a lurker asks a question

Steve McCann · 01 Oct 2008, 06:08 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: steve2mccann at gmail.com (Steve McCann)
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:08:43 -0600
Subject: (urth) a lurker asks a question
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A quick run through the chapter *The Master of the Curators* in SotT and I'm
not seeing this citation, even though I thought I had remembered it as well.
Was the book in Baldanders castle? But I did run across this passage:

"I opened the book at random and read, '... by which means a picture might
be graven with such skill that the whole of it, should it be destroyed,
might be recreated from a small part, and that small part might be any
part.'
I suppose it was the word *graven* that suggested to me the events I had
witnessed on the night I had received my chrisos."  pg. 46 S&C

I'm not finding "chrisos" in the OED or via google, but the context reminds
me strongly of the eucharist. Before this scene Ultan spoke of his time
waiting for his master to die, so he could take his place as Librarian. All
of this foreshadows Sevs becoming the Autarch, so my guess is that the
function of the chapter is put this possibility in play.
-s

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

>
> Somewhere--and I don't remember where--Severian also recoils when seeing a
>> particular book, because it seems to him like he's suddenly run across a
>> rotting corpse.  Can someone point that citation out?  I think that ties in
>> here somewhere too.
>>
>
> I'd like the citation as well, please.
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