The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

Roy C. Lackey · 07 Jul 2010, 19:04 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:04:26 -0500
Subject: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by
	Rudesind
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Lee Berman quoted and wrote:
> >David Stockhoff- Any thoughts on the question of Fechin having painted
Inire
> >as a little boy, thus proving that he is Rudesind, who was painted by
Fechin
> >as a little boy?
>
> I don't think I'd ever hope to prove something but rather find
suggestions. And
> in that scenario, Rudesind says a great artist visited him, when he was a
boy
> artist, to see his work. "It was Fechin, Fechin himself!". Was Fechin, the
> great artist or the boy?

Since you have claimed that both Rudesind and Fechin are really Inire, it
doesn't really matter, does it? They are all the same person, and I guess
the part about being a boy is just a lie. And I guess the old man at
Casdoe's cabin lied about being a boyhood friend of Fechin's, too. Because,
in the interest of pedantry, I feel obliged to point out that Inire had been
vizier to all the autarchs, going back at least a thousand years to Ymar.
Maybe Inire had a protracted boyhood and only grew up and got old in the
last seventy years or so.

-Roy

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