(urth) A new mystery ...

[Lane Haygood]

Maybe all Severian has is the memory of the pain and thinks it's real.  He
is self-reporting all of this; there's no objective record as to whether he
actually had the injuries or not.

Lane

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:

> It just ain't the same.
> >
> >-Roy
>
>
> Hey Roy,
> no argument that they're not the same stories.
> I'll spare you my nuance to that though, I think I've typed about it enough
> for now.
>
>
> Regarding the Aquastor body Tzadkiel makes.
> I'm not sure this reading is necessary.
> No one else finds that dead Severian.  Gunnie says Zak found him, and since
> Zak is Tzadk, he would have been the one to 'hide' the body.
> BUT, when he is awakened by Gunnie and Zak, he still has all the other
> injuries he sustained in the fall/fight with Sideru in the spiracle, EXCEPT
> the compound fractured leg. His arm is still burned and he is in agony.
> Why would his brand new body have some parts 'fixed' and others not? why
> the pain?
>
> Perhaps the Severian that closes the eyes of the Dead Severian is the Form
> Severian closing the eyes of the Instance of Severian before that body is
> fixed.  a possibility, I guess, but its' a bit out of sequence. He sees
> Tzadkiel clap and has a vision of a new face, then he's back in the airshaft
> with the body. I would expect them reversed if this idea is true.
>
> but the idea leads me to some other questions I'll compartmentalize in
> another post.
>
> ~witz
>
>
>
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