Severian on trial

Tony Ellis · 21 Mar 2005, 12:22 · from 2005-March.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Mon Mar 21 12:22:28 2005
Subject: (urth) Re: Severian on trial
In-Reply-To: <20050321141357.21F9B84D41 at che.dreamhost.com>
Message-ID: <000001c52e53$ac2de7a0$6401a8c0@TONYSPC>

Crush wrote:
>It seemed to me that we were on the verge of comparing Severian to
>Ozymandias in "The Watchman" graphic novel (a profoundly fascist work).
I
>don't think they are at all similar.

True. Ozymandias chose to sacrifice the few to save the many. Severian
does it the other way around. :-)

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