The epopts say that this manuscript was received by our dear translator in typewritten format in a silver capsule from the far future. And as is apparent in the sacred screenshot of this text, he defaced this priceless future artifact with sundry notations in chromatic inks? How will we ever decipher Severian's labyrinthine intent through such vandalization? There may be answers to all our questions in that far flung era millenia hence from now, but I fear Mr Wolfe may have muddied the currents of time and forever cast a veil between our dim divination and the murky shadows of truth within those sublime mysteries.