The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned byRudesind

David Stockhoff · 08 Jul 2010, 12:13 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:13:41 -0400
Subject: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut
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That was never the approach. The approach was to try to explain the 
passage in a way that added significance, that justified itself.

Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 06:01):
>
>> It is the same with my assertion that he told us Agia's skull hit the
>> stone with the sound of a hammer, despite her full head of hair. 
>> That, to
>> me, was not just colorful description. It was a clue about the nature of
>> her skull, and thus HER, and thus her affect on Severian, and thus her
>> effect on his journey, and the whole book for that matter.
>
> And that's why I think your reducing it to determining at all costs 
> whether
> she is a robot or not is not the correct approach.
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