The Cistern under the bell keep

Son of Witz · 10 Nov 2010, 22:19 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:19:22 -0800
Subject: (urth) The Cistern under the bell keep
Message-ID: <2DD5B291-8BBB-4C81-8E4E-F440585DE7D9 at butcherbaker.org>

Severian mentions the cistern under the Bell Keep at least 8 times in his five volumes.
Does anyone find a particular significance to it? I haven't.  He seems to use it for comparison only, but it keeps coming up throughout the books.

~Mike

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