Here a piece of a scene from book of the long sun, Chenille in the tunnels i would like to create some other pieces like this.

Mint, Marble and Rose are here! Now we are approaching to completing the whole main cast of the Long Sun, i think we miss Horn and Nettle, Dr Crane, Remora and Quetzal, Willet, Hammerstone and Incus, the Ayutamento and then the Triunvingantis.

In the 1984 interview with Chris Merrick ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMsq9noxBOg&t=3316s ) Wolfe said he was "supposed to be working on a libretto" for an opera by composer/SF author Somtow Sucharitkul. This opera was based on The Death of Doctor Island and was to be called Doctor Island's Death. (This is per Springfield Independent Dec. 27, 1984. https://www.virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=SFI19841227.1.10&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- )

In the 1985 MiniCon program book lists this opera as "In Progress"

In progress : Doctor Island's Death, an opera with text by Gene Wolfe; and the updated version of Star Maker. https://fanac.org/conpubs/Minicon/Minicon%2018/Program%20Book.pdf

Alas, Somtow didn't produce any operas in the 1980s, presumably due to the composition block that the news article says led him to pivot to writing science fiction (published as SP Somtow). So, the music for this libretto was never composed.

Gene Wolfe however said he never suffered from writer's block as a review of his publication timeline confirms.

This implies that somewhere out there is an uncollected libretto by Gene Wolfe. Could this be in the papers donated to Northern Illinois University? Or was this libretto published and it escaped my notice?

EDIT: Somtow wrote in praise of Sword of the Lictor in Dec 1981 'Fantasy Newsletter'. www.enotes.com/topics/gene-rodman-wolfe/criticism/somtow-sucharitkul

When I read BotNS while often the symbolism or analogies were lost on me, I usually understood was Severian was doing or happening to him moment to moment.

But for the last third of Exodus, I did not understand what was happening at all, or what Silk was upset about.

I know that Auk and crew left (and went to green?) and that Horn and crew left and went to Blue - even though they were originally going to green but the ship overruled them.

Other than that, I was pretty lost, the time jumps with no context, and Silk constantly assuming we would know what he was talking about - it all went over my head.

I've heard some people say they prefer Long Sun over New Sun, and for the first three books I could understand where they were coming from (even if I enjoyed New Sun more personally), but man, I just don't know what happened!

I have not listened to the Alzabo Soup episodes past Chapter 5 of Long Sun yet, so perhaps that will help clear things up for me.

I also was not clear where the famous typo near the end was in relation to Mint and Marble and Rose.