From: C R Culver <CRCulver@aol.com>
Subject: Re:  (urth) Forgotten Names
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 20:25:13 EST


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Mantis said:
>>Severian's "ID Monster" raises the dead assassin and allows it to kill
Valeria for her infidelity<<

Um, doesn't Severian find out she remarried *after* he revives the assassin? I
blieve Odilo or Pelagia tells him after the Flood.
And there always seemed something Christly about Severian's revival of the
assassin, as he is giving even sinners a new life after death.

>>their use of the term "Old Citadel" implies there is a "(newer) Citadel"
(presumably the citadel of the archon of Nessus)<<

Are you sure "old" is capitalised? And yes, the archon has to be somewhere.

Christopher R. Culver <crculver@aol.com>
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