Ship Volant

Son of Witz · 17 Feb 2009, 19:54 · from 2009-February.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:54:06 +0000
Subject: (urth) Ship Volant
Message-ID: <W43729216259241234900446@webmail12>


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jordon Flato [mailto:jordonflato at gmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:48 AM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: (urth) Ship Volant
>
>I've had the rose idea for a while.  I think I remember mentioning that your
>sketch could go even more in the 'rose like' direction, as it seemed to be
>clearly going that way.  But you know, curry tends to destroy effective
>memory.  And yeah, I can't remember why Severian was horrified at the
>depiction.  The first thing that comes to mind is that it must have looked
>like one of those typical office posters so well lampooned at Despair.com.
>Something like a "Thomas Kincaid: Painter of Light" version of Tzadiels ship
>with bold blue text underneath that reads:  "The Ship:  Some days you are so
>busy you  just feel like you are meeting yourself coming and going.  Only
>here, it's probably true."
>

Laughing out loud.

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