"My father's mounted guard"

Jeff Wilson · 14 Oct 2008, 16:55 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:55:22 -0500
Subject: (urth) "My father's mounted guard"
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Stanis?aw Bocian wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On 9 pa?dziernika 2008, Mark Millman wrote:
> 
> "I played again with pebbles in the court-
> yard beside the fallen curtain wall, as
> Thecla dodged the hooves of my father's
> mounted guard."
> 
> That sentence is perfectly constructed. Severian has in his head
> memories both his own and of Thecla. He begins by recalling his own childhood (I played again with pebbles in the court-
> yard beside the fallen curtain wall), which transits seamlessly into
> memories of Thecla's childhood, but still recalled from the point of
> view of Severian  (as Thecla dodged the hooves). Finally, it
>  transits into Thecla's memory  seen from her point of view
> (of my father's mounted guard). This shows that the artificial
> memories have become mingled with his own.

But why have those two memories in particular become entwined? Neither 
knew the other as a child, neither played in the other's play places, 
they probably weren't even toddlers at the same time.

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

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