There's also a reference in UOTNS to the Beast Tower having originally been a "Zoetic Transport."<br><br>Macronaut<br><br><b><i>Duncan Truter <dtruter@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> there's a part where he compares his tower to other structures that<br>were not meant to fly (to paraphrase) in one of the first four<br>books... I can't remember :)<br><br>On 5/6/06, thalassocrat@nym.hush.com <thalassocrat@nym.hush.com> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On Sat, 06 May 2006 14:16:34 +1000 b sharp<br>> <bsharporflat@hotmail.com> 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<br>> To post, write urth@urth.net<br>> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net<br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write urth@urth.net<br>Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net<br></snippety></bsharporflat@hotmail.com></thalassocrat@nym.hush.com></blockquote><br><p>
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