(urth) flying ship

[Tony Ellis]

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.