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What's everybody reading these days #bskybc? Just finished Children of Time - was fun getting lost in spider society for a bit - but now I need something new to push out thoughts from my head
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Hey wait a second is it a metaphor for being Gene Wolfe #bskybc
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Douglas Adams was right, the hardest thing about time travel really is the grammar #bskybc
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Iβm about halfway through urth (ch23) and Iβm not sure this βbig revealβ section is very good. I liked the ship! That part was cool. The metaphysics for whatever reason just kinda missed me this time #bskybc
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I have studied your ways urthling and that light coming from my flesh means I am ready #bskybc
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Just when I thought I knew what was happening Gene had to toss chapters 19 and 20 at me. Will need to read again some time with my space catholic hat on #bskybc
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Iβve been slacking on #bskybc but we will be catching up majorly this weekend, oh yes. So! Chapter 15! We are finally doing something! Gene sure knows how to grab your attention by chapter 15
Gorgeous chapters, 14-15. Iβll bet @minormobius.bsky.social has thoughts on symbolism
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Hmm Iβm being very disjointed with Urthposting, I need a new strategy. I will simply pin this post and put my #bskybc content below it. Yes this will surely fix the situation
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Back to urth, advancing to chxiii (not thru) #bskybc
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So #bskybc what did we think of the first ten chapters. Are we enjoying ourselves. Christ what an asshole
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going to thread my chapter-by-chapter impressions of URTH OF THE NEW SUN, by Gene Wolfen the fifth book in THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN trilogy.
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36 Gene Wolfe mentioned-is the judge appointed to your case. He is a Hierogrammate, as is to be expected. What do you know of them?" "Very little, beyond the fact that they are your masters," "Then you know very little indeed; even that is wrong, You call us Hierodules, and that is your word and not ours, just as Barbatus, Famulimus, and Ossipago are your words, words we have chosen because they are not common and describe us better than your other words would. Do you know what Hierodule means, this word of your own tongue?" "I know that you are creatures of this universe, shaped by those of the next to serve them here. And that the service they desire of you is the shaping of our race, of humanity, because we are the cognates of those who shaped them in the ages of the previous creation." Famulimus trilled, "Hierodule is 'holy slave." How could Hierodules be holy, did we not serve the Increate? Our master is he, and he only." Barbatus added, "You've commanded armies, Severian. You're a king and a hero, or at least you were up until you left your world. Then too, you may rule again, should you fail. You must know that a soldier doesn't serve his officer, or at least, that he shouldn't. He serves his tribe, and receives instructions from his officer." I nodded. "The Hierogrammates are your officers, then.
Feels like something here is important but idk what it is yet, resonates with my half-remembered vibes about the lost archives, Neoplatonism/gnosticism, hierarchies of government loyalty, and whatnot #bskybc
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Is it just me or is sev a lot more hateable this time around #bskybc
I think itβs because heβs a grown ass worldly man now?
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Very confusing couple pages in urth ch9 #bskybc
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Backwards time travelers with a mission are cruel? Maybe tragic? because, never knowing the consequences of their actions, even if they succeed they march backward continuing to sacrifice all the previous generations just back and back forever #bskybc
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i pretty much made it through all 5 books of the new sun before i finally realized "ohh new sun is a play on new son". i am not smart #bskybc
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Severian you idiot #bskybc
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They are closing the doors on my plane so it is time for me to begin reading the 2.84 chapters I owe. Discussion question: has time retained any meaning? #bskybc
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Thread of vague Urth proper nouns I hope to get better clarity on as we proceed
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I did snap myself back into Wolfe world by starting the @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social podcast and it was, much like an opening scene to a certain gene Wolfe model, like a resurrection of consciousness
Oh right he remembers, oh right we are doing the god thing, and also the demiurge thing #bskybc
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Confirmation that the great keep did in fact retain its functionality through the ages, and did in fact take off. Doubtless Wolfe believes MAD still pertains in our low-nuclear-testing world
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Lfg lads Iβm hyped, apollos terror may yet shine on urth (I have no clue whatβs gonna happen here)
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@minormobius.bsky.social ok whatβs our schedule for Urth do you think? Also #bskybc
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I have acquired literature #bskybc
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What better way to contemplate the end of the deepest depths of solar darkness than by joining us? And of course something something jesus christ #bskybc
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You heard it here first #bskybc
You loved* the adventures of Severian the Torturer
Now get ready for the adventures of Severian the Lame
IN
Gene Wolfeβs βUrth of the New Sunβ
Coming 12/19-January something or other
Surprise!
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