UotNS question

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 11 Jun 2008, 23:14 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:14:15 -0700
Subject: (urth) UotNS question
In-Reply-To: <C475A792.700D%ishmael at drizzle.com>
References: <C475A792.700D%ishmael at drizzle.com>
Message-ID: <1f7617370806111614n5df3f399r6871c31244b88947 at mail.gmail.com>

James,

That was my first reaction. I didn't like it at all on first reading,
and thought
it was basically a dumbing-down of the series by giving away stuff that
we were meant to figure out for ourselves.

But the opinions of some on this list sent me to a second reading, and I
realized that there's a great deal more in the book, a great deal that is
added to Severian's story by having it there.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:02 PM, James Crossley <ishmael at drizzle.com> wrote:
> Not that I want to come off as attempting to quash interest in the
> conversation that's been happening here of late, but I wondered if there
> were others like me on the list, huge admirers of BotNS who find the Urth
> coda unnecessary and frankly, kind of uninteresting.
>
> James
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