# Digest urth.v029.n032 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Jul 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. --- ### Jim Russell *11 Jul 2000, 10:20* > Vodalus and Jolenta -- > what's the connection? Both Vodalus and Jolenta are playing alloted roles, at least as I see it. That they are both deposed (In one sense or another), and replaced, indicates that "what they are" to paraphrase Sev, is locked within a certain formal structure which dictates their selfhood. This could be the work of the increate, the autarch, or the author, depending on your viewpoint. On a seperate matter, has anybody encountered M. John Harrison's 'Viriconium' books, which have recently been republished on the masterworks list in the UK? They contain certain similarities to the New Sun Books, although they are far bleaker, and might be of interest to some of you dudes. Ta ta... ---------------------- Jim Russell University of Exeter ---