Pas, on disembarking: Howdy Neighbor

Alex David Groce · 12 Mar 2001, 14:20 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Pas, on disembarking: Howdy Neighbor
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:20:58
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<snipping Robert's Pas-as-neighbor arguments>

Fine and well, but you still haven't dealt with the fact that when
Severian meets Typhon in SWORD, Typhon doesn't remotely resemble a
Neighbor, in any way, form, or fashion.  Indeed, if he's a Neighbor,
the grafting of a human's head onto his shoulder seems unlikely in the
extreme.

If the only way to arrive at a set of answers in BOTSS is by
completely destroying continuity and consistency with BOTNS, my
opinion is that those can't be the right answers.

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