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So cool! ~Witz…
04 Jan 2012, 23:11
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yeah, you're probably right It probably serves as a simple symbolic device. All the lost loves.…
22 Sep 2011, 21:25
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well, I think it's a spoiler if you haven't read Urth of the New Sun. Have you?…
22 Sep 2011, 21:13
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Agreed. My son got turned onto Phineas & Ferb recently and we've been working through all the episodes. Such a great show!. Dr Doofenshmertz is the bestinator!…
19 Sep 2011, 16:32
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yeah. I don't love his art, but it's solid enough.…
11 Aug 2011, 18:00
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I don't know the date but they have digital coloring, so they're not that old. They're written by Moorcock though. Walter Simonson art. They look promising enough.…
11 Aug 2011, 17:53
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Thanks. I'll definitely need me some Moorcock :D I also found some Elric comics but I haven't read them yet. ~witz…
11 Aug 2011, 17:39
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I'm surprised how much of this I've read. I didn't think I've read that much SF. So, for whatever reason I've been tempted by those Elric books recently, even though they look like…
11 Aug 2011, 16:41
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That is what I was gonna ask. Does GW have a limp? ~M…
16 Jun 2011, 02:44
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I just stumbled onto this as I was looking for that music video of the Shadow of the Torturer "Filk" song. I can't remember the singer's name... Not sure if this has been shared h…
10 Jun 2011, 16:19
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haha. I like that. I have to join to opt out? I don't have an account, I've never looked at it, don't really know what it is, and couldn't care less, but I have to delete a few ema…
09 Jun 2011, 01:54
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+1 I always trip out at the level of scientific analysis around here. How big the moon should look in the cover pic, and such. Very interesting, but it cracks me up. I had a laug…
08 Jun 2011, 23:59
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No offense to Tim, because I don't mind the invite, but how do you opt out of these linkedin emails? I keep getting them from my bosses old business partner who sued us. I get one …
08 Jun 2011, 23:51
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Great stuff Gwern. My feelings about all this were subtext read from the gut, but this really validates the idea that they are a communist metaphor, influenced by Chinese communism…
07 Jun 2011, 22:21
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I saw it in similar terms as Stockhoff. Sort of a makeshift, lo-end midnight bazarre. The waterway, if like most would be a good place to get mugged. The bridge would probably be…
17 May 2011, 17:26
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Thanks for that page. I don't know, I think the description could fit, in that each face DOES give a different time, in that the each have a specific time range. Each has some patc…
12 May 2011, 16:29
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I was asking the same question recently. On the page Jeff linked to, there is one that looks almost like a cube with cut corners. I'd seen it, wondering how it could be a sundial. …
12 May 2011, 13:22
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Agreed. Genre classifications are useful only for selling stuff to people anyway. They have little other use.…
02 May 2011, 21:54
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I'll never understand these catagories. How could BotNS NOT be fantasy? It's a fantastic fantasy. ~Mike…
02 May 2011, 20:46
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Ha. I figured it HAD to be like that. ouch.…
29 Apr 2011, 23:12
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For Gerry's take to work, it would have had to been imagined like that from the beginning. With footage shot like "yeah, we'll comp that background in later" or, "react to this non…
29 Apr 2011, 19:56
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Glad to hear. I've been waiting for a simple review like this.…
02 Mar 2011, 19:52
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THIS I gotta see! good fishing! ~witz…
23 Feb 2011, 05:38
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09 Feb 2011, 20:07
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The one I have gets me a bit edgy. So haunting, with sustained tension. Kanon Pokajanen. Amazing and beautiful, but, wow...…
08 Feb 2011, 00:23
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I'm definitely with Lane on this. It's the same with musical sub-genres. Just play good music, I don't care how you need to categorize it for the marketplace. These preceived categ…
07 Feb 2011, 17:42
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Man Lee, put Re: in your subject headers already. There is SURELY a pref in your program. I need to go back and see where Demiurge is used. IIRC it is something Thecla says. Anyon…
03 Feb 2011, 19:59
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I have understood them to mean the same thing. The Uncreated Creator of All made the Creation.…
03 Feb 2011, 01:12
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LOL It provides a possible link to your Agia= Assasin of Valeria theory, By linking her to the term assasin. For me, it doesn't overcome the idea that he would have to not recog…
01 Feb 2011, 21:22
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I don't mean to disparage any particular artist. Even Greats like Hildebrant rubbed me the wrong way when I was a teenager. It has more to do with my biases than the art. I don't …
01 Feb 2011, 00:07
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Haven't dipped in there. Looks like I could waste some serious time in that D&D thread. The dialogue on this one just cracked me up. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dr…
31 Jan 2011, 22:28
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he hasn't quite "woken up" yet?…
28 Jan 2011, 23:49
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I'm on the same page with Lee here. I hadn't really considered Thecla's near-absence from UotNS. IIRC, she is barely there. Your corporate comparison echos the idea that the Alzab…
28 Jan 2011, 22:20
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I'll buy that for a dollar!…
27 Jan 2011, 23:20
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From Quinn: I can't believe I missed the Triskele like dog! Thank you, that adds a lot of support. The vertical metaphor isn't a crucial part, in fact, it probably doesn't fit a…
27 Jan 2011, 22:19
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This is how I view it. But I think Thalssocrat's reading is also valid, at least in terms of his "Vis:" statement. I don't know the Magic Genes idea and wasn't speaking to that. I …
27 Jan 2011, 21:29
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Right on, Lee. Well said. Thanks. ~witz…
27 Jan 2011, 17:33
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This is what I see as the two specific citings "1. Nobody in Casdoe's family ever mentions the old person. The neglect was always a clue sign for me. It avoids the use of gender-…
27 Jan 2011, 15:05
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I don't insist anything of the sort, so don't get it in your head that I do. I do not get the significance of Fechin at any level of meaning. I don't think Fechin is throwaway, b…
27 Jan 2011, 06:56
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Rad! That is so fucked up! Here is a perfect example of an alternate reading that is absolutely suportable with the text. I love that the text is so slippery that - in and of its…
27 Jan 2011, 06:18
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Sorry. Just being goofily dismissive. Sorry to offend. I don't know. It seems Wolfe likes redheads. They are all over his books. But it could mean more. I actually have pretty st…
27 Jan 2011, 00:22
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I'm just delving into the short stories. Jordon Flato gifted me Innocents Aboard for Christmas and surely nothing I've read fits the mold I described.…
26 Jan 2011, 21:11
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My statement was qualified as to novels "I have read." None of which are included in your list.…
26 Jan 2011, 20:01
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So far, every Wolfe novel I have read is the memoir of a person who is a legend in their own time, and apparently after, who is mostly clueless to the fact. What would Jesus' or H…
26 Jan 2011, 18:56
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Lee Berman: Yes, I think there are a lot of pink herrings. That's a good coinage. I think that is his M.O. It gets your imagination working. Pft! I think the reason Dorcas has …
26 Jan 2011, 18:53
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!!!!! Oops, I meant "Severian IS humanity."…
25 Jan 2011, 22:35
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I'm not reading these posts, but I'd like to know if you enjoyed the book on a basic entertainment level at all.…
25 Jan 2011, 22:35
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But Silk isn't the Epitome of Urth, brought as a representative of his entire species to bear the judgement from the Heirodules. He IS humanity.…
25 Jan 2011, 22:33
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Exactly. Hethor spurs him on more than anything else. The Circle of the Sorcerors and the slug is a good example of that. And the Salamander provides a good distraction for his es…
24 Jan 2011, 18:10
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It's "Magical" reasoning, like blinding the Cock that Crows the sun. So, No Shadow = No Light. It doesn't compute rationaly, only in terms of magical symbolism.…
24 Jan 2011, 18:06
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