S&S vs. SF in BotNS

Jeff Wilson · 23 Dec 2011, 04:42 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:42:17 -0600
Subject: (urth) S&S vs. SF in BotNS
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On 12/22/2011 3:01 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> Jeff Wilson: Severian perceives that he is being zapped by the twin hemispheres of
>> Decuman's brain in a way that illuminates him but also imposes a particular depressive
>> emotion that saps his will to continue in the contest. This is apparently direct brain
>> to brain coersion.
>
> But IIRC, Decuman is humming and chanting the whole time. I think this might be the
> "hypnotism" Wolfe mentions in Jerry's quote.

Doubtless it serves several purposes, like keeping the subject's 
attention on the coercer, coordinating different parts of the coercer's 
brain, keeping the other sorcerers informed of his progress, etc.

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

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