# Coincidences *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Feb 2001* > 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. --- ### Dan Rabin *11 Feb 2001, 22:11* I agree with David Lebling that the coincidence of Jahlee being Krait's mother is a bit of a stretch. I also find it a bit unsatisfying that Wolfe tends to revisit established locales. Was there any reason why the ship in _Return_ had to be the _Samru_? I didn't notice any particular continuity in the character of the captain, nor any motivation for his later kind treatment of Severian. In _Urth of the New Sun_, the boat that picks up Severian happens to be Eata's. I also have a nit concerning Blood's mansion. Wasn't it off the Old Palustria Road in _Long Sun_? In _Return_, it's on the road from Viron that ends in Endroad. Perhaps the road doesn't go all the way to Palustria any more? -- Dan Rabin *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---