Back, after the Urth of the New Sun (2nd attepmt)

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 02 Apr 2005, 22:40 · from 2005-April.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Sat Apr  2 22:40:04 2005
Subject: (urth) Back, after the Urth of the New Sun (2nd attepmt)
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On Apr 2, 2005 10:19 PM, Andrew Kertesz <zsetrek_a at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ugh - stupid Hotmail - I'll try this again.

Actually, the first one went through. Don't worry about it.

> During the first half (the events on the ship and in Yesod), I was worried
> that it would be nothing more than a superfluous add-on to the other books.
> I should have had more faith. It ended up enriching the whole series (and
> also making it that much harder to understand and decypher).

Yeah ... My initial reaction when reading it lo these many years ago was,
"He's giving away the stuff I had to work to figure out! No fair!" but then
he added soooo much more...

> Dan'l - I picked up the Arion reference, but only, I think, because you had
> mentioned that I should be on the look out for it. Is the underground
> creature in the Saltus mines somehow related to these three?

That's an excellent question. My own theory is that the thing in the
mines is either a Balrog or Shudde-M'ell. But I'm mostly joking.

--Dan'l

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