# Fannish Comparisons *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 25 Jun 1999* > 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. --- ### Paul C Duggan *25 Jun 1999, 15:31* It is somewhat amusing that BOTNS is a time travel story, and Severian sleeps with his grandmother, but the means of so doing is not time travel (at least not by severian). Any SF stories where the grandfather paradox is a result of the grandmother being brought forward in time (and then sent back?) "I am an impure thinker. I am hurt, swayed, shaken, | paul + | + elated, disillusioned, shocked, comforted, and I | --|-- have to transmit my mental experiences lest I die." | + | + -- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy | pduggan at world.std.com ---