Time, Not Cloning

Jeff Wilson · 02 Aug 2013, 19:09 · from 2013-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:09:06 -0500
Subject: (urth) Time, Not Cloning
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On Fri, August 2, 2013 08:06, Lee Berman wrote:
>>Jeff Wilson: BTW, I cannot find "khaibit" nor "kaibit" at OED.com
>
> I borrowed my definition from this old research document:
> http://www.masseiana.org/on_the_shade.htm
> It is a few paragraphs down from the top. Interestingly, it mentions
> eidolons also.

I thought part of the conceit was that the translator of BOTNS did not
invent any words, but did use obscure ones that had previously been used
in English before.


> So if I am granted poetic license to interpret the contents of the
> coffins, I'd say that in
> addition to Severian, they contain Number Five, Weer, Horn, maybe
> Latro....I think they
> symbolize the inclusion of Gene Wolfe avatars within his stories. (I
> include Horn because I
> can imagine Wolfe acknowledging that his future works will continue to
> contain Wolfe avatars).


Wolfe's said his insertion into BOTNS is Cyby.


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

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