Urth Digest, Vol 56, Issue 37

Jordon Flato · 16 Apr 2009, 18:09 · from 2009-April.txt.gz

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From: jordonflato at gmail.com (Jordon Flato)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:09:02 -0700
Subject: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 56, Issue 37
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Having just read through both LS and SS, one of my favorite aspects, minor
though it may be, is that in LS we have Horns voice, which we think is Silk,
and in SS we have Silks voice, which we think is Horns.  They tell each
others stories, and the style of their narrative voice greatly affects the
telling.  There is something so resonant in this for me.  Just a brilliant
stroke.

I'm still on the fence about the Nettle/Vadsig/Hide voice of the Whorl
narrative in RttW.

Also, I guess in fact in LS we don't JUST have horns voice, but Nettle's
too.  Which makes here the only common narrative voice between the two
works.  (Holy spirit?)

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:04 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> Doesn't the style of narration depend entirely on the narrator and his/her
> circumstances? That is, how else should the narrator of LS have narrated?
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> That scene-by scene style, without introspection, was certainly a shift
> after Severian's many-layered and discursive account. But Silk doesn't
> narrate LS.
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> And we didn't need LS to consist entirely of dramatic
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