What's So Great About Ushas?

Jeff Wilson · 07 Jun 2008, 03:01 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:01:25 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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Matthew Keeley wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lhaygood at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Given Sev's... lack of fidelity to the Increate's honest truth...
>     how much credence should we give to his stories of sexual profligacy?
> 
> 
> Well, if Sev were making up his sexual encounters, surely he would have 
> said that he slept with Agia? Plus Sev does mention some embarrassing 
> aspects of his sex life - like the way Valeria finds another man after 
> Sev runs off to bring the New Sun.

This doesn't strike me as embarassing, and Severian seems to get a bit 
of a vicarious thrill from imagining their coupling.

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

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