Jeff Wilson wrote:<br><div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><pre>Severian's remarks in the ms indicate he has no worries that anyone else <br>
will ever see the book he is writing. I suppose that could be a ruse to <br>fool spies, but then the entire Book is suspect as a tissue of lies and <br>we might as well give up now.</pre></blockquote><div><br>I think that reference was to the copy he sealed in a lead casket and lauched into space/time. There was another copy, the one he sent to Master Ultan's library. Well-connected people like Thecla could request books from there, so it could certainly be read.<br>
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