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'Ridden Like Beats?' That Sounds Painful...

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Talarican26 Mar 2000, 23:28original as archived

<quote> ' The novelist [!] Gene Wolfe makes an identical, albeit lovelier, observation: We say, 'I will,' and 'I will not,' and imagine ourselves ...our own masters, whhen the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us, and we are ridden like beats, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves. Quick, those of you with Severian-like memory, where is the quote from? <unquote> I know! I know! BNS, Sword, XVII "The Challenge". Severian is explaining to us at length why he is describing in such detail the episode wherein he meets "the shopkeeper's sister" (Agia) and gets the serious hots for her. He suggests the above as a reason why Ymar got up and followed the dog in the story. Really confusing. No, I don't have Severian-like memory, just happened to have re-read that passage, researching more IAQ's.Whew! I feel an IAQ coming on already! (think if GW were to hear of THAT typo, he'd write it into a story somewhere?)

Daniel Fusch27 Mar 2000, 18:19original as archived

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I wonder...would that be beats as in radishes, or beats as in poets?

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From: "Talarican" <exultnttalarican at mindspring.com> Reply-To: urth at lists.best.com To: urth at lists.best.com Subject: (urth) 'Ridden Like Beats?' That Sounds Painful... Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 23:28:04 -0500 <quote> ' The novelist [!] Gene Wolfe makes an identical, albeit lovelier, observation: We say, 'I will,' and 'I will not,' and imagine ourselves ...our own masters, whhen the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us, and we are ridden like beats, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves. Quick, those of you with Severian-like memory, where is the quote from? <unquote> I know! I know! BNS, Sword, XVII "The Challenge". Severian is explaining to us at length why he is describing in such detail the episode wherein he meets "the shopkeeper's sister" (Agia) and gets the serious hots for her. He suggests the above as a reason why Ymar got up and followed the dog in the story. Really confusing. No, I don't have Severian-like memory, just happened to have re-read that passage, researching more IAQ's.Whew! I feel an IAQ coming on already! (think if GW were to hear of THAT typo, he'd write it into a story somewhere?) works

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