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It has, including a rather recent iteration which should be in the latest volume. Since I've taken an interest in the 'magnetic' aspect of the issue, I'll repeat that Urth, havin…
26 Oct 1999, 09:13
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Mitchell A. Bailey wrote: ... Whoops, my mistake, it WAS in the book, near the beginning, in a chapter entitled "The Eclipse", at that! BTW, I noticed that among the protagonists…
12 Oct 1999, 11:02
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... Wasn't there an "eclipse trick" featured in the 1931 movie "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" with Will Rogers in the title role? (it wasn't in Samuel Clemens' book…
09 Oct 1999, 13:32
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Macronaut wrote:... I seem to recall that Sev compared their "thrumming" sound as well as looks to that of locusts. That thought occurred to me during a period when we had an unus…
24 Sep 1999, 15:24
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Mantis, if that was the worst thing anyone ever said to, or about, me, I'd be a happy man indeed!<g> ..but wouldn't monopoles tend to accelerate away from the "like" planetary pol…
11 Aug 1999, 08:51
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... I have to agree with that; rigid breakable glasslike mirrors do seem to be implied... ...and knowing Inire, I don't think I can even argue convincingly that he simply made an…
10 Jul 1999, 22:41
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I'll have to confess to a minor goof, inasmuch as I intended to stick to your chronology and not try to construct one of my own. Writing from the seat of my pants, I momentarily fo…
21 Jun 1999, 20:10
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Roy C. Lackey wrote: Thanks, Roy ... ... Well, of course the 'megatherians' I had in mind were really Erebus, Abaia, et al, themselves more so than their creatures. "Vanquish" n…
16 Jun 1999, 12:34
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My take has been that the House Absolute was reclaimed as a residence/command center rather early in the Monarch's Empire, several millenia earlier; the painted ceiling could date …
09 Jun 1999, 16:46
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... Concurrence! Exactly what I was wondering when this crew-of-crashed-spaceship theory for the original residents of the Antechamber first got floated. Ummm, I think Severian a…
09 Jun 1999, 09:59
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...The ... ... Whoops! This is what I get for getting impulsive just before staff-meeting time. I realize that the idea is still at this point full of holes in that Sev would ne…
13 Apr 1999, 11:54
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Tony Ellis wrote: ... Well, yes, valid point based on the assumption. But then again, there may not have been any such thing as abo's in the sense of a native race, and the Tren…
10 Apr 1999, 22:34
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Mitchell A. Bailey wrote: ... What the Old Wise One actually says is "'We had no names before men me Guess I better own up to a goof: when the OWO makes that statement there are s…
06 Apr 1999, 20:06
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The explaination I would offer is basec on the fact that, as you say, the Old Wise One at the time this remark was made was being generated by one lone Shadow Child, Sandwalker, an…
06 Apr 1999, 14:41
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... Well, if you transmit via electromagnetic radiation of some wavelength so it propogates at c = ~186,000 miles/s, and you've got a REALLY slow modem, so that it takes 3.76 sec …
05 Apr 1999, 17:11
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Thanks, Roy You meant to say Dollo's law, I presume. Actually, I had never heard of Dollo's Law until I read 5HC almost twenty years ago, and I never heard of Lamarck until I read…
03 Apr 1999, 17:10
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Thanks, mantis. That'll teach me to draft letters before my coffee kicks in, and to study southern constellations more diligently. Well, the conclusion is inescapable, given this …
30 Mar 1999, 20:40
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