From: "Daniel Fusch" <dfusch@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Dredging up the past
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:12:57 PDT

Jim wrote:
>Bearing in mind
>the high possibility that Jonas had served on this ship (at
>some point in history), can we assume that the crashlanding
>he talks about is the end of Tzadkiel's ship?

I think it more likely that Jonas' crashed ship was one of the smaller, 
intrasystem ships--a ship such as the one that ferries Severian and 
Burgundofara to Urth, for example, or such as the ship of the Hierodules in 
"Lictor."


>When he then steps into Father Inire's mirrors, claiming
>that he will return when he is "Sane and whole" isn't he
>talking about returning to his own past aboard the ship
>(The asumption being that he will emerge between the sails
>which pick up the apports that plague the ship).

I had that impression, too.

Daniel
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