Yes. The supporting evidence after the bit you quite applies to
individual "landers" that have been converted to towers,
landers/spaceships that were at rest on a regular old space port. The
Citadel is a collection of towers and walls, not a monolithic construct
studded with other ships.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:thalassocrat@nym.hush.com">thalassocrat@nym.hush.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:thalassocrat@nym.hush.com">
thalassocrat@nym.hush.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>On Sat, 06 May 2006 14:16:34 +1000 b sharp
<br><<a href="mailto:bsharporflat@hotmail.com">bsharporflat@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>Well, interesting. Roy's reference to Urth XXXV was illuminating<br>>actually<br>>in that an officer tells Severian he is being taken, "To the old
<br>>port. One<br>>of the hulks there has been fitted up to hold prisoners". So<br>>perhaps the<br>>Citadel is constructed of more than one old ship. But spaceship<br>>it is, as<br>>evidence by these other passages:
<br><snippety><br><br>Actually, I think it is very clear that the individual "towers" in<br>the Citadel are spaceships. The Citadel itself isn't.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List
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