# Hethor's Ship

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Mar 1998*

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### C R Culver
*17 Mar 1998, 20:14*

Rasterman clarified:

> It's Hethor's very first line, in Chapter 30 of Shadow.  "M-m-master, when I
> was on the _Quasar_ I had a paracoita ...."<

I knew I was right! So, why does Severian say that Hethor never mentioned his
ship? I think it's Wolfe's fault, but a small forgetting like this over 5
volumes can happen to any author.

Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html
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"Ignorance, that light of fools steers a wayward path"
-Brendan Perry

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