(urth) Weekly blog links

[David Stockhoff]

True. And Oreb's comic relief tends to highlight that melancholia, at least in retrospect.

Much of the tone in BotNS comes from Severian himself, of course, and he experienced everything he narrates. The later narrators are, for me, harder to get a grip on, especially since they are less settled in terms of identity. Also, Nettle narrates from a distant (and unexalted) perspective.

------------------------------

Message: 4
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:12:04 -0400
From: John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Weekly blog links
To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
Message-ID:
	<93d4039f0904150512q4842eaf4w5ea9b8cad32defbb at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Oreb remains funny throughout, but I agree--there's little humor in Short
Sun.  It's a melancholy work.



---
avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
Virus Database (VPS): 090415-0, 04/15/2009
Tested on: 4/15/2009 10:04:47 AM
avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software.
http://www.avast.com