Spiritual and ecological succession

Andrew Mason · 13 Jan 2011, 21:24 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:24:49 +0000
Subject: (urth) Spiritual and ecological succession
Message-ID: <AANLkTiki0G-=dam+b+zC-b8gg4zYmZcMRNZ2PrRRKMz7 at mail.gmail.com>

Andrew Mason wrote:

> Severian does tend to distinguish rather firmly between the time when
> he was a ?boy (including the opening part of SOTT) and the time when
> he was a man, even though only a year or so seems to have passed ?I do
> sometimes wonder if another year or two went by without his noticing.

Footnote to this: Severian says towards the end that he revived
Triskele two years before he had the Claw, though a simple reading of
the text would suggest it was at most a year and a half. This could
just be a slip, by either Severian or Wolfe, but another possibility
occurs to me. Triskele's chapter is strangely self-contained. Could it
be that it did not happen at the place where it comes in the narrative
- between Sev's meeting with Vodalus and his visit to the library -
but rather during an earlier winter?

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