Severian on Lune?

Michael Andre-Driussi · 04 Jan 2002, 16:25 · from whorl-v0013.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Subject: (whorl) Severian on Lune?
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 08:25:05 -0800 <200201032146.g03LkgB62404 at lists1.ba.best.com>
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Hello there Andy Robertson,

Welcome aboard!  Thank you for getting permission to post the essay on your
website, and for posting the essay.  (And for telling us about it!)  It
seems to have happened so quickly--do you work for "Interzone"?

On Thursday you wrote:
>I am sure that if we knew the story of Severian's visit to Lune we would
>understand better.  But Wolfe has not written it down yet, so it hasn't
>happened, so even Wolfe does not know the answer.

Today you touched again on Severian and Lune when you wrote:
>I wish even more that we had seen that visit of Severian to Lune.

I confess I do not know what bit of text in THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN and/or
URTH OF THE NEW SUN you are referring to here, and I would like to find
out!  I know about the alluded adventure of Severian's year as an Ascian
slave, for example, but I do not know of any alluded visit to Lune by
Severian.

=3Dmantis=3D

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