Gene Wolfe: these books are basically the Dark Souls of reading

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Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

I've been reading the first half of botns for a while now and I've doubtless forgot a bunch of stuff. When Severian and Jonas are in the prison in the house absolute, he mentions the claw burning bright blue when he transmuted the water in the carafe and I have no idea what this refers to. I know they do something with a vial when the nodules attack the uhlan but I don't remember any transmutation.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 22:37

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 03:13

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Maybe it's just me but did anyone else experience a huge jump in difficulty between Claw and Sword? The first half of the series wasn't too bad; I'd probably say I got 90-95% of it and what I didn't was mostly obscure terminology but now there's entire chapters where I'm reading it and I'll get to the end and I'm like what the hell just happened

Gaius Marius posted:

When he wakes up in the inn at saltus his water trough became wine

How embarrassing, must be in the 5-10%.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2022 23:46

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

I could have swore I read somewhere the number of archons there were. I can't remember if it was in the book or online. I thought it might be in one of the appendixes of the first two books but a quick skim produces nothing and it might have been at the start of sword; I haven't yet reached citadel. I'd love to look more online but it's a rare example of something I actually prefer not to spoil and you do have to be careful looking up some of these esoteric references because man there's a lot of spoiler with them

# ¿ Jan 28, 2022 01:50

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Well, just finished botns. drat good books and certainly the best written sci-fi I've read, if not necessarily the easiest to digest. I'll be thinking about it for a while. What was the emerald bench mentioned in the closing chapters? Not much of a spoiler I don't think. Was in quotation marks too but I don't know the significance of that other than suggesting it likely a metaphor

# ¿ Jan 30, 2022 08:10

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

CommonShore posted:

I used a Gene Wolf quotation for introducing a concept when teaching Judo tonight

Was it about the kitten and ball or the two apricots

# ¿ Feb 7, 2022 21:57

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Atlas Hugged posted:

I'm hoping it's when Severian punched the person in the face so hard it killed them.

Oh god when was this. I missed a lot more than I realized. I did figure out jonas beforehand though

# ¿ Feb 8, 2022 18:35

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Your Gay Uncle posted:

towards the end of Sword of the Lictor, Severian punches Piation's nose bone into his brain, killing Piation and Typhon at the same time. Love that Typhon only thought to protect himself, didn't think of Piation for a second.

Yeah that was very cleverly told. I thought you meant he just brute forced someone.

typhon was a huge dick

# ¿ Feb 10, 2022 00:36

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

SEX HAVER 40000 posted:

a lot is made of how reactionary wolfe is, but it's hard to read a lot of his most despicable characters as anything but ravenous capitalists and objectivists

It's a super lovely world of course it seems pretty obvious people are going to be back asswards

Atlas Hugged posted:

I was actually thinking of:

Most humans do not know it, but it is difficult to learn to strike another human being with all one's force; some ancient instinct makes even the most brutal soften the blow. Among the torturers I had been taught not to do so. I struck her, the heel of my hand against her chin, as hard as I have ever struck anyone in my life, and she crumpled like a doll.

Now when was this? I know he hits agia in the jail and on the blood fields and threatens her for belittling dorcas but I can't remember him hitting someone and killing them

Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Feb 11, 2022

# ¿ Feb 10, 2022 21:24

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Woops, end tagged it in bold and not spoiler. Sorry if I ruined anything but I don't think there were any truly terrible spoilers.

Facehammer posted:

Urth of the New Sun

Ah, haven't read that one.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2022 03:27

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Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

my bony fealty posted:

I mean near the end of Citadel eidolons created by godlike aliens from above the stage descend in a spaceship and say "we are aliens from above the stage who have been guiding you", the whole story is a play and everyone is following a script.

I thought that was sword?

# ¿ Feb 14, 2022 20:15

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