(urth) Hut/Ultan's Library/Catherine

[James Wynn]

>> "...and quite suddenly I felt that he and I were dead..."

> but I think it just the general creepiness that give him thoughts
> of being dead and buried; indeed the 3rd paragraph before the
> end of the chapter includes "To the upper levels of that place
> I returned several times, but I never again entered that tomblike cellar, 
> or ever wished to."

Although I realize some people have physical reactions to this sort of 
thing, a minor extension of Don Dogget's clone theory would provide a 
narrative (rather than a purely metaphoric --and to my mind desperate) 
explanation for Severian's morbid sensation.

J.