tBotNS 1:2 Severian - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun

The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 2, "Severian"

Where in Urth is Nessus? Does Severian really die in the Gyoll? Why does this chapter have two sections? Errata from Ch. 1 and "Curiositas Urthus" featuring a name well known to Urth List subscribers.

Links

Alice K Turner explains her theory that Nessus is Alexandria, Egypt here:
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0001/0002.shtml
And defends it here:
http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0004/0251.shtml

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