-
http://www.ultan.org.uk/five-steps-towards-briah/ I backed up on the url and got a redirect to the newer Ultan.org blog. ~witz…
09 Jan 2009, 21:05
-
hahaha, yeah, it totally is a Bond Villian. great and ridiculous. and dude getting chomped by a giant fish? priceless. you're right about notching up from liking to loving at that…
09 Jan 2009, 20:01
-
wow. the ending of Lake was crazy awesome! I'm so glad that the false pantheon and the nature of the Whorl CAN'T be the whole mystery, because that was too easy to suss out. witho…
09 Jan 2009, 19:22
-
Oh, that looks cool. dig the sculptures. definitely going to check that out. thanks for pointing it out. I don't know about the golf course (the sort of things I loathe) but y…
08 Jan 2009, 05:37
-
now you done made me look it up. "A clattering of choughs" "Clattering" is much better than "unkindness", IMHO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_for_birds ~w…
08 Jan 2009, 01:59
-
Thanks for Hugin and Munin. I hadn't met them yet. Odin could handle thoughtlessness but not forgetfulness, I guess. I don't remember that in the Hobbit. Slowly making my way th…
08 Jan 2009, 01:15
-
Caw. Nevermore.…
07 Jan 2009, 23:40
-
Proofreader. Not a job for me. As a designer, I'm thrilled one of my colleagues is a UCSB Valedictorian. I give her everything, even my weirdo album projects. I considered for a b…
07 Jan 2009, 23:17
-
Fair enough about the British, but about the typo, I meant that at one point he mentions "Charismatic Writings"(p 20 in Lake, or p290 in Litany) and at every other point he mention…
07 Jan 2009, 18:37
-
I'm midway through Lake of the Long Sun, and loving this series so far. At this point, it seems much more straightforward than BotNS, but, of course, there is all sorts of suspici…
07 Jan 2009, 17:22
-
I agree, I'd love to hear Wolfe read it. Avers does a good job though. I really like his characterization of Severian, actually, just the right mix of foolishness and sophisticatio…
07 Jan 2009, 17:09
-
thanks. I like the bit about sounds and voices. the comments at the bottom are hilarious. ~witz…
07 Jan 2009, 15:18
-
WOAH!!!!!! I've searched the archives a few different ways and I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned. I'm not going to bother to attribute the quotes. it's just internet fodd…
06 Jan 2009, 23:37
-
yeah. if we're gonna imagine it's origin, we might as well guess someone used the corridors to plant it back long enough for the crystal to grow around it, then show up to har…
01 Jan 2009, 03:38
-
yeah, if it can be understood in scientific terms, it can't possibly be a spiritual metaphor. :P symbols in stories can operate at multiple levels. I don't jibe with the first p…
31 Dec 2008, 17:24
-
all the "which Urth is Earth" type questions are great. but what do you think about the significance of Apu Punchau as I've thrown out here? do you think I'm totally off base? ~w…
30 Dec 2008, 18:44
-
I haven't read all the replies yet, so forgive me if this is redundant. but I've always figured it was a painting of the moon photo for a couple of reasons. A) Rudesind cleans pa…
30 Dec 2008, 18:39
-
Thanks for the feedback. I think all the comments so far are on-point. I had not noticed that yet. Great bit. I'll keep that in mind. this reminds me of working with Secret Chief…
30 Dec 2008, 18:36
-
thinking about the symbolic relationship between the Claw and the White Fountain, I looked through some of my mother in-law's crystal books for reference. In "Healing with Gem…
30 Dec 2008, 00:12
-
, I had the same thought about striking off heads, then checked the book. Severian interprets Baldanders this way. but as Paul points out Severian is often pretty off base. I th…
30 Dec 2008, 00:00
-
Knew that he was the New Sun to be? something like (you, the New Sun) "Never" (the New Sun will be ) "Baldanders" "You--strike off." (Get the hell out of here) "Tomorrow, then." (…
29 Dec 2008, 17:27
-
Interesting point Jeff, it seems perhaps a bit disingenuous of Wolfe's part, given the translator's notes in BotNS, which is signed by Wolfe. It says the manuscript is from the fut…
28 Dec 2008, 18:20
-
I'm certainly not clear whether Earth is Urth, or whether Earth is to Urth as Urth is to Ushas. Probably the latter, yet the Hut in the Jungle seems to contain characters and time…
24 Dec 2008, 18:31
-
I'm with you bsharp. I don't really follow your reasoning Jeff. How do you account for his consciousness residing in a star? or the power of a freaking star raising the dead, heali…
24 Dec 2008, 18:28
-
sorry, I skipped your spoiler. starting Long Sun this week. ~m…
24 Dec 2008, 18:21
-
Likewise, there could be some dogma in play like the Well This is what I'm saying. Severian's bodies come and go, but Severian is constant. Severian is a consciousness in a body …
24 Dec 2008, 17:21
-
Ha!. David, you got me laughing out loud. I'm totally with you on all that. he probably is Santa Claus too. :D ~witz…
24 Dec 2008, 16:50
-
I read Severian as some sort of cosmic principle. some sort of deity. As such, any manifestation of him would be appropriate to him. but hey, that's just my whacked out take.…
24 Dec 2008, 16:45
-
Holy Cow, my head is reeling with ideas right now. I've got a decent amount of crude sketching done, though nowhere as much as I'd like. I hope to get some drawing done over next…
23 Dec 2008, 23:57
-
I don't think Apu-Punchau is related to the Commonwealth state religion. If that's coming from my post, I meant the Conciliator influenced the state religion. There are two ways …
23 Dec 2008, 22:59
-
yeah, I really don't think it's an either-or situation regarding Free Will and Intervention. I have a hard time putting it into words, but it doesn't cause any schism for me. It …
23 Dec 2008, 17:39
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
I love it. hilarious.…
22 Dec 2008, 01:13
-
::::::::::::::::::::: 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
-
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
-
(Here's one for the Wolfe Inspired Music, Particolored Brocade to the tune of Rasberry Beret) I just realized that the multicolored lining in Don Maitz's Shadow cover isn't as co…
19 Dec 2008, 18:07
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Metaphysics is over ALL of our heads.…
13 Dec 2008, 00:30
-
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
Urth Net