Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

António Pedro Marques · 12 Aug 2010, 12:01 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:01:44 +0100
Subject: (urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod
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Lee Berman wrote (12-08-2010 12:52):
> After Tzadkiel tells Severian specifically that his race (not a cognate
> race) created Hierogrammates (...)

He says 'your own', then he says 'they'. To me that easily reads as 'your
cognates'. If it were really 'you, not your cognates', I'd expect him to say
'you' all along. But again I'm no anglo :)

It would be weird to say 'your cognate' where he says 'your own', even if he
meant 'your cognate'.

After all, it *is* explicitly said that there was a race cognate to
Severian's. Where does it enter the picture, if not by creating the
hierogrammates?

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