Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 173

James Wynn · 21 Dec 2010, 22:17 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:17:40 -0600
Subject: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 173
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>> Son of Witz-
>> All I'm saying is the potential exists for Severian to be Typhon's son
>> without cloning, and without needing to be Typhon's father.  I'm not
>> suggesting that this IS what happened. Just an idea that came to me that
>> seems to fit within the given limitations.
> Adam Thornton-
> Since we have time-travel and reincarnation, we could just take this to
> the logical conclusion and posit that everyone in UotNS--male, female,
> cacogen--is one incarnation or another of Severian.

That's not a logical conclusion by any stretch of what I've said or 
anyone I've read. Nor it is anything like what I've posited. By the same 
token, I could take your sarcasm to the "logical conclusion" and 
reductio ad absurdum suppose you are really saying "The New Sun" is 
about nothing but the affirmation of sadism or only about descriptions 
of pretty ponies .

>  From there it's only a short step to say that he's everyone in all Wolfe's
> stories. Well, except Mr. Million.  That'd be weird.

Carried to it's logical conclusion, you seem to be constantly only one 
short step away from saying something ridiculous.

u+16b9

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