Witches & eclipse-maker

Kieran Cleary · 14 Apr 1997, 18:28 · from urth-v0001.mbox · original

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From: "Kieran Cleary" <kcleary at tinet.ie>
Subject: (urth) Witches & eclipse-maker
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:28:30 +0000
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

As someone who is eagerly awaiting a copy of the Lexicon, I have a=20
rag-tag bundle of questions which I remember being puzzled about during my =
last=20
read of New Sun:

- what is the appropriate technological analogue of the device (?)=20
the witches were looking at on Severian's visit to their tower. I=20
remember it being described a a table-like object with a glass=20
surface, through which small hairless animals were visible on some=20
sort of miniature landscape. A holographic remote-viewing device?=20
Were they watching the eclectics? And just what kind of "magic" do the=20
witches practice?

-what was the enigmatic large object teasingly referred to in Wolfe's=20
translator's notes at the end of Citadel which caused the eclipse?

-are the corridors that Severian wandered through en route to the=20
atrium of time just metaphors for the Corridors of Time or is there=20
some type of literal connection?

-why did the green man not know of the New Sun if he came from the=20
future most likely after the New Sun?

-Jonas & Miles: what's the connection? Is Miles the personality from whose=20
biological spare parts Jonas was reconstructed after his ship=20
crashed?

Lasrach


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