mysteries of the long sun

Marc Aramini · 28 Oct 2011, 04:35 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:35:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) mysteries of the long sun
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--- On Thu, 10/27/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:


From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) mysteries of the long sun
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011, 9:31 PM




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From: Lee Berman 


> I kind of agree with you larry. I think the story of Nightside is great. It
> held the promise of a tale as engrossing as Severian's on first read. It
> continues nicely in Lake but starts to tail off in Calde and sorta dies in
> Exodus. Anyway, Nightside is mostly set-up. I think the best mysteries are
> found in Lake though. 

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For once I agree with you, Lee.? I just bought Nightside again the other day, I lost most of my books a while ago but I kept the last three of Long Sun.? The first two are brilliant, the second two start to drag.

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I think Lake is the best, but Nightside contains the ghostly mysteries I need to look at, even if my analyses of them will probably not please most. 

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> All the stuff with Scylla and the bodies in storage
> and stuff like that. And perhaps the best (worst?) Wolfe mystery of all 
> (since I haven't seen a glimmer of a successful solution so far from anyone, 
> anywhere) the mysterioius numbers on the Seal of Pas. Maybe larry can do it!????? 

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Bah, it?s just a credit card type number.? The only point is it has low entropy, but it doesn?t encode anything.? Stop thinking everything is overloaded with significance.

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- Gerry Quinn

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After messing with it for a while, it very well might be something of that sort.
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