(urth) flying ship
Tony Ellis
tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com
Mon Dec 3 14:04:59 PST 2007
hartshorn wrote:
>matthew at calmeilles.co.uk writes:
>> What are people thinking when it says "fountain" here? An heraldic
fountain is a bit odd.
>The reference is surely to the Vatic fountain in the House Absolute (in
>which a ship appears when S casts in a coin) So I asssume it's that type of
>fountain.
The reference is surely to the White Fountain, that being the great
achievement of Severian's life and everything. :-)
I don't know what it looks like but as with the flying ship I don't
think it matters. It's what it symbolises that's significant.
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