(urth) a lurker asks a question

[Matthew Keeley]

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> On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:19 AM, James Wynn wrote:
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> > "...quite suddenly I felt that he and I were dead, and the darkness
> > surrounding us was grave soil presing in about our eyes..."
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> > There is something being declared here in a Lupean way --
> > narratively or character development-wise -- but I'll be danged if I
> > know what it is.
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> Somewhere--and I don't remember where--Severian also recoils when
> seeing a particular book, because it seems to him like he's suddenly
> run across a rotting corpse.  Can someone point that citation out?  I
> think that ties in here somewhere too.
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> Adam
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Isn't there at least one book bound in human skin in The Book of the New
Sun? (In The Claw of the Conciliator, I think) Perhaps Sev's Conciliatory
powers would allow him to (subconsciously) realize the nature of such a book
in Ultan's library?

-Matt
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