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i am not at home now. i think i have a copy of yoshitako's hiten which is where the website claims the "claw of the conciliator" picture is from. when i get home i will look. as…
16 Jun 2005, 23:28
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/******************* unless it's titled The Tertiary Roots of Cyberpunk: The stories that influenced the well-read authors whoinfluenced the authors that rode the crest of the Cy…
16 Jun 2005, 23:16
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i have discussed several months ago the ambience and aesthetic similarties i think exist between tolkien and wolfe's work and cyberpunk. but something occured to me about genre c…
12 Jun 2005, 16:14
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that is all i have to say. poor severian. hamlet. EOT;…
08 Jun 2005, 18:10
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the reason i mentioned ghost in the shell ii is because of james wynn's posting of the theft of dolls in japan. the movie is about gynoids, anatomically correct mechanoids which …
07 Jun 2005, 22:07
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In Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", those flying interstellar starfish with axial symmetry (Elder Gods?) who live in Antartica are similar to Erebus (the glacial equivale…
03 Jun 2005, 12:04
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anyone seen ghost in the shell ii: innocence? EOT; --- urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net wrote: From: urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:07:19 -0…
01 Jun 2005, 17:38
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roger roger. loud and clear. mamma betsey's got no problems with the pies. over and out. EOT;…
14 Mar 2005, 16:42
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turing called it the imitation game. it is not enough for a machine to produce the same outputs as a person, it must arrive at its outputs in the same fashion, that is whatever th…
27 Jan 2005, 18:16
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of no, bands and science fiction. well, let's talk about sampling. almost the entir e1984 movie is sampled in the skinny puppy anthology brap. the downward spiral begins with a s…
26 Jan 2005, 19:36
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has anyone read robert borski's solar labyrinth on the book o fthe new sun.…
25 Jan 2005, 12:35
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The correlation between multiple personality disorder and the problem of Severian et al is obviously there, and Gollum would have had what used to be called "split personality" dis…
09 Dec 2004, 12:57
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I was baiting everyone with the question of magic in TBOTNS. Magic doesn't really exist for Wolfe or Tolkien in the sense that it is "unnatural" or "supernatural". The idea of th…
08 Dec 2004, 16:53
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This is a very good analysis of the Thecla problem, and I want to throw out some ideas. <in the antechamber believes there is a lady present when Severian is <there, Back to Dan…
07 Dec 2004, 19:50
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did gene wolfe lose his parents at an early age. on his blog william gibson writes Gene Wolfe once said that being an only child whose parents are dead is like being the sole su…
06 Dec 2004, 22:47
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I was going to say something about the holographic nature of Severian's "communions" in that missing paragraph. I think I just forgot to write it, but what Wolfe is positing is tha…
06 Dec 2004, 12:56
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I think Chris is right, and the Silk/Horn problem is central to the debate of the soul, the mind-body problem (which is different because we have already ruled out, thank gooness, …
05 Dec 2004, 13:05
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What happens in the Ainulindale in the "TimelessHalls" and what happens afterwards in Ea . Unlike Paradise Lost, Tolkien did not mean for the Timeless Halls and Ea to be energetic…
03 Dec 2004, 19:26
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Chris? Rasputin? oh dear, we have another question of identity... You are exactly right to tell the type of story Lord of the Rings is it is neccesary to go to entropy, exactly. …
02 Dec 2004, 20:30
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<There are certain portions of "The Long Sun" that I don't think are <comprehensible until you've read "The Short Sun". The inhumi are <obviously <one aspect, but IMO Pike's ghost …
02 Dec 2004, 17:27
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just in case anyone was wondering My favorite Lewis is Till We Have Faces. After that it is That Hideous Strength. Crush gave a good critique of the book, but I just wanted to p…
01 Dec 2004, 22:02
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You are right about Abraham and his shorter life span, but Tolkien's "falls" because there are multiple falls in the history, are very different than any of the falls in the Bible.…
01 Dec 2004, 14:31
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Forgot to mention Dan'l, I was completely hundred percent thinking of Starship Troopers when you said military science fiction. How many times have we seen space marines since Hei…
30 Nov 2004, 23:15
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Bravo, of course. That was stupid of me. And I know some Italian. This is kind of clarification and so is more of the same topics. I apologize for this one being so exhaust…
30 Nov 2004, 18:42
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I agree with Dan'l in that Tolkien and Wolfe are very different from other fantasy and constitute something outside of the easy categories of science fiction and fantasy we use tod…
30 Nov 2004, 12:46
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<(Gee ... I hope you're male under that name...) What if I'm a girl? I'm not but we really can't tell under the internet. This is kind of a joke, and I'm not suggesting anything…
30 Nov 2004, 11:08
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I am leery of message boards, considering they often turn into screaming matches which would probably happen less if the people talking could see each other face to face, but Urth …
29 Nov 2004, 01:37
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