Truth in Fiction

Lee Berman · 08 Jan 2011, 14:49 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 09:49:02 -0500
Subject: (urth) Truth in Fiction
Message-ID: <SNT123-W40D1D1EEE291BDF1839317CF0C0 at phx.gbl>



>Craig just wrote a cogent and convincing post on how ambiguity functions 
>in BOTNS and how its presence is critical to appreciating the story. 
>He's plainly right. If Severian's status (there's an adjective here I'm 
>missing and can't think of: cosmological? theological?) were as clear as 
>it is sometimes summarized, we would not be here discussing it 30 years 
>after publication.

No argument with Craig from me. Could the missing adjective be "supernatural"?

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