Thea and Thecla

Marc Aramini · 10 Jan 2011, 15:30 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:30:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Thea and Thecla
In-Reply-To: <4D2AFBD5.7040904 at verizon.net>
Message-ID: <325810.59986.qm at web161803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

--- On Mon, 1/10/11, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

 (Usually
> handled with "Well, of course I didn't know that then, silly
> boy that I was, but the man to whom my father lent his cows
> was the Duke of Zzzz...") It helps that Severian the boy
> lived an isolated, almost monastic life.

You know, this is almost exactly what he says about the huge footsteps down in the man ape/monkey/simian mine, but in true Wolfe style he just says, now I think I know what it was without ever coming out with it explicitly. son of a ...

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