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Marc Aramini write: Silkhorn didn't need Pig to be able to see in order to "reboot" Silver Silk into Silkhorn. A glass or Sacred Window was needed to import or export a god, and S…
30 Nov 2011, 17:35
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Before I get to the scene in question, I must first go forward in the story to a later scene, then back to another incident before the scene in question. Silk had just returned fr…
26 Nov 2011, 05:13
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Both Marc and James hold that Horn died in the pit. Marc says that Horn was somehow eaten by a tree that left behind a body that looked just like the Horn who fell into the pit, wi…
19 Nov 2011, 23:42
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I can't see it myself on my dial-up, but Mantis thought this would be of interest to the List. -Roy --------------------- that is a compilation of scenes featuring this actor. Fr…
27 Apr 2011, 17:36
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Most of the following was written months ago in the context of another argument, but I decided it just wasn't worth the effort to pursue at the time. I trot it out now because it h…
10 Feb 2011, 19:59
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Typhon's maniacal obsession with his own face is a given, well established in the Urth Cycle. The head on the left side of Piaton's body had yellow hair, the head on the right side…
11 Sep 2010, 05:33
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In connection with the theory that Hyacinth is in fact a spirit/dream traveling inhuma, Fava, the issue has been raised over whether Hy actually consumed food, as I have contended,…
06 Sep 2010, 04:29
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I can't say why Inire was addressed as Father, but I have doubts that he was anyone's father in the usual sense of the word, as I am the father of my sons, any more than Silk was a…
17 Jul 2010, 04:07
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Okay, let's see if we can find some middle ground in all this monkey business. That some characters in the Urth Cycle are compared, in some way, with monkeys is beyond dispute. Si…
09 Jul 2010, 04:07
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Despite my recent musings about when and why the Wall of Nessus may have been built, upon further reflection I think I can establish from the text that it antedates both the autarc…
09 Jun 2010, 19:47
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By the time Bax was beaten by Ieuan, he had both the opal ring from the fish and Ted's ring. At that point he knew nothing at all about any hypothetical previous owner of the opal …
14 May 2010, 19:27
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I've thought about it. Two things come to mind. One possibility is that Ted left behind a tear-stained copy (ghost copy?) of the first letter Doris wrote to Bax, the "Dear John" le…
21 Apr 2010, 01:52
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Another point against the idea that none of the Faerie and/or supernatural stuff really happened are the Murray sisters, identical twins. Bax's mother, Martha, looked to be in her …
20 Apr 2010, 22:16
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Letter #18 bugs me, for two reasons. First, it is addressed to Millie, and on p-132, right after the break, Bax wrote: "Joe came for the car. I know I wrote to George about that." …
15 Apr 2010, 22:54
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Those of you in the Bay Area may be interested to know that THE WIZARD KNIGHT COMPANION is available at the Other Change of Hobbit and Dark Carnival in Berkeley. -Roy…
15 Nov 2009, 06:41
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Michael Andre-Driussi has a new book out about TWK, similar in format to LEXICON URTHUS. Below is his announcement. The longer URLs may wrap, so compensate as needed. TWKC has a fo…
29 Oct 2009, 19:51
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One more try. I'll make it brief. Cassie goes to Woldercan and gets Gideon to make her look good again. She comes back to Earth about 20 years before she left. She is still in her…
05 Oct 2009, 04:27
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My cynicism aside, who is there to say that Cassie didn't find her lost love and both lived together happily ever after? Whether Madame Pavlatos was Bill's second wife or not doesn…
02 Oct 2009, 04:12
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Judging from Klauser's picture, Bill Reis had a wife but no children by her when he first went to Woldercan as ambassador. He was ambassador for eight years. In the year he met Cas…
26 Sep 2009, 17:29
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This was in the context of the spelling of Woldercan, so perhaps not enough attention was paid to it. A day or two later, I googled the quote and found out that the Wikipedia summa…
21 Sep 2009, 05:53
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Not Wolfe related, but I know some of you live in the Bay Area. If you are also interested in anime and/or would like to hear Michael Andre-Driussi introduce two anime films by Miy…
13 Jul 2009, 18:43
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For those who may be interested: Michael Andre-Driussi has an article on the influence of Toynbee on the fiction of Azimov and de Camp in the latest issue of the "New York Review …
23 Jun 2009, 20:29
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Speaking of Cassie as Margaret . . . After Gideon aided Cassie to bring out her "star" power, it is implied that she was then elevated, transformed "up", to a state higher than no…
16 Jan 2009, 06:34
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I agree. I still wonder who shot Gid or, more to the point, who was behind the shooter. Gid had a late breakfast with Cassie the morning after the cast party. At about that time, …
04 Jan 2009, 23:00
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Both Gideon and Klauser mentioned that Wolder males could hybridize with lower animals. Klauser also said that they sometimes try to seduce human women. Both of these points should…
17 Dec 2008, 08:22
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Given my past antipathy for clone theories, I hesitate to even bring up the subject, but it's mentioned in the book (p.-296) and I have a sinking feeling. Reis thought dying was a…
13 Dec 2008, 20:55
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Who--or what--are the voices in Gid's hopper that Computer Lady didn't hear? Should I have recognized them from another source, as is the case for the Squid god? Why do they egg he…
11 Dec 2008, 06:03
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Mantis had this to say at 10:48 AM (CST) -Roy --------------------------------------------…
19 Nov 2008, 19:49
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I'm just the messenger here. I don't know if Christopher Culver is still a member of this List or not, but Michael Andre-Driussi asked me to pass along these comments, which I hav…
04 Oct 2008, 05:00
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Michael Swanwick put out a review of LEXICON URTHUS, Second Edition today at: http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com -Roy…
26 Jul 2008, 04:29
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On the morning after Severian bedded Apheta, she brought him breakfast on a tray. It consisted of "... small cakes, a carafe of cool water, and cups of some steaming liquid that lo…
22 Jul 2008, 22:48
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For those interested and in the area. -Roy…
20 Jul 2008, 08:00
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Inire is specifically credited for the construction of the Second House and the camouflage landscaping above the House Absolute. The Old Autarch said: "Oh, no. All these things...…
07 Jul 2008, 22:31
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Just because I have an old-fashioned sense of fairness, I am going to surprise everyone and see if I can present b sharp's case, as I see it, so that it is more palatable. Maybe I …
05 Jul 2008, 23:35
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25 Feb 2008, 19:10
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Michael Dale wrote: [snip] The most accepted figure for the time period between Typhon and Severian is about 1,000 years. The _Whorl_ had been in flight for 300+ years (another 30…
17 Dec 2007, 21:54
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For anyone interested: I have learned that there is a copy of Michael Andre-Driussi's LEXICON URTHUS up for auction on eBay, auction ending tomorrow. -Roy…
08 Dec 2007, 21:57
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Rex, Mantis said he couldn't comment on your speculations regarding his surname and PIRATE FREEDOM (he hasn't read the book), other than to say that Christopher is not any of his …
28 Nov 2007, 19:08
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I should amend that to say that Able's blood enabled Disiri to become human; a soul comes with the body. But the different results from the blood infusions remain. A number of peo…
05 Oct 2007, 07:16
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Since I touched on the subject of the Pelagian heresy: Peter Wright, in ATTENDING DAEDALUS, contended that the Hierogrammates had their own alien agenda, that they were not manipul…
04 Oct 2007, 06:05
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Thinking about the amoral Aelf and the problems attendant on their problematic position in a hierarchical cosmology between men and dragons leads logically to some other difficulti…
02 Oct 2007, 19:46
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I've probably said this before, but I'll say it again to drive home the point that the Neoplatonism-based theory of upward mobility in a hierarchical system doesn't apply to Wolfe'…
25 Sep 2007, 21:33
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I've read this story several more times, and I may well be wrong in thinking that the narrator is an over-the-hill robot boy. There are a few details that make more sense if he is …
03 Jul 2007, 06:48
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This is my take on the story. Some of these points have already been made by others. I think that the narrator is in fact a robot. The reference to "dwarves" refers to his diminut…
28 Jun 2007, 00:05
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Some of you will recall that some years ago mantis made a long report to the Urth list about his encounters with the Wolfes and sundry other matters, following some California conv…
20 Jun 2007, 06:00
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Damn, how thick of me! It was Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha, who first wrote about that "lost dog" stuff I mentioned yesterday. Nine years ago! Why didn't you say something? Better y…
17 Jun 2007, 08:34
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My recent reading of CASTLEVIEW forced me to appreciate for the first time just how many points of correspondence there are between it and TWK. It's hard to imagine that the former…
18 May 2007, 06:08
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no mysteries solved but more questions raised. If we come to think that this book is essentially knotted, that at least does give a very interesting counter-example to the common n…
18 May 2007, 04:26
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Mantis gave me these links today. Either of them covers the info. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/312356_tf120.html http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id…
20 Apr 2007, 18:24
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Precisely! I wish I had seen your post before I wrote this. I think I've finally figured this out. I should have done it sooner. I had all the information needed to do it in the B…
31 Oct 2006, 05:06
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