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clash_bowley
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I really did not care for this part of the book at all. The play was boring and pretentious. Severian was a complete dick. I am struggling to want to finish this.
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I thought OMG! This is just about perfect timing! :smiley:
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That is the passage I misread. @RichardAbbott referred to it above.
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(Quote) Callisto? I was in Ray Otus' Barsum Callisto game and loved it!
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(Quote) The only thing fulfilling prophecies is worse for than fantasy novels is roleplaying games. The only time it was ever done right is the Missionaria Protectiva prophecies in Dune.
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(Quote) Nice! That works for me! I had been imagining some mad Dworkin, but this makes more sense! (Quote) Sigh... Not a big fan of fulfilling prophecies... (Quote) Let's hope not.
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Seeing as Severian becomes autarch and he is not in the least androgynous, I wouldn't worry about that , @RichardAbbott !
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Also, Father Inire (Deus Irae?) seems to be immortal, having worked for the first autarch.
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Ah! OK, @RichardAbbott! I read that last as meaning "The autarch at times spoke to the androgyne", figuring the androgyne was high up in the autarch's favor, and was betraying him. I read it at least three times, searching for the reveal …
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I'm looking for the Autarch and you are distracting me with Father Inire! :wink:
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How exactly do "we" realize that some one of these strange people he is wandering around meeting is the Autarch? To me this is equivalent to the famous Sidney Harris cartoon - https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d6/e7/54/d6e754d24aaef324c1595e…
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I read A Fire Upon the Deep. That is all. I seem to have read more from his ex-wife! :neutral:
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I read chapters 20-22. I had no idea that the message was delivered to the Autarch. I think I am losing this. Everyone else seems to be enjoying it, and I seem to have no idea what is going on.
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The search for the sword was interesting. As @RichardAbbott says, at a certain level in a longstanding bureaucracy, punctilio trumps security. I like that he reasoned out the timing of the guard putting his sword away to find it!
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The story was pretty boring I thought,and I didn't see how it was at all relevant! It read like a victorian child's version of a myth, dumbed down to a child's reading level and devoid of any disturbing content. Why did he tack on the Theseus ending…
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(Quote) Same here as to guessing there was gold at Lion Lake, but nobody in this novel is going to get rich. I knew that too! :D
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I could definitely do a historical or SF game in a land like this! In my current biweekly Out of the Ruins game, the PCs are on a planet in approximately Mars' orbit which is very glaciated, though not an "ice planet". Out of the tropics i…
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(Quote) No, I have read several, each excellent! (Quote) The plot trundles along, and the characters are beautifully drawn. He also is very discreiptive of the land, which is hugely important. Reminds me in this way of LotR. (Quote) Plausible eno…
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(Quote) He's obviously near immortal, or at least spent long periods crowding c. That was evident last read. My bet is he's a robot literally reskinned, though why one hand is still metal is beyond me.
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Hammond Innes is a real find! I have really enjoyed everything I have read from him!
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@NeilNjae - I as actually just teasing dr_mitch about his post being rather content free, but I do agree on the lack of movement.
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Hammond Innes is a real find! I have really enjoyed everything I have read from him!
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Huh! Looks like nothing happened... :wink:
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(Quote) e. e. cummings taught me typing!
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I had lots to report, but then I realized you wanted reports on strange behavior from the software, not from the members...
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Finished it last night!
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Almost done! I am loving this one!
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"If you kill anyone, make sure to eat their heart, to gain their courage! Their rich, tasty courage..." — Professor Farnsworth, Futurama
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Yes, I was referring to the eucharist when I mentioned drinking the blood. I did not realize that some Catholic churches do not share the wine. Now it makes more sense! It was very definitely a eucharist to my mind!
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(Quote) Well, it gives the cavalry something to do...