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  "thread": {
    "id": 299,
    "subject": "More Concerning the BOTNS Manuscript",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-01-22T18:41:50+00:00",
    "last": "1998-01-22T18:41:50+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0006-0443@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "CRCulver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-01-22T18:41:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) More Concerning the BOTNS Manuscript",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Friends,\n\n     As usual, I discovered an answer to my question 10 minutes after mailing\nit to the list:\n     When Severian sets the manuscript upon \"the seas of space and time,\" I\nassumed he was in Briah. This does not appear to be the case.\n     Severian was aboard the Ship. In its journeys to Yesod, the ship went\noutside any universe (into a kind of Meta-universe, which contained the\nothers). Thus, he throws the lead coffer into this meta-universe. I suppose\nit simply floated along until it drifted into Our Universe (which I will in\nthe future deem \"Malkuth,\" after Mantis' appreciated help). Gene Wolfe, a guy\nin Malkuth, usual in all respects except he had just written a kick-butt\nnovel called _Peace_, one day came upon the coffer. Thus, the story begins.\n\n\nSaid Mantis:"
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          "text": "OTOH the appendix to book one (re the translation of the manuscript)"
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          "text": "mentions that Gene Wolfe has examined artifacts from Urth, and in fact has\nbeen allowed to visit and photograph the era's few extant buildings.<\n\n     Yes, this presents an interesting problem. In the last few pages of\n_Citadel_ and the opening parts of _Urth_, the main attention is on the lead\ncoffer. The reader thinks the coffer is all that Mr. Wolfe got, and that he\nthen translated the BOTNS and its coda using techniques much like those\nemployed to decipher Linear B relics. Then, however, we go back to the first\nappendix, and learn Mr. Wolfe has indeed seen more than the manuscript. How\nshall we solve this problem? Is Briah Malkuth? Or did Mr. Wolfe get a visit\nfrom a guy(?) named Tzadkiel who had this really cool boat and wanted to take\nhim for a ride? <g>\n\nChristopher \"My Best Friend Took My Copy of _Shadow and Claw_ to France, and\nI Want it Back!\" Culver \n<crculver at aol.com>\nhttp://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html\n------------------------------------------------\n\"Ignorance, that light of fools steers a wayward path\"\n-Brendan Perry"
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