interview questions

Lee Berman · 03 Jan 2011, 17:05 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:05:59 -0500
Subject: (urth) interview questions
Message-ID: <SNT123-W14A8D36D9610B47972FA1BCF070 at phx.gbl>

>Jerry Friedman: And yet, as I said, he wrote "Under Hill", where the gun specifically isn't 
>fired.  I wonder whether he was thinking about the Chekhov quotation.

You'll have to help me out with these. I am unfamiliar.

>In any case, I disagree with you and him.  He's justifying his decision to have 
>Silkhorn meet Severian, one of his few decisions that to my taste were totally lame.

It wouldn't be totally lame if Green = Urth, heh. In a sense I think there is some sort
of connection which makes the Urth-Whorl-Short Sun connections of greater importance than
they appear on the surface. 

My own pet peeve for lameness is making Pas/Typhon's double heads such open knowledge on
the Whorl when it was so secret on Urth. But even there I think I understand the thematic
reasons for making it so.

>There's no accounting for taste.   A conclusion that SOME people had been replaced would satisfy me 
>just fine.

This I agree with. That conclusion doesn't suit me and I manipulate my interpretation of the story
accordingly. My only plea would be that more people admit their own prejudices in interpretation
of the stories and avoid wrapping one's self in a cloak of certitude based on "evidence", each piece of
which is subject to individual interpretation.

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