(urth) Severian's sex Life

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 15:47:30 PDT 2007


On 4/25/07, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> According to Wolfe, Severian doesn't actually lie.

Meaning only that he never says something that directly contradicts the
truth, as he sees it, at the moment he says it.

I'm inclined to believe that *most* of Severian's tales of his sexploits are
"fact-based." However, that he mentions intimacy with Thecla *only*
after he begins carrying her around in his head strikes me as more than
a bit suspicious; I do not know exactly what's going on here, but it
seems significant. Perhaps both of them had intense fantasies about
each other and, as her memories integrated into his, they began to take
on a feeling of having actually happened? Or...?

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