Sleeping Baldanders

Paul B · 30 Dec 2008, 01:37 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: pb.stuff at gmail.com (Paul B)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:37:02 -0500
Subject: (urth) Sleeping Baldanders
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Incidentally, "strike off" can also mean "get going", as in "to strike off
on one's own".  Perhaps Baldanders is just telling Severian to leave him.

Paul

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:

> ,I had the same thought about striking off heads, then checked the book.
> Severian interprets Baldanders this way.
> but as Paul points out Severian is often pretty off base.  I think Wolfe
> does this as misdirection. we get a sort of decent 'explanation' for one of
> the four statements, but if he's referring to his headsman role,
> "You--strike off." would end with a question mark. no?
>
>
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