# A Less Confident Infrequent Answer *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Jan 2000* > 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. --- ### David Lebling *19 Jan 2000, 09:00* > From: "Talarican" > II: XXVI When Baldanders and Talos prepare to go their separate way from > Severian, Dorcas, and the abandoned Jolenta, Sev argues with Dr. Talos to > allow him a short time alone to attempt to heal Baldanders. Talos > humorously > retorts to Severian that Baldanders isn't ready to die yet. Sev replies > that > it is life, not death, he offers. Talos' sarcastic reply: "Where's your > friend?". (- as in- I don't see your life-giving counterpart anywhere > around?! ) Could this be a reference to _Terminus Est_? Is Talos saying "If you're going to give him life, why do you have your sword with you?" Another possibility, if he really is referring to Jonas, is "You brought death upon Jonas, in spite of your intentions, and you will do the same to Baldanders." This alternative doesn't seem to me to fit as well. Dave Lebling (aka vizcacha) ---