Why so much synchronicity?

Adam Thornton · 20 Aug 2006, 05:35 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:35:14 -0700
Subject: (urth) Why so much synchronicity?
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On Aug 19, 2006, at 2:16 PM, junk06 at amalar.com wrote:

> I'm rereading (started with BOTNS this time, then back to Shadow).
> Why? It smells of ham handedness, as someone mentioned recently.  
> Anyone
> have theories as to why so many coincidences fill the series?

Perhaps Severian has been back and forth through time and  
reincarnated so many different ways that, actually, Every Single  
Person On Urth is one Severian or another.

We are all Severian!

Adam

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