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The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 Jun 2002
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Michael Straight — 12 Jun 2002, 19:13

> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Rostrum saith:

> > If you're going to count the intros/appendix where Wolfe talks about
> > translating Severian's manuscript, Wolfe directly refers to all the
> > stuff of Severian's time being in the future, or "futurity."

> Yes. But on the other hand, he also writes of having been allowed
> to tour and photograph the "surviving" buildings of that distant
> future period. Which seems to put the distant future into the distant
> past and make the whole thing cyclic after all, dunnit?

To me, at that point it became obvious the whole thing was a joke and not
meant to have any real bearing on Severian's story.

-Rostrum

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matthew.malthouse — 13 Jun 2002, 09:38
  follows, by subject match Michael Straight

> On 12/06/2002 20:13:50 Michael Straight wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

> > Rostrum saith:

> > > If you're going to count the intros/appendix where Wolfe talks about
> > > translating Severian's manuscript, Wolfe directly refers to all the
> > > stuff of Severian's time being in the future, or "futurity."

> > Yes. But on the other hand, he also writes of having been allowed
> > to tour and photograph the "surviving" buildings of that distant
> > future period. Which seems to put the distant future into the distant
> > past and make the whole thing cyclic after all, dunnit?

> To me, at that point it became obvious the whole thing was a joke and not
> meant to have any real bearing on Severian's story.

For no pertinent reason:  Mary Gentle's "Ash"


Matthew

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