a lurker asks a question

Steve McCann · 01 Oct 2008, 20:47 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: steve2mccann at gmail.com (Steve McCann)
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:47:57 -0600
Subject: (urth) a lurker asks a question
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It seems that the only way graven could be important here is if the Alzabo
was a beast engineered to afford the transference of past lives.
-s

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote:

>
> Here's Wolfe messing with us again.
>
> Of course it's not "graven" that's the key, at least not to anyone but
> Severian.  It's the holographic nature of this memory storage device, and
> the fact that the analeptic alzabo lets you eat a tiny part of someone's
> brain and then subsume his or her memories and personality.
>
> Adam
>
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