(urth) Padding

[Lee Berman]

Son o' Witz: "Like the man your friend talked about, most men think they make their homes for their families, but 
the fact is that they make both homes and families for themselves.”

 
>I love all the stories in BotNS and the story contest might be my favorites, even Loyal/17's. By contrast I
>never liked the poetry and songs in LOTR and usually skim or skip over them. In Halvard's story I best liked
>the words in the sound the fishermen hear as the gravel scraped their boat bottoms, "my wife, my children, 
>my children, my wife". I like Melito's and really like Foila's elegant story. Nice also that they provide some 
>guidance for the rules of shapeshifting, since the main text does not (until we get to Severian/Zak).