Multiple Severian Disorder
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 May 1998
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Dan'l Danehy Oakes — 12 May 1998, 14:58

While we can count the various resurrected Severians (Severiim?
Severiani?) as different, they're all part of the same "release"
-- I'd call them Sev2.1, Sev2.2, etc., as opposed to Sev1, the
un-White-Fountained version.  And (I repeat) the most reasonable
explanation of _that_ "first Severian" is that he lived in an
"erased" timeline, one where the Hierodules et alia did not 
interfere in his life.  


On the other hand, I am in complete awe of the Severian-as-Archie
Andrews theory.  It explains so much.  Valeria, obviously, is
Sabrina, the Teen-Aged Witch.  Triskele is Hot Dog.  Dr. Talos
is, obviously, Mr. Wetherbee, while the Old Autarch is Pop of 
Pop's Soda Shoppe.

I clearly have wasted too much time on the religious aspects of
this series; it all seems so clear now...


--Roach

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