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Hi Craig, There was a Q&A session arranged by Mantis with Gene Wolfe back in 1997 in which the following exchange took place: 25. "Does Green/Blue have anything to do with THE FIF…
11 May 2010, 08:26
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It's treatable with punicillin, but should the patient fail to respond all the doctors can do is make them as punless as possible. To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.…
26 Apr 2010, 09:12
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Hi John, FWIW I agree. Similar experience - Catholic educated until 17 and I was clear from a young age that they were two different places/experiences. _______________________…
21 Dec 2009, 10:28
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From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net> Subject: Re: (urth) The Guild's Revolutionary Message-ID: <CB1CCF052BBA41FABC5DAC6EE8…
23 Nov 2009, 16:26
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James, I think the flight of wealthy Americans to Ireland is as we had until recently a special law here allowing artists to pay no tax. The law has since been done away with and…
20 May 2009, 09:20
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Brian, let's posit that the Neighbors are dryads--that their steady physical form is one of the "sleepy trees" in the forests of Blue. How do the inhumi make the jump to become v…
29 Apr 2009, 10:43
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20 Mar 2009, 16:13
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------------------------------ I always thought of the Hieros as quite emotional for instance the below when Severian meets Famulimus for the first time. The being Dr. Talos ha…
11 Feb 2009, 14:09
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A couple of theories on the mystery of the guild from the archives: 1) That it has to do with Auturchs and the rearing of them http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0304/3112.txt.sh…
11 Feb 2009, 10:53
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___ Severian certainly uses the word "mystery" in that sense. Two examples: "I'm beginning to think that by practicing the mystery of our guild while you and I are travelling, I…
10 Feb 2009, 16:57
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For those also posting over on the Gene Wolfe Book Club I have just posted something similar there but in brief, I wonder if Severian is not so much Christ as Saul (Paul of Tarsus…
10 Feb 2009, 14:56
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Up until I saw it the film with the best thought out timeline I had seen had to be Back to the Future. I know it may seem like a kid's film but they really thought through their t…
06 Feb 2009, 14:34
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Thanks for that! On the Cumaean I always think it is great that Wolfe introduces these beings with various powers but doesn't bother chasing them down, explaining them, etc. They …
06 Feb 2009, 14:17
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SonOfWitz, as a long standing member of the Church of Odin (I am due to receive my celebratory pair of imitation ravens this weekend in the Valhalla Restaurant and Public House) I …
05 Feb 2009, 11:49
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Of course! [Slaps head] Thanks for that Jeff, of course the creatures are summoned. OK, so maybe what happens is that something comes back and whatever it is takes on some of the …
04 Feb 2009, 11:00
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Yeah, well, that is fair, it is not clear what happens, this is Wolfe after all! Whether Inire conjures up some kind of cat or whether Inire summons the cat back through the mirror…
04 Feb 2009, 10:16
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Agreed, my question is this: Is Mucor a daughter of Typhon (and Krypis perhaps? as indicated by her having similar powers to Typhon)? Or is she an unconnected individual who one of…
21 Jan 2009, 17:05
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21 Jan 2009, 16:42
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On the matter of Long Sun laughs (and I don't have the text to hand) but I remember a wonderful passage: Silk is in his room brooding. Oreb interrupts him with "Silk Good. Fish h…
21 Jan 2009, 16:08
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Agreed, but is the leeway on his understanding of geological processes or engineering processes? :) No I didn't. "Are we to presume Wolfe has worked this thing out perfectly so t…
05 Dec 2008, 16:22
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Hahaha, Brilliant! Thanks Brunians! Man, I think Ghoul is going to be one my new favourite words.…
03 Dec 2008, 16:24
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Apologies for the previous post, my email is being very buggy the last few days.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale "The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a …
02 Dec 2008, 16:52
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The mountain faces are precisely as believable as Mt. Rushmore and Georgia's Stone Mountain. -- Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com <http://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net> <…
02 Dec 2008, 09:53
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Before I comment on the email below just a note on Wolfe and "hard" sci-fi. While Wolfe doesn't go out of his way to burden every device with a hard science grounding, he is an eng…
02 Dec 2008, 09:38
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Hi David, I thought that Nessus = Buenos Ares was accepted here but I could be wrong. In the archives I can find the following discussions: http://lists.urth.net/htdig.cgi/urth-…
01 Dec 2008, 16:43
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Trusty engineering in the US of A! GW giving props to his colleagues! Besides the issues with being on the wrong continent, I think another problem is that the site is in the mid…
01 Dec 2008, 15:35
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Apologies to James Wynn, The formatting on my last post went a little screwy so it looks like I am attributing my comments to you. Any of my muddles should be assigned to me and …
01 Dec 2008, 14:33
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From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) House Absolute To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net> Message-ID: <E0FE84CC44054E5DB9AC0D17C340A7EB at G…
01 Dec 2008, 14:17
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I don't have the text to hand so I cannot verify till I get home however I don't think the House Absolute is in Nessus at all. Did Severian not travel North for some time before …
01 Dec 2008, 12:19
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Hi Paul, The point that I took from this discussion, and I think it is valid, is that the Hieros have the ability to perceive more of the universe than humans; they experience tim…
15 Jul 2008, 08:37
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Sure, I'll take a quick stab at this, being of the aforementioned "Hierogrammates are not as good as they seem" persuasion. They admit to wanting to condition humanity to become t…
10 Jul 2008, 15:55
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Hi, Tim here, read the solar cycle there for the first time about 6 months ago and have re-read a few times since while working through the archives. I am almost up to real-time …
10 Jul 2008, 14:50
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