From: "Chris" 
Subject: Re: Re: (urth) What becomes of THE WONDERS OF URTH AND SKY
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:42:07 +0000

I believe that Severian says enough to indicate that he feels much the way 
Wolfe does on the subject of books, and it's a feeling I share. The idea of 
keeping a special book that you already know by heart doesn't seem strange 
to me. Opening the physical book and re-reading the pages, no matter how 
well you remember them, is a pleasure rather than a practical concern.

Civet

>The larger question is why Severian needs a book at all when he's got a 
>photographic memory.  One reading should be sufficient.
>
>Teflon93
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Don Palumbo wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > =mantis=
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
>
>
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