Severian as a student

Jeff Wilson · 05 Jun 2008, 02:16 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:16:12 -0500
Subject: (urth) Severian as a student
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John Smith wrote:
> It's interesting that the people of Urth find nothing
> strange about using human skin as a fabric.   Does
> this simply reflect the poverty of a society that is
> running out of energy and resources?   Or is it more
> of a comment on  the immorality of a society that
> treats people as things?

Mechanical limbs, animal parts on otherwise human bodies, human faces on 
animals, and relics of many epochs are everyday sights around Nesus and 
the Citadel; I doubt leather made from human skin turns many heads of 
any species any more.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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