Five Severians -- Severian-as-Clone

Jeffery Wilson · 19 Dec 2013, 03:09 · from 2013-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:09:54 -0600
Subject: (urth) Five Severians -- Severian-as-Clone
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On 12/18/2013 7:14 AM, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
> At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I just don't see why such clones would be stored in such a place (but maybe those aren't coffins?

It's a fine place to store dead clones. Three closed coffins = three 
dead clones, or three timeline dopplegangers paradoxed away. Two empties 
would suggest Sev the narrator has one more clone left somewhere, or one 
more timeline alteration yet to be made before the Yesodis are satisfied.


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

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