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I also felt Able was portrayed purposefully as having serious problems: after all, he ends the book living in a world bellow human, with his sub-human semi-imaginary girlfriend. …
23 Oct 2005, 21:02
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But much of South America is peopled by people who do not necessarily resemble "native" South Americans. Assuming Severian's theory be true, then we also have to assume that the …
17 Jun 2005, 16:09
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Same here. I have the first issue of the comic adaption and he looks a lot like Neil Gaiman's Morpheus. The guy's pretty much a goth. seth ***************************** Seth Lomb…
16 Jun 2005, 17:52
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Ah! That's interesting because I just picked up the first trade paperback of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, and the first story arc in it is essentially just that. In fact, I have…
20 Apr 2005, 13:46
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Maru: I'm a big penny-arcade fan and would have missed this otherwise. You do, however, need to put a hyphen in www.penny-arcade.com . And also that link will be obsolete as of M…
02 Apr 2005, 17:42
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I felt it was something along the lives of: the inhabitants of Mythgrather and America do more than just live prallel lives, but in fact share a soul, and that the differences be…
11 Jan 2005, 13:49
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I'm still uncertain about all this... Gilling gets stabbed twice... right? Is it the same person both times? Seems unlike Wolfe. Is that really Gilling on that flying horse? I'm …
04 Jan 2005, 05:31
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It probably means I'm a geek, but I snickered so loud in my amusement at "Theclaverian" that I garnered strange looks in the library. Carry on! seth ****************************…
09 Dec 2004, 13:10
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I've always wondered: aren't there WAY more subsumed personalities in the personage of the Autarch than there have been Autarchs? Don't know what to do with that. Unless Ymar or …
04 Oct 2004, 19:57
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After my last e-mail regarding the CHF, Teri Goulding was kind enough to send me this info: I also sent Gaiman a missive via his web page and this appeared in his blog soon afte…
16 Sep 2004, 17:13
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Thank you, Mr. Borski. Looking forward to your further thoughts. Just a quick dirty little tangent I simply have to vocalize: "...though to be fair none of the dialect is as bad a…
26 Aug 2003, 20:21
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Two questions that might be sort of remedial: First, if I'm not mistaken, Severian makes reference to having _thousands_ of personalities to draw from after becoming Autarch. Now…
11 Jul 2003, 04:35
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Mantis wrote: “But back to the idea of erasing the 20 years of failure. FWIW, it is a messier "nuts & bolts" version of (a reading of) Severian's "I am not the first Severian" de…
16 Jul 2002, 09:55
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Blattid wrote: "2. Can someone explain to me why people have trouble believing that Silk might have gashed his arms in grief? Not only is this clearly established as a grieving p…
16 Jul 2002, 09:14
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The current talk about the nature of suicide has me rather baffled. You're saying that Silk did not in fact attempt suicide, he simply wailed at his forearms with a knife, as re…
13 Jul 2002, 06:24
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I am aware of the meaning of the word, and fully admit the song has little to do with a pelagic argosy sighting land. Yes, this is wishful thinking on my part. I'm being a goofbal…
02 Mar 2002, 00:14
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Here's a possible GW pop music connection: (on the subject of music from a few posts back) Anyone listen to Frank Black? Former lead singer of the Pixies? This guy has a strong sc…
01 Mar 2002, 21:30
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Rostrum Said: I don't have the text in front of me, but I seem to remember in one of the twin's accounts of the whole boat/astral travel section at the end of RTW, "Father" rais…
15 Feb 2002, 22:01
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Okay - longtime lurker here. Must admit that I haven't read IGJ yet, but there was so much in the last few posts that I just couldn't hold back. Okay, if Typhon was Neighbor-Spaw…
15 Aug 2000, 02:05
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