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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=crushtv@gmail.com
href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">James Wynn</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> Q: How did the wildlife of Blue become so alien?<BR>> A:
Because the evolved on Verthandi in the very distant past before it <BR>>
lost its atmosphere.</DIV>
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<DIV>Not that I believe a word of this, but why is everyone talking about
Verthandi? If Blue is somehow a planet of the Solar System it surely has
to be Skuld. The surface gravity of Verthandi is only a third of Urth’s,
and somebody would have noticed. <BR><BR>> > The man in the colorless
cloak with a stiff birdlike gait sure seems like a </DIV>
<DIV>> > familiar figure, doesn't he? Then again, the blue glow and
the spider like </DIV>
<DIV>> > fellow on Blue seemed familiar too, but in the interview Wolfe
said that it </DIV>
<DIV>> > was not urth/ushas, 2 urths, or 2 ushas so I don't know what to
say.<BR><BR>> Well, the cloak looks familiar. I'm not sure about the gait.
But <BR>> Severian is a Time Traveler. Why would he not be found in the
distant past?</DIV>
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<DIV>“Colourless” sounds like an odd description of a black cloak anyway.
I know people go on about black and white not being colours, but Severian
definitly calls fuligin a colour. To me, “colourless” implies grey or
washed out, or even transparent like a plastic mac.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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