# The Gate of Nessus

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 26 Jul 2000*

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### Alice Turner
*26 Jul 2000, 20:31*

Wrote Nigel:

> As to what happens to Severian at and immediately after his passage
> through
> the gate of Nessus, well, you do gradually get bits and pieces of the
> story, a detail here and there throughout the length of TCotC. I'm
> rereading the whole thing very slowly as part of the research for my
> paper
> for the symposium at the end of August. Will you be there?

Nigel, after the symposium will you post your paper? Or at least email
it to interested people like me, and I bet quite a few others?

-alga

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