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

Lee Berman · 09 Feb 2011, 23:11 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 18:11:21 -0500
Subject: (urth) miles, jonas, and that sailor guy,
	and sea/interplanetary vessels
Message-ID: <SNT123-W20269BDB9B8A531B493C6DCFED0 at phx.gbl>

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

I really don't know. But if I have to make a guess, based on the text, I'd have to
guess that like aquastors/eidolons Triskele and Malrubius, the persona/spirit of Jonas 
was created from Severian's own memory of him.

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