(urth) Severian as a student

[Jeff Wilson]

Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> Most of the mistakes of memory are about things that are not, in themselves,
> worth lying about. It doesn't really matter whether the pouch Dorcas sewed
> was made of doeskin or manskin, or if Roche or Drotte said they saw the
> pikes on the second page of the story.

> Sev is an admitted liar, but his worst deceptions are his omissions.

If you combine these concepts, the Roche or Drotte mistake could be a 
redaction error where for example a fourth boy's presence was elided by 
inconsistently assigning his dialogue to another, making it as 
lie-worthy as anything.


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