Vodalus and Severian continued

Andrew Mason · 29 Sep 2010, 13:07 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:07:46 +0100
Subject: (urth) Vodalus and Severian continued
Message-ID: <AANLkTimnFeL8=qmkthKBr_zw3xufSLCLiB6Dw2oHEaAf at mail.gmail.com>

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Jeff Wilson wrote:

>> I'd always assumed that Hildegrin was visiting the Garden of Endless
>> Sleep, while Severian and Agia were there, to look for another such
>> victim, suggesting it was quite a regular thing.
>
> Not to look for a victim/donor, thought it might be a place to stash a
> recently deceased known sympathizer, in a pickle-barrel sort of way.
>

That's another possibility, certainly. It still supports the thought
it's a quite a regular thing. anyway.

> I'm a bit skeptical that the bog would keep the memories intact for very
> long, but if they survive being roasted they ought to survive the bog.

I'd assume they would be taken out fairly quickly, just as those
retrieved from the necropolis are, I think, 'resurrected' soon after
their burial. This, by the way, would rather suggest he's _not_
looking for Dorcas.

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