Digest urth.v019.n011

Peter Westlake · 07 Oct 1998, 09:14 · from urth-v0019.mbox · original

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From: Peter Westlake <peter at harlequin.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re:  Digest urth.v019.n011
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 10:14:56 +0100
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At 23:45 1998-10-06 -0500, you wrote:
>   Is there a FAQ?  I think we need one for some important plot=20
>points such as "Who is Severian's mother?"  and "Who is Dorcas?"
>and "Who is Severian's Father?"
>
>
>   A completely unrelated point:  Do you believe the wounded soldier in
>CotA is really Jonas returned?  Severian thinks so, but that doesn't=20
>mean that he's right.  I just never found Sev's reasoning very=20
>persuasive.

I'm very taken with prion's theory that Severian is recreating people
from memory, rather like the creation of an aquastor. See his post (from
the account "mary whalen") on 1998-08-01. Under this theory Severian would
be "rewriting" the soldier's mind to match his (S's) memory of Jonas, which
would account for it taking such a long time. Read the original mail; it's
very good.

Spectacled Bear.

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