Wind god

Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org · 06 Nov 2010, 04:39 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org)
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 21:39:22 -0700
Subject: (urth) Wind god
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On Nov 5, 2010, at 11:32 AM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Additionally, sometimes Wolfe has his unreliable narrator offer an explanation that is probably untrue. Or is only true in a very narrow sense, when the Author is pointing to much more.

I think this is the rule rather than the exception with Severian.
I think that his musings on his altered course in time are spectacularly "wrong," but they are right in pointing out that his life HAS been shaped by forces aware or of the future.

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