Kimleesoong and the Dating of the Autarchy

Dan Parmenter · 13 Mar 1998, 10:35 · from urth-v0008.mbox · original

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From: Dan Parmenter <dan at lec.com>
Subject: (urth) Re: Kimleesoong and the Dating of the Autarchy
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:35:33
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

From: C R Culver <CRCulver at aol.com>

>There has often been talk on this list of how far in the future the
>Commonwealth of Severian's time is. I was perplexed, however, at the perso=
nage
>of Kimleesoong (Kim Lee Soong) that Jonas mentions in the antechamber of t=
he
>House Absolute. Jonas says that he is seven generations removed from the
>current generation.=20

Isn't it the prisoners who make this claim?  And isn't it also
mentioned that some of the previous generation also claimed to be
seventh generation descendants of the original prisoners?  I don't
have the book with me so I'll have to double check that.  Maybe it's
just part of their lore: "We're all seventh generation prisoners..."

D


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