Urth Digest, Vol 161, Issue 7
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 18 Jan 2018
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Lee Pretorius — 18 Jan 2018, 17:05

Keith have you joined the Facebook group? Marc Aramini is on there as well
so it’s very nice chats all day every day.

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>    1.  Severian of Gabala (Keith Sadler)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:16:14 -0600
> From: Keith Sadler <kthsdlr at gmail.com>
> To: urth at urth.net
> Subject: (urth) Severian of Gabala
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> Hello all! This is my first post on this mailing list, and thus I apologize
> in advance if I've made an error, or offered a silly question. I've been
> following and reading through for a while.
> 
> Is there anything to be read into Severian sharing a name with Severian of
> Gabala? I'm currently half through 'In Green's Jungles' in terms of the
> Solar Cycle series and I've read through a number of his other books.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severian_of_Gabala
> 
> One rather unhelpful friend suggested that Gene Wolfe was writing in a
> pre-Google era and thus it might be coincidence? I think I can be fairly
> certain that there is very little happenstance that Gene Wolfe offers in
> his worlds.
> --
> 
> 
> Keith Sadler
> about.me/keithsadler
> [image: Keith Sadler on about.me]
>   <http://about.me/keithsadler>
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> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 01:06:04 +0100
> From: Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl>
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> Subject: Re: (urth) Severian of Gabala
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> Hi Keith,
> 
> Probably you will make a lot of errors as everybody does who tries to
> make sense of Wolfes books. They have an impenetrable character almost
> esoteric so don't worry about it.
> 
> There is not much to connect between the two Severians except the name.
> 
> 
> Op 18-1-2018 om 00:16 schreef Keith Sadler:

> > Hello all! This is my first post on this mailing list, and thus I
> > apologize in advance if I've made an error, or offered a silly
> > question. I've been following and reading through for a while.
> > 
> > Is there anything to be read into Severian sharing a name with
> > Severian of Gabala? I'm currently half through 'In Green's Jungles' in
> > terms of the Solar Cycle series and I've read through a number of his
> > other books.
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severian_of_Gabala
> > 
> > One rather unhelpful friend suggested that Gene Wolfe was writing in a
> > pre-Google era and thus it might be coincidence? I think I can be
> > fairly certain that there is very little happenstance that Gene Wolfe
> > offers in his worlds.
> > --
> > Keith Sadler
> > about.me/keithsadler
> > Keith Sadler on about.me
> > 
> > <http://about.me/keithsadler>
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________

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Keith Sadler — 18 Jan 2018, 17:08
  in reply to Lee Pretorius

I'll look for the Facebook group today. Thanks everyone!

> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Lee Pretorius <leepretorius1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Keith have you joined the Facebook group? Marc Aramini is on there as well
> so it’s very nice chats all day every day.
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 at 16:11, <urth-request at lists.urth.net> wrote:

> > Send Urth mailing list submissions to
> >         urth at lists.urth.net
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> > than "Re: Contents of Urth digest..."
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> > Today's Topics:
> > 
> >    1.  Severian of Gabala (Keith Sadler)
> >    2. Re:  Severian of Gabala (Ab de Vos)
> > 
> > 
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:16:14 -0600
> > From: Keith Sadler <kthsdlr at gmail.com>
> > To: urth at urth.net
> > Subject: (urth) Severian of Gabala
> > Message-ID:
> >         <CAJ8yzhsHFTL6LRkDjHygGQJ272WFOiS0ZvAu7ir4=6LOzOCg4w at mail.
> > gmail.com>
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> > 
> > Hello all! This is my first post on this mailing list, and thus I
> > apologize
> > in advance if I've made an error, or offered a silly question. I've been
> > following and reading through for a while.
> > 
> > Is there anything to be read into Severian sharing a name with Severian of
> > Gabala? I'm currently half through 'In Green's Jungles' in terms of the
> > Solar Cycle series and I've read through a number of his other books.
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severian_of_Gabala
> > 
> > One rather unhelpful friend suggested that Gene Wolfe was writing in a
> > pre-Google era and thus it might be coincidence? I think I can be fairly
> > certain that there is very little happenstance that Gene Wolfe offers in
> > his worlds.
> > --
> > 
> > 
> > Keith Sadler
> > about.me/keithsadler
> > [image: Keith Sadler on about.me]
> >   <http://about.me/keithsadler>
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 01:06:04 +0100
> > From: Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl>
> > To: urth at lists.urth.net
> > Subject: Re: (urth) Severian of Gabala
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> > Hi Keith,
> > 
> > Probably you will make a lot of errors as everybody does who tries to
> > make sense of Wolfes books. They have an impenetrable character almost
> > esoteric so don't worry about it.
> > 
> > There is not much to connect between the two Severians except the name.
> > 
> > 
> > Op 18-1-2018 om 00:16 schreef Keith Sadler:

> > > Hello all! This is my first post on this mailing list, and thus I
> > > apologize in advance if I've made an error, or offered a silly
> > > question. I've been following and reading through for a while.
> > > 
> > > Is there anything to be read into Severian sharing a name with
> > > Severian of Gabala? I'm currently half through 'In Green's Jungles' in
> > > terms of the Solar Cycle series and I've read through a number of his
> > > other books.
> > > 
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severian_of_Gabala
> > > 
> > > One rather unhelpful friend suggested that Gene Wolfe was writing in a
> > > pre-Google era and thus it might be coincidence? I think I can be
> > > fairly certain that there is very little happenstance that Gene Wolfe
> > > offers in his worlds.
> > > --
> > > Keith Sadler
> > > about.me/keithsadler
> > > Keith Sadler on about.me
> > > 
> > > <http://about.me/keithsadler>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________

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