miles, jonas, and that sailor guy, and sea/interplanetary vessels

Jeff Wilson · 09 Feb 2011, 22:22 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:22:04 -0600
Subject: (urth) miles, jonas, and that sailor guy,
 and sea/interplanetary vessels
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On 2/9/2011 12:21 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>
>> Marc Aramini: I've never been really sold on the idea that the soldier Miles or whatever
>> is really a returned Jonas
>
> Well, I think it is assumed that the soldier was dead, but Severian reanimated him, in part
> with his memory of his friend Jonas, whom he missed. Sorta like the reanimating Thecla in his own
> mind. Miles was never a sailor; he only talks that way because of Jonas inside him. And Jonas is
> motivated because he thinks he might have a shot at Jolenta in this handsome, blond guy he
> now inhabits. Jonas departs when Severian tells him that Jolenta is dead.

Where does Severian retrieve Jonas' spirit from? Does the tin-drover 
body fall over dead in some distant galaxy when he does this?

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

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