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[Paul B]

Hahaha, no, the Russian psychologist Luria about his mnemonist subject S.
The day a kabbalist can say something meaningful about facial recognition
will be an interesting day indeed.

On 7/20/07, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>
> Is this Isaac Luria the Spanish Qabalist you are talking about?
>
>
> .
>
>
> > 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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