Botanical Gardens

Chris · 15 Apr 2003, 05:42 · from urth-v0304.mbox · original

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From: "Chris" <rasputin_ at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Botanical Gardens
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 05:42:56 +0000
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I also was intrigued by the couple in the Gardens, but I can't place them.

As far as the symmetry, it's not that I discount it, it's just that this is=20
one of those rare cases where the author's intention can't be ignored.=20
Specifically, at the time that book was written, it was meant to be a 4 boo=
k=20
series. Even after the series was done, Wolfe was against writing another=20
novel because to his mind the series was done.

Symmetry as a matter of design interests me, but Wolfe's books already offe=
r=20
so much in the way of abstract and mysterious connections that I can't brin=
g=20
myself to start bringing accidental factors into it as well.

Chris (still unable to choose a proper name)

>Also, on an unrelated subject, those readers disinterested in symmetry will
>probably not care, but it may prove a small detail to add to the endless
>arguments about the ties between Severian, Typhon, and Silk:  the event=20
>where
>Severian encounters the corpse of Typhon on the mountain, the boy Severian=20
>is
>killed, and Severian speaks with and assassinates the revived Typhon takes
>place in the exact middle of the cycle of five books that make up the whole
>New Sun series.  Since I have a writer's interest in symmetry, this=20
>interests
>me; but I understand if it seems less than relevant to the rest of you.
>Still, such a connective between the New Sun and the Long and Short Sun
>books, in such a central position, seems relevant to me.
>
>But who can say?
>
>Joshua the Falchion
>
>--

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