The Severian Behind Curtain #3

Fred Kiesche · 18 Jun 2008, 18:15 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: recursive_loop at yahoo.com (Fred Kiesche)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:15:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3
In-Reply-To: <14189.67.142.130.28.1213555196.squirrel at brunians.org>
Message-ID: <123936.52650.qm at web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

Funny you should float that theory...In the "Paladin of Shadows" series by John Ringo (military-oriented "technothriller"), the main character foils multiple terrorist attacks, destroys a sex-trade ring, starts a military fiefdom in Georgia (the country), has lots of wild sex, etc. Over several books.
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Early on in the first book, he spots a kidnapping by some terrorists and attempts to foil it by climbing into the wheel wheel of a jumbo jet. So Ringo has said the action that follows might have happened...or it might all be the delusions of the dying main character and when the plane lands in Syria, they're going to be mighty puzzled by the frozen dead guy in the wheel well.

F.P. Kiesche III
"When you send a man out with a gun, you create a policymaker. When his ass is on the line,?he will do whatever he needs to do...And if the implications of that bothers you, the time to do something about it is before you decide to send him out."?(David Drake, Caught in the Crossfire)
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--- On Sun, 6/15/08, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

From: brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org>
Subject: Re: (urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 2:39 PM

Severian drowns in the river Gyoll.

Everything else that happens in BOTNS and UOTNS are hallucinations that he
undergoes while dying.

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