(urth) Sleeping Baldanders
brunians at brunians.org
brunians at brunians.org
Mon Dec 29 05:39:00 PST 2008
> I'm wondering about the short section in Chapter XV ("Baldanders"), in
> which Baldanders seems to be talking in his sleep. Severian is half awake
> and responding to what he thinks Baldanders is saying. Any thoughts on
> what's really going on there?
>
> Baldanders says four things: (1) Never." (2) "Baldanders." (3)
> "You--strike off." (4) "Tomorrow, then."
>
> The scene is obviously meant to accomplish something, but I can't figure
> out what. Severian's answers simply recap things that have already been
> established, but I can't believe Wolfe just wanted to make sure we knew
> that Severian had been tossed out of the guild and is headed toward Thrax,
> or whatever. So, any ideas?
He wanted to make sure we knew that Baldanders knew.
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