The Two Coins...

Jeff Wilson · 13 Aug 2010, 20:50 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:50:04 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Two Coins...
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On 8/13/2010 2:51 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
> However, the possibility of it being the same coin still seems plausible. I base this on the staging of Severian at the end of Citadel turning both coins over in his hands. There's almost a wink to the camera, so-to-speak there, and there's also Severian stating he now walks the corridors of time, and he's not the first Severian.

If they were the same coin within a span of each other, wouldn't they 
implode?


I don't think Sev has both coins at once. He recovers Vodalus' coin 
shortly after his return to the Citadel, but Dr Talos gives him the 
other coin a decade later, and it's a bit odd that he would have the 
other immediately. His keen memory would let him compare them mentally 
as easily as physically, as he has noted many times in almost as direct 
language.

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