Severian's Family. What the text shows...

Ryan Dunn · 22 Dec 2010, 20:14 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: ryan at liftingfaces.com (Ryan Dunn)
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:14:41 -0500
Subject: (urth) Severian's Family. What the text shows...
In-Reply-To: <B9E3817E-51FD-4F47-BE87-B825BAF55C62 at butcherbaker.org>
References: <BC0652B2-AA45-4AA8-9B96-DCF58B121710 at liftingfaces.com>
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	<C8F0EEE6-A554-4EA0-935A-3AB653874246 at liftingfaces.com>
	<B9E3817E-51FD-4F47-BE87-B825BAF55C62 at butcherbaker.org>
Message-ID: <755FF8A3-5A91-42F6-99BE-537EAA001A4E at liftingfaces.com>


On Dec 22, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Son of Witz wrote:

> Ryan, what you lay out is, I believe, the standard reading most of us have. Jame's idea is sorta from the wilderness.  I think it is interesting, but it will take a lot to convince me that the situation  is other than how you describe.


I figured the common interpretation was as I described, but sometimes enough time and a reliance on collective unconscious can call things into question, so I felt I should cite the text and comment on the interpretation directly as a reminder.

...ryan

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