From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Time
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 17:05:21 


[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]

On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Jim Jordan wrote:

> </excerpt>	While I don't recall any particular reference, the ability of
> these people to sustain pain under torture implied to me, in my first
> reading, that they had developed beyond where people are today in some
> regards. 

I had read that as attesting more to the skill of the guild than to the
hardiness of their victims, but either or both could be true.

-Rostrum