# Book covers, Palaemon and Reading *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 07 May 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. --- ### Michael Doolittle *07 May 1998, 18:13* First I want to say thanks everyone for the help on the book covers. It was a great help. > Incidentally, Palaemon's behavior and words when he sends Severian on > his way are very odd. First he claims that Thrax is by the sea. Then > he tells Severian to pay attention to his good advice but remarks that > Severian would probably forget it all. Palaemon, who we are told > elsewhere was fond of Severian for his perfect memory. I think what Palaemon meant was not that Sev would literally forget, but that the advice would "go in one ear and out the other", in the way that young men often ignore the advice of their elders. Mike ---