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Absolutely not! -Roy…
26 Nov 2008, 05:08
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Mantis had this to say at 10:48 AM (CST) -Roy --------------------------------------------…
19 Nov 2008, 19:49
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As for the issue of the Old Autarch being Thecla's father -- he cannot be her or Thea's biological father, as I've said before, and recently. It's this simple: Thecla is an exultan…
19 Nov 2008, 06:26
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what do you all make of the enigmatic reference at the beginning of Shadow Chapter X (The Last Year), where Severian and Roche are leaving the House Azure and the white-haired man …
13 Nov 2008, 18:36
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The "darkest night ever known" bit is a metaphor. Two page inches above the quote mentions "the hot sunshine streaming through the open door into the poor little room." It was by t…
28 Oct 2008, 06:06
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The "darkest night ever known" had nothing to do with the Long Sun. It was the dark night of Silk's soul. -Roy…
27 Oct 2008, 05:35
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Catherine seems to have been in residence there in one way or another and this could make Severian's non-biological, cuckolded father the Castellan and perhaps hints that Thecla is…
21 Oct 2008, 04:23
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I don't think so, and the quote suggests the same. My real point was to address the original thrust of this thread, which has been the subject of much debate and spawned some rath…
15 Oct 2008, 21:37
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After the fall on the Ship that killed Severian, URTH, Chapter IX, p-65: "The old Autarch, who lived in my mind but seldom spoke, muttered through my swollen lips. '_Find another_…
15 Oct 2008, 05:02
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And later: Well, there are other times when the subject switches from singular to plural in the same sentence, when the described action is clearly Thecla's alone. Immediately aft…
15 Oct 2008, 02:03
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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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I note that in these lists of named stories, those mentioned most often and indeed the majority of selections come from Wolfe's earliest collections. Not many stories from his last…
22 Aug 2008, 05:52
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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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Second Edition. Nigel posted about it last Sunday. Btw, I believe the Dark Carnival bookstore is actually in Berkeley, not Oakland. -Roy…
20 Jul 2008, 21:11
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For those interested and in the area. -Roy…
20 Jul 2008, 08:00
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Apheta to the Ship's crew at Yesod: "You know that we have condemned the peoples of Urth, and why." (URTH, XVI, 112) -Roy…
18 Jul 2008, 19:40
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We just aren't going to agree on this. The books show only two possible futures, Ragnarok and Ushas, with one excluding the other. Whether the Corridors and brooks are the same or …
18 Jul 2008, 04:16
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In all this crap about morality and who is fit to look down his nose at whom, why is it that no one has thought to mention two scenes involving the holy slaves Barbatus, Famulimus …
17 Jul 2008, 03:08
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The multiple brooks refers to the brooks that run between the tiered universes. Small Tzadkiel could show him only the one brook, Madregot, because that was where she had been exil…
17 Jul 2008, 03:05
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UotNS and the corridors of time stretch around him, he says: "Bright-winged, the small Tzadkiel fluttered beside one. The green man raced beside another. I chose one that ran as lo…
15 Jul 2008, 20:44
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Another point about why I think the Hierogrammates worked directly for the Increate that I have mentioned in the past but forgot to mention this time is that business about them be…
15 Jul 2008, 05:42
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It could be summed up as basically what Dave Tallman said last month about a five-volume heroic epic being turned into a horror story if Ushas was intended by Wolfe to be viewed as…
14 Jul 2008, 21:50
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As above. You are trying to define your way out of challenges to your belief(s) by presenting your belief(s) as axiomatic. Not only that, but anyone who disagrees with you is neces…
13 Jul 2008, 20:58
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The textual quote I made establishes conclusively that the Hierogrammates *do not* have "God-like foresight that includes impact on every atom in the universe." Far from it. Tzadki…
12 Jul 2008, 23:50
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No, he is not. It was a stipulated condition of his cited example: "Like a fancy Hierogrammate, you have foresight in this one case, and killing this hobo will in fact produce grea…
12 Jul 2008, 09:13
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Of course fathering a white hole on an insect is absurd. But so are Time Corridors, FTL ships, astral travel, aquastors, ghosts, blood-sucking shape-shifting reptiles that can fly …
12 Jul 2008, 01:10
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We are on opposite sides in this particular argument; that is, I do think the Hierogrammates got their marching orders from the Increate/Outsider/Judeo-Christian God. Some might sa…
11 Jul 2008, 06:24
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though this is not as strong.<< I'm afraid I am the one who came up with that theory. I later recanted, largely because of the time element. It was only about six months between S…
10 Jul 2008, 19:16
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[snip] Welcome, Tim! Just to maintain proper attribution: I was not the author of the post you attributed to me.…
10 Jul 2008, 18:48
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They wear a couple uncomfortable masks and are careful to work only tangentially with the human race. Their true nature seems above human. I find this hard to square with the exc…
09 Jul 2008, 23:58
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Back to my topic: The memories that Sev inherited of Ymar were too remote to provide information, but those of the Old Autarch were fresh. Though in URTH Sev makes occasional refe…
09 Jul 2008, 04:09
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and Triskele's. At least that is a ship rather than a creature or open top flyer. My concern is that if it was summoned for the old Autarch, Malrubius and Triskele shouldn't be th…
08 Jul 2008, 20:00
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Nevertheless, the line Dave referenced reads: "[...]old Father Inire, alive so long beyond the span of his short-lived kind[...]". Whatever the explanation, that's the way it was, …
08 Jul 2008, 05:09
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The *ship* Inire summoned was the Hierodule ship that carried Malrubius and Triskele, and eventually carried Sev from the jungle to the ocean. Inire had no way of knowing that the …
08 Jul 2008, 03:40
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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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T went from hairy-faced Zak to both male and female faces that aren't described but don't look like Zak's. This from the start of the Trial: "I knew then that I had seen Tzadkiel …
07 Jul 2008, 00:09
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The I don't know how many forms a Hierogrammate can assume, but the apport on the Ship started out as a fur-ball and eventually morphed into the small, hairy man-shape that was Za…
06 Jul 2008, 09:08
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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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Jeff Wilson wroted and quote: That doesn't matter. He cannot be proved wrong. In this school of theorizing, whatever a character (particularly a character who is more than one cha…
05 Jul 2008, 20:01
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Khaibit clones closely resembled their originals; that was the whole point of the way the Old Autarch set up his brothel. Any pretty girls would have sufficed for his stable, but h…
03 Jul 2008, 20:42
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Amazing! Absolutely amazing! I don't know why such a democratic concept eluded me. I stand corrected. All theories being equal, it follows that any given theory's validity should b…
02 Jul 2008, 20:02
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[snip of quote] Yes, I am aware of that quote and there are other hints that Sev would make trips in time, eventually. But the trip(s) to that inn and those other prospective trip…
02 Jul 2008, 02:38
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Of course they are similar, but that's not the point. I find it ironic that you accept many of Dave's undemonstrated (and textually undemonstrable) conclusions derived from project…
01 Jul 2008, 20:36
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[snip] What I find ironic in your disagreement with Dave Tallman is that his identification of the woman in the loggia with the Countess in the Play is due, in part, to trying to …
01 Jul 2008, 04:20
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Uh, Jolenta ain't no armiger, if that is what you are implying. She is specified in the appendixes to CLAW to be one of the "commonality" -Roy…
30 Jun 2008, 20:16
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The latter, I'm afraid. As you say: [snip] The armigers are a social class, and that class is not defined by crossbreeding between exultants and ordinary humans. When such crossb…
30 Jun 2008, 19:42
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You left yourself vulnerable to the self-portrait gambit. <g> FWIW, I agree. I'm sure I said so the first time that theory surfaced. -Roy…
30 Jun 2008, 01:53
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That's absurd. Many of the things in Talos' play did not play out in the Urth Cycle quite as depicted in the play. The play mixed elements of Canog's book, "Genesis" and extra-bibl…
30 Jun 2008, 01:51
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He didn't notice a resemblance between the false Thea and Thais all right, but maybe that can be shrugged off as the natural change wrought by the ravages of time between meetings.…
30 Jun 2008, 01:50
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