# III, ch. 12 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Mar 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### m.driussi *12 Mar 1998, 04:20* Reply: Item #1421618 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Releasing the floodgates does =not= kill the prisoners of the vincula (not "jacal," that's the hut on the cliff near the wall where Jader lives) in Thrax. After all, "following the flood" Severian holds aloft the Claw, which burns its brightest, and all the dampened prisoners see it but not him. The Claw gives them =strength=. =mantis= ---