q: "How Old Mount Typhon?" a: "Old Mount Typhon fine!"

CRCulver · 30 Jan 1998, 16:43 · from urth-v0006.mbox · original

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From: CRCulver at aol.com
Subject: (urth) Re:  q: "How Old Mount Typhon?" a: "Old Mount Typhon fine!"
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:43:54
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

Said Vizcacha
>My suspicion is that there is either more time between Typhon and
Severian than 1000 years (more like 10,000?)<

     Woah, Gene Wolfe himself has said that there are only 2 chiliads betwe=
en
our present time here inA.D. 1998, and Severian's time. (I think it is in t=
he
People interview).

Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html
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