# Witches & eclipse-maker *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 14 Apr 1997* > 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. --- ### Kieran Cleary *14 Apr 1997, 18:28* As someone who is eagerly awaiting a copy of the Lexicon, I have a rag-tag bundle of questions which I remember being puzzled about during my last read of New Sun: - what is the appropriate technological analogue of the device (?) the witches were looking at on Severian's visit to their tower. I remember it being described a a table-like object with a glass surface, through which small hairless animals were visible on some sort of miniature landscape. A holographic remote-viewing device? Were they watching the eclectics? And just what kind of "magic" do the witches practice? -what was the enigmatic large object teasingly referred to in Wolfe's translator's notes at the end of Citadel which caused the eclipse? -are the corridors that Severian wandered through en route to the atrium of time just metaphors for the Corridors of Time or is there some type of literal connection? -why did the green man not know of the New Sun if he came from the future most likely after the New Sun? -Jonas & Miles: what's the connection? Is Miles the personality from whose biological spare parts Jonas was reconstructed after his ship crashed? Lasrach ____________________________________________________________ Kieran Cleary Senior Research Engineer North West Labs Finisklin Industrial Estate Sligo Republic of Ireland Tel. +353 71 69441 Fax. +353 71 69451 email kcleary at nwlabs.com ___________________________________________________________ ---