# Unmanned autharch

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 25 Jan 1998*

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### Alice Turner
*25 Jan 1998, 19:49*

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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-

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