<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:08 AM, Steve McCann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">A quick run through the chapter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>The Master of the Curators</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in SotT and I'm not seeing this citation, even though I thought I had remembered it as well. Was the book in Baldanders castle? But I did run across this passage:</span></blockquote></div><br><div>I don't think it's in _Master of the Curators_.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not convinced it's even in the New Sun books, actually.</div><div><br></div><div>But the passage you quoted:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">"I opened the book at random and read, '... by which means a picture might be graven with such skill that the whole of it, should it be destroyed, might be recreated from a small part, and that small part might be any part.'<br>I suppose it was the word <i>graven</i> that suggested to me the events I had witnessed on the night I had received my chrisos." pg. 46 S&C</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Here's Wolfe messing with us again.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course it's not "graven" that's the key, at least not to anyone but Severian. It's the holographic nature of this memory storage device, and the fact that the analeptic alzabo lets you eat a tiny part of someone's brain and then subsume his or her memories and personality.</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></body></html>