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The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Apr 2002
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Nigel Price — 20 Apr 2002, 20:25

A few days ago, Nutria wrote concerning my rejection of Peter Wright's
explanation of Severian's adventures as a cynical exercise in
extra-terrestrial manipulation:

> > Yes, surely. This interpretation makes sense
> > only if Sev. is some kind of antichrist in an
> > antiuniverse made by an antigod -- which is
> > what I thought the first time through. But Wolfe
> > has made it plain that this is not the case at
> > all, and the thesis does not stand up on rereading.

Yes! Absolutely!

Thank you, too, Nutria, for _lling me in on US conventions about
capitalisation following a semi-colon.

(I've enjoyed your other _ne contributions to recent dicussions too.)

Nigel

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