Boatman as Inire

Jeff Wilson · 09 Aug 2010, 22:30 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:30:25 -0500
Subject: (urth) Boatman as Inire
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On 8/9/2010 12:47 PM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> Jeff Wilson quoted and wrote:
>>> Come on. That exchange took place in Apu-Punchau's tomb *after* Severian
> had
>>> brought the new sun and Ushas was an established fact. The game was
> over;
>>> there was no longer any point in deceptions.
>>
>> Was there a point in resurrecting him in the first place?
>
> Apparently so, because Sev was warned not to destroy the revived corpse. Sev
> thought that the revived-corpse version of Apu that he left behind is the
> Apu who came to the seance in the stone town and got zapped. (URTH, LI, 363)

I mean, what is the point of resurrecting Sev as an eidolon so that he 
could return to the future? There's no danger of the corpse going anywhere.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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