Baldanders' dream

Gerry Quinn · 19 Aug 2014, 13:26 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:26:51 +0100
Subject: (urth) Baldanders' dream
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On 19/08/2014 14:14, Marc Aramini wrote:
> We all know how sev's dream of the little boy with a sword fighting 
> the wooden man with a cudgel parallels what happens in the story, 
> including flooding and the breaking of terminus est in a fight with 
> Baldanders, but Baldanders has a dream, too - of caverns below with 
> stone teeth dripping blood - of arms dismembered found on sanded paths 
> and shaking chains in the dark, and attributes this to Severian being 
> next to him.
>
> Sounds like what sleeps in the mines at saltus waking up. Perhaps 
> Severian brings this thing to life, too.
>
I'd interpret it as references to torture and state executions.

- Gerry Quinn

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