Malrubius' ghost

Chris · 18 Jul 2003, 06:09 · from urth-v0307.mbox · original

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From: "Chris" <rasputin_ at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Malrubius' ghost
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:09:35 +0000
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Interesting quote, and goes along with something I'd wondered myself.

But looking at it from the flip side, do you think it might be possible=20
that, when Severian refers to the ghost of Malrubius, he's actually using a=20
sort of euphemism? To be more direct, perhaps it was Silk astral travelling=20
again, and since Severian had opted not to explain Silk in the first place=20
he filled in a name to substitute in the ghost sequences?

Civet

>Just one more thing that I forgot in our recent discussion of whether or=20
>not
>Silk could pass for Malrubius in the astral travel scenes of Return to the
>Whorl:
>
>in the comments for The Book of the Short Sun when it was released for the
>SFBC in one volume, Wolfe said a little bit about it, urging readers to=20
>accept
>the astral travel and perhaps to discover the secret of "Malrubius' ghost"=
.=20
>  I
>obviously threw that catalog away a long time ago, but someone else should
>remember it as well.  I say this is further reason to think that Silk in
>astral form certainly resembles Malrubius, and that the evidence is not
>circumstantial.
>
>Marc Aramini
>
>
>
>--

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