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Hahah. Let's hang. I'll show you my progress on my graphic novel. ~Mike…
03 Dec 2010, 21:06
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I did't include Erebus, Abaia, or Juturna, because, on one hand, Severian doesn't really defeat them. Also, this vertical idea is pretty specific to SWORD, which finds Severian kn…
03 Dec 2010, 20:47
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Foes of the Increate This analysis is based on the metaphysical concept that Verticality represents an orientation to the infinite, while the Horizontal represents normal time / h…
03 Dec 2010, 20:03
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Sure. I'm not convinced either, but this list has got the monkey references in my head as the most likely answer, though not every monkey is him. I do think the Cowled Cenobite…
03 Dec 2010, 18:53
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Wow, do Protestants not believe in the divinity of Christ? I didn't know that. I'm of the weird sort that believes in Christ /Logos without really believing in Jesus of Nazareth.…
03 Dec 2010, 18:50
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Well, at the end of citadel Severian says that he knows Inire was with him in the north, so we assume that we saw him and that Inire was the Uturuncu.…
03 Dec 2010, 18:04
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Hey I can relate Ryan. My posts are usually ignored unless I acidently offend Catholics. Yeah, I didn't quite agree with my friend who turned me onto these when he said, "Everyth…
03 Dec 2010, 18:02
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Yes, Severian is a puppet, an actor. He always was. Even the first time he puts on Fuligin it is an act. (when he heals Triskele). The book states that he was chosen for his memo…
03 Dec 2010, 17:38
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When Severian learns about the nascent cosmology of Ushas from the man who feeds E Sleeper, he tries to enlighten them a bit. "There is no God but the Increate, all the rest being…
03 Dec 2010, 04:08
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I think it's perfectly clear that the Outsider is Christ or logos. He's presented as the REAL diety outside of the false Pantheon.…
02 Dec 2010, 19:43
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I sincerely disagree. The second does not simply question motives. One's ideological and cosmological views are rarely motives. Rather they are an invisible frame on that author…
01 Dec 2010, 22:25
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I agree with your notion that a "text that can only be understood in relation to something outside of it is a flawed text." however, I don't think that's really the case here. Th…
01 Dec 2010, 18:07
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I think all that is very apt, Brewer. And as I wrestle with each sentance of this book, I ultimately find the stories rewarding. Just last friday night, I came home from work to an…
30 Nov 2010, 20:01
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Wait, Isn't the storytelling contest in the fourth book, in the Lazaret? I feel that stuff is obliquely relevant, but mostly padding. I can barely stand that contest in the Lazaret…
30 Nov 2010, 17:31
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Good post Brewer. I stopped reading Attending Daedalus at a point. It felt like he was missing the point to me, by not getting to that "third text" you mention. Regarding whether…
29 Nov 2010, 18:03
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Yes, thank you. I was digging Lee's post until that. Severian is a star of light and life, not a dark chaotic force. Typhon is clearly the master of the failed state of humanity th…
26 Nov 2010, 17:09
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Here lies one of the reasons why I'm always confused when people see Severian's ultimate act as a negative or satanic act. Did they miss the point entirely? _________________…
12 Nov 2010, 18:48
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Hmmm. I guess so. Perhaps in terms of potential. It's something his memory keeps returning to, so perhaps this represents the potential of deluge. I think there might me more.…
12 Nov 2010, 14:45
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I've seen this Chippendale guy's band Lightning Bolt once. What a hoot. They played in the audience and a wet futon matress was being tossed around everyones' heads. This was at …
11 Nov 2010, 00:47
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Severian mentions the cistern under the Bell Keep at least 8 times in his five volumes. Does anyone find a particular significance to it? I haven't. He seems to use it for compari…
10 Nov 2010, 22:19
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It's certainly hard to see the first meaning, but the third is clear. By the end of Sword, when the acumulated myth of the conicilaitor, aka, the blue corundum enclosure, is shatte…
08 Nov 2010, 17:17
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No no. I'm not saying there is one innevitable timeline. I'm saying that all of the time meddling always happened because some powers have a reversed time perspective. All of the …
08 Nov 2010, 17:07
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It seems Baldanders must have some knowlege of Severian. It's too coincidental that They cross paths and travel together performing a preview of their future. I guess that the Heir…
08 Nov 2010, 00:19
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I think this is the rule rather than the exception with Severian. I think that his musings on his altered course in time are spectacularly "wrong," but they are right in pointing o…
06 Nov 2010, 04:39
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I REALLY don't want to start the whole debate over about Sev-Christ, really, I don't. But I just noticed thid great bit in CLAW, Dorcas says, " To me you're Life, and you're a yo…
05 Nov 2010, 14:00
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I like this. It adds to the idea that the Tomb Builder Severian (sounds like an action figure) is out meddling around beyond the text. ~Mike…
05 Nov 2010, 05:29
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Thanks. I done forgot about them Romans having cement.…
30 Oct 2010, 03:49
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Howdy listers, lurkers, and layabouts, As I've mentioned previously, I'm working on some illustrations related to New Sun... I have another question for you scientifically "hard" …
29 Oct 2010, 20:42
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I Love it. ~sonofwitz…
02 Oct 2010, 22:36
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I don't have any firm opinions about this subject, but this could just be a very cheeky signifier to show ANY meddling with Severian. These Monkies might just be Agents of Inire. …
29 Jun 2010, 06:01
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Snap!…
25 Jun 2010, 20:59
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Yeah yeah yeah guys. I wasn't even trying to go there. WTF? you fuckers jacked my topic. It's called Corundum of the Claw Not Conundrum of the Christ :P…
25 Jun 2010, 20:47
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Ha! Allright, but all this Sev/Christ biz aside, you've got to appreciate how badass this scene is. At the moment he is fully his own man, he has to dispose of the fragments of thi…
24 Jun 2010, 20:57
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Exactly…
24 Jun 2010, 19:24
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I've never used the name Jesus. Severian is not Jesus. I know it's hard or 'wrong' for catholics to understand the historical jesus as an instance of The Logos in history, but that…
24 Jun 2010, 19:21
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I definitely feel that "the Sev is not divine" arguments are fine and appropriate, and I don't care to try to convince anyone, but I think it's a shame that people get hung up on t…
24 Jun 2010, 17:20
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Good post. I can chew on that for a while.…
24 Jun 2010, 05:09
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I've got issues with that reading too. I've posted here before how I see Severian as a QuasiChrist, as an actual avatar of the Logos. I'm NOT trying to crack that argument open aga…
23 Jun 2010, 23:38
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If you're saying that the thorn he found was not in in the corundum, I don't agree. The text is pretty clear that the thorn was in the crystal, and even more so, if it's "just a th…
22 Jun 2010, 21:38
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One of the unanswered questions about The Claw of the Conciliator is "How did the thorn become encapsulated in corundum?" Nothing I've found in the books gives us a clue to a plot…
22 Jun 2010, 17:31
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so, I'm one of those geeks getting an iPad ASAP. I have tons of pdfs, and wanted to find a converter for ePub format. There are lots of paid apps, but I found this free one: http:…
31 Mar 2010, 16:42
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Thanks James. I'm saving this post, such great stuff. That must be cool to have your daughter reading to you on drives. I remember those Time Life books a bit, and my wife is in…
23 Mar 2010, 02:11
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I found a motherload of Wolfe pdfs online. (Fenopy I think it was). Tons of short stories in there, but I'm hesitant to read any of them as a first read because of the massive amou…
22 Mar 2010, 21:17
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Thanks John & Allan. The D'Aulaires look great. I'll be picking those up for sure. We watched the Jim Henson Storyteller: Greek Myths recently and my son loved them. I thought they…
22 Mar 2010, 21:12
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no. but I'm looking for a good one. would you recommend it?…
22 Mar 2010, 15:21
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Stu, I think I'm going to start the Long and Short again very soon. I'm sure some of y'all have read those Coloured Fairy Books. I just picked up a few (Red, Brown and Green). S…
22 Mar 2010, 14:25
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happy to help. it's a hot day. I really love these Latro books. I don't mind feeling lost in the plot. Latro is lost too. I haven't heard anything about more of them, though I do…
19 Mar 2010, 21:32
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I just began part II of Soldier of Sidon this morning. I'm really loving this book. Very spooky. It's really easy to get caught up with Wolfes puzzle-boxes and amazing writing cho…
19 Mar 2010, 16:34
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yeah, I saw it at Borders in SF yesterday. didn't buy it though. Reading Sidon right now.…
17 Mar 2010, 02:31
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What I want to know, as always, is why does Wolfe get the crappiest covers? The Sorcerer's House cover is one of the worst yet.…
16 Mar 2010, 02:51
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