(urth) And Another:

Paul B pb.stuff at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 09:20:58 PDT 2007


Really.  That's pretty interesting - is that documented somewhere?

On 7/20/07, David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Paul B wrote:
>
> > Well, Severian's attitude to details is famously bad  - he tends to
> include,
> > interpret and omit things liberally.  It's furthermore not too
> surprising
> > that he mis-identified the old man some years later as he grew more
> shrunken
> > and old since Severian's memory is provably faulty at
> times.  Interestingly,
> > he even mis-identifies himself on the funerary bronze in Shadow, and in
> his
> > similarity to Ouen, which in Citadel was described as uncanny.
>
> I think that's a detail from Luria's description of his mnemonist, who
> IIRC
> had difficulty associating a profile view and frontal view of the same
> person.
>
> David Duffy.
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Paul Borochin
PhD student, Fuqua School
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