# an observation *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Apr 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. --- ### mark millman *12 Apr 2000, 15:39* A friend of mine who doesn't subscribe to Urth or Whorl made the following remarks, which I thought interesting, and urged him to post. He declined, but told me that I might do so. Please forgive me for posting this to both lists; but it con- cerns the topics of both, and so I'm doing it in case there's anyone out there who subscribes to only one. > On Tuesday 11 April 2000 at 6:15:35 pm PDT, Sean wrote: > If you wish, you may submit the following observations > in my stead: > > The sequence of long novels that Wolfe has produced > suggests a descent from a golden age, moving from > Severian's *Book of Gold*, to a *Book of Silk*, and > now a *Book of Horn*. Likewise, our protagonists > descend in the scope of their powers, from the Conciliator > himself to our sailor Horn, whose feet of clay extend up to > his neck. Of course, the sequence is not temporally linear in > that Urth, but in our Earth that's the way things have been > written. Cool, eh? > > --Sean Nacre/Mark Millman ---