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No, no. I think that if you say there is no Christ in Briah, then you deny that the Outsider is a real deity, which I think is a mistake.…
15 Dec 2010, 21:05
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The map is not the territory. The inhabitants' cosmology is a map. It may not accuratley reflect their world.…
15 Dec 2010, 19:35
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Come on already! This all goes away if you understand Jesus of Nazareth as an instantiation of Christ which theologians name Logos, and you avoid understanding the logos only throu…
15 Dec 2010, 19:33
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Fair enough. Thanks. I don't explain them away. All enemies "count," but yes, defeated foes seem to count more. I ammend the original explanation to suggest that Erebus and Abia …
15 Dec 2010, 18:30
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Thanks for pointing out the second mention of the "twisted signs". Every description of things in the book seem to be repeated, phrased slightly differently. Trying To hunt these …
15 Dec 2010, 18:15
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I had a similar thought about a two headed symbol, but I figured in this context it would only read Typhon.…
15 Dec 2010, 07:53
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Yes, I agree that is is essentially what The Green Man symbolizes. He says nearly as much quite plainly. They are a humanity of non-torturers.…
15 Dec 2010, 00:21
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Yes. The sentance ends with "last" I think this story Definitely gets overthought and under-felt. Sorry, that's a terrible way to put it. I think the essence is often lost when we…
14 Dec 2010, 23:52
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Thanks. I like that idea of something simliar to the biohazard sign, but different enough that we don't look at it and see 20th century. Thanks for the article link. I like how the…
14 Dec 2010, 17:21
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Thanks for that thread link, Mo. The biohazard symbol DOES look monstrous, I'll agree. ~witz…
14 Dec 2010, 17:18
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So, of course I'm trying to figure out what this teratoid symbol LOOKS like. I see that it is mostly a medical term for monstrous abnormality and tumours and such., but I don't fin…
14 Dec 2010, 14:54
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I think you meant, "Just smokin' the stuff" :)…
13 Dec 2010, 17:29
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Lee, It seems pretty clear that Typhon intends to make Severian suck his cock when he kneels before him. He wants to debase and dominate the Conciliator. ~Witz…
12 Dec 2010, 17:58
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Sorry. Chapter 4 Wolves in the Fold is the relevant part. ~Witz…
10 Dec 2010, 20:11
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Here's the link for a readable scan of Robert Borski's The Long and Short of It. http://books.google.com/books?id=7y1jBrpx4loC&printsec=frontcover&dq=borski+the+long+and+short+of+…
10 Dec 2010, 20:08
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If you go to Google Books (not the new ebookstore) you can previewRobert Borski's "The Long and Short of it" book. On page 36 he lays out the Latro Werewolf idea. Pretty amazing. …
10 Dec 2010, 19:49
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You just blew my head up! Latro is a werewolf? I guess I need to think back on that story, it's not coming to mind in a way that fits a werewolf. If that's true, that's the funni…
10 Dec 2010, 17:42
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Me too. Hence 4000 unread messages now in my daily backup. :) The web interface is ok, but you have to jump out of it if you want to post. Plus, with a forum you can subscribe to …
09 Dec 2010, 19:07
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How does ne set that?…
09 Dec 2010, 18:21
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What about migrating this list into a message board forum? This format is so archaic and difficult. With a forum, if you don't want to check in, you don't get four thousand emails…
09 Dec 2010, 17:49
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This must be Lucidity, right? Good track. The whole album is really enjoyable. I like the subdued vibe. Good stuff.…
09 Dec 2010, 14:42
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Well, If you've laid out the theory in one posting, I missed it. I expect you didn't put 6 years of work all in one post though. Either way, I, for one, don't have a clear idea o…
07 Dec 2010, 19:56
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I was hoping I wasn't the only one needing out on that. Re: Gibson, I've only read Neuromancer sometime in the last ice age.…
06 Dec 2010, 19:35
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Ah. I see. Thanks. Coincidently, I started reading a book about Alexander this morning. Steven Pressfield's The Afghan Campaign. The prologue was promising of a compelling read. It…
06 Dec 2010, 19:33
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I'm too dense to get it... However, my Piaton is drawn with brown skin. It seems that the grafting of Typhon's head to Piaton is nothing more than a hilarious tongue in cheek m…
06 Dec 2010, 18:58
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Surprise? I thought this was the one place where Wolfe was too obvious, but by then I'd figured out that the chapter titles are clues. The boatman looking for Cas is in the chapte…
06 Dec 2010, 18:15
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06 Dec 2010, 18:09
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All of this discussiion about Inire seems to have clicked him into place for me at least. One myth I think about A LOT, in general, and in connection with BotNS, is the "Ancient Al…
06 Dec 2010, 18:00
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06 Dec 2010, 17:39
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Hmm. I doubt Severian would know what stretch marks were. I've also known women who bounce right back from childbirth to being slender, even without effort. Crazy, I know, but I'v…
06 Dec 2010, 17:25
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Somehow I lost The message where the difference between "shaped" & "made" in regards to humans making the Heirogrammates, or rather their ancestors. I really can't help but think …
05 Dec 2010, 22:29
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Interesting. Makes me wish I'd had ANY Involvement with traditions. The idea of learning and training in a guild is fascinating in retrospect, though I would have balked at the t…
05 Dec 2010, 18:14
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While I believe there are rights and wrongs to interpretations, I'm getting a kick out of your idea whether it's right or not. ~witz…
05 Dec 2010, 05:08
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That's neat about the library. How is A&M like a citadel? I'm totally ignorant.…
05 Dec 2010, 04:47
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I'm doing dishes, laughing my ass off imagining a Monty Python version of Book of The New Sun. I can't write the jokes, but I can SEE it! And now for something completely differe…
05 Dec 2010, 04:22
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Yes, I think this is the evidence that they could be the same. Works for me far better than monkeys and foreign name translations do to solve other identity problems. Yeah, there …
04 Dec 2010, 19:54
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Thank you. I forgot this one line reappearance.…
04 Dec 2010, 19:40
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Those ribbons are a clear difficulty. It's easy to see the soothsayer's meaning, that Agilus is still presenting himself falsely to Severian. But how this works out in the plough…
04 Dec 2010, 15:28
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Wait a sec. I JUST finished NewSun again and I can not remember the old boatman in any other scenes besides the near drowning at the beginning and when we meet him on the Lake of B…
04 Dec 2010, 15:22
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Might you share an image link, good sir?…
04 Dec 2010, 15:19
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04 Dec 2010, 05:19
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The idea of Palaemon as an Inire is interesting, but his conversation with Severian upon his return as Autarch finds Palaemon enraptured with the story. It does not strike me as th…
04 Dec 2010, 04:16
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Haha. Whoops? Rudesind does tell one Fechin story, but the long detailed story is told by Casdoe's father, which doesn't seem to support that idea.…
04 Dec 2010, 00:17
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What the hell is the purpose of the Fechin stories. What do they enhance? I haven't seen it yet.…
03 Dec 2010, 23:36
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Inire and Fechin are described as monkeylike. I think the others have monkey details, like the Uturuncu. I cant remeber how the magus Ceryx is described, though some suggest that i…
03 Dec 2010, 22:10
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Thanks Weber. Now all of a sudden it doesn't seem horribly out of place to discuss it here, amongst discussions of a character with such looping origins.…
03 Dec 2010, 22:07
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And by the way, LOL! My progeny said he wanted his nickname to be Witz. I told him it was taken, and that if anything, he was SonOfSonOfWitz. Not sure what Bennewitz means. My H…
03 Dec 2010, 21:51
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Good points Lee. That note was originally called Foes of the New Sun. I changed it because I'm trying to expose the metaphor behind the masks. All of these types of foes represent…
03 Dec 2010, 21:47
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Reply all gets you the list and the individual. To reply to an individual use Reply all then delete the list. Which I'm not doing here in case it's usefull to anyone. I dig the c…
03 Dec 2010, 21:30
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I'm of the opinion that if these puzzles don't yield real symbolic meat they aren't worth pursuing. That being said, the idea that the Katherine he symbolically beheads is is mothe…
03 Dec 2010, 21:26
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