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Cool find. I love this: "It is easier to grow truly huge black holes quickly if you start with a larger seed." I find I get the best, strongest black holes when I use large se…
22 Dec 2008, 18:50
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I don't think it completely eradicates free will. It's just that it's not linear. It's all happened already. inhabitants of the timeline just experience it moment by moment. I don'…
22 Dec 2008, 18:50
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I think Ymar is a key here. yes, he might have come to rule on his own. yes, the Hierodules might have already had the situation set, and the idea of a candidate for the new su…
22 Dec 2008, 18:40
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I love it. hilarious.…
22 Dec 2008, 01:13
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::::::::::::::::::::: Exactly. I've been playing with black sun and black halo icons for that reason. would be important to not give away too much if they were interstitial illustr…
20 Dec 2008, 19:08
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I know naught of Castleview, but it should be noted that the Green Man is relevant to the Urth Cycle, for the exact same symbolic reason you've put here. this is one clue as to th…
19 Dec 2008, 18:10
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yeah, it wasn't overtly silly. It was there, but fairly straight faced and highbrow, as in Wolfe. "He mispronounced quite common words: urticate, salpinx, bordereau." LoL. ~witz…
18 Dec 2008, 23:16
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Exactly what I was thinking. the trappings are not at all similar, nor is the plot, but some of the meta concepts about time, recurrent anchors in history, fraud and veracity in re…
18 Dec 2008, 18:53
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yeah, I'll probably start em in a couple of days. Would have started them today, but I wanted to let Urth sink in a bit more. Last read of it, I started the whole shebang over aga…
18 Dec 2008, 00:15
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that makes sense. I've started Gravities Rainbow twice, gotten 200 pages in and thought, why the hell am I reading all these psychedelic lists of details. At least with Burroughs,…
18 Dec 2008, 00:12
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anyone read Edward Whittemore's Sinai Tapestry. that's a strange sort of puzzle. Odd book. One of those ones where I didn't like it until about a month later, when, not having tho…
17 Dec 2008, 23:19
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Thanks for the comments on Vance. I'm okay with style stuff, and more standard genre works. (I LOVES me some Conan) It's just probably not the sort of stuff that inspires me to get…
17 Dec 2008, 17:50
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yeah, seriously. One of these days I'll have to buy the lectures. of course, that video clip was truncated and foreshortened. some of the stuff he was getting at "the fruit that co…
16 Dec 2008, 17:05
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So I've never read any Vance. I see that The Dying Earth is influential to Wolfe. Worth reading? I saw a Dying Earth compendium, is that worth bothering with? ~witz…
15 Dec 2008, 17:19
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ha. hot and bothered. no big deal though, right? now, talk about over my head... I have NO idea what the hell that last bunch of stuff was. some anime thing? ~witz…
13 Dec 2008, 17:46
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Seriously, watch the video. it's a very condensed overview. I find these findings edge-of-your-seat fascinating. It's science puncturing metaphysics and actually yielding result…
13 Dec 2008, 00:35
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Metaphysics is over ALL of our heads.…
13 Dec 2008, 00:30
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Of course, I'm far too much of a knucklehead to speak well about this theories potential veracity, but I've intuited this since I was a stoned 19 year old looking at Stephen Hawkin…
13 Dec 2008, 00:15
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Dis me all you want, but it makes PERFECT sense to apply circular logic to a book about intractable timeloops where you can never extract what happened first of which the most expl…
12 Dec 2008, 23:50
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no, I'm merely asking one to strip away the PLOT and try to deal with what the story is getting at. He's cast aliens as angels, metaphorically. It seems really obvious to me. Who…
12 Dec 2008, 22:32
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What if the Archangel Gabriel is a Sufficiently Advanced Alien? does that change anything? everything? or is the Sufficiently Advanced Alien still on a mission from on high? Can on…
12 Dec 2008, 22:03
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I like that image. When I was about 15 I did a drawing of Jesus and His Disciples packing aussalt rifles. "Jesus is back and he's pissed" (speaking of such heresies, has anyone se…
12 Dec 2008, 21:52
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Immortal may be the wrong word. Severian's various bodies live and die, but his consciousness does not die and is continous between the "lives" of his various bodies. And it proba…
12 Dec 2008, 21:48
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It's Severian who is immortal. His body doesn't matter. tUotNS makes it very clear that Severian is NOT his body, which dies again and again. by the middle, he's clearly a cosmic e…
12 Dec 2008, 17:27
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Yeah, I see the correspondence. In that view Yaweh must be an archangel or something. not exactly. he's the aborted offspring of Sophia, if I remember right. But either way, he's …
12 Dec 2008, 17:13
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Problems: ---He can't yet know The quote above, I believe, is accurate speculation by Severian. Good Intuition. He's not "stunned" in tUotNS, he just marvels at it. He encount…
12 Dec 2008, 17:06
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I don't follow. he's scarred about the time he becomes Autarch. so when he reigns in the House Absolute, he's scarred. when he returns later, he's fixed, but he has a smaller ne…
12 Dec 2008, 15:21
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yeah. I agree with Jordon's worship comment. The Increate name maps to the true godhead, The Uncreated, rather than a yahweh figure. but I see no figure in NewSun that really doe…
12 Dec 2008, 02:21
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My biggest problem with Lexicon Urthus is that he throws out some wild suggestions and then often doesn't cite any text that supports it. I love the speculation, but lets back it …
11 Dec 2008, 21:54
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Interesting, I hadn't considered those three characters. good suggestion. Though his portrait as Autarch is horribly scarred, at least on the coin. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""…
11 Dec 2008, 21:35
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I'm about to come to these chapters again, but I think you're onto something. I've been pretty convinced that Sev died in Gyoll in the very beginning as well.…
11 Dec 2008, 20:04
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Yeah, but as I understand it, the Demiurge is NOT God. The Demiurge THINKS it's God. Half-Creator/ False-Creator. I'm not clear on how Christ as son of Yahweh fits in, but I beli…
11 Dec 2008, 20:01
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Ah, I was unaware of that. that as well. but wacky theories are the bread and butter of SF, no? I suppose the 2nd point, about the Hieros doesn't conflict with the 3rd and 4th p…
11 Dec 2008, 19:57
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on a mundane note, I think the fact that he left these players offstage is just great, even though my first read I was a bit disappointed that they didn't have more of a presence. …
11 Dec 2008, 17:53
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FWIW, the — marks in this should mostly be periods…
11 Dec 2008, 08:30
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I too have a hard time buying any of the explanations of where the text clues us into any astroengineering. along that line of reasoning, the Old Autarch's dialogue could possibly…
10 Dec 2008, 23:21
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Interesting. I don't know anything about Typhon, myth or long sun. that's neat. R'lyeh too. gonna read some Lovecraft soon. just bought that Necronomicon compiliation. I'd though…
09 Dec 2008, 19:59
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I believe we see Abia and Erebus in Severian's Undine Dream. Shadow 15 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Far off loomed great shapes - things hundreds of times larger than a m…
09 Dec 2008, 19:23
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I agree, and it is a valid reading, and to not acknowledge that the text suggests it is to miss the boat to some degree. but on the flip side, to not acknowledge the potential th…
06 Dec 2008, 18:02
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sorta surprising that they only offer tapes. they'd sell a hell of a lot more if they digitized them.…
06 Dec 2008, 17:45
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now we're talking.…
06 Dec 2008, 04:35
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you know, I think my ideas about Christ are severely unorthodox & probably heretical. no point in trying to get this across in a rational way ~witz…
06 Dec 2008, 04:28
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i don't relate to the standard question, "why does God allow evil?" either. it just HAS to BE. look at the yin yang symbol as another basic, perfect symbol of it. it's NOT the…
06 Dec 2008, 03:00
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Nice to hear. all the best. ~witz…
06 Dec 2008, 00:19
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What I find HARD to swallow, is the idea that a devout Catholic, a self-proclaimed "Catholic Author", would write a sprawling Messianic tale about Death & Resurrection which had i…
06 Dec 2008, 00:16
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great. I'd love em. I've done a bit of cleanup, but not much. I suppose I'll upload those audiobooks soon. ~witz…
05 Dec 2008, 22:25
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Just now, I got nowhere trying to search aph.org for Wolfe or New Sun. any links? As I've mentioned before, I scrounged the web for Wolfe audiobooks. I found MP3 recordings of t…
05 Dec 2008, 21:37
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well, I'll no longer try to convince you. ~witz…
05 Dec 2008, 21:20
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I'm sorry, that was rude of me. heres a detail that seems to speak of the Sanctity of this renewal process. Urth XIX: "I told her what the aquastor Malrubius had told me upon ano…
05 Dec 2008, 20:28
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Urth XXI His voice was deep and clear, like the blowing of a golden horn far away, so that I recalled a certain foolish tale of Gabriel, who wore the war horn of Heaven across his…
05 Dec 2008, 20:24
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