Subject: Re: (urth) (TBOTN) Nessus, Citadel, Wall
From: matthew.malthouse@guardian.co.uk
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:03:20 +0100

On 19/06/2003 22:19:28 Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:

>If there were breaks in the wall, these would serve as access ways; but
>what we see at the one gate is a tunnel like a mine shaft.  Presumably 
the
>river passes through a similar tunnel, but Severian is maddeningly silent
>on this (I think he literally sleeps through it on the Samru).

Dr Talos says there are 12 gates and names at least some of them, he and 
Baldanders having traversed one entering the city on the way south, two 
more going and retuning from the southern lands and about to travel the 
fourth, the Gate Piteous, with Severian and company going home.

Matthew

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