Urth Digest, Vol 75, Issue 7

António Pedro Marques · 07 Nov 2010, 20:47 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:47:54 +0000
Subject: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 75, Issue 7
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Andrew Mason wrote:
> Entonio wrote:
>
>>
>> I must be missing something. Isn't it generally accepted that Severian
>> paid several visits to that time period alone? He at least says he
>> likes to think some of the people who came to help him at the inn were
>> himself - or am I mixing things up?
>
> Well, yes, he says he _likes_ to think that, so we can't be sure it's
> true. But grant that Severian made other trips to that time; it's
> still unclear whether he did any conciliating on those trips.

My view regrding that is that he can't help conciliating, his powers are there.

> It's not
> as if when our Severian sees the other Severians at the inn they are
> all being feted as wonder-workers.

Knowing the episode, they might have opted to come in disguise and generally 
walking unnoticed at that particular time and place.

> Of course, it may be that they
> started working wonders after our Severian left. (If they had been
> working wonders before he arrived, wouldn't someone have done
> something to stop it? And would the arrival of our Severian have
> caused such a stir?)
>
> Bear in mind, though, that they must have been considerably older than
> our Severian (since the Apu-Punchau episode, which takes many years,
> happened in between) and that they would not have had the Claw. (I
> know the Claw doesn't really matter. But people _thought_ it
> mattered.)

Good point. It's unclear to me why people did think so.

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