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My copy of Book of the New Sun (the two-volume Orb edition) contains epigraphs for the first three novels, but nothing for Citadel. In Castle of Days, Wolfe says that he intends to…
04 Jul 2011, 06:07
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As an Urth List newbie, I sure find forum-through-email confusing. I much prefer the modern forum software I've seen and used elsewhere. But, of course, it would cost time and mone…
24 May 2011, 22:20
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Thanks for the recommendation, James. I've seen that article before, but I'm going to hold off on actually reading it until I read _Urth of the New Sun_ (which will happen once I f…
23 May 2011, 16:54
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I might have a different take on Wolfe's difficulties. He does have identity puzzles, yes. (In the Wizard-Knight, a less obvious one is: Who killed the Giant King? The answer is st…
23 May 2011, 05:35
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If I might briefly offer a mathematician's perspective... :) No single prime number is "rarer" than any others. (Although as numbers get larger, one encounters primes more and mor…
22 May 2011, 23:40
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Did you know "Cas" was Dorcas right away? I didn't. When I read these books the first time, I didn't realize that Dorcas had been one of the lake's dead until it was spelled out i…
21 May 2011, 21:36
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One more quick follow-up: After Sev crosses the bridge, on the western side, he tells us there is "nearly as much coming and going of coaches and drays as there had been on the bri…
17 May 2011, 18:00
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Thanks for the interesting replies. I agree that the bridge must be some sort of mall-like bazaar. One particular point that bothered me though was why this traffic didn't flow ove…
17 May 2011, 17:54
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I'm confused about the atmosphere on the bridge that Severian crosses at the very beginning of his exile (Shadow chapter XIV). Previously he had been walking on the Water Way, and…
17 May 2011, 07:40
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James, Good ear, and I think I now agree with you as to what Sev meant. But I wouldn't say "the placement of 'mostly' is ambiguous". If we want to be really strict, there are rig…
13 May 2011, 20:23
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Hmmm... I *think* we're basically agreeing, Dan'l. Severian's meaning is certainly clear, I grant you-- that's how Ultan knew what he meant. And I'm sure that great writers, inclu…
13 May 2011, 19:11
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I agree that Severian's grammatical error occurs in "Master Palaemon teaches us apprentices, mostly", but I have a different take. There's nothing inherently wrong with the "us ap…
13 May 2011, 18:33
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Shadow Grammar Puzzle: When Ultan meets Severian, he asks him whose apprentice he is; Severian replies that Master Gurloes sent him and that Master Palaemon teaches the apprentice…
13 May 2011, 09:15
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Thanks for the pictures, and thanks for the page that describes what a multi-faceted sundial might actually be used for. I wouldn't quite say of these sundials that each face tells…
12 May 2011, 16:09
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Hi folks-- first-time poster. Doing a pretty detailed re-read of New Sun. I'm having trouble visualizing the sundial in the Atrium of Time. It's described as "one of those old, fa…
12 May 2011, 07:27
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