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Thanks for the interesting article. When I first heard about Peace, I put it at the bottom of my list of Wolfe books to read because I'm more of a SF fan, but it turned out to be …
02 Apr 1998, 13:29
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The idea that the sledge at the end is the same one Cutthroat has been chasing seems pretty popular, and I agree it has a certain closure to it, but I can't picture it. Even if …
27 Mar 1998, 09:31
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It depends on how the drug works. And what it's like to have a memory like Severian's. And whether you can draw a sharp line between memory and self. If Severian's memory is mo…
26 Mar 1998, 11:29
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I wonder if there could be some difference attributable to Severian's memory. Perhaps for everyone else the sharing of Thecla is a fleeting thing, but since Severian can't forget,…
24 Mar 1998, 10:39
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On 20 Mar 1998, Tony Ellis wrote (quoting mantis): Been a while since I was familiar with theories of how stars form, but isn't a star (and thus a quasar) a gas cloud that is "for…
20 Mar 1998, 08:33
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That seems kind of a stretch to me. This story has always been unsatisfying to me because I can't find a good fit for the third dream. The other two dreams are straight re-telling…
05 Mar 1998, 12:07
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Kind of like plugging a hole by putting the other end of the hole in the original hole? Or maybe a bathtub drain that leads back to the bathtub, refilling it? If so, it might be …
12 Feb 1998, 11:45
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How often does the earth's magnetic polarity reverse? Often enough to have happened between our time and Severian's? Do you think Severian's "North" is magnetic North or "true" N…
09 Feb 1998, 08:16
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I had read that as attesting more to the skill of the guild than to the hardiness of their victims, but either or both could be true. -Rostrum…
05 Feb 1998, 17:05
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Also, isn't there some mention when Severian first meets Talos and the rest of the acting troup that ALL of Dr. Talos's plays end with Baldanders leaping out and frightening the au…
20 Nov 1997, 15:01
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Arguably, Harlan Elison's "I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream" can be read this way. -Rostrum…
03 Nov 1997, 08:32
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Just to nitpick your nitpick, in Biblical thought (contrary to Milton and others), as in Dante, Hell is not the headquarters of "evil" but a place of suffering. Satan is not pictu…
31 Oct 1997, 09:14
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If found FREE LIVE FREE very humorous, but it's been too long to single out a particular passage. I thought THERE ARE DOORS has some funny bits too (particularly G. Gordon Liddy).…
24 Oct 1997, 15:59
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Jim Jordan wrote at the end of a post about Holly Hunter: I'm inclined to disagree with you about Westwind. I've seen your list of a=x, b=y, c=z for that sto…
10 Oct 1997, 14:50
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"THE RINGWORLD IS UNSTAAABLE! THE RINGWORLD IS UNSTAAAABLE!" -Rostrum…
07 Oct 1997, 14:54
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Doesn't the introduction to Soldier of the Mist say that the books are translated from scrolls found in an urn that were written in Latin except using Greek letters? I wonder if W…
17 Sep 1997, 10:40
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Spoilers for Soldier Series... I have a friend who is a Classics professor who specializes in this time period. I thought he might enjoy these books, but when I described it to h…
16 Sep 1997, 15:52
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Spoilers... I don't have all the people straight in my head (it's been a while, and I make all the connections), but Latro is a pawn in the conflict among the Mother Goddess, the …
16 Sep 1997, 12:48
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Is there any evidence other than Crane's speculation that Silk burst a blood-vessel? Kind of like the Gospels. What I was trying to say in the post that caused Mantis to put my n…
09 Sep 1997, 09:46
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Furthermore, I think it's a shame for Wolfe to say, in a context outside the text of the novel, that the Outsider "is" God. I'm a Christian, and so have absolutely no objections t…
08 Sep 1997, 12:04
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-- Begin original message -- First of all, I'm not sure I'd agree with the description of Wolfe's works as "puzzle stories." My impression is that Wolfe is just trying to tell st…
04 Sep 1997, 09:54
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Some points that might explain the condition of the Whorl after only 300 years: 1) When Silk meets the woman in the tunnels who had been in suspended animation, I seem to remembe…
03 Sep 1997, 08:30
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When I saw the movie Conact (very minor spoiler here) and Jodie Foster met the blind guy, and it took her a few moments to realize he was blind, and no one ever came out and said "…
22 Aug 1997, 11:28
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Perhaps Nadan is simply reflecting that the act of trying to deduce the past by looking at his garments reminded him of the "Peri's asphodel" scene in the play, rather than it bein…
14 Aug 1997, 08:24
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If this shape isn't the one Wolfe had in mind, it ought to be :-), I was just trying to puzzle out his answer. Maybe he didn't have a specific shape in mind, but rather wanted to …
29 Jul 1997, 09:44
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It depends on what order the nun is taking vows in. I know at least some orders take vows of "poverty, chastity, and obedience." -Rostrum…
14 Jul 1997, 08:43
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I'm thinking Wolfe may not want to answer questions that might boil down to "give us some big plot spoilers for the Short Sun series." Do some people feel cheated that what they …
25 Jun 1997, 08:38
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Perhaps Wolfe is thinking of something like this: If a character can be said to be a "Christ figure" by playing a role in the story analogous to the role Christ plays in the Chris…
23 Jun 1997, 13:50
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Or maybe... "All men are torturers." - Severian -Rostrum…
17 Jun 1997, 09:47
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In Exodus, when the group is at Mainframe, it is revealed that the shade is some substance that is created at mainframe, shot out across the sun, and then evaporates. So you're "…
16 Jun 1997, 09:03
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