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The next bit I read after this discussion was from Shadow 24 Flower of Dissolution: "Beside me, Dorcas plucked a water hyacinth and put it in her hair. Except for the vague spot o…
20 Mar 2009, 16:38
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David, This is an excellent post. You've stated very succinctly his technique, which I had understood, but seeing it framed like that is a reminder that helps me see the forest amo…
20 Mar 2009, 16:23
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stuart says: Stu, can you give us the 4 different voices in a quote? I don't have it handy. I'm not quite getting it. ~witz…
20 Mar 2009, 16:01
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thanks all. sounds worth checking into. ~witz…
20 Mar 2009, 05:46
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I was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. Historical fiction with lots of literary and historical fiction and a lot of …
19 Mar 2009, 23:42
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why tell Typhon? why not? He ain't gonna be the fix if he was the problem. come on man, 50% off today only. How can we give away our crackpot theories so cheaply? Volume, Volume, …
19 Mar 2009, 23:17
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I don't get this joke. Do you know I made and published a book called TROG? I don't get the _engines summer_ joke either. ~Witz…
19 Mar 2009, 23:03
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maybe. I'm not sure. but he knew of the Black Hole. The Hierodules were behind the Autarch. were they behind him? Is this barbaric state that Autarchy/Heirodules/Heirogrammates ke…
19 Mar 2009, 23:01
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Maybe part of Typhon's plan was not only to go to new worlds, but to return to Urth after it's become Ushas. Maybe he knows about the test and the white fountain and such, since th…
19 Mar 2009, 22:50
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"Shot down, in a blaze of glory" sorry man, just kidding. I'm just glad I'm not overly invested in any of my readings. dang, it's gotta hurt. What can you do when your text is p…
19 Mar 2009, 21:49
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ok. I won't argue with that. I guess I just need more. ~witz…
19 Mar 2009, 21:23
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I've got to third this. my text matches Roy's correction. it really notches the idea down. Even that a Stag can be a god (is that right) doesn't really jibe because teh neighbors a…
19 Mar 2009, 20:28
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ha. actually, I just finished a painting for SC3's next. I wasn't particularly thrilled on the subject matter, or the style (realistic 70's italian horror movie poster), and wanted…
19 Mar 2009, 18:41
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Ha. yeah, me don'tknows from the basketballz. but, he was framing with Freud, not pigskin. wait, basketballs aren't pigskin, are they? dang. ~quitz…
19 Mar 2009, 17:01
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seconded. I better log the hell off and get this database I'm building finished.…
19 Mar 2009, 16:18
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Headfuck? never heard of headfake. are you just being polite? go ahead an swear, we're all adults here. I'm with you on that. I don't buy Horns origin as anything other than sta…
19 Mar 2009, 16:17
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I wonder if Three Horns should be taken literally. Literal reading leads us to Babbie as the resolution. Not sure what to call Wynn's reading, but that leads us away from Babbie, i…
19 Mar 2009, 16:13
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hmmm. Not trying to argue, but regarding "he takes on both Silk and any daemon riding along when he died --which would not be Silk or Pas but the Silk-Pas." doesn't it contra…
19 Mar 2009, 14:00
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laughing out loud. good work Jerry. Yes on the first paragraph. absolutely. Not Sure on the second paragraph about the "real meaningful Amphisbaena" I haven't completely grokk…
19 Mar 2009, 06:16
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Dang. I didn't think of that. I'm cool with the dream/time travel trip. I threw it out there to see if there were strong objections to that idea. I don't think SS=Sol would be …
19 Mar 2009, 06:09
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See Baldandars/Frankenstein discussion in this thread.…
19 Mar 2009, 05:51
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I hear you. But wouldn't that mean that Divine Silk was a pattern and not a soul or psyche? I've understood that it was Divine Silk that got into Pig and thus Horn/Silk. Unles…
19 Mar 2009, 05:49
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that's interesting considering your and my first exchange where you argued that the flattening of a hierarchy of the 3 meanings was what you found interesting, and what I found…
19 Mar 2009, 05:44
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no no. It's not just "cute". it's fairly profound. it's literal, and it's a good example of why I've been saying the time loop is intractable. Things in this story's past have th…
19 Mar 2009, 05:31
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Ok. I just read that old post of yours, and I think I get you more clearly. http://lists.urth.net/htdig.cgi/urth-urth.net/2004-December/004360.html You're NOT including Pas in y…
19 Mar 2009, 05:23
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I think there's some timeline screw up here. When Horn get's permission, he's plain Horn. The Rajan writes about it after the fact, with his Horn memories. he'd have to be lying,…
19 Mar 2009, 04:39
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Somewhere I read a suggestion about Seawrack and the Mother having a hidden scheme in Short Sun. What is it? Where is it? I REALLY don't get final bit about The Mother and the b…
18 Mar 2009, 23:47
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Man, this is so twisted. what is the symbolic point of this. and wouldn't there be four quills in the pen case if Wolfe was really plotting this idea into it? I've forgotten, how c…
18 Mar 2009, 23:40
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That's interesting. the enchantment idea actually works pretty well, though it can't account for the plan. and Long Past works pretty much just as well for me. I think part of t…
18 Mar 2009, 23:33
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I am. it seems abundantly clear, and even GW's translator note says as much. I dismiss outright the suggestion that GW may not = Gene Wolfe. Now that's interesting. I should read …
18 Mar 2009, 21:27
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Yeah, I voted against it. Alcatraz brings in lots of morbid curiosity tourist dollars. Who the hell is gonna take a ferry out to a Global Peace Center. I mean, WTF is that anyway…
18 Mar 2009, 21:07
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yeah, I can only really enjoy Millers pulpy dialogue at this point.…
18 Mar 2009, 20:09
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Ok, so I'm rereading NewSun again. what the hell is going on in the Hut in the Jungle. I understand that it serves to show us that one can time travel, without knowing it, by mer…
18 Mar 2009, 20:08
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I ought to reread those as an adult. I remember Swamp Thing being a bit obtuse to me when I picked it up. I assume that, given it's Moore, it holds up after all this time. Sadly…
18 Mar 2009, 19:54
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James, you officially just blew my fucking mind.…
18 Mar 2009, 19:43
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probably a good instinct, I guess. these memes have a way of taking over. The forum where I met Jordon is awash in ridiculous memes right now. they grow like cancer.…
18 Mar 2009, 19:26
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Wait. Horn a clone of Typhon?!?!?!?! What makes you suggest that? I guess I can sort of swallow, chokingly, the idea that Horn became a neighbor in the pit as Stu describes. I'd…
18 Mar 2009, 19:17
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He's said he knew what he was doing and he knew that "this day would come", so I guess the only stupid thing, in terms of his own benefit, was to not die or go into hiding before t…
18 Mar 2009, 18:49
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haha. yeah, I was unclear if the pre-adolescent scat s&m was a pro or con. extreme perversion in lit: I like it in Burroughs, I like it in Bataille, but I've seen no reason to read…
18 Mar 2009, 18:46
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I've been needing the push to actually get past pg 300 of Gravity's Rainbow. tried three times, never got further. is there a reason to care within all that psychedelic listing of …
18 Mar 2009, 18:19
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No, actually I don't have a problem with that. I'm quite aware that I can't control external things. I just dont' agree with the can control / can't control items he listed. I'd sw…
18 Mar 2009, 17:36
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I disagreed so much with the first paragraph's foundations that I didn't bother with the rest. And I see no reason to kill the thread. Not like there was anything going on here f…
18 Mar 2009, 16:45
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I just think it would. and all the talk I've heard about detention camps for domestic dissidents and such. uh, cause for hope?…
18 Mar 2009, 14:24
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my gatt? it's tucked safely in my belt. which is around my knees of course. I too thought you were younger, FWIW.…
18 Mar 2009, 14:16
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oops. less by half. I had a 40 odd msgs still marked unread in my home inbox.…
18 Mar 2009, 13:59
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You have been calm. it's your short quips that seem snarky. when you back them up with elaboration they're not so snarky. just saying, one whippersnapper to another. ~witz…
18 Mar 2009, 13:57
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Woah. I didn't say I wanted to pass laws. I only said I was conflicted about the issue, and that my younger pre- programmed bias for gun control has slowly eroded. I don't know wh…
18 Mar 2009, 13:52
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ok, now I see why you asked? how old do you think I am? many of my close peers have always favored a revolution. I'm NOT, by arguing that we should do nothing. I'm saying an armed …
18 Mar 2009, 13:48
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I'm 34. why? and legal, illegal. meh. it's obviously pretty easy for people to get guns if they want one.…
18 Mar 2009, 13:43
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Now we're onto something. I live in San Francisco, near Bayview (a "ghetto"), right up the street from where the Bologna family was famously massacred over a minor traffic inco…
18 Mar 2009, 04:34
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