# AE&c III *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Nov 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Charles Dye *09 Nov 1998, 13:10* I've gratefully received your latest, Mantis. Thanks. I take it Father Inire helped with the cover. On page 5, under "Book of the New Sun" you mention the idea that Severian has read Canog's "Book of the New Sun" before living and helping to compose it. Part of Severian's own autobiographical writings also almost certainly appear in the brown book, "Wonders of Urth and Sky." In Chapter XXVIII of "The Claw of the Conciliator" there's a scene where he's idly watching the wind riffle the pages of the brown book, and mentions some of the phrases that strike his eye. One of them is "by noyade" from Chapter XXIX of "The Sword of the Lictor." Cheers. raster at highfiber.com ---