absurd time anchor

Here are two absurd theories that attempt to account for the time travel to that particular point in Urth's history where Silk can meet Severian as a young man. Here is one: that Severian is actually going back with them to be placed in the tomb he will one day lie in - part of Scylla is Severian, who is ACTUALLY the dark spot floating next to the boat in both worlds (as the Vanished Person Swimmer who comes up on Horn's boat)- and perhaps he is folded into himself in the past of Urth and this explains why Severian always had some presentiment of his future from the very beginning. Of course, this only accouts for Severian's presence on Blue in the last two visits to Urth, not in the first case with Rigolio. Or perhaps when he goes back he joins up with Scylla to rest inside Oreb. But it does account for his statement that he will end up in that tomb, which we have never seen actuated. The other is that Severian is a vortex of time - a vivimancer, who attracts anyone with the ability to cross time (like the green man or Ossipago, et al.) Or the affinity between Malrubius and Silk could serve as that anchor. I need to re-read the texts again. I will find a link the next time through. Marc Aramini --