Five Severians - Severian-as-Clone

Jeff Wilson · 20 Dec 2013, 05:21 · from 2013-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 23:21:06 -0600
Subject: (urth) Five Severians - Severian-as-Clone
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I don't personally see how Severian would ever be a clone. He *is* an
aquastor duplicate for two stretches of URTH's narrative, as demonstrated
by the dead material bodies left behind. That could account for two of the
closed coffins, the third might be from his drowning/not drowning at the
opening of SHADOW. He records Juturna saving him, but perhaps she lifted
his clinically dead body from the murk into the light where the White
Fountain empowered his gift.

Aquastored - fall on Ship, killed by Stone Villagers

self-raised - avern duel and  earthquake in the citadel, possibly drowning
in Gyoll

please fill in any others, it's late here.

Also, the *family* mausoleum could be for his family members as well
(Dorcas, Ouen, etc) and the face on the mausoleum could be Ouen's or
another male relative's as well.

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

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