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  "thread": {
    "id": 2279,
    "subject": "Sussex Carnifex",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-06-06T19:18:09+00:00",
    "last": "2000-06-06T19:18:09+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0055@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigelprice1 at compuserve.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-06-06T19:18:09+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sussex Carnifex",
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          "text": "On holiday in West Sussex last week, I was surprised, driving around the\nChichester ringroad, to come across a large road sign apparently directing\nme to \"Terminus Est\".\n\nA further circuit of the roundabout I was attempting to negotiate revealed\nthat the sign actually read \"Terminus Ind Est\", which still sounded vaguely\nthreatening if marginally less lupine. Chichester, was , of course, an\nancient Roman city, but the meaning of this particular Latin phrase eluded\nme until I got back to our holiday bungalow by the coast and was able to\nconsult a map, whereupon I discovered that the sign was in fact directing\ndrivers to the Terminus Road Industrial Estate...\n\n                        --0-0--\n\nMy thanks to Mantis for the extremely wonderful and ever-so-useful Lexicon\nUrthus. I read it from cover to cover when I first got it a few years ago\nfor the sheer pleasure of having so much explained so well. Rereading the\nBook of the New Sun in preparation for this August's Wolfe symposium in\nBirmingham, I am now, finally, using it in the conventional manner as a\nhandy reference work and dictionary of Urthisms. Still great fun, and\nabsolutely invaluable.\n\n                        --0-0--\n\nAnd while I'm in an enthusiastic and generally laudatory mood, I ought to\nexpress my thanks to Jonathan Laidlow for getting issue 1of Ultan's Library\norganised and published. I somehow got credited with being a co-editor for\nthis splendid journal, though apart from some hasty proof reading during my\nlunch hour (and I never did get round to checking Potto's articles) and\ncobbling together a hasty review of On Blue's Waters (the finishing touches\nto which were literally added while my children sat in the car impatiently\nwaiting for me to drive them off on the aforementioned holiday - shows,\nhuh?), my main contribution was standing on the sidelines and cheering\nJonathan on while he did all the hard work. (Should I now sign\ncontributions to the Urth list \"Cyby\"? And incidentally, why can't I find\nCyby in the Lexicon Urthus or any of the three volumes of additions and\nerrata?)\n\nGreatly enjoyed reading all the articles and reviews, including those by\nUrth-list regulars Nick Gevers (Potto), Michael Andre-Driussi (Mantis) and\nRobert Borski (canis terribilis cum quinque capitibus). Very excited, too,\nat the news that Peter Wright is publishing a book of his studies on Wolfe\nnext year, to be called \"Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the\nReader\".  I admire the clear-sightedness of Peter's analysis of the Urth\ncycle no end, and enjoyed his review of The Book of the New Sun in Ultan's\nLibrary much as I enjoyed his previously published articles, but I'm still\nnot sure that I agree with all the conclusions he draws from his analysis.\nTo me, his reading of the Urth cycle seems overly deterministic, but I need\nto do an awful lot more work before I can - maybe - come up with a\nconvincing counter-argument. (I'm working on it!) I would love to hear what\nothers think of Peter's interpretation of Severian's narrative.\n\nNigel Price (aka Cyby)"
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