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  "thread": {
    "id": 1525,
    "subject": "Severian as Everyman & anti-hero",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-04-13T08:23:05+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-13T08:23:05+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0063@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jonathan Laidlow",
        "address": "laidlojm at hhs.bham.ac.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-13T08:23:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Severian as Everyman & anti-hero",
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          "text": "While I admit some of the symbolism suggests that Sev is some kind\nof everyman, its also worth remembering that he is always quite\nassertive of his own identity. Just came across this bit in 'Sword',\nchapter 27, 'On High Paths', where the discussion is as lofty as the \nmountains...\n\n'I believe rather that when I was alone i felt I had in some fashion \nlost my individuality; to the thrush and the rabbit I had been not \nSeverian, but Man. The many people who like to be utterly alone, and \nparticularly to be utterly alone in a wilderness, do so, I believe, \nbecause they enjoy playing that part. But I wanted to be a particular \nperson again, and so I sought the mirror of other persons, which \nwould show me that I was not as they were.'\n\nAnd shouldn't we remember Wolfe's description of Severian as a man in \nthe service of an evil profession trying to be good? \n\nJonathan\nVisit Ultan's Library - A Gene Wolfe web resource\nhttp://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/index.htm"
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