Ship Citadel

Rex Racer · 06 May 2006, 13:09 · from 2006-May.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: rex.racerx at gmail.com (Rex Racer)
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 09:09:05 -0400
Subject: (urth) Ship Citadel
In-Reply-To: <200605060611.k466BhHI065610 at mailserver3.hushmail.com>
References: <200605060611.k466BhHI065610 at mailserver3.hushmail.com>
Message-ID: <d046a0310605060609y33501188ke8246351917815d8 at mail.gmail.com>

Yes. The supporting evidence after the bit you quite applies to individual
"landers" that have been converted to towers, landers/spaceships that were
at rest on a regular old space port. The Citadel is a collection of towers
and walls, not a monolithic construct studded with other ships.

On 5/6/06, thalassocrat at nym.hush.com <thalassocrat at nym.hush.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sat, 06 May 2006 14:16:34 +1000 b sharp
> <bsharporflat at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Well, interesting.  Roy's reference to Urth XXXV was illuminating
> >actually
> >in that an officer tells Severian he is being taken, "To the old
> >port.  One
> >of the hulks there has been fitted up to hold prisoners". So
> >perhaps the
> >Citadel is constructed of more than one old ship.  But spaceship
> >it is, as
> >evidence by these other passages:
> <snippety>
>
> Actually, I think it is very clear that the individual "towers" in
> the Citadel are spaceships. The Citadel itself isn't.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth at urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: /pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20060506/67c143cc/attachment.html

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net