# Digest urth.v028.n133

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Jan 2000*

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### David Duffy
*19 Jan 2000, 23:42*

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 Talarican wrote:
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> III:XXXIII At Castle Baldanders, when Famulimus and Barbatus set Sev
> straight regarding their lifespan, Baldanders interjects with "These things
> live only a score of years, like dogs". His tone "told [Sev] more than is
> written here, for each word fell like a stone dropped down some deep
>  cistern". Aside from the contempt obvious in B's choice of words, what did
> his tone convey to Severian?

That B. wants to live forever, while they presumably by choice reject such an
option.


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