memory of Seawrack

maa32 · 19 Mar 2002, 17:30 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) memory of Seawrack
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:30:23 -0700
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Roy gave this passage:

"Every time I remembered something that happened there, I would
think of something that's happened since I've been with you, some little
thing or something you said, and put it there instead."

This is the passage I was referring to: she is able to place memories in ot=
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places and times.  What is the "there"?  It is the past, underwater life sh=
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lived ... she is saying she can place events that happen with Horn in her=20
past, and he can do it,too.  In any case, that is an ambiguous there that=20
seems to mean a time as well as a place (and I don't think it refers only t=
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her memory.)

William Ansley said something about that being a scrubbing brush?! Why woul=
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it climb up a tree?  If it's a soft brown underbrush,it will be right next =
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a tree right?  Why would a hair brush run up a tree? How is there no basis =
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further discussion?  I don't understand what you are saying.  Besides, the=20
leaf sprouting stuff is a foreshadowing of the vile intelligence of the ave=
rn,=20
obviously a sentient plant that knows Severian is there and wants to kill h=
im.
 I don't think my recollection was that faulty ... are you saying that it w=
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a hairbrush?!

Marc

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