resurrecting a 2002 thread that posits an alternative lineage for Sev

António Marques · 02 Oct 2014, 13:13 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Ant=C3=B3nio_Marques?=)
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:13:47 +0100
Subject: (urth) resurrecting a 2002 thread that posits an alternative
 lineage for Sev
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On 2 October 2014 13:37, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The first person style of narrative is a strong temptation for the reader
> to put him/herself into Severian's shoes and to think "he is like me" [...]
> So it is easy for the reader to follow along and also think of Severian as
> a normal human, though clearly he is not.


This is a very important point.
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