# Inn of Lost Loves *The Urth list — 9 messages, 6 voices, 22 Sep 2011* > 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. --- ### Jonathan Post *22 Sep 2011, 21:10* When the Inn is first mentioned in Shadow, it speaks of it being a place that, like many people in Severian's life, is no longer around. I finished New Sun and did not find anything that explained what happened to the Inn. What's up? --- ### Jonathan Post *22 Sep 2011, 21:11 · follows Jonathan Post* In the beginning of the Inn of Lost Loves chapter in Shadow, it mentions that unlike the other locations in Severian's life, the Inn of Lost Loves is no longer around. What happened to it? --- ### Gwern Branwen *22 Sep 2011, 21:13 · in reply to Jonathan Post* > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Jonathan Post wrote: > When the Inn is first mentioned in Shadow, it speaks of it being a place > that, like many people in Severian's life, is no longer around. I finished > New Sun and did not find anything that explained what happened to the Inn. > What's up? Destroyed by the floods brought by the New Sun, I always figured. ``` gwern http://www.gwern.net ``` --- ### Son of Witz *22 Sep 2011, 21:13 · in reply to Jonathan Post* well, I think it's a spoiler if you haven't read Urth of the New Sun. Have you? ``` Son of Witz Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Post wrote: > In the beginning of the Inn of Lost Loves chapter in Shadow, it mentions that unlike the other locations in Severian's life, the Inn of Lost Loves is no longer around. What happened to it? > _______________________________________________ ``` --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *22 Sep 2011, 21:23 · in reply to Gwern Branwen* Ummmm, not so much -- when Severian writes the BotNS, the events of UotNS haven't happened yet. I suspect that it just went out of business. > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Jonathan Post wrote: >> When the Inn is first mentioned in Shadow, it speaks of it being a place >> that, like many people in Severian's life, is no longer around. I finished >> New Sun and did not find anything that explained what happened to the Inn. >> What's up? > Destroyed by the floods brought by the New Sun, I always figured. > > -- > gwern > http://www.gwern.net > _______________________________________________ --- ### Son of Witz *22 Sep 2011, 21:25 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* yeah, you're probably right It probably serves as a simple symbolic device. All the lost loves. > On Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > Ummmm, not so much -- when Severian writes the BotNS, the events of > UotNS haven't happened yet. I suspect that it just went out of > business. > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Jonathan Post wrote: >>> When the Inn is first mentioned in Shadow, it speaks of it being a place >>> that, like many people in Severian's life, is no longer around. I finished >>> New Sun and did not find anything that explained what happened to the Inn. >>> What's up? >> Destroyed by the floods brought by the New Sun, I always figured. >> >> -- >> gwern >> http://www.gwern.net >> _______________________________________________ --- ### Gerry Quinn *22 Sep 2011, 21:29 · in reply to Son of Witz* From: Son of Witz > yeah, you're probably right > It probably serves as a simple symbolic device. All the lost loves. Any relation to the Room of Lost Loves belonging to the giant wizard in _Wizard Knight_, I wonder? - Gerry Quinn --- ### Gerry Quinn *22 Sep 2011, 21:29 · in reply to Son of Witz* From: Son of Witz > yeah, you're probably right > It probably serves as a simple symbolic device. All the lost loves. Any relation to the Room of Lost Loves belonging to the giant wizard in _Wizard Knight_, I wonder? - Gerry Quinn --- ### Jeff Wilson *23 Sep 2011, 03:42 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > On 9/22/2011 4:23 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > Ummmm, not so much -- when Severian writes the BotNS, the events of > UotNS haven't happened yet. I suspect that it just went out of > business. If it did, it may be due to business falling off after Sev outlaws dueling. ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL > ``` ---