Five Severians - Severian-as-Clone

António Pedro Marques · 20 Dec 2013, 04:39 · from 2013-December.txt.gz

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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 04:39:45 +0000
Subject: (urth) Five Severians - Severian-as-Clone
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No dia 19/12/2013, ?s 13:47, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu:

> But where the Atrium is reached by traveling through an underworld, increasing the sense of temporal isolation, the mausoleum is a place Severian visits almost daily that seems well connected to the world by seasons and wildlife. It has a mood of sleepy stasis to it, but then it's Severian's "spirit home" in a way, where he has nothing to do but watch and wait. And of course he remembers everything he ever saw there.
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> The necropolis is after all guarded, though we see how poorly against a determined attack.

Yet, am I mistaken or no one else, besides Sev, ever drops by the mausoleum? Does any other character show any sign of knowing that the place even exists?

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