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_______________________________________________ Yes, Silver Silk in Pig could only reunite with his greater self in Mainframe. That is the only way he could reunite with the "her"…
30 Nov 2011, 19:37
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But the fact remains that Pike's ghost wasn't seen at the same time or place as Oreb and Mucor. Pike's ghost came minutes later, on the landing, and neither Oreb nor Mucor were wit…
29 Nov 2011, 05:07
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I do have an answer, but that is beside the point. As I have said before, I will not be manipulated into playing anyone else's games by anyone else's rules. I may post my solution…
25 Nov 2011, 22:57
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Not I don't see how you could have read my paragraph and come to the conclusion that I thought Pas was in Oreb at all. I said that I didn't believe it, period. You are the one wh…
25 Nov 2011, 19:03
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Mucor was naked on the night of Pike's ghost, just as she had been naked the first time Silk saw her in the flesh the night before at Blood's villa. When he was questioning Oreb ab…
24 Nov 2011, 22:47
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Conjunction is not a presumption. The rest was just a bonus, for context. Conjunction establishes that at least two years passed between Horn asking Mucor to search for Silk and Si…
24 Nov 2011, 07:18
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Gerry has anticipated me. We are told at the beginning of OBW that the next Conjunction is two years away. There is no getting around this fact. It is important and I will come ba…
23 Nov 2011, 22:08
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For the record, I don't believe that dream travel involves time travel. And, yes, I've seen what you regard as evidence, but I am not persuaded. [snip] Let me see if I have this …
23 Nov 2011, 05:36
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On the final astral trip of the books, when Cilinia's ghost is put to rest, the bird and the girl are separated. Oreb goes back to looking just like a bird, and the bit of Scylla i…
16 Nov 2011, 20:30
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I don't think so, at least not in SS. But Silkhorn does mention having his glasses in Gaon (OBW, 54). And, in regard to your earlier question, Mucor appeared sans body in the smok…
16 Nov 2011, 19:55
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I wrote the following last January but decided not to send it. I do so now, unchanged, because the subject has come up again. ------------------- Marc, you have repeated several …
16 Nov 2011, 18:43
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I really don't want to be involved in this stuff any more, but some things bug me even more than others, so I'm going to pop out of lurker mode for a moment to address this particu…
09 Nov 2011, 19:40
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James Wynn Not a chance. Even a miles-long line of chems walking on the inner surface of the _Whorl_ toward a particular sun-drenched field would not, could not blot out the ligh…
02 Jun 2011, 07:34
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First, I want to address the recently debated issue of how long it had been since the _Whorl_ left Urth, because it may have some slight relevance to what follows. The date on the …
01 Jun 2011, 19:19
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FWIW: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0307/3619.txt.shtml -Roy…
19 Apr 2011, 04:18
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In general I agree with you, but Severian is a special case because of his self-vaunted perfect memory. There are mistakes in his narrative (I once posted a list of them), most of …
18 Apr 2011, 19:26
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James Wynn wrote: [snip] The case of Fava is different from Jahlee (and Juganu) because her natural body died during dream travel, but it does shed some light on the issue, howeve…
16 Feb 2011, 19:23
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Yes. What Hamer didn't know was that he wasn't really on Urth. That was the power Silkhorn held over the judge; the judge's ignorance of the situation. Hamer was at Silkhorn's merc…
15 Feb 2011, 05:22
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Yes, the spirit body dies -- it happened to Rigoglio and some mercenaries. But back in the real world, on Blue, only their spirits had died. As I cited, Silkhorn said during dream …
13 Feb 2011, 08:45
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Yes, they can be harmed, but let's be real. No digestive tract means, among other things, that there is no ability to produce blood and its nutrients. Without blood and a circulato…
12 Feb 2011, 05:58
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Of the Neighbors Silkhorn said: "As for me, I have walked with them, and sat with them around their fire. Thus I know that they exist. They have gone elsewhere -- found a new home …
12 Feb 2011, 02:59
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Yes, the bodies of dream travelers have weight and seem to otherwise behave as if they were real, but they are not real. Remember the part about no digestive tracts. Rigoglio's spi…
12 Feb 2011, 02:37
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Silkhorn believed that the Neighbors had spaceships: "Eventually the Vanished People found some means of crossing the abyss to Green. Perhaps they built landers of their own -- I …
09 Feb 2011, 19:17
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Quite so. The inhumi were introduced into the LSW by the Neighbors. Windcloud was one of them: "I was one of those who boarded your whorl when it neared our sun. In the _Whorl_, I…
08 Feb 2011, 19:36
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------------------ Said Severian to BF&O, in the tomb of Apu-Punchau: "Once I believed you three were gods, and then that the Hierarchs were still greater gods. So the autochthon…
02 Feb 2011, 05:44
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Marc Aramini wrote: ----------------------- It's not hard to make sense of -- you answered it yourself. Chenille was possessed by Kypris when Mint said that, and the Kypris in Ch…
20 Jan 2011, 21:12
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I Echidna was percipient enough at that theophany to pick out the Prolocutor from among a crowd of thousands, even though Quetzal was disguised as an old man wearing a nondescript…
19 Jan 2011, 07:39
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Gerry Quinn wrote: [snip] [snip] And on the related notion that Tussah is also a clone of Typhon, based at least in part on the reading that the tall, blue-eyed man in Silk's nea…
19 Jan 2011, 07:36
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You think? It was precisely the barks that the dog *didn't* make that led Holmes to draw a correct conclusion. The bulk of LS consists of dialogues and actions that Horn was not p…
18 Jan 2011, 20:48
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Because it is so obvious. Typhon's vanity and obsession with his face are a textual given. Mt. Typhon is proof. Having his own head cut off and attached to another man's body to p…
18 Jan 2011, 10:02
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Hardly. Silk saw one head that looked like his own, and in the other passage I quoted Piaton is portrayed during a theophany as "gaping and gasping", just as Severian had described…
18 Jan 2011, 10:00
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.] ----------------- That quote is from the end of chapter 15 of EXODUS, p-346, when Silk was shown an image on the airship's glass. That image was almost certainly photoshopped …
17 Jan 2011, 21:20
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Blue eyes are not _rare_ in Viron, as I have pointed out, and Viron is not the capitol of the _Whorl_. You seem to be selective in your associations. I don't think including Cheni…
16 Jan 2011, 18:51
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p670 of Epiphany: Ahem. This is what Silk had to say about blue eyes: "You see, blue eyes are unusual--here in Viron, at any rate; but they're by no means really rare. Collect a …
15 Jan 2011, 21:03
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Long Sun come from? Is it from the fallible horn or the infallible Wolfe? ugh. < *********** Are you trying to insinuate that the _Whorl_ is a satellite of Blue? That it is someh…
11 Jan 2011, 20:07
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Oh, I forgot to mention; good job, Gerry! "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, . . . " -Roy…
10 Jan 2011, 05:59
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Damn! You beat me to it! Anyway, the Gilligan's exegesis was about the "Christic imagery" in the show. Not the same thing -- I hope. And I blame you for getting that damn tune in m…
10 Jan 2011, 05:47
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Marc Aramini wrote: [snip] -------------- As I said when I started this thread, it was a *Neighbor*, not Silkhorn, who claimed that his race built the City on Green. It was also …
02 Jan 2011, 04:43
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I'd swear I've been through all this before. I'm sure I have, and you obviously remember what I said then about dream-travel Babbie, because you repeated some of it a few days ago …
01 Jan 2011, 08:15
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It isn't going to make any difference; I know because I've been through this before, but I have to say something before I just get disgusted and leave the List, which is probably w…
31 Dec 2010, 08:39
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The LSW is specifically stated to be a hollowed-out asteroid (List, RTTW). -Roy…
26 Dec 2010, 19:20
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Huh. I really, really don't want to get into another tedious Urth/Ushas = Green or Blue debate; it's been done to death. But since you brought up weighty arguments, I don't recall…
26 Dec 2010, 08:10
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Ryan Dunn wrote and quoted: ...ryan -------------------------------- What the hell? When did Nick Gevers start using the initials "JJ"? At least get the facts straight. -Roy…
26 Dec 2010, 06:35
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Silk/Horn - you can see it as a dim red point in the night sky of Blue. Therefore (if he is telling the truth) it is not the sun of Green and Blue, but a far distant star.< Of co…
24 Dec 2010, 07:26
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James Wynn wrote: [snip] I don't see why you attach such importance to that quote. It has nothing to do with what happened in the pit. It is a direct reference to what Silkhorn wr…
07 Dec 2010, 07:33
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----------------- That isn't the only problem this theory creates. It calls into question everything that happened after the pit, which extends to the whole manuscript written by …
06 Dec 2010, 08:27
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XXII) It was Ouen who said that she died in childbirth, which is what his father had told him (CITADEL, XXXVII). But the text is otherwise silent on the subject of a second child.…
06 Dec 2010, 07:35
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He had been searching for her body for "forty years". (SHADOW. chap. XXII) Ouen is about forty-two. -Roy…
04 Dec 2010, 21:04
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What the hell have you got against grits? I like grits! With lots of butter. I mean, grits are made from ground hominy, right? And hominem is the singular form of hominy, ain't it?…
03 Dec 2010, 20:15
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No, you are right. It's right on the same page you quoted from (I have deleted the quote), IGJ p-127. It is Silkhorn's version of the first moments after Horn's spirit entered Silk…
02 Dec 2010, 20:03
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