Long Sun Laughs

Son of Witz · 21 Jan 2009, 19:15 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:15:46 +0000
Subject: (urth) Long Sun Laughs
Message-ID: <W652012719233521232565346@webmail55>

thanks again for that Dave.

this one strikes me as odd:
12. Who was Blood's father? -- Patera Pike. [DRL: This was a complete surprise all round, by the way.]
I thought that was pretty clear in the book, much more clear than Silk being an engineered embryo.

but I'd like to point out #15 to all the people here who contest the idea that Severian is an instantiation of Christ.

15. Is the Outsider a form of Severian? -- No. Severian is a form of the Outsider.

~witz

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Tallman [mailto:davetallman at msn.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:36 AM
>To: urth at lists.urth.net
>Subject: Re: (urth) Long Sun Laughs
>
>Gene Wolfe answered several questions related to Quetzal's motivations in a
>Q&A session recorded here: http://www.ansible.co.uk/cc/cc77.html/quetxal
>
>Check out answers 7, 23, and 24. He said that Quetzal wanted a "thriving
>human colony on Green" (which almost seems like a contradiction in terms to
>me).
>

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