Severian among the Ascians

Son of Witz · 11 Dec 2008, 21:54 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:54:39 +0000
Subject: (urth) Severian among the Ascians
Message-ID: <W324054471194471229032479@webmail13>

>David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>> Lexicon Urthis suggests that Severian spent a year among the Ascians.
>>
>> Does anyone know when this is thought to have occurred?

My biggest problem with Lexicon Urthus is that he throws out some wild suggestions and then often doesn't cite any text that supports it.  I love the speculation, but lets back it up.   Of course there are many great things about the L.U.

~witz

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