Severian among the Ascians

Dave Tallman · 11 Dec 2008, 23:20 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:20:59 -0700
Subject: (urth) Severian among the Ascians
Message-ID: <1bf4dd40812111520k2cf8a103q494286aaa130ce6e at mail.gmail.com>

Son of Witz wrote:

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.


L.U. does give a reference on this one under "History of Urth" in the
timeline. It's UotNS, Chapter 51. It says Sev spent a year among the
Ascians, but not that he was a slave. The part comes from a Wolfe interview,
referenced here:
http://lists.urth.net/htdig.cgi/urth-urth.net/2007-July/008043.html
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