(urth) a lurker asks a question

Paul B pb.stuff at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 15:45:00 PDT 2008


No, that's not factually accurate.  The other BotNS was likely written in
the Conciliator's time by Severian's fellow prisoner, and has avowedly been
lost by the time when Severian is an apprentice in the Citadel.

I like the catacomb explanation just fine personally, and I never had much
reason to want anything more from that chapter than the scenery it
presented.

Paul

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Duncan Truter <dtruter at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Is this maybe something to do with the fact that one of the books
> Severian picks up is The Book Of The New Sun (it is, isn't it?) this
> could be why he feels he's already dead: the book is a book of his
> life that he wrote, which for him hasn't happened yet but in the book
> it already has, and the book is there. This may be the book he recoils
> from later?
>
> Duncan
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