Short Story 110: The Cat

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 27 Aug 2014, 03:21 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 22:21:03 -0500
Subject: (urth) Short Story 110: The Cat
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On 8/26/2014 12:45 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> In Thecla's story, she and her thirteen year old friend Domnina play
> between Father Inire's two great mirrors, and move candelabra to
> opposite ends of them.

I believe there are a couple of mistakes here.

"'I was thirteen, Severian, and I had a friend named Domnina....'"

Thecla was thirteen, Domnina's age is not given.

"'You must take my word for it that at one place in the Hall of Meaning 
there are two mirrors.'"

The mirrors here are never referred to as Father Inire's. Indeed, 
Domnina's sighting of a liminal being in them surprises him and his demo 
takes place at the many-mirrored chamber,  so it is unlikely the two 
mirrors in the Hall of Meaning are specially associated with Inire any 
more than any other feature of the House Absolute is.

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

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