started my second read of New Sun

brunians at brunians.org · 05 May 2010, 16:40 · from 2010-May.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:40:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) started my second read of New Sun
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Palaemon.

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> It seems unlikely to me that the Guild would have set up a test for
> Severian where someone was killed needlessly; they abstain from unjust
> and unnecessary violence.  I think perhaps Gurloes has some idea of
> Severian's greater destiny (b/c it is Gurloes that gives him TE and
> sends him out into the world with the hint that he might one day
> return) and might be in on some plot to put Severian on the Phoenix
> Throne, but... and this is the big problem with this theory... if you
> were hinging the hopes of your entire planet on surreptitiously
> guiding a young man to the throne so that he might travel to Yesod and
> complete the trial, why expose him to the dangers inherent in the
> journey itself?
>
> One could argue that Severian's life is a series of Dickensian
> coincidences machinated by powers beyond his knowledge to fulfill a
> certain role, but if those powers are as truly omnipotent as such a
> scheme would suggest, why the rigmarole of the New Sun at all?
>
> yvt,
> LH
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