# Addendum: The Two (hah!) Severians *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Jan 1998* > 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. --- ### David_Lebling *21 Jan 1998, 20:59* If I were a little less tired, I probably would have noted in my previous missive that the essay whose interpretation I reported on (Severian as beneficiary of tweaks to the past) was, to the best of my memory, published _before_ "The Citadel of the Autarch," where Severian himself gives a modified version of it in Chapter 38. Even if it wasn't, I remember it as a remarkably good essay, though unlike Severian, my memory isn't perfect... I'd love to see that essay again. -vizcacha (david_lebling at avid.com) ps: [Plug] Our very own mantis has an article in the current _New York Review of SF_ on the "future history" of Jack Vance. Those who are fans of TBOTNS but have not yet read Vance (particularly _The Dying Earth_ and its sequels, and _The Dragon Masters_ and its) should do so without unseemly delay! He manages to tie the "Demon Princes" books into the same history as _The Dying Earth_, a feat of mantic virtuosity. ---