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Mitchell, I enjoyed your Inire posts and have no substantive arguments with them, just a couple of sidebars. <snip> If you are referring to Robert's Undines, at least on…
16 Jun 1999, 07:14
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To which corncrake, Alex, alga, and Mitchell have each responded with what amounts to variations on the same theme: that Wolfe sometimes writes about non-humans, and in doing so po…
16 Jun 1999, 02:22
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I think the all-too-human tendency to anthropomorphize is evident both in Wolfe's writing about Jonas and our speculations about him. Ascribing human emotions such as "shock", "agi…
12 Jun 1999, 00:34
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The skimpy details we are given about the crash Jonas was in suggest that his repairs were of the emergency, field-variety. I don't think they were effected with an eye to passing …
01 Jun 1999, 15:46
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On Sat, 8 May 1999 18:35:44 +0200, Potto opined: After weeks of exhaustive research, consisting of spirited discourse with the denizens living in and around the dumpster behin…
01 Jun 1999, 05:43
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Ah, you devil, you! I was going to let this thread die, however ignominiously, but you have given me an excuse to revive it. Let me add that I appreciate your making the effort to …
03 May 1999, 00:08
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Carlos Martinho wrote: -------- This is a very interesting point. When I started to read TSOTT (and I didn't know where things were going to), I thought, at first, that the myths…
02 May 1999, 07:24
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I apologise on behalf of academics everywhere - I never intended to pigeonhole you or tar you with a broad brush. Unfortunately I did, and must apologise, as I now realise that you…
30 Apr 1999, 07:41
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Re: Jonathan Laidlow's "thoughts on Nigel price's response" post: I resent being pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush, even indirectly. I wasn't in school in the '70's an…
30 Apr 1999, 03:40
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Okay, Tony Ellis and William Ansley, do not agree with me. Fine. I have already cited the relevant textual quotes in my "Iron men" and "More on Iron Men" posts, so there is no poin…
29 Apr 1999, 02:37
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Uh, if I "can't have it both ways, you know", then neither can you! <g> If the first citation merely establishes that Jonas was an android, not that he was the same size as Sidero,…
27 Apr 1999, 16:28
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Hollow or not, patching an android with human parts would be quite a feat, in any event. <g> And in chapter XVI of _Claw_ Wolfe contrasts the relative strengths of Jonas's left (fl…
26 Apr 1999, 22:59
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It has been suggested that the blackout on Tzadkiel's ship was caused by the drain of power occasioned by Sev's attempt to revive the dead steward. Maybe, but there is another expl…
25 Apr 1999, 02:51
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In URTH Sidero tells Sev how his (Sidero's) kind came to be. They started out as glorified spacesuits for the sailors, becoming, as more gadgetry and circuits were added, self-awar…
23 Apr 1999, 20:23
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I just keep dancing around these religious themes, don't I? Fortunately, my hooves are iron-shod and I may trod where angels fear to step but lightly. <g> Potto wrote: <snip> re…
18 Apr 1999, 22:52
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Another point in support of my theory about Sev being his own grandfather is found when he is on the "raft" with Odilo (son of Odilo), Pega, and Thais, after the flood. It dawns on…
14 Apr 1999, 17:20
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do believe she is), when does Sev impregnate the adult version of this child?<< I never suggested he did. The Contessa (Carina)/Catherine is _not_ pregnant by Sev. Not at all.…
14 Apr 1999, 07:45
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I don't know why it looks so bad on the list, though it looks okay in the digest. I'll try the hard way. Charon + Dorcas begat Ouen. Dorcas + Severian begat Catherine. Ouen + Cat…
13 Apr 1999, 20:20
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He "recognizes" her and she him because this moment has happened before - in the sub-reality of Dr Talos's play. That's why Severian sees in the Contessa's eyes the recognition tha…
13 Apr 1999, 20:01
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It didn't come out on the list as neatly as it looked on my end. I will try Jack Lyons's suggestion. Sorry. Charon + Dorcas + Sev |______| |______| | …
13 Apr 1999, 16:26
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Charon + Dorcas + Sev | | | | |_______| |______| | | | | Ouen + Catherine | …
13 Apr 1999, 13:15
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Believe me, that occurred to me, but I couldn't reconcile it with the wistful, mutual recognition. But if you put it together with Robert Borski's idea that she is Catherine, his m…
13 Apr 1999, 06:59
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I don't think so. That would make Agia one, too. And Sev had a very good look at his head, after all. <g> If they had been hierodules they wouldn't have wanted Sev's sword, would t…
13 Apr 1999, 06:09
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That's not predestination. That's a statement about the unchanging and unending love which god has for its creations. The Outsider might not know what Silk will do--though he proba…
13 Apr 1999, 01:11
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Okay, I accept that the woman Sev sees being led away, as Tony Ellis (and mantis, in the archives) states, is in the role of the Contessa, but who was she in the "real" world, outs…
10 Apr 1999, 00:44
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Damn! I just reread the series, noted and wondered about the basket (seemingly irrelevant to what was going on; she wasn't on a picnic), then forgot it. I think you're right. The i…
09 Apr 1999, 00:43
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She not only grasps his hand, she is pulling him _down_. Next thing we know, he is near-drowned at the edge of the water, with barely enough strength to save his sword. Dorcas is a…
08 Apr 1999, 01:27
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Quite right. Which goes right to the the heart of my point about Physics vs. Fiction. Hard science that ain't. <g> I based my comments re. the size of the Whorl on the answer …
07 Apr 1999, 01:42
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<snip> --- this, in my estimation, can be attributed to the fact that the outcome of Sev's trial was yet to be determined... and in response to that we might ask how things like A…
06 Apr 1999, 04:02
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Because it can be seen from Urth. It just isn't as impressive as a full moon or a hot air balloon.<< <snip> and: <snip> and: All true. But Sev, at least, can see his "star"…
06 Apr 1999, 02:09
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On 4-4-99 Alex David Groce wrote: <snip> it's clear that there IS moral growth in Severian throughout the BOTNS. The final talk with Palaemon, in my opinion, establishes that fo…
06 Apr 1999, 00:08
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mantis, Yes, I read your earlier post carefully and thought about it; part of the reason I waited two days before replying. Perhaps in trying to be brief I didn't make myself …
04 Apr 1999, 05:57
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Welcome, Allan Lloyd! As one of the "two opposing views" I feel obligated to respond, but I hardly know where to begin. Someone said _I_ had "too many Malones"! I don't under…
03 Apr 1999, 19:20
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On 4-1-99 mantis wrote: <snip> Again, we are talking about a fiction. The best fiction involves Conflict. Tragedies involve Suffering and Sacrifice. Utopias are inherently Bor…
03 Apr 1999, 19:19
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On 4-2-99 Mitchell A. Bailey wrote: <snip> Annese kind of troubling. For one thing, it isn't consistently applied. How can a race which can allegedly craft fishing nets be inhere…
03 Apr 1999, 00:50
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I just finished re-reading the _New Sun_ quintet and have a few questions I haven't found answers for in the text. Perhaps someone will enlighten me. 1) Why did Sev lie (or di…
02 Apr 1999, 03:38
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While we're at it, these "glyphs" from "The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It)": "...a bent object that might be a whip, a human leg and a foot, a shal…
01 Apr 1999, 22:34
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to be exposed. Wolfe, in his role as translator, speculates that it is the possible trade of metals (as well as food and slave labour) which give the cacogens a reason to communica…
01 Apr 1999, 02:35
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I knew better than to bring up time-travel paradoxes; it's an argument that isn't winnable by anyone, yet I still maintain what I wrote earlier. But, because time travel _isn't_ po…
01 Apr 1999, 01:01
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But that is precisely where the paradox occurs. That chapter, chapter XXXVII, is titled "The Book of the New Sun". The title implies, if anything, that Canog is the author of _TBot…
30 Mar 1999, 01:02
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When, in chapter XXXVII of _Urth_, Herena, Declan, the mate, and the cook visit Sev in his cell and ask him to relate to them how old Urth will fare when the New Sun comes, he know…
29 Mar 1999, 04:13
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some interesting symbolism. Severian remarks that she looks like a vampire because her lips are stained red, and as vampires are called the "undead," Dorcas herself has returned fr…
24 Mar 1999, 01:07
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cd, Greetings. While I am not in the "smoke and mirrors" camp that mantis describes, it isn't hard to understand why it exists. Most people who read at all do so for pleasure, …
21 Mar 1999, 18:39
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Correct, but what I related from the OED about the root of C. Sappan is also correct, just not relevant, apparently. What I meant to suggest is the possibility that the location of…
17 Mar 1999, 16:44
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Apparently the Jungle Garden is not meant to represent either S. America or Africa. One solid clue given is the name of the fallen tree Sev sees when the door of the Jungle Garden …
16 Mar 1999, 20:32
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Re: my previous post about Robert and Marie: I hadn't come to it yet in my re-reading of the series, but Robert Borski has pointed out to me: "For some reason those words and…
14 Mar 1999, 15:59
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Re: The recent traffic about the identities of Robert and Marie: In the Jungle Garden scene in _Shadow_ the woman refers to the man thusly: "My husband wishes..." (p-168) …
12 Mar 1999, 00:54
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I know this character was discussed last summer, but not much came of it. In re-reading _Claw_ I was struck by the fact that Beuzec never has a speaking part and serves no real plo…
10 Mar 1999, 03:21
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FAQ: What are the Oz references in "The Eyeflash Miracles"? (for the second time) except that I doubt it is a question asked very frequently. It is one that interests me, however.<…
08 Mar 1999, 02:52
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In my original post about this story I asked if there had been other "young couples". No one answered, so I will. Yes. In the scene immediately preceding KM's entry through the Fre…
08 Mar 1999, 02:04
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