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Nice. I enjoy the hair-splitting confusion here, re Eidolon/Aquastor my basic reading of the above quote would make him Aquastor. Eidolon would be the mold any instance, right? th…
03 Dec 2008, 05:35
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We have met the enemy and he is us.…
03 Dec 2008, 01:18
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Hey Friend. Eidolon or Aquastor, I'm not sure I know the difference. One interesting aspect of this is the question of where does consciousness lie? Severian was able to absorb …
03 Dec 2008, 00:02
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This is something that confuses me. having just read that part. My friend suggests he's an Eidolon at this point. But I think he may have died and been resurrected in the very firs…
02 Dec 2008, 20:56
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some sorts o' magic mebee?…
02 Dec 2008, 00:27
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Lol. Well avoided. though he did avoid the fuligin along with it. and yeah, the Floating City is the most "off" thing there I think. I'm just a picky bastard I guess. ~witz…
02 Dec 2008, 00:26
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Did Preuss understand what he read? Seems to have missed the boat in a lot of ways. Obviously he's done a lot of hard work and some of this stuff looks great. But I have lots of…
02 Dec 2008, 00:12
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maybe I'm being dense, but I'm not sure I follow. Time at the stone town is in a magical time. I think The Cumaean mentions that all times become one in the trance state she brings…
01 Dec 2008, 23:59
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"should" are there rules to fiction now? ~witz…
01 Dec 2008, 23:33
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'DOH!!!!…
01 Dec 2008, 23:33
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Isn't it we readers who are projecting "geological change" onto this. (except the part of Urth having cooled, which I don't remember the text source.) Wolfe surely mentions changes…
01 Dec 2008, 23:27
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Yo, but we're talking about a book where the space ships have masts and sails. It need not conform to science.…
01 Dec 2008, 23:25
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I agree with you Matthew. IT's not meant to be hard-sf. (jeez, I'm a relative noob to the SF genre, do writers bother with that sort of thing) In the Lexion, Andre-Driussi point…
01 Dec 2008, 20:48
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I'm with you on max 100,000. I got the text files from a torrent. google "Wolfe sun series torrent" (sans quotes) and you should find a torrent. an audiobooks from Fenopy torre…
01 Dec 2008, 20:20
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regarding whether its meaningless to say it's South America is not really countered by plate tectonics. Sure, you might name the reshaped continent something else, but it's more o…
01 Dec 2008, 19:01
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No, Nessus has been moving North, from it's southern origin at the sea. Claw 28: "Dorcas paused, looking up into the trees. "My father said that the city had been creeping northwa…
01 Dec 2008, 18:41
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I'm with you Roy, though I'm COMPELLED to point out that my question about a 'hairy chest' was only relevant to the DRAWINGS I'm making of Severian, not any interpretation of the t…
29 Nov 2008, 18:45
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that's exactly how I feel about it. especially changing the mental/physical conditioning to a sound weapon. lamo. while it's not up to snuff with Wolfe, it's a damn good read. som…
28 Nov 2008, 18:06
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sounds about right. what a shame their Dune never got made. what a glorious mess that would have been. y'all read The Incal? killer stuff. ~m…
27 Nov 2008, 02:34
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Is playing a modern game the same as embracing the tenents of postmodernism? One can utilize the insights of a field without really embracing it's (lack of) belief system. Is play…
26 Nov 2008, 22:59
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It sounds great. I was just getting into that part of the article. (distracting myself more than enough today) didn't notice it was Margaret Atwood. I really love the three things …
26 Nov 2008, 21:23
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"hey SonOfWitz, D?rer called and wants his dragon heads back, you hack"…
26 Nov 2008, 19:26
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a bit of brain candy is fine. my candy lately has been 'Savage Sword of Conan' comic reprint collections. ~witz…
26 Nov 2008, 18:49
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Thanks, I'll look that up. Le Guin is on my list of "To-Reads" And Thanks Craig, because your comments have been especially clarifying to me. As I think I've mentioned, I've been …
26 Nov 2008, 18:40
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I can hang with good ideas in poor form. Often, PKD's characters seem like cardboard cutouts, but the ideas blaze through. Cripes, I just read all those Jean Auel books. Some gre…
26 Nov 2008, 18:33
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Fair enough. that seems to be along the lines of what you said about collapsing the priorities of meaning, but not the meaning itself. good stuff.…
26 Nov 2008, 18:21
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Yes. This is how I feel. I don't care much about the moral questions that the Christ issue brings up. Truly. At least it's the highest form our Scientific Materialist culture ca…
26 Nov 2008, 18:20
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that's very interesting. I'd like to read it. now the hunt for a copy. I would guess he's right about Wolfe's formal games being on of Wolfes primary inspirations. It seems a th…
26 Nov 2008, 18:07
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so do any of you actually read this as Severian being merely a dupe and that none of the transcendental themes have their source or resolution in God? and if so, why? Is it that th…
26 Nov 2008, 17:07
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Thats the feeling I got from the bit I read. my guess is that a devout Catholic wouldn't spend his life stacking up Christian symbol dominoes just to knock em all down. except of…
26 Nov 2008, 07:13
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you're surely right. the diabolical forces that mimic the divine part is especially apt. and I suppose surely one could argue that the cosmology is bogus and he is 'just' a dup…
26 Nov 2008, 07:03
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perhaps someone should pointed me to Attending Daedalus by Peter Wright. I just skimmed a bit of it on Google Books, and he's making a thorough dismissal of the type of reading I'm…
26 Nov 2008, 00:49
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I replied to quickly. I hope by that statement I didn't come off like I'm complaining that no one is interested in my beliefs. I'm not. I only meant that no one is here to lear…
26 Nov 2008, 00:22
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Truly.…
26 Nov 2008, 00:15
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This quote from Claw (Chap IV, The Bouquet) directly links The New Sun with the Increate as a Divine Personage. This goes even further than I'd thought in establishing a sort of mu…
26 Nov 2008, 00:13
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I see. sorry. I'm feeling a bit defensive I guess. nor me. No one is interested in my beliefs here. Everyone's got an asshole - er - opinion I mean. I see, yes, Wolfe is not …
25 Nov 2008, 23:27
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perhaps you're speaking of me dismissively. I'm not a Christian. I don't believe in Jesus. I don't think he even existed. In fact I've thought my whole life that the Roman Cathol…
25 Nov 2008, 22:44
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having not read LS, I did my best not to read the first part. (but dang I can't wait to sink my teeth in) THANK YOU. that's exactly what I'm saying. (not about monotheism or moral…
25 Nov 2008, 22:24
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man, saturday night, after talking this stuff out with you I think I get the time loop stuff better. just now I was thinking about this: I hadn't really used the "Second Coming…
25 Nov 2008, 06:28
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Thats exactly what I'm trying to do. I just read these books twice and am only getting this on the second read. the more I look at it through this lens, the more I find. if it …
25 Nov 2008, 06:16
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Doesn't it also say the NewSun will defeat Abaia and Erebus. that Juturna 'celebrates' has been discussed as her possible conversion. why not? All humanity is "generalized" (in a …
24 Nov 2008, 23:25
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Wouldn't that "victory over a demonic power" idea be symbolized by the statement (somewhere in there) that the New Sun will destroy the worm in the heart of the old sun? and "judg…
24 Nov 2008, 22:46
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Cripes, I'd heard about that. Good thing I'm so off in the wilderness in this territory that I'm probably a heretic to both.…
24 Nov 2008, 20:15
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Fair enough. We've all met zealous converts. I said the same thing to an Orthodox believer. boy, that was like stepping in Shit. NOT a small matter to them. that small doctrinal c…
24 Nov 2008, 19:56
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Great stuff, John. I can't speak to the heretical question. I'm no where near versed enough. I'd add that the Easter Church views Catholicism ITSELF as a heritical branch of Chris…
24 Nov 2008, 19:39
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On that note, I've taken the Torturer's Guild as a sort of Inquisition that's become a more or less secular institution of the State. As if the State absorbed them and graduall…
22 Nov 2008, 19:44
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all interesting points, Jordon, Joe, John, Craig and David. I think they all are valid readings, including mine. I can't speak to any contrast to Silk or Short Sun threads. I fe…
21 Nov 2008, 22:52
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Nice points David. I'll reiterate that I don't think any connection to the historical Jesus is necessary. I'm certainly not talking about Jesus. I'm talking about the energy that…
21 Nov 2008, 21:00
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Better than I said it. ~Witz…
21 Nov 2008, 19:41
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yup. it's all Jordon's fault. nice to see you poke your lurking head out. (tomorrow we'll have our Monomachy shirts) (anyone in SF, Saturday night, Hotel Utah, Orange Tulip Conspir…
21 Nov 2008, 19:10
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