(urth) Bee Wrangler

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

Jumping in to be a pain in the ass.

On 8/29/06, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:
> If the Old Autarch had been a boy
> when he was trained, and went to Yesod as a relatively young man a
> quarter-century before Paeon told him about Sev, then he would not
> have been particularly old when he made his lament about not
> thinking his replacement would be "so soon".

It ain't necessarily so, Roy. In fact ... I think you've just pried open
an important argument for the pro-Appian camp.

How long was the Predecessor gone?

More accurately: how much time passed for him, and how much
time passed on Urth, between his departure and his return? We
know that Severian's journey didn't take too much subjective time,
but he returned years after his departure.

Such considerations make it plausible to me that the Autarch
has reigned longer than it seems, looking at him, he could possibly
have done.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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