The Piteous Gate (was: Book of the new sun (1-4) questions)

Rob Davies · 21 Feb 2006, 19:55 · from 2006-February.txt.gz

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From: robertedavies at earthlink.net (Rob Davies)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:55:44 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Subject: (urth) The Piteous Gate (was: Book of the new sun (1-4)
 questions)
Message-ID: <19065094.1140551745075.JavaMail.root at elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Duncan wrote:
>>1: what happened at the piteous gate? there was a riot,
>>there were clone soldiers...?
>
Tony wrote:
>The explanation for this has cropped up a few times in the list,
>actually, but since it's my explanation I'm happy to repeat it. :-)
>
>The soldiers are driving people off the road, because it's illegal to
>use the roads of commonwealth. 

I find this explanation a bit odd. Why have a gate if no one is allowed to use the road to pass through it?

Rob

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