The Severian Behind Curtain #3

brunians at brunians.org · 18 Jun 2008, 19:12 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:12:57 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3
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Ambrose Bierce wrote a great short story on this theme, one of his truly
remarkable Civil War stories.

This spy was hanged, the rope broke, he fell into a river, fought his way
out and back home, was reunited with his sweetheart......

This spy was hanged.




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> 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.
>
> 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)
> Blogging at TexasBestGrok!
>
> --- 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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