Sev's Deaths

Josh Geller · 09 Jul 2003, 15:38 · from urth-v0307.mbox · original

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From: Josh Geller <brunians at brunians.org>
Subject: Re: (urth) Sev's Deaths
Date: 09 Jul 2003 08:38:53 -0700
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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 07:28, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:

> There is definitely a body for "sailor Severian" on the ship Tzadkiel, and
> one for Apu-Punchau in the Age of Myth.  Apu-Punchau is clearly independe=
nt
> once the "narrative Severian" has moved on.  Based on this, there might
> well be an independent Conciliator who miraculously "survives" the blast =
at
> Mount Typhon at about that point where "narrative Severian" takes to the
> corridors of Time . . .  this becomes boggling because, just like the
> post-narrative Apu-Punchau, it means that we do not have all of their liv=
es
> and acts as direct witness -- they both go off and do other things, which
> Severian doesn't know about.  As I've called them before, they are
> "slivers," or maybe "sheddings" would be better.

Bifurcations.=20

This is all correct, as near as I can tell.



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