the Epitome

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 11 Apr 2005, 12:38 · from 2005-April.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Mon Apr 11 12:38:21 2005
Subject: (urth) the Epitome
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I think not enough is being done to ask what is meant by 
the Hieros in describing Severian as the "epitome." To my
mind it means that he is the most fully human in some sense.

--Dan'l

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