Time, Not Cloning

Jeff Wilson · 01 Aug 2013, 18:33 · from 2013-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:33:51 -0500
Subject: (urth) Time, Not Cloning
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On Thu, August 1, 2013 13:12, Lee Berman wrote:
> Perhaps
> by invoking the "khaibit" concept, Wolfe is only saying, "hey, when the
> ancients told
> stories about Osiris or Zeus or Adam and Eve, it was their way of
> describing what
> we call cloning". (or, if we include Tzadkiel, gemmulation budding)


BTW, I cannot find "khaibit" nor "kaibit" at OED.com.


> Since Severian talks at length about the hypothetical "first Severian" I
> have to
> guess we really are reading a story about the second one. I find that two
> of five
> coffins being open in Severian's mausoleum to be a literary (at least)
> symbol of
> that. So if you ask when was (our) Severian first resurrected, I'd say at
> birth.
> How that jibes with Ouen and Catherine is something of a mystery.


If the coffins are connected to the succession of Severians, who or what
is in the other two closed coffins?

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

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