(urth) Wall of Nessus

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Wed Jun 16 04:24:04 PDT 2010


On 6/16/2010 12:47 AM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
> And here's the quote, which was referenced earlier...
>
> "...just as that smallest and uppermost sail was an entire continent of silver, compared to which the mighty Wall of Nessus, a few leagues in height and a few thousand long, might have been the tumbledown fence of a sheepfold..." (Urth of the New Sun, Chap. XIV "The End of the Universe")

And yet, Severian was able to cross this continent within a shift worth 
of air, as I said to IIRC Roy the last time this came around. There's 
just no consistent detail on the size of the Wall.


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