{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5648", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 5648, "subject": "Urth Digest, Vol 71, Issue 41", "messages": 2, "voices": 2, "first": "2010-07-06T14:38:39+00:00", "last": "2010-07-06T22:46:41+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Tim O'Donnell", "address": "timodonn at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-07-06T14:38:39+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 71, Issue 41", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Borski would approve\n\n______\n\nDate: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 08:19:09 -0400\nFrom: John Watkins \nTo: The Urth Mailing List \nSubject: Re: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned\n by Rudesind\nMessage-ID:\n \nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\nWait a minute now. Severian goes out of his way to heal the girl in *Sword\nof the Lictor*. That was an unusual display of compassion/interest for\nSeverian, and we've only routinely seen him so interest in women for one\nreason. So Severian is himself Inire.\nAnd healing a young girl who was head/near-dying is pretty much a direct\nreference to the Talitha cumi incident. So Severian is Inire and Jesus as\nwell. And Lewis Carroll. (Note--Talitha cumi, or Talitha cum*aean*? The\npun is a bit too on-the-nose. Maybe the Cumaean is also the girl Severian\nraised, through time travel? Sure, one's a girl and one's a...snaky thing,\nbut given the Tzadkiel precedent and the abundance of masks I feel this is a\nvalid possibility.)\nNow, there was also an X-Files episode called Talitha Cumi, but unless Gene\nhimself is time-travelling (which I suppose we can't rule out, given\n*Peace*)\nI doubt it could have any connection to the Book of the New Sun, despite the\ncharacter who heals people miraculously, the concealed identities, the\nhidden aliens, and the missing family members. Actually, maybe I need to\ncheck *Peace *out again..." } ] }, { "message_id": "<4C33B251.70002@sky.com>", "from": { "name": "Jane Delawney", "address": "jane_delawney at sky.com" }, "date": "2010-07-06T22:46:41+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Borski (Was: Re: Urth Digest, Vol 71, Issue 41)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 06/07/10 15:38, Tim O'Donnell wrote:\nBorski would approve\n\n " }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Which is either a a recommendation or a warning. have to say I find \nquite a number of Borski's interpretations more than somewhat fanciful. \nWas intending to ask about this on list but Tim got in there ahead of me \n- making me wonder if there might be a 'consensus' regarding Borski ... \nif he's on this list I have missed him, Ohai Robert if you're out there, \nI have read your stuff with huge amounts of interest but also some \nskepticism!\n\nAs usual modifying the header because if I don't I will not receive my \npost on list or otherwise, stoopid ISP :)\n\njd" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "______\n\nDate: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 08:19:09 -0400\nFrom: John Watkins\nTo: The Urth Mailing List\nSubject: Re: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned\n by Rudesind\nMessage-ID:\n \nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\nWait a minute now. Severian goes out of his way to heal the girl in *Sword\nof the Lictor*. That was an unusual display of compassion/interest for\nSeverian, and we've only routinely seen him so interest in women for one\nreason. So Severian is himself Inire.\nAnd healing a young girl who was head/near-dying is pretty much a direct\nreference to the Talitha cumi incident. So Severian is Inire and Jesus as\nwell. And Lewis Carroll. (Note--Talitha cumi, or Talitha cum*aean*? The\npun is a bit too on-the-nose. Maybe the Cumaean is also the girl Severian\nraised, through time travel? Sure, one's a girl and one's a...snaky thing,\nbut given the Tzadkiel precedent and the abundance of masks I feel this is a\nvalid possibility.)\nNow, there was also an X-Files episode called Talitha Cumi, but unless Gene\nhimself is time-travelling (which I suppose we can't rule out, given\n*Peace*)\nI doubt it could have any connection to the Book of the New Sun, despite the\ncharacter who heals people miraculously, the concealed identities, the\nhidden aliens, and the missing family members. Actually, maybe I need to\ncheck *Peace *out again...\n\n \n\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }