(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 161, Issue 7

[Lee Pretorius]

Keith have you joined the Facebook group? Marc Aramini is on there as well
so it’s very nice chats all day every day.

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 at 16:11, <urth-request at lists.urth.net> wrote:

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> From: Keith Sadler <kthsdlr at gmail.com>
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> Hello all! This is my first post on this mailing list, and thus I apologize
> in advance if I've made an error, or offered a silly question. I've been
> following and reading through for a while.
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> Is there anything to be read into Severian sharing a name with Severian of
> Gabala? I'm currently half through 'In Green's Jungles' in terms of the
> Solar Cycle series and I've read through a number of his other books.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severian_of_Gabala
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> One rather unhelpful friend suggested that Gene Wolfe was writing in a
> pre-Google era and thus it might be coincidence? I think I can be fairly
> certain that there is very little happenstance that Gene Wolfe offers in
> his worlds.
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> Keith Sadler
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> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 01:06:04 +0100
> From: Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl>
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> Hi Keith,
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> Probably you will make a lot of errors as everybody does who tries to
> make sense of Wolfes books. They have an impenetrable character almost
> esoteric so don't worry about it.
>
> There is not much to connect between the two Severians except the name.
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> Op 18-1-2018 om 00:16 schreef Keith Sadler:
> > Hello all! This is my first post on this mailing list, and thus I
> > apologize in advance if I've made an error, or offered a silly
> > question. I've been following and reading through for a while.
> >
> > Is there anything to be read into Severian sharing a name with
> > Severian of Gabala? I'm currently half through 'In Green's Jungles' in
> > terms of the Solar Cycle series and I've read through a number of his
> > other books.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severian_of_Gabala
> >
> > One rather unhelpful friend suggested that Gene Wolfe was writing in a
> > pre-Google era and thus it might be coincidence? I think I can be
> > fairly certain that there is very little happenstance that Gene Wolfe
> > offers in his worlds.
> > --
> > Keith Sadler
> > about.me/keithsadler
> > Keith Sadler on about.me
> >
> > <http://about.me/keithsadler>
> >
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