Five Severians - Severian-as-clone

David Stockhoff · 21 Dec 2013, 04:43 · from 2013-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 23:43:06 -0500
Subject: (urth) Five Severians - Severian-as-clone
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On 12/20/2013 7:46 PM, Jeffery Wilson wrote:
>
> But while the mausoleum might have been inserted to symbolize the 
> succession (which does definitely end with Sev in the same flood that 
> slams the mausoleum door closed), I don't think anyone in the 
> Commonwealth would have literally built it with respect for the 
> persons of deceased Autarchs in mind, considering it's kind of chintzy 
> for the numerous untried ones to get their own Rushmores just the same. 

Well, considering the winner gets to be a god, it's not unreasonable to 
give them a bronze medal, so to speak. And perhaps it's for their own 
good to be interred someplace out of the way, though surely few 
Nessusites would give a damn either way. Inire could do it, as their 
friend and sponsor. But I think it's all unlikely.

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