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Jonathan Post22 Sep 2011, 21:10as archived
Inn of Lost Loves
When the Inn is first mentioned in Shadow, it speaks of it being a place that, like many people in Severian's life, is no longer around. I finished New Sun and did not find anything that explained what happened to the Inn. What's up?
Jonathan Post22 Sep 2011, 21:11as archived
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In the beginning of the Inn of Lost Loves chapter in Shadow, it mentions that unlike the other locations in Severian's life, the Inn of Lost Loves is no longer around. What happened to it?
Gwern Branwen22 Sep 2011, 21:13as archived
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Jonathan Post <jonfpost at gmail.com> wrote: When the Inn is first mentioned in Shadow, it speaks of it being a place that, like many people in Severian's life, is no longer around. I finished New Sun and did not find anything that explained what happened to the Inn. What's up?
Destroyed by the floods brought by the New Sun, I always figured.
gwern http://www.gwern.net
Son of Witz22 Sep 2011, 21:13as archived
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well, I think it's a spoiler if you haven't read Urth of the New Sun. Have you?
Son of Witz Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Post wrote: > In the beginning of the Inn of Lost Loves chapter in Shadow, it mentions that unlike the other locations in Severian's life, the Inn of Lost Loves is no longer around. What happened to it? > _______________________________________________
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes22 Sep 2011, 21:23as archived
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Ummmm, not so much -- when Severian writes the BotNS, the events of UotNS haven't happened yet. I suspect that it just went out of business.
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Jonathan Post <jonfpost at gmail.com> wrote:
When the Inn is first mentioned in Shadow, it speaks of it being a place that, like many people in Severian's life, is no longer around. I finished New Sun and did not find anything that explained what happened to the Inn. What's up?
Destroyed by the floods brought by the New Sun, I always figured. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net _______________________________________________
Son of Witz22 Sep 2011, 21:25as archived
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yeah, you're probably right It probably serves as a simple symbolic device. All the lost loves.
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On Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: Ummmm, not so much -- when Severian writes the BotNS, the events of UotNS haven't happened yet. I suspect that it just went out of business. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com (mailto:gwern0 at gmail.com)> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Jonathan Post <jonfpost at gmail.com (mailto:jonfpost at gmail.com)> wrote:
When the Inn is first mentioned in Shadow, it speaks of it being a place that, like many people in Severian's life, is no longer around. I finished New Sun and did not find anything that explained what happened to the Inn. What's up?
Destroyed by the floods brought by the New Sun, I always figured. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net _______________________________________________
Gerry Quinn22 Sep 2011, 21:29as archived
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yeah, you're probably right It probably serves as a simple symbolic device. All the lost loves.
Any relation to the Room of Lost Loves belonging to the giant wizard in Wizard Knight, I wonder? - Gerry Quinn
Gerry Quinn22 Sep 2011, 21:29as archived
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yeah, you're probably right It probably serves as a simple symbolic device. All the lost loves.
Any relation to the Room of Lost Loves belonging to the giant wizard in Wizard Knight, I wonder? - Gerry Quinn
Jeff Wilson23 Sep 2011, 03:42as archived
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On 9/22/2011 4:23 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: Ummmm, not so much -- when Severian writes the BotNS, the events of UotNS haven't happened yet. I suspect that it just went out of business.
If it did, it may be due to business falling off after Sev outlaws dueling.
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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