<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div><br>On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Marc Aramini <<a href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">marcaramini@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div><br>witz, I thought you might like this description of a sketch I had on my 9th grade english text book way back in ... 1991 or something. Too bad I don't have a picture of it. What attracted me about the new sun books, and always had, was the fascinating religious aspects, and these were obvious to me even as a child, as the description of my sketch will show.</div>
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<div>At the top were some of my favorite lyrics from my church songs - remember me, when you come into your kingdom ... and I will raise you up on the last day ... etc.</div>
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<div>Around these lyrics an enormous sun with angry dark flares around it, and the quotation</div>
<div>"a thousand ages in thy sight, are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night, before the rising sun." Below, Masked and cloaked Severian has one hand upraised with his sword pointing up and forward, and in his other hand the glowing claw.</div>
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<div>But the light of the sun turns the shadow of the sword into a looming cross at the bottom of the page. Had that on my book for school all year, since they made us cover the school books with thick paper, probably from a grocery bag (think I read Shadow for the first time in the sixth grade or thereabouts). Thought you might appreciate that on a kids high school book. But the church songs always instantly brought to mind Sev.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>That sounds excellent. Man, I have no idea what I would have made of New Sun in high school, much less 6th grade. A book I think New Sun must have inspired, Imagica by Clive Barker, was my favorite back then and I was drawing pictures of it's Quasi-Christ cum Autarch. Perhaps this is what lead me away from the blasphemous drawings I enjoyed doing then. I had a drawing of a second coming of Christ and posse bearing machine guns. It was pretty tame, all things considered.</div><div>Thanks for sharing. I wish it still existed to see.</div><div>~witz</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></body></html>