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Dear Lee, There is a connection between Ceryx and Typhon as it is between any evildoer and the Diable. (But Typhon to me is not Diable, only more powerful representative.) What …
25 May 2011, 13:31
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Dear Lee, thank you very much for the detailed answer. I will update my arguments below, but let me clarify one point before - you write I have no other guise here! I am one of …
25 May 2011, 10:54
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Severian is not immediately arrested after his meeting with Ceryx. Ceryx creates a "zombie" from a drowned young man. Zombie tries to kill Severian, becomes truly alive due to Sev…
24 May 2011, 18:21
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To me it seems highly improbable. First - Agia and her brother were not born then. Even if you ask, whether their shop did belong to Dorcas parents in distant past, I think it is n…
24 May 2011, 16:45
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Menagerie... If you mean - looking for good fresh corpses - yes, because he is one of the followers of Vodalus, who are corpse-eaters (they want to recover personalities and memor…
23 May 2011, 18:20
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But we discuss also the method of Wolfe! And if you look at the stories in the Book of the New Sun, there is often (or always?) an old story "updated" (or modified) by the passag…
23 May 2011, 16:47
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Dear Nathan, I think, yes, it is valid inference. As far as I remember, something is said on this subject later, not only by Hierodules - and there is also healing of Triskele - …
22 May 2011, 16:39
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There are obviously also the elements of "Jungle Book" by Kipling, the story of "man cub" Mowgli <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowgli> who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungl…
22 May 2011, 16:14
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I noticed that Cas and Dorcas means the same person at the first reading, but of course I didn't guess that she is the grandmother of Severian until the end of the 4-th book. - Di…
22 May 2011, 12:31
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I would like to slow down the growth of one more myth - what is the source of the idea that the number of the memebers of Politburo was 17? First of all, the "norm" changed sever…
22 May 2011, 12:10
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Dear Jerry, I still have the problem - after our discussion, I sent a couple of messages to urth at urth.net, they did pass. Afterwards I sent more, they didn't. Now, it is writt…
20 May 2011, 17:06
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James, Jerry - I think in this discussion on sundials we went very far of the point that was discussed - James, if you say that you missed completely that the point that was dis…
13 May 2011, 15:33
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I agree with Dan - and even more so. The impossibility of this follows not from the 24 hours cycle, but from the fact that different worlds have different Suns. Sundials to some e…
13 May 2011, 15:30
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I read Vance partly because he was mentioned with great respect by Gene Wolfe as one of the writers who influenced the New Sun series (with his "Dying Earth"). Honestly, I was di…
10 May 2011, 15:03
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Dear Mo, dear James, in my posting I tried to explain what was my impression when I first read "1984" in 80-es (I don't remember now, was it before or during Gorbatchev's "peresto…
06 May 2011, 16:16
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Dear Jerry, it is interesting to compare our impressions - I've read with great interest "The Dispossessed". I found the psychological portrait of an Anarchist society quite deep.…
05 May 2011, 18:01
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G. H. Wells The War of the Worlds (1898) makes a full-scale use of death-ray guns - Sergei Soloviev…
05 May 2011, 17:35
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Dear participants of the thread - my impression is that this discussion is based on slightly distorted premisses - as if some perfect correspondence between different places in ou…
23 Apr 2011, 08:21
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Dear James and David, I am not so sure that this explanation is right. Please, remind, James, where it is said that Rose's prosthetic hands are not flesh? In the "Book of the New …
19 Apr 2011, 08:01
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Dear Jerry, yes, it is me, but I visited this (Urth) list because I am a long time admirer of (most of) Wolfe's oeuvre. Glad to see you here. (Nowadays I am still often looking t…
14 Apr 2011, 07:26
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Greetings - well, I am sure that it is my first posting to the list (glad that I am here). I think an important example of withholding certain information (if not lie) can be fou…
13 Apr 2011, 21:08
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