Appian

David DiGiacomo · 28 Aug 2006, 17:55 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: david at slack.com (David DiGiacomo)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:55:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Appian
Message-ID: <10608281755.AA03680 at slack.com>

>You're either misreading me or misquoting me. :-) I have never said that
>62 years was the length of the penultimate Autarch's reign. 62 is the
>number of years that have passed between a point when we know Appian was
>on the throne and the point when Severian meets the penultimate Autarch.
>I'm saying that this *can't* be the length of the penultimate Autarch's
>reign. It would make him far too old.

How long do humans live in the time of the New Sun books?
How about wealthy humans with access to ET medicine and time travel?
Do we have any idea?

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