Thea and Thecla

Jeff Wilson · 09 Jan 2011, 18:00 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:00:39 -0600
Subject: (urth) Thea and Thecla
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On 1/9/2011 11:31 AM, Jordon Flato wrote:
> but we never meet that Severian...the one raised in the tower, and
> before Thecla's memories...we only ever hear from autarch Severian
> writing it all down.   Sometimes he tries to mask what he knows to
> simulate his old ignorance, but it doesn.t always work.

I'm not sure it's never, since we've identified passages when Thecla and 
the old Autarch take over the first person for a moment. It's possible 
that un-mixed Severian bobs up in the soup on occasion. I''ll see if I 
can locate where Severian not only reflects on but acts because of 
"common observation" , pre-nosh.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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