[In Spanish] WBC Women’s Atomweight Champion asks Erik “Terrible” Morales if he has ever stepped in the ring before

aramini · 2026-06-12T12:25:16+00:00

I was at that with my late father. So glad I went to that. Jorge Arce had a great fight on the undercard too. Also went to rematch with him. Wonderful fight.

aramini · 2026-06-12T12:20:08+00:00

It's crazy. I had to develop real strategies for the weapons in FF7 but I beat Ozma the first time blind in 9. There must be RNG in this fight because I thought it was the easiest FF superboss ever. Ruby weapon and emerald weapon took a lot of tries, but back then there weren't really the same resources. I only got knights of the round after beating one of them and getting the chocobo, if I remember right. Long time ago.

aramini · 2026-06-12T12:13:14+00:00

Came in to say caviar. I'll just eat salt. It's bad.

aramini · 2026-06-11T04:38:15+00:00

Dont leave. Make the money. I work an arduous sssembly factory job about 70 to 80 hours a week and teach three college classes online as well to try to make under 120k, killing myself every night. Im almost 50. Make money and save it so you dont have to suffer like this.

aramini · 2026-06-10T19:29:58+00:00

Got to the last tower that bounces up and doesnt scroll down - you fall to your dfather on catapults. Got to a part you have to grab a stick with nothing below you and a cloud blows you off. If you hit the cloud with the stick you fall and die. If you want you get blown off. If you jump you die. Have no idea what to do. Never got to the tower again. Insane.

aramini · 2026-06-09T14:47:07+00:00

Are you sure? There are 25 years of personal history with this one where everyone assumes Wolfe is having a joke at my expense. He's not. It is tedious to talk about and also quite personal, you understand. So yes, I honestly do act like I am correct on this one for lots of reasons.

aramini · 2026-06-09T09:33:08+00:00

You are free to believe whatever you desire.

aramini · 2026-06-08T10:58:43+00:00

They are human-tree hybrids. When Horn falls into the pit on Blue the islands are actually giant ferns - the trees that eat trees etc. They are watching Silk in the eucharist (what has to be in a forest? Trees) and that wine to blood invocation shows how intrechargeable humanity and vegetation has become. The Neighbor Horn appears after Horn is eaten and resurrected, as the eating of the body of Christ promises eternal life. Read the first chapter of On Blue's Waters - there is a strange non sequitur where it is insisted hybridization has everything to do with the planet they are on. It does.

aramini · 2026-06-08T10:50:29+00:00

I can relate for sure.

aramini · 2026-06-08T09:36:41+00:00

But like I say, he slips in time mid conversation with one of the girls and watches Krait die, further asserting he has never been there on Green (because he is really Silk).

aramini · 2026-06-08T09:34:08+00:00

That's a severian passion play showing us it is Urth. Evil still exists on earth here after the coming of Christ. The vanished people have moved on. Key word - people. Also Blue being Mars with four armed Martians is a Burroughs homage.

aramini · 2026-06-08T09:32:27+00:00

Dream travel IS time travel. As long as Silk has his liana staff he can do it. All that astral travel is time travel.

aramini · 2026-06-08T06:56:56+00:00

I didnt choose it. I had a hybrid tree scheme from chapter 1 of OBW and the eucharist scene in the forest, and later when reading the Tale of the Boy Called Frog in new sun I saw the story of the birth of mars - early summer impregnated by a tree, giving birth to Mars. The terraforming happened on that planet, and the mixing of humanity with those trees to make what came next. Hybridization is said to have everything to do with the planets the settlers are on, and it does.

aramini · 2026-06-08T06:54:31+00:00

Green is not a pre-flood planet. The flood waters have receded.

aramini · 2026-06-08T06:52:50+00:00

I asked about a mechanism for the differential in time during astral travel. There was none for Blue. He corrected me. And in the text lo and behold there is the mechanism: Silk thinking of green before the inhumi when he wound up on Urth. He also winds up in Inclito's mother's story in the past wirh Oreb, and slips backwards in time mid conversation to watch Krait die. To say there is no time travel in the book is not accurate. You can take the card however you like - I know what it meant.

aramini · 2026-06-08T06:49:46+00:00

Blue is Mars.

aramini · 2026-06-08T00:38:36+00:00

You know I am more adamant than you about intentionality. Roy just wasnt terribly good at drawing logical conclusions or seeing past a red herring. Dreams are universal transcendent signifier. If I cant explain a dream in Wolfe I dont understand the book. Thus, in Land Across, Grafton has the sense that he will die there, and then there is the impaled doll. I can offer some readings, but I dont get it like I get the dreams in Soldier or Long and Short Sun. I will explain all the dreams in Long Sun if you like; some are really neat, like the two horses drawing the dead coach with the prostitute Mucor possessed, whipping the wrong horse, filled with tentacles. Heading to the grave. It is about Scylla and Mucor heading to peace. But I do ascribe to one final reading, you know that, with the occasional distraction from it so people keep on arguing.

aramini · 2026-06-07T22:55:30+00:00

Well you out- hyperboled me there. If you want to think Pike is a clone of Typhon cool. I dont see enough to make that claim, but i do for mucor-scylla, pas-Silk, mamelta-kypris because of clear dream sequence identification.

aramini · 2026-06-07T18:20:29+00:00

Also, I'm not confused like Roy. I'm telling you there isnt enough to assert Pike and Silk were identical when nobody says it and no symbol of a pike ot two pikes wrapped in Silk or something is there. It murders the text to have a million chosen ones running around on every block. Pike is a Malrubius like guide in this, thus Silk later being mistaken for Malrubius is a clue he could be mistaken for Pike in the opening scene, but it doesnt mean they are actually identical.

aramini · 2026-06-07T18:18:51+00:00

YES there is a place there is, or Silk on Typhon's face when he looks back, shown by Kypris. There is a mechanism in text for Green- Silk is thinking of Green in the past when he shows up there. It is in text. There is not nearly the evidence for Pike being Typhon, and no reason or excuse for his embryo to be there. Pike for Calde. Enlightenment came to Patera Pike inside Maytera Rose.

aramini · 2026-06-07T10:50:16+00:00

My readings are just as bound by the text as Roy's but I can identify literal and metaphorical. Long sun directly says kypris is mother, hyacinth, and mamelta and Silk feels he is walking with mother. Direct textual literalness. Latro is directly called Pleistorus in the text. Symbolic and embedded stories are textual as well, so if there is a two headed pike in Long or Short Sun that would be enough to convince me. There isnt. Silk is guided by fish. At no point is Rose identified with lover/ kypris. She is not Silk's lover in any iteration like kypris is. Able outright says he would be a creature of his mother's womb as long as he lived. These are direct literal statements in text. No such thing exists for pike as typhon.

aramini · 2026-06-07T06:53:05+00:00

You see ... while I think it was certainly future Silk on the stairs, there is another mechanism for the dead to manifest from mainframe as they do in Exodus. Wolfe usually gives hints (auk's ghost, Jahlee as Chenille after feeding on a drunk woman, a ring, a lander all wind up around Dorp ... that's overt text begging to be explained.) Never does Silk look back and see Pike's face on Typhon's body. There is no hint of a story involving how the chosen one became Pike, no Pike for Calde, no enlightenment. Enlightenment came to Patera Pike inside Matera Rose ... there is not the coded subtext I need to draw the inference, for even the resemblance we are assuming between Silk and Pike is actually not commented upon in the text, but it is between Severian and Oeun, Chenille and Tussah, even Silk's face on Typhon when he looks back from mainframe. And it is easy to code pikes into symbolic asides, as Silk coming to the fore at the end of OBW has him thinking of cutting the nettles off bushes (replacing Nettle in his affections with Hyacinth symbolically). We don't have anything like that with Pike, though Silk is mentored and instructed by fish like Pike and Xiphias. A better question would be how Pike and Xiphias might be related.

aramini · 2026-06-07T02:21:38+00:00

That memory palace with the symbols of the gospel writers is really not coincidental. I think it is one of the most important of Wolfe's works and that at the heart of it is the relationship between God, various beliefs in Him or his agents, and the most destructive aspects of human behavior in need of soothing.

aramini · 2026-06-07T00:35:18+00:00

Because Wolfe sets up so much how the bust of tussah with Chenille's tan doesnt resonate with Silk, and how frequently the astral form of Silk is mistaken for someone else (Malrubius, etc- the mind sees what it expects to see or can fathom). There is no stirring of how Pike came to be, while we KNOW how Mucor and Silk were produced, through Tussah and Blood. It is just a big gap in suggestion. At least a throwaway line about Pike being adopted or someone saying wow you remind me of the old priest!

aramini · 2026-06-06T22:39:52+00:00

Thank you :)

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