Severian as a student

Jeff Wilson · 01 Jun 2008, 08:01 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:01:23 -0500
Subject: (urth) Severian as a student
In-Reply-To: <000a01c8c3b3$2095a720$01ce4a0c at rclackey.stic.net>
References: <000a01c8c3b3$2095a720$01ce4a0c at rclackey.stic.net>
Message-ID: <48425753.70809 at io.com>

Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> Most of the mistakes of memory are about things that are not, in themselves,
> worth lying about. It doesn't really matter whether the pouch Dorcas sewed
> was made of doeskin or manskin, or if Roche or Drotte said they saw the
> pikes on the second page of the story.

> Sev is an admitted liar, but his worst deceptions are his omissions.

If you combine these concepts, the Roche or Drotte mistake could be a 
redaction error where for example a fourth boy's presence was elided by 
inconsistently assigning his dialogue to another, making it as 
lie-worthy as anything.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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