From: "Joshua A. Solomon" <j.solomon@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Geography of Urth; GW's Author list; Disclave
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 13:12:04 +0000


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David_Lebling@avid.com wrote:
> 
> I can do the C word! In _Citadel_, ch. 37, Severian sees for the first
> time a river or stream flowing north and east.  "All streams, in my
> previous experience, ran south or southwest..."  I recall something more
> explicit, but can't find it right now.  In any case it is clear that the
> continental divide runs from northwest to southeast, not north-south
> right at the coast as it does in our South America.

Don't all the rivers in the delta region of Buenos Aires run
south or southwest?

bee
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