Severian's family tree

don doggett · 24 Aug 2006, 01:42 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:42:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Severian's family tree
In-Reply-To: <000c01c6c6da$f681a6e0$443ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>
Message-ID: <20060824014245.15574.qmail at web32412.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Even if b sharp is correct in his interpretation, Ymar is a more likely  candidate for the shared memory  than Thecla, as his childhood is  definitively established in the citadel.

  Don

"Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:  b sharp wrote:
>(I spent an hour last night trying to re-find that plural childhood
>statement in Urth but couldn't. Am I delusional? Help!)

The passage you refer to is on page 284, chapter XL, of URTH. It is one of
those that can be, evidently, interpreted more than one way.

I  read it this way: "Childhoods" refers to the set of memories Severian
retains. They are, respectively, his own in the Citadel, Thecla's at the
villa, and Appian's in the village.

-Roy

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