More lies

Michael Straight · 09 Nov 1999, 08:16 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) More lies
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:16:10
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

> Here are some occasions where Sev lied to the reader; that, or his perfect
> memory failed him. The day after his elevation he saw the order for Thecl=
a's
> excruciation to begin on the following day. (I, XII)
>=20
> "I could not sleep after that. Instead I went (for the last time, though I
> did not know it) to the tomb in which I had played as a boy."

I don't think "for the last time" here necessarily means "the last time
ever in my whole life."  In context it just means that he didn't know at
the time that he was about to leave his home and would no longer be able
to visit the tomb.=20

-Rostrum


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