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JJordan wrote: "The brothel is a counterfeit of the Church, the Great Harlot of the Book of Revelation. That's pretty clear in 5HC, where the address is 666 Street of the Counterf…
10 Apr 2000, 10:33
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The last two editions on the World Wide Words mailing list (http://www.quinion.com/words/) have included discussions of the word "Ascian". (http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-asc1…
23 Feb 2000, 14:35
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Jeremy Crampton wrote: I’d like to raise again the possibility of a Gene Wolfe archive of collected papers and documents... 1. Where would this collection be housed? ===========…
24 Jan 2000, 13:47
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"official" meaning of the author]and not continue digging behind *that* false facade of angels and devils to get at what the book might be saying perhaps even in spite of itself?"<…
23 Nov 1999, 09:24
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I seem to recall from the published edition of his letters (publisher Houton-Mifflen sp?) that when people asked J.R.R. Tolkien (also Catholic) if "Lord of the Rings" were a Christ…
23 Nov 1999, 08:45
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<<<<Severian is a liar. He is like all those oh-so-dangerous-people who are absolutely convinced that they are Right; *they have no scruples* when it comes to establishing what the…
18 Nov 1999, 09:05
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across without really trying, where Sev is either lying for no good reason that I can see, or, more likely...where Wolfe is showing the reader that Sev's memory is less than perfec…
09 Nov 1999, 08:30
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While I'm not totally convinced Severian never lies (but I am leaning that way), I will side with the defense on two points. not lying. p. 11-12 incomplete truth about the person …
08 Nov 1999, 09:59
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Re-reading my last two postings, I must admit that I have a mental fixation with Nessus as a "river". I can't understand why. Nessus was a centar ferryman, not a river. Considering…
08 Nov 1999, 08:49
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<<<<Nessus? I can be mistaken, but I think you mean the river Gyoll (is this the correct spelling?). This could be a Christian paralel, anyway: not with the resurrection of Christ …
05 Nov 1999, 21:23
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<<<<I really can't think of any instances (other than things that are just odd--who said what on page #1) where Severian outright lies.>>>>>>>> I have a hypothesis that every time…
05 Nov 1999, 13:43
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<<<<[Quantum tunneling being the theory behind Father Inire's mirrors and how Severian brings the New Sun]still leaves too much unexplained. How can QT explain the New Sun being at…
03 Nov 1999, 21:23
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No, no, no, no. Wolfe does not use "Fairy Tale logic" in TBOTNS. While Wolfe is not a speculative SF writer in the tradition of Asimov, Hienlen, or Verne, the New Sun books and 5HC…
02 Nov 1999, 21:15
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This is my first posting here so please be gentle. I've done a search of the archives and I didn't find the following point discussed anywhere. Regarding whether Sev is an untrus…
29 Oct 1999, 12:13
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