Hethor's Ship

C R Culver · 17 Mar 1998, 20:14 · from urth-v0008.mbox · original

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From: C R Culver <CRCulver at aol.com>
Subject: (urth) Hethor's Ship
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:14:37 EST
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

Rasterman clarified:
>It's Hethor's very first line, in Chapter 30 of Shadow.  "M-m-master, when=
 I
was on the _Quasar_ I had a paracoita ...."<

I knew I was right! So, why does Severian say that Hethor never mentioned h=
is
ship? I think it's Wolfe's fault, but a small forgetting like this over 5
volumes can happen to any author.

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