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"Yea... lets stop short of actual name calling. Dan'l has said nothing towarrant insult. I'm not a fan of moderation, but, it could be useful to boot out outside provocateurs who c…
29 Apr 2015, 14:30
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Hey Other Nick, long time reader not often writer (and a bit behind on email): Stick it up your rear. Puppies, aka me, do indeed read and enjoy Gene Wolfe. In fact he _has_ come…
28 Apr 2015, 23:49
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Shopping this to a university is a terrible idea because they are way behind the tech curve. Better to shop it to the indie digital publishers that are popping up. Among those Cali…
02 Aug 2014, 14:42
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Green dresses also figure as a clue in an evil guest. Sent from my iPhone…
06 Jan 2014, 21:03
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I'm going to posit that this, as the appendix makes clear is a "Little Englander" story. A fight between two peoples and a story about why America has to be careful about foreign …
11 Dec 2013, 14:37
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I just got done with The Tree is My Hat and I would like to propose that Reiss and Baden are one and the same. I'll post more later but just wanted to see if anyone had come to the…
12 Oct 2011, 21:31
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Assuming Typhoon isn't lying through his teeth, how does that effect my theory? Since: Lil' Sev dies and then Big Sev tries to resurrect? If Typhoon is brought back via the sa…
27 Sep 2010, 20:50
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David Stackoff: This doesn't have to be the same as any previous event and in a sacrifice the victim has a good chance of being consumed in the act. Little Sev is a blood Sacri…
27 Sep 2010, 20:10
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________________________________ From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> Typhon's resurrection by Severian is not reasonably believable as a biological process, and I certainly di…
27 Sep 2010, 16:19
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As is mentioned by others the Orthodox liturgy explicitly uses a knife. It is ritually inserted prior to a formal cutting motion being made. Since Wolfe has mentioned that the stat…
17 Sep 2010, 01:29
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Isn't Reese a "good-guy" by the end of AEG?…
20 Aug 2010, 21:32
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It would be acceptable for Urth to only have Sev and not Christ if Urth is an echo of Earth. That would mean Urth's fall is only an echo of The Fall and therefore the mechanics of …
16 Aug 2010, 18:09
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Lee, I'm assuming your implying I was a recently kicked member, sorry, I'm a different person entirely. My simple quoting might be easier explained by the fact that I post from m…
14 Aug 2010, 02:19
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You presume that perfect temporal choices are limited. There is no evidence for that (that is eating an apple or a pear can both be seen as Good at a given time). You also lose sig…
13 Aug 2010, 22:02
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One of my beefs with the list is not trimming sources. If you look in the archive there was the assumption in a post that as people moved "up" towards Yesod that choices would b…
13 Aug 2010, 02:37
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Thats some remarkably bad theology. The common Christian view is that good is infinite and sin merely a coruption. In such a view as you accended more choice would be available. W…
12 Aug 2010, 20:00
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I call bull crap. Severian lives most of his adult life following rules and only breaks them under the severest of duress. The first example is his first girlfriend being tortured …
06 Aug 2010, 16:18
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" don't see where you get this from. Granted Baldanders is not shown as having any sexual interest in women, and by default one might assume that such a character might (or might …
21 Jul 2010, 20:05
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Wolfe tends to use classical Christian and Greco-Roman perceptions of nature. As such there wouldn't be a great (and very post '70's) chasm between homosexuality and pedophillia. B…
21 Jul 2010, 16:35
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I almost forget that Severius "swims" back from the hole to the ship... Nicholas Jost…
02 Jul 2010, 22:24
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Actually I like my Abia=Severiantheory the more I think about it. Erebus is evil, we know he enslaved the Ascians but we don't know about Abia. There's even some indications th…
02 Jul 2010, 22:19
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Since Gene Wolfe was mentioned in an article appearing in First Things recently and was recommended through a friend I decided to pick up some of his books. I read "An Evil Gues…
30 Jun 2010, 21:28
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