Silk and Malrubius

Gerry Quinn · 12 Sep 2013, 09:41 · from 2013-September.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:41:12 +0100
Subject: (urth) Silk and Malrubius
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From: Peter Sun Rogers

> Hi all, I just finished reading Return to the Whorl again and it
> struck me that Severian refers to Silkhorn's bird as Malrubius's
>  bird. This made me realize that many of the characteristics that
> Severian attributes to the ghost of Malrubius in Book of the New
>  Sun, echo the traits we know best of Silk quite strongly.

That's interesting, but I think the actual incident where Severian said the 
bird belonged to Malrubius was just a lie Severian told to get rid of the 
heavyset man (Gurloes?).  That said, when Horn put his hand on Gurloes 
shoulder, what did Gurloes see?

- Gerry Quinn

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