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Daniel Goss wrote a very thoughtful post; I look forward to more! I will bravely duck the issue of the logical paradox that gave rise to Gnosticism, to pursue the Genesis parallel…
09 Oct 2002, 20:03
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Crush writes: I meant to say something about that parenthetical bit above the last time you brought it up. Where is the evidence that Chenille is "genetically engineered"? The lis…
07 Oct 2002, 21:53
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Jerry Friedman quotes and writes: Marble ending up on Blue was a fluke; as Mucor's guardian she was just in the right place at the right time, and being the calde's friend didn't …
07 Oct 2002, 18:49
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Rostrum quoted me and writes: What I was getting at is the parallel between Man as creator of sentient beings (in Wolfe's work) and God as creator of Man (in _Genesis_). Yes, and…
07 Oct 2002, 18:01
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involves I know that the subject of how chems reproduce was touched upon recently, but having just reread the series I can give a little more specific information. Some of the par…
06 Oct 2002, 20:35
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What follows was prepared yesterday; I didn't post it then because I thought I would leave well enough alone, that and wait to see if there would be any further response to my "Bio…
06 Oct 2002, 18:26
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And the textual evidence for this is . . . nonexistent. The following quote happens to address both Blattid's "repentance" issue and mantis's query. The context is the point in PE…
05 Oct 2002, 18:41
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Stone Ox writes: I agree that Weer isn't El Diablo. But how is it that Olivia gets to go to heaven? She didn't strike me as even a nice person, much less as worthy of eternal rewa…
04 Oct 2002, 19:27
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Do EXODUS, 232 The only clue I'm aware of that may pertain is a left-handed one, and may just be a minor mistake by Wolfe. It's in chapter 4 of CALDE, where Rose-in-Marble is tel…
26 Sep 2002, 23:14
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Crush writes: No, I don't think there is general agreement on that point. On 9/6/02 mantis wrote: ------------------------ Jonas steps into the mirrors after speaking of being re…
26 Sep 2002, 19:42
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The answer to both of the first two questions is: yes, for the obvious lack of "compatible sexual interface devices", but it is the third question, I believe, that most concerns yo…
26 Sep 2002, 06:36
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Jerry Friedman quoting mantis: I agree completely with Jerry and have said so before. Jonas loathed his bio replacement parts. When he said he would come back for Jolenta when he …
25 Sep 2002, 19:13
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Charles Reed writes: [snip] Thus, I don't know that the statement in OBW can be construed as "unambiguous"--Horn and Nettle were the source for both sets of data, after all. Tha…
24 Sep 2002, 19:36
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mantis writes: Sorry to be confusing. I brought it up because that's the way the text has it. Marble made the second trip (on the same day as the first, iirc) for two reasons; to …
24 Sep 2002, 16:50
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No, no. Your reading of the text is correct; she did not see the trunk on a visit 184 years ago. As I said in the second paragraph: "But both trips to the attic came after Rose's d…
24 Sep 2002, 04:16
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Ian writes: Yes, and that's all very well when the fusion chamber remains intact; but when it is breached? When the plasma hits the fan, so to speak, what then? Why was Dr. Crane,…
09 Sep 2002, 17:43
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Yes. Silk was no weakling -- he threw Mamelta over his shoulder and ran with her, bad ankle and all, after Lemur was killed. Yet when Marble/Rose was telling him about Blood's birt…
06 Sep 2002, 23:37
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Yes, Jonas's nature has been discussed before, and I'm still waiting for an answer to my question of just what the hell he thought he was going to do with Jolenta, even if she was …
06 Sep 2002, 08:10
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Blattid President and Founder, The books may be fresher in my mind since I am currently re-reading them, and have paid particular attention to the chems. Time and again Wolfe port…
06 Sep 2002, 06:24
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Dan'l wrote: [snip] Why would any robot designer in their right mind even _consider_ building one hardwired (or programmed) to be subject to the equivalent vagaries of human emot…
04 Sep 2002, 01:15
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That definition fits Marble perfectly! I don't think so. Marble was not programmed on Urth to be a sibyl. I don't know how/why she became a sibyl, but several decades back she was…
03 Sep 2002, 19:36
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Matthew responding to me: So, Helen Birkhead Tyler yields . . . torch + shininghead (?) + gate keeper(?) flame-topped gate keeper? Like the cherubim with flaming swords at …
26 Aug 2002, 04:19
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Maybe, just maybe, some of the responses to Weer's anomalous statements can be brushed off that way, but take the example of Dr. Black: A four-year old boy knows words like "metap…
21 Aug 2002, 20:19
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Now [snip] The main problem with this is that Olivia didn't have any farms for Smart to inherit. John Weer controlled the Weer estate; he and his wife were still alive and Olivia…
21 Aug 2002, 15:30
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Other characters are being "puppetized", to the extent that words are being put into their mouths by frametale-Weer that could not possibly have been uttered by them in real life. …
21 Aug 2002, 14:30
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Robert Borski writes: My old _Webster's_ gives "birk" as [Scot. & Dial. Eng.] "birch". It gives "birch" as akin to the German "birke", deriving from an Indo-European word meaning …
20 Aug 2002, 05:08
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I agree that the "age of the bicycle" and the picnic are linked, but that happened when Weer and Margaret were in high school (107), not after college. In Weer's "what went wrong" …
19 Aug 2002, 05:48
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It just occurred to me why this can't be--probably, maybe. "He was one of the tallest men I ever saw, I guess, but most of the time he stood like he didn't have any chest at all, …
10 Aug 2002, 07:26
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mantis asks: Close enough. And his wife "passed on a number of years ago". (120) Probably during The Great War. Not for Lombard; as Robert has pointed out, her heyday was the 193…
10 Aug 2002, 06:49
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Robert B. writes: A quibble: the Golden Year is the year Den met Lois and Sherry, when he was about 45, and before he became president. His meeting with Charlie took place a few y…
07 Aug 2002, 16:58
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Adam Stephanides expressed doubt that Candy was the woman Miss Hadow saw in the photo, and added: I don't see how the text can allow for anyone other than Candy to be the woman in…
05 Aug 2002, 02:42
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Whoever the real Mr. Mason may have been (Tilly or Smart or Weer or Other), the cover-story in Charlie's letter is that Mr. M. has just died. Even if that's a lie, and ignoring the…
04 Aug 2002, 21:22
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Ah, yes. I had forgotten that the mysterious Mr. Mason was the father of Candy and Arline, as well as Doris. That's another strike against the idea that Weer was the father of Dori…
04 Aug 2002, 08:16
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Not to nit-pick, and I know we covered this before, but there was no photo of Doris. As I read it, the two sepia photos depict a total of three people. One is the girlie picture of…
03 Aug 2002, 08:46
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I know I've refuted this idea before, but maybe it was just to mantis. Den was five years old when the fake deerskin was painted, nine during the Year of the Egg Hunt. He met both…
02 Aug 2002, 16:02
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If you have long held the Sev-is-his-own-grandpa theory, just ignore this. But if you picked up the notion from this list about three years ago, then the fault is mine. I posted ju…
30 Jul 2002, 17:20
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Okay, then I will deny it: Typhon was dead, not in SA; the text says so. Sev prophesied (it was easy, since it came from memory) while on Mt. Typhon (URTH, Chapter XXXIX): "'I…
16 Jul 2002, 09:56
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Silk was a kid fresh out of the seminary. He was a novice as an augur, hadn't had time to inculcate the poor-as-a-church-mouse stereotypical appetite of same. His eating habits mus…
08 Jul 2002, 19:10
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From: James Jordan In addition to the objections raised by others, there are all those stories in the Brown Book, clearly recognizable to students of Classical mythology as founde…
11 Jun 2002, 05:58
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Given time (it's been less than 200 years since the French landing), and a new need to handle tools, the abos might well evolve other means of handling them. But, in terms of evolu…
23 May 2002, 07:04
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"if the offspring return to a mode of life in which the vestigial organ had an important function, the organ does not return to its original state, but the organism develops a subs…
22 May 2002, 07:12
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Adam Stephanides quoted: What Jerry wrote was: Victor never "lost the opportunity to write the normal way"; he had the opportunity and was even punished for not doing it the norm…
21 May 2002, 05:48
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Haven't seen too many opinions (unless I missed them) when searching the archives.<< FWIW, I liked it. I happen to have read it for the third or fourth time just a couple of month…
19 May 2002, 06:38
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First, I would like to say that I'm glad to see Robert actively posting again, and look forward to more. Second, as mantis has pointed out, David's arguments are valid. I have alw…
09 May 2002, 20:12
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That reminds me of the professor who, about thirty years ago, _proved_ mathematically that the Apollo moon landings were a physical impossibility. :-) Ann Schindler was cold and w…
07 May 2002, 07:08
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I don't suppose it's really a joke, and it's not that subtle, but I've always found it funny; it's one of Wolfe's little digs at the eggheads of academe, from CASTLEVIEW (pp. 36-37…
06 May 2002, 19:57
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I know you are presenting what seems to be Wolfe's viewpoint, not your own. First of all, redeemed from what, exactly? Original Sin? For a Christian who subscribes to that doctrin…
22 Apr 2002, 07:16
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(Reposted from yesterday's urth list glitch) The SUN books are all set in the far, far future of Earth; 5HC isn't. -Roy…
19 Apr 2002, 09:13
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(Reposted from yesterday's urth list glitch) Andrew asked: Scylla possesses Oreb at the very beginning of NTLS, just as Silk is about sacrifice him (her?):<< Scylla possessed Or…
19 Apr 2002, 09:11
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18 Apr 2002, 18:42
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