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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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I think the main theme of UoTNS is this time loop situation. Wolfe seems to be playing a game of chicken and egg. Which came first? Severian or Conciliator, Apu or Sev? etc. Bal…
12 Dec 2008, 17:23
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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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I call bullshits.…
05 Dec 2008, 20:05
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Since we're talking about memories, from preschool age, this seems to be a good spot for an anecdote about my preschool age son (4.5years). SonOfSonOfWitz, if you will. this morni…
05 Dec 2008, 20:04
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Thank you Brunians. I look forward to reading the Hamlet's Mill book you linked to. I find this territory fascinating. And problematic, because of the flattening out to a mechani…
05 Dec 2008, 19:54
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Hi Roy, Thanks for engaging the question. I find your insight to these works very sharp, and appreciate reading them. What you say about not applying a template to Wolfe is valuabl…
05 Dec 2008, 19:50
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I'm not sure it's really fair to call the rebirth of Urth/Ushas as eugenics. Urth XXII "Don't you see? The Hierarchs and their Hierodules and the Hierogrammates too have been try…
05 Dec 2008, 19:44
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I have a vivid, traumatic memory from age 2.…
05 Dec 2008, 15:11
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too funny. I don't know shit about it. it's fun to see it punctured so readily. you geeks who can keep track of the stars positions over eons are too cool for school. I did qui…
05 Dec 2008, 05:44
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Post of the week!!!…
05 Dec 2008, 05:40
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I'm not sure about any of that. I don't mean to stand behind this theory, though I've seen better presentations by people more versed in the subject than I. my point was that so…
05 Dec 2008, 02:46
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this must be that amnesia story Jordon told me about.…
05 Dec 2008, 02:42
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It would seem I've got my work cut out for me.…
04 Dec 2008, 23:57
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No, no, the houses of the Zodiac can be viewed apart from any Astrological interpretations. The House of Scorpio is a position in the heavens. One does NOT have to buy into any a…
04 Dec 2008, 23:37
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*smacks forehead* I meant AstroNOMICAL correspondences. I'm talking about the ACTUAL movements of the sun here. yeah, that's cool.…
04 Dec 2008, 22:58
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(replying to myself because I want to post a question about an old mystery that this feeling above made me think about) How do you Christian's resolve the Astrological corresponde…
04 Dec 2008, 22:16
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Out of the ballpark, Jordon. Nice work!!! ~witz…
04 Dec 2008, 21:30
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I see your points here, and they surely are a valid reading as well. but, it's a metaphorical microcosm with stand-ins, and I think the reading I'm proposing is at least as valid.…
04 Dec 2008, 21:02
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Is anyone asking you to get Gung Ho about it, or calling God a Monster? if so I've missed it. also, if it's tedious, why bother? You seem to be in the camp that views the flooding…
04 Dec 2008, 20:36
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