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---------------------------------------- LOL. Point taken. Anyway, I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.…
17 Mar 2009, 17:41
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---------------------------------------- I don't know. It's not a topic I ever researched. What I can say is that for us this question is pretty much mute. We don't have the discu…
17 Mar 2009, 17:39
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---------------------------------------- Yes, thats precisely my view on this discussion. The examples given so far from the books are, in my opinion, both weak and irrelevant t…
17 Mar 2009, 17:20
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---------------------------------------- Hum? I was in no way picking on you. Did it come up as such? If yes, than I appologise. I'm not a native english speaker.…
17 Mar 2009, 17:17
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Well, beying an european, I'm going to abstain from commenting on the particulars of your constitution and on your (US) views of this matter. After all, the "Wild West" is too fres…
17 Mar 2009, 17:03
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I know...shame on me. Pedro ----------------------------------------…
31 Dec 2008, 12:48
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Is it OK now? I feel like a web noob! Pedro ----------------------------------------…
31 Dec 2008, 12:47
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31 Dec 2008, 12:47
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Thank you for caring about what I had to say. I don't understand the "plain text" part though. What do you mean? Did I write the wrong way or something? I'm not an english native…
30 Dec 2008, 20:11
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LOL Pedro Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:06:42 -0800From: cnbrewer at yahoo.comTo: urth at lists.urth.netSubject: Re: (urth) The significance of Apu Punchau It's still probably …
30 Dec 2008, 17:09
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Variations on the same theme is fine. Exactely the same thing is not, at least for me, especially when Wolfe in his interviews clearly states that he doesn't remember exactely how …
30 Dec 2008, 17:04
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What about the earth itself? Do they guide continent formation? Plate-tectonics? Do we always end up with South America and Buenos Aires? Same languages? Do we get spanish speakers…
30 Dec 2008, 16:49
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Wasn't it confirmed by Wolfe that it was an actual moon-landing photograph? Also, from everything Wolfe said, I think it's pretty much confirmed this is not another universe but …
30 Dec 2008, 16:17
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There's no "South American Theory". Wolfe himself confirmed in an interview that the Commonwealth IS in South America.…
01 Dec 2008, 19:35
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thanks, didn't remember the case very well. Pedro From: crushtv at gmail.comTo: urth at lists.urth.netDate: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 14:25:01 -0500Subject: Re: (urth) hirsute sev II…
01 Nov 2008, 19:27
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If I rememeber correctly there's those hairy humans in the caves that Severian meets and scares with the light of The Claw who are supposedly humans who "regressed" to earlier evol…
01 Nov 2008, 17:24
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12.…
31 Oct 2008, 00:36
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Nope.…
30 Oct 2008, 12:15
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No, it's in another part of the book. I think the book is worthwhile. It's a nice compilation of stuff related to the cycle.…
29 Oct 2008, 22:28
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I've seen that one before. I still think the GURPS illustration is more faitful although not as stylish.…
29 Oct 2008, 20:03
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I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember that there was some red embroidery on the cloack? Or was that on only on the mask? As an aside, in the GURPS rolepleying supplement Seve…
24 Oct 2008, 12:28
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:D…
23 Oct 2008, 23:36
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Thank you for your kind reply. It's great to know that it's coming, I was really wishing for such a book.…
25 Sep 2008, 17:39
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Did I get it wrong or did Andre said in the interview that he already wrote a book for the Long Sun series with material from the chap books and that he has no publishing date yet?…
25 Sep 2008, 16:38
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The Godlings are beyings sent by Mainframe. They are probably geneticly engineered artificial creatures used specifically for the needs of mainframe. It's not the same thing as nat…
23 Sep 2008, 10:11
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That can surely be Wolfe's intention. All I say is that it is not real science and the problem only exists when people want to justify it using real world biochemistry. Wolfe is ba…
22 Sep 2008, 23:14
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I don't think it's the eating part that is the problem (it could or could not be a problem, depending on what form of life are we talking about). It's the mix n' go genetics. Ain't…
22 Sep 2008, 20:53
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If they're not even compatible on Earth (Urth) why would they be among alien worlds? Pedro 4) In a universe with a Creator, where evolution is guided by the Creator's will, a…
22 Sep 2008, 16:01
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I doubt Latro's Gods have anything to do with aliens. It's a different book with different concepts and ideas. Wolfe actually believes that Pagan Gods were/are real, some kind of m…
22 Sep 2008, 13:53
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Regarding point 3) we have to take into account that Wolfe's stories are not strictly hard sci-fi plausible in many points. You are correct that doubling-genes doesn't mean doublin…
22 Sep 2008, 13:49
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Well, Andre wrote a Book of the New Sun RPG campaign book for GURPS, in case you're interested. I moved on to stuff like Call of Cthulhu, Vampire, Ars Magica, King Arthur Pendrag…
21 Sep 2008, 13:22
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He did die a few months back. As for playing D&D, I did but then moved on for "better" stuff. Pedro Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:53:37 -0400From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.comTo:…
20 Sep 2008, 21:43
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By the way, I was doing some bathroom reading of LEXICON URTHUS and under the entry Typhon Andre says that some of Typhon's rebelious family members possibly turned into Other Lord…
19 Sep 2008, 18:09
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Yes, that's my opinion too. I don't know where I got the idea that Great Scylla had been Cilicia and that was confusing me. Need to re-read the books some of these days. Pedro …
19 Sep 2008, 13:45
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Huh, I think my opinion in this case leaves a lot to be desired...and now that some people gave me some info (that I had read years ago in the this list but forgotten since) I thin…
19 Sep 2008, 13:43
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Wow...I guess I missed a few things and have to get back to the books again... Pedro…
18 Sep 2008, 22:10
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I think it was what was suggested in the books: one of the last spots of the Neighbors before they departed. I don't remember anything unusual about the trees. By the way, why "t…
18 Sep 2008, 16:52
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1) Yes, I remember now. That makes sense. But the part still in the body would have to remain in contact with that "piece" of himself in babie or the "piece" would have to return t…
18 Sep 2008, 16:26
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Sorry! No, by "real ghosts" I meant spirits of the deseased but WITHIN the context of the Solar Cycle. Pedro…
18 Sep 2008, 14:10
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Thanks for the english correction. I know that, but I was refering to ghosts as portreyed in the Solar Cycle... ;) Pedro…
18 Sep 2008, 14:00
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Marc and James: 1) You're right. I remember now that when Scylla separates from Oreb in Red Sun Whorl he becomes more like a normal bird. 2) I still think that just by itself t…
18 Sep 2008, 13:11
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Just some points to consider: 1) Oreb in Astral form was always like a small boy with feathers. He is ALWAYS like that because the astral form shows how a person's spirit "is". F…
17 Sep 2008, 20:54
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"And the gamblers sometimes won. I can't help but wonder at the gutsiness of St. Brendan the Voyager who used much more fragile craft for his westerly trips. I do not support the…
05 Sep 2008, 12:11
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The Carthaginians had exactely the same problem. As for the Chinese, at what time? If you're refering to the chinese great exploratory and comercial voyages that happened almost ar…
04 Sep 2008, 16:17
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Possibly, yes, but not on a permanent, constant basis. More like isolated, pontual cases. I do believe there is evidence for early contact, just like eventually the academia had to…
04 Sep 2008, 14:32
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That is certainly true. After all, if most academia researchers have misused the term for such a long time it is certainly possible that Latro could have too. But I think that Wolf…
03 Sep 2008, 22:34
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Yes, I read that some time ago. I disagree with his take, but he is free to use that in his books. I don't really consider that kind of stuff errors or historical mistakes. Just an…
03 Sep 2008, 22:06
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I remember reading some things that didn't strike me as probable. It was a long time ago that I read the books. One of the things is the imagery that Wolfe evokes for the legion…
03 Sep 2008, 22:04
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03 Sep 2008, 18:29
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THAT'S IT!!! Many thanks! :D Pedro…
22 Aug 2008, 20:19
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