(urth) Thecla's fourth book

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

On 9/29/06, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:
> It seems to me that once the decision to
> write Book 5 was made, Wolfe was forced to flesh out to some degree what was
> present only skeletally in his mind. I think he found it necessary to make
> some changes to his original concept.
>
> One place where this is evident is the last line of CITADEL. Severian, just
> before leaving Urth for Yesod, wrote that he was writing in what would be
> "the last year of the old sun." That turned out not to be true. For whatever
> reason, in URTH Wolfe made life go on on Urth for another forty years before
> the coming of the New Sun and the flood.

True; but there is no way that Severian could have known that when he
finished writing his account. While I'm not arguing that Wolfe _did_ know,
if he did there would have been no reason for him not to end CITADEL in
exactly the same way.

Just pickin' nits like a good primate...
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