The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

James Wynn · 07 Jul 2010, 19:30 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:30:22 -0500
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On 7/7/2010 2:19 PM, John Watkins wrote:
> Well, I don't know that Severian was always already artificial

Why is that necessary? What if --as seems likely to me-- Severian 
drowned in the Gyoll at the beginning of SotT? That would mean that for 
almost every event in which Severian takes part (with the exception of 
early childhood memories) he was an artificial presence.

Actually my original point was to show that debating a theory with snark 
isn't always so easy in a Wolfe novel.

> --I know that at one point or another in the narrative his personality 
> is artificially resurrected.

Is that an important distinction? Wouldn't the extrapolation of this be 
that Pas and Scylla were not artificial persons?

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