(urth) Fairies and Wolfe

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Mon, 4/2/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

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> 
> Exactly my thought(s). BTNS seems soaked in Hellenistic
> philosophy. I wanted to be cautious on the gnostic aspect
> here, but it's not far off.
> 
> I've wondered if Severian's account owes any debt to the
> memoirs of 
> Marcus Aurelius, which I've never read. Has anyone here?
> 
> I

A while ago.  eh, they are quoted sometimes directly in the Chrasmological Writings so I'm sure Wolfe has read them, but I don't think they relate much to the actual cosmology of New Sun except insofar as all ancient epistemology might contribute to it.