flying ship

Tony Ellis · 03 Dec 2007, 22:04 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:04:59 +0000
Subject: (urth) flying ship
Message-ID: <9a33123d0712031404n283ba9e1u768139e1e5193a58 at mail.gmail.com>

hartshorn wrote:

>matthew at calmeilles.co.uk writes:

>> What are people thinking when it says "fountain" here?  An heraldic
fountain is a bit odd.

>The reference is surely to the Vatic fountain in the House Absolute (in
>which a ship appears when S casts in a coin) So I asssume it's that type of
>fountain.

The reference is surely to the White Fountain, that being the great
achievement of Severian's life and everything. :-)

I don't know what it looks like but as with the flying ship I don't
think it matters. It's what it symbolises that's significant.

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