Gene Wolfe's New Sun stuff

sometimes a Wombat · 03 Oct 1992, 06:12 · from sf-lovers.1992.mbox

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From: lnh at soliton.physics.arizona.edu (sometimes a Wombat)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe's New Sun stuff
Date: 3 Oct 92 06:12:51 GMT
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Jonathan A. Kung writes:

Those questions I CAN answer have been.  Except this one.

>19.  Was the jungle area in the Garden with the three people, one woman,
>     a man, and a naked man, in the hut an instance of time-travel?  I
>     remember reading that Severian noticed that those people seemed to
>     be ignoring or at least trying not to notice himself and Agia.

Yes, it was, time travel back to roughly our day Brazil.  Or probably
Brazil.  Iffy, just where in South America the City is.

Larry Hammer

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