Seeing the signs...

David Stockhoff · 16 Dec 2010, 12:36 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:36:18 -0500
Subject: (urth) Seeing the signs...
In-Reply-To: <397FB6FA-2203-4CC3-B2CA-4984A7A80EAF at liftingfaces.com>
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Is it possible that all this writing is "the writing of the astronomers" 
to Severian?

And would that be Greek? Or astrological signs? Or calculus? Or English?

On 12/16/2010 1:01 AM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
> "Before we had gone another hundred paces, there were strips of red 
> cloth suspended from the trees; some of these were plain, but others 
> had been written over in black in a character I did not understand ? 
> or as seemed more likely, with symbols and ideographs of the sort 
> those who pretend to more knowledge than they possess use in imitation 
> of the writing of the astronomers."
> /(Sword of the Lictor, c.20 - "The Circle of the Sorcerers")/

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