(urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3

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Yes, I believe that was its name.


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> Yep, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, IIRC. Made into a great short film,
> which was, again IIRC, used when "Twilight Zone" (the original) tried
> switching to a one hour format during one season.
>
>
> F.P. Kiesche III
> "When you send a man out with a gun, you create a policymaker. When his
> ass is on the line, he will do whatever he needs to do...And if the
> implications of that bothers you, the time to do something about it is
> before you decide to send him out." (David Drake, Caught in the Crossfire)
> Blogging at TexasBestGrok!
>
> --- On Wed, 6/18/08, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>
> From: brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org>
> Subject: Re: (urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3
> To: recursive_loop at yahoo.com, "The Urth Mailing List"
> <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 3:12 PM
>
> Ambrose Bierce wrote a great short story on this theme, one of his truly
> remarkable Civil War stories.
>
> This spy was hanged, the rope broke, he fell into a river, fought his way
> out and back home, was reunited with his sweetheart......
>
> This spy was hanged.
>
>
>
>
> .
>
>
>> Funny you should float that theory...In the "Paladin of Shadows"
> series by
>> John Ringo (military-oriented "technothriller"), the main
> character foils
>> multiple terrorist attacks, destroys a sex-trade ring, starts a military
>> fiefdom in Georgia (the country), has lots of wild sex, etc. Over
>> several
>> books.
>>
>> Early on in the first book, he spots a kidnapping by some terrorists and
>> attempts to foil it by climbing into the wheel wheel of a jumbo jet. So
>> Ringo has said the action that follows might have happened...or it might
>> all be the delusions of the dying main character and when the plane
>> lands
>> in Syria, they're going to be mighty puzzled by the frozen dead guy in
> the
>> wheel well.
>>
>>
>> F.P. Kiesche III
>> "When you send a man out with a gun, you create a policymaker. When
> his
>> ass is on the line, he will do whatever he needs to do...And if the
>> implications of that bothers you, the time to do something about it is
>> before you decide to send him out." (David Drake, Caught in the
> Crossfire)
>> Blogging at TexasBestGrok!
>>
>> --- On Sun, 6/15/08, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> From: brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 2:39 PM
>>
>> Severian drowns in the river Gyoll.
>>
>> Everything else that happens in BOTNS and UOTNS are hallucinations that
>> he
>> undergoes while dying.
>>
>>
>>
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