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I went to the same school of pronouns <g>, but that's not the case here. "I saw the man who shot me. He didn't resemble John. It wasn't his face or his body type. As for it being a…
19 Sep 2009, 19:23
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I'm sure I've said this before, but Gid repeatedly referred to the shooter with masculine pronouns. Gid also said that it is easy for a shape-changer to slip back "down", so easy …
18 Sep 2009, 18:35
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Point taken. -Roy…
18 Sep 2009, 18:33
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She That picture would have been just 11-12 years in the past for Klauser. He should have recognized the woman who came to his house to ask advice. If Cassie could travel back in…
18 Sep 2009, 06:30
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So Rian was born on Woldercan? This makes my head hurt. Cassie was in her early-to-mid-thirties at the end of the book, despite looking like an old woman. She goes to Woldercan an…
16 Sep 2009, 19:23
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Where the hell have you been, Dave? Or is it Charles? You were missed. Reis had a wife when he first got to Woldercan as Ingstrup's ambassador (301). Ingstrup served two terms, so…
15 Sep 2009, 18:53
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You've got me there: I concede that I cannot prove a negative. Yes, I do, and so should you. Reis was a wealthy man before he ever went to Woldercan as President Ingstrup's ambas…
14 Sep 2009, 23:34
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You would do well to heed your own advice. In my first response to you, I simply gave my objections to your theory of identity switching. You responded with your comment about me "…
12 Sep 2009, 02:24
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Months after Reis was killed, Cassie had to call Rian to tell him his father was dead (296). {big snip] You are missing the point. I have given you text-based reasons why the man…
11 Sep 2009, 16:19
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Rian planned to attend (277). Klauser could not have attended, no matter where the wedding was held, for health reasons. Reis could not have had the ceremony just anywhere, not if …
10 Sep 2009, 18:38
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Gid claimed not to be able either to shape-shift or do the "vanishing" trick. (Yeah, yeah, he could have lied.) It was he who explained to Cassie why the wolf that got Scott was so…
10 Sep 2009, 05:32
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Reis was a big man; Gideon was not. A conventional disguise or one that involves a "glamour", to say nothing of shape shifting, would have to account for Gid's missing leg. Shape s…
09 Sep 2009, 23:18
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As Dave said, "mews" and "limer" are just obscure words. I recall that the mews of a stable near the Inn of Lost Loves was where the ostler Trudo kept his belongings and may have s…
19 Jul 2009, 20:01
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That should, of course, have been "Asimov". My bad. -Roy…
24 Jun 2009, 03:25
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(emphasis I said I didn't want to get into this stuff again. I don't and I won't. But . . . when I read the above quote from OBW, p-272, then compare it with the wording in my cop…
19 Mar 2009, 20:38
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Oh, there were. But I'm not going to get into it again, either. Just don't take everything thrown out here as accepted wisdom. Far, far from it. -Roy…
19 Mar 2009, 07:36
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Of course I can't answer all your questions, but I'll give you my take, fwiw. I think you are right to view the Flying People as angelic -- if they aren't quite Judeo-Christian an…
04 Mar 2009, 21:16
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That is almost certain to be correct. See the description of the tender that brought Severian and Burgundofara back to Urth: "I recall thinking, as I leaned over the railing and w…
18 Feb 2009, 20:40
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I don't see what is so mysterious about this. If you look at the last two sentences of the chapter I cited when I answered the original question, it seems obvious enough: "No one …
11 Feb 2009, 20:50
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"And the secret is only that we torturers obey." See the last page of chapter XXXI, SWORD. -Roy…
10 Feb 2009, 08:19
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_______________________ The Urth Cycle is definitely anthropocentric. I don't want to touch off a debate about alien sentient beings and whether or not they have souls that need s…
10 Feb 2009, 08:15
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can we agree on that? you guys have convinced me that, ontologically speaking, Severian ain't Christ. but: "A god's supposed to pull on a man just like a tunic — that's what they s…
09 Feb 2009, 05:37
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To give us a path. This is where the Logos comes in as that which reconciles God and Man. What's Jesus say about finding the Father only through me, or such. The Logos is the brid…
06 Feb 2009, 23:35
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No inhumi. It was Tzadkiel. "And it was pleasant indeed to sit upon that bank, occasionally refreshing my laboring tongue with the cold, clean water of the brook, and recount to T…
06 Feb 2009, 06:28
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[snip] The scene where Cassie is sitting in the back of Wally's car and he shows her a vid image of her in the play may foreshadow the dance in the beach scene near the end of the…
26 Jan 2009, 05:14
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Otoh, that whole account of how she came to be stranded is a tissue of half-truths and evasions, a fine example of Gid's lecture about how best to mislead people. Cassie was told …
21 Jan 2009, 07:05
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I'm still not sold on the reality-warping bit, partly because no one, not even Cassie, seems to notice the discrepancies you have mentioned. Gid is the only known expert in the bo…
20 Jan 2009, 05:44
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Thank you for your regard, but I will bravely relinquish a place at the front to Dan'l while I observe the, uh, rear. -Roy…
19 Jan 2009, 05:38
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I should have said Al, not Carlos as the wolf. You evidently believe that Cassie was elevated by Gid to the level of a goddess. I have trouble seeing Cassie as a goddess in any me…
18 Jan 2009, 21:53
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Because there may be others who have transformed that she should be careful of--even if he only meant Margaret. That's not enough. It's not the radical transformation Gid spoke of…
18 Jan 2009, 02:08
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Cassie That's not right. What Gid did for Cassie to bring out her star quality was to enhance what was already there. That is not the same thing as shape-shifting as defined by Gi…
17 Jan 2009, 22:06
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Gil Corby was in the cargo space behind the seats, so I don't think there was any danger of making eye contact. And I don't know that he knew then (or any time before she went to W…
16 Jan 2009, 05:34
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He makes attempts to minimize the paradoxes, but they are still there. Right. In FLF, no two versions of Whitten are in the same "present" at the same time. Right. So long as Ma…
15 Jan 2009, 06:36
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Okay, assume that to be true and see where it leads. To trouble. I *hate* time travel stories. <g> An older, wiser, grayer Cassie, unable to get her mojo back, comes back from Wol…
14 Jan 2009, 21:01
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A hopper is worth a lot of money, even on the black market. The sandwich was a *hot* pastrami. The coffee would have been hot, too. And why wouldn't she have known about the extra…
13 Jan 2009, 06:36
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I understand the distinction you mean, and we can call Cassie's change mojo or whatever if you like, but it still amounts to a glamour. It may not wash off, like Gil's, but the cha…
13 Jan 2009, 05:22
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[snip] I agree with that much. I'm not sold on the "reality warping" bit. Anyway, bringing on Cassie's glamour had been but a night's work. Yet she told Klauser that she hoped to…
12 Jan 2009, 03:22
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Dave Tallman, quoting Wolfe interview: Not incidentally, that quote all but cements the earlier assumption that one of Gid's biological parents, probably the father, was not human…
08 Jan 2009, 20:12
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Reis I would think it very probable that Chase was aware of a fleet of Navy ships in the area, since he was in contact with the president's advisor, John. At the start of the nov…
08 Jan 2009, 20:09
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I did and I do. I agree. But . . . I agree that it was a dumb thing to do, but he did it anyway! That's a character flaw that comes from being a megalomaniac. Reis was used to ge…
08 Jan 2009, 07:11
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Cell phones aren't magical. They require support technologies that the government could not help but be aware of, and Reis was being monitored. If packaged communication, such as e…
07 Jan 2009, 20:55
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If real-time phone service between planets light-years apart were even possible, the government would know and use it. Clearly it is not. Besides, what could either Reis or Chase h…
07 Jan 2009, 18:35
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But Gid saw the shooter and said it was a man. (203) Yes, Gid professed his love for her in his note (216), and he may even have been sincere, in his fashion. What I meant was tha…
05 Jan 2009, 19:09
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Dave meant Kingsport, not Springfield. The name of the city is mentioned several times in the text, including the "Cast" list at the end. -Roy…
23 Dec 2008, 21:57
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I agree with Dave T. on both counts. And Naturally I agree with Dave T. that Rian's mother was Bill's first wife. But I think David D. is right about the rich yacht owner being R…
23 Dec 2008, 21:45
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James, me, James: Yeah, but only while things were good. When push came to shove, Kanoa turned on him and got him killed. Btw, it was Kanoa who gave another "W.R." name for him, W…
23 Dec 2008, 06:29
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I don't know if this is related, or what theory it helps or hurts, but the morning after Cassie received the gold bracelet she talked to Gid and mentioned that Wally Rosenquist had…
22 Dec 2008, 21:23
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Which one killed a thousand or so people to take control of the islands? Which one benefited? But it is the same guy, the one at Rusterman's, who expressed the desire to have both…
22 Dec 2008, 06:36
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I brought that stuff up four days ago, but no one followed up on it. Maybe it got lost in the shuffle. <g> It happens all the time that someone sees something that someone else has…
21 Dec 2008, 22:54
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119) The only point you have marked true for both these scenarios is that Cassie was wearing a green dress when Reis first saw her. One of the problems with this clone theory is …
21 Dec 2008, 22:29
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