# Severn and Severian *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 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. --- ### C R Culver *17 Mar 1998, 20:28* The name of the artist Joseph Severn, who was living with famous English poet John Keats when he died in Rome, looks a little bit like Severian. The only parallel I can see now is that Severn comforted the dying Keats whilst Severian comforted the doomed Thecla during her stay in the Matachin Tower. Does anyone think there is any connection? Incidentally, I should take this moment to recommend Dan Simmon's Hyperion books. They are most interesting in their spin on the Severn-Keats relationship. Christopher R. Culver http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html ---