# Books *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 25 Apr 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. --- ### David Duffy *25 Apr 1998, 03:55* Regarding _Acturus_ (I am a fan I guess), I think a link is what I think of as the medieval Christian viewpoint that suffering and death in this world are transitory -- so it's not so dreadful that much of Urth's population was drowned at the end of UotNS, or indeed that criminals must be tortured then executed in payment for their acts. I doubt it is a direct influence, but _Tirant Lo Blanc_ has resonances with BotNS to me (a long time since I read the former unfortunately, so I can't be more specific). | David Duffy. ,-_|\ | email: davidD at qimr.edu.au ph: INT+61+7+3362 0217 fax: +0101 / * | Epidemiology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research \_,-._/ | 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia v ---