Subject: (urth) Unmanned autharch

From: Alice Turner <al at interport.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 19:49:03 +0000

[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]

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From: urth-errors at lists.best.com <urth-errors at lists.best.com>
To: urth at lists.best.com <urth at lists.best.com>
Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 6:02 PM
Subject: Digest urth.v006.n019

That's why I wince when I hear people use the
>word "punishment." The Autarch's castration wasn't a punishment for his
>failure to bring the New Sun back to Urth, it was merely a device to insure
>Severian, who *could* bring the NS, would get his day.

Besides, it wasn't the one Autarch, it was the whole string of them.

-alga-