Severian as a student

John Smith · 05 Jun 2008, 01:11 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: jsmith2627 at att.net (John Smith)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 18:11:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Severian as a student
In-Reply-To: <20080604223528.AA95011803C at mailserver5.hushmail.com>
Message-ID: <775142.22820.qm at web83715.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>


It's interesting that the people of Urth find nothing
strange about using human skin as a fabric.   Does
this simply reflect the poverty of a society that is
running out of energy and resources?   Or is it more
of a comment on  the immorality of a society that
treats people as things?


--- thalassocrat at nym.hush.com wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:53:22 +1000 Tony Ellis 
> <tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >
> >For what it's worth, speaking as a copy editor I
> have absolutely 
> >no
> >problem believing Wolfe could have made that
> mistake. Writers make 
> 
> >all
> >sorts of mistakes, and one I regularly see is the
> accidental
> >substitution of one word for another that
> apparently sparked some 
> >of
> >the same synapses in the author's brain.
> 
> Also for what it's worth, recall the old boatman
> talking about the 
> corpses submerged in the botanic gardens. He says
> the waters turn 
> their skin to leather - not like a boot-heel, but
> like a lady's 
> glove. Doeskin is/was I think a common material for
> gloves.
> 
> Probably doesn't mean anything, but maybe some
> context for an 
> accidental substitution by Wolfe.
> 
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