From: "Nigel Price" 
Subject: (urth) Horizontal wisdom
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:25:00 +0100

A few days ago, Nutria wrote concerning my rejection of Peter Wright's
explanation of Severian's adventures as a cynical exercise in
extra-terrestrial manipulation:

>>Yes, surely. This interpretation makes sense
>>only if Sev. is some kind of antichrist in an
>>antiuniverse made by an antigod -- which is
>>what I thought the first time through. But Wolfe
>>has made it plain that this is not the case at
>>all, and the thesis does not stand up on rereading.

Yes! Absolutely!

Thank you, too, Nutria, for _lling me in on US conventions about
capitalisation following a semi-colon.

(I've enjoyed your other _ne contributions to recent dicussions too.)

Nigel


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