# The Cumaean's True Name

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Oct 1998*

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### Robert Borski
*10 Oct 1998, 11:08*

It's Camoena, and like her fellow Hierodules, Famulimus and Barbatus, she
may experience time backwards (which is why I expect the Cumaean and her
acolyte Merryn to turn up in the Short Sun trilogy).

Just another example of the myriad temporal paradoxes in New Sun (it's as
if GW has undertaken to rewrite Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps" and "All You
Zombies").

Robert Borski  

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