Pandora/Catcher

m.driussi · 23 Jul 1997, 22:09 · from urth-v0003.mbox · original

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From: m.driussi at genie.com
Subject: (urth) Pandora/Catcher
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 97 22:09:00 GMT
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
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Reply:  Item #8527059 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET#

John Bishop,

Ah, but since Holly "catches" a criminal . . . (is there any "rye"
around when she does it?)

That it was just your impression is good enough.  We'll all make a
note of it and see if anything else bubbles up.

Re: the torture device that writes on the victim.  Are you sure that
this isn't from history rather than fiction?  And didn't the Kafka
device write and write and write on the victim until death ensued (or am
I thinking of some other work here?)?  The device in the Matachin
tower seems more like a "Scarlet Letter" brand Autodoc-cum-tatooiton,
that is, not lethal by itself.

=3Dmantis=3D

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