(urth) Ship Citadel

[thalassocrat at nym.hush.com]

On Sat, 06 May 2006 14:16:34 +1000 b sharp 
<bsharporflat at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Well, interesting.  Roy's reference to Urth XXXV was illuminating 
>actually 
>in that an officer tells Severian he is being taken, "To the old 
>port.  One 
>of the hulks there has been fitted up to hold prisoners". So 
>perhaps the 
>Citadel is constructed of more than one old ship.  But spaceship 
>it is, as 
>evidence by these other passages:
<snippety>

Actually, I think it is very clear that the individual "towers" in 
the Citadel are spaceships. The Citadel itself isn't.