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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>Matt asks:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>>I love this
scene, but other than the need for Severian to get the books for Thecla,
</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>>I'm
wondering what the Point is.<FONT face=Arial size=2>..</FONT></FONT>What does
this chapter contribute to the story?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>...What am I missing? Surely there's more
to it than that.</DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When people mention to me that they feel something
is going on under the floorboards in this scene, I always direct them to this
clause:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"...quite suddenly I felt that he and I were dead,
and the darkness surrounding us was grave soil presing in about our
eyes..."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is something being declared here in a Lupean
way -- narratively or character development-wise -- but I'll be danged if I
know what it is.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>J</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=adeodatus43@yahoo.com href="mailto:adeodatus43@yahoo.com">Matt
Teel</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=urth@lists.urth.net
href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net">urth@lists.urth.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 29, 2008 10:34
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> (urth) a lurker asks a
question</DIV>
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<DIV>Hello all. I'm emerging from underneath my rock to ask a
question. </DIV>
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<DIV>I've read and re-read and re-re-read Book of the New Sun, and part
of the fun is figuring out how each chapter, each scene, contributes to
the whole. That's hardest with the earlier chapters, I find, and
particularly with Chapter VI: The Master of the Curators. </DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks.</DIV>
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<DIV>Matt</DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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