SEVERIAN AT THE PIT?

Bill Carmichael · 10 Nov 1999, 19:14 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: Bill Carmichael <bcarmichael1 at Home.com>
Subject: (whorl) SEVERIAN AT THE PIT?
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:14:34
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I agree with Tom Urash when he says:

>  I keep telling myself  this isn't plausible -  but, am I the only one
> getting a creepy feeling reading the above passage and remembering how
> Severian almost inevitably used the claw by holding it to the forehead?

I strongly concur, on both points! (a) it seems very implausible, and (b) t=
he similarity is striking, to say the least.  I read OBW in three days, and=
 apparently not carefully enough, because until the quote Tom that refers t=
o was cited in a previous message on this list, I'd forgotten (or never not=
iced) that this incident had even occurred.  To me it seems very much in ke=
eping with Wolfe's style to drop a hint like this in the midst of things.  =
"Like this" here meaning painfully obvious only after somebody else has poi=
nted out.

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