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Lee Berman · 01 Dec 2010, 04:23 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:23:42 -0500
Subject: (urth) Padding
Message-ID: <SNT123-W1EAB948042213A6C85794CF260 at phx.gbl>


Son o' Witz: "Like the man your friend talked about, most men think they make their homes for their families, but 
the fact is that they make both homes and families for themselves.?

 
>I love all the stories in BotNS and the story contest might be my favorites, even Loyal/17's. By contrast I
>never liked the poetry and songs in LOTR and usually skim or skip over them. In Halvard's story I best liked
>the words in the sound the fishermen hear as the gravel scraped their boat bottoms, "my wife, my children, 
>my children, my wife". I like Melito's and really like Foila's elegant story. Nice also that they provide some 
>guidance for the rules of shapeshifting, since the main text does not (until we get to Severian/Zak).

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