Merger

Jeff Wilson · 29 Jan 2011, 08:50 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:50:04 -0600
Subject: (urth) Merger
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On 1/28/2011 10:18 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
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>
>> Can someone hook me up with the story where Appian is named?
>
> The name of the story I think you are looking for is "The Cat".
>
>
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>> Jeff Wilson: It may be that they were looking for a candidate with suitable psionic
>> potential that they could then magnify.
>
> Toward the end of Citadel I think, Severian ponders that he seems to have revived Triskele
> before he received The Claw. He has two theories.
>
> 1. He will succeed in bringing the New Sun and such an awesome power of planetary resurrection
> can't help but echo backward in time and confer a small dose of it to younger Severian.
>
> 2. He will fail to bring the New Sun and be unmanned. But the hierogrammates will bestow upon
> him a nice parting gift to make up for his lost testicles and the gift of resurrection will
> be bestowed retroactively in time.

Would that not also undo the emasculation?

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

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