202 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Rich Horton, Ah yes, the Kalevala. I was thinking of Emil Petaja's sf version. No doubt there are others--has Ian Watson …
01 Jul 1997, 16:01
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Reply: Item #6198742 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# David Langford, Hello there and a hearty welcome aboard! Thank you for the cant terms--I'll put up another wanted list af…
01 Jul 1997, 14:01
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Reply: Item #2453278 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# "Is there a sister in the text? A father? A mother? "We are told that 'Severian' is a name usually given to one of a p…
30 Jun 1997, 17:38
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Reply: Item #6730944 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Re: non-Christian Religion in SF. Well, before I look at the encycopedia, DUNE obviously. And Zelazny stuff, like LORD OF L…
30 Jun 1997, 01:16
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Reply: Item #5821128 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Sacre Bleu--it's Sarcos!! =mantis=…
30 Jun 1997, 01:16
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Reply: Item #0457038 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, Ah, my mistake--which is why I will henceforth stick to my guns and not allow =any= first train questioneers until t…
26 Jun 1997, 01:27
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Reply: Item #9998278 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Ranjit! Sorry I missed your question in my lame round up of late entries--thanks for bringing it up again! Okay, you are …
25 Jun 1997, 02:27
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Reply: Item #7269253 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# alga, True, further questions might help. And multiple choice would narrow it down. Since Wolfe wrote "it wasn't machine…
24 Jun 1997, 21:14
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Reply: Item #2682162 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Cephalothorax, Well obviously I'm at a loss if you decline to answer my specific questions (about men and women) regarding …
19 Jun 1997, 21:13
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