The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

brunians at brunians.org · 07 Jul 2010, 20:04 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:04:06 -0400
Subject: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by
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Why do you assume that his personality is artificially resurrected?

My take on this is he is dead in one parallel World, and resurrected in
another which includes a dead body that is identical with his old one.

Is a line parallel to itself?

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> Well, I don't know that Severian was always already artificial--I know
> that
> at one point or another in the narrative his personality is artificially
> resurrected.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:15 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I think my "Severian-is-Inire" theory is getting short shrift here.
>> This
>>> means Severian is also a robot, of course.
>>>
>>
>> What's your definition of "robot"? We do know he's artificial, right?
>>
>> u+16b9
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