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Subject: Re: Re: (urth) What becomes of THE WONDERS OF URTH AND SKY
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:09:28 -0400

The larger question is why Severian needs a book at all when he's got a photographic memory.  One reading should be sufficient.
 
Teflon93
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> From: Michael Andre-Driussi 
> Date: 2003/08/07 Thu PM 12:41:59 EDT
> To: urth@urth.net
> Subject: Re: (urth) What becomes of THE WONDERS OF URTH AND SKY
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> Don Palumbo wrote:
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> > An easy question, but can anyone remember what finally becomes of THE
> BOOK OF THE WONDERS OF URTH AND SKY in the Book of the New Sun?  Does
> Severian still have it by the time he returns to Nessus as Autarch, or
> does he lose it sometime after he reads the "Tale of a Boy Called Frog"
> to little Severian, perhaps around Lake Diuturna, where both
> Terminus Est and the Claw are destroyed?
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> > 
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> Citadel, chapter 34: Severian still has it when he returns to the
> Citadel; he intends to keep it, and hopes that the sight of him
> carrying it will inspire more reading.
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> =mantis=
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