Wolfe; it hurts!

Seth Lombardi · 11 Jul 2003, 04:35 · from urth-v0307.mbox · original

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From: "Seth Lombardi" <sethlombardi at hotmail.com>
Subject: (urth) Wolfe; it hurts!
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:35:15 -0500
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Two questions that might be sort of remedial:

First, if I'm not mistaken, Severian makes reference to having _thousands_=20
of personalities to draw from after becoming Autarch. Now, seeing as how my=20
Lexicon Urthus tells me there are have been far less than a thousand known=20
Autarchs, where does this legion come from? Are they somehow the result of=20
Thecla's previous meals, and I just missed it?

Second, and I KNOW this has been debated before so just feel free to ignore=20
it if it's redundant, what the HECK is going on with Merryn at the end of=20
the Book of the Short Sun? Even ignoring the reference to her being other=20
than human, why does Severian seemingly deny knowledge of a sister when=20
confronted with the fact that he has the name of a twin in BOTNS, but=20
acknowledges to SilkHorn that she is his sister at the end of BOSS? Could i=
t=20
be that the lil' Severian that SilkHorn meets is actually one of the=20
alternate unsuccessful versions? Or perhaps a further refinement?
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"Two faces are alike; neither is funny by itself, but side by side their=20
likeness makes us laugh" -Pascal

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