(urth) "My father's mounted guard"

[Jeff Wilson]

Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> John Watkins wrote:
>> Second, regardless of when Severian-the-character becomes threefold,
>> Severian-the-writer is threefold all along.  Now, presumably, he can
>> perfectly recall being just one person, or just two, but other
>> evidence suggests that he doesn't have perfect control of his
>> personae. Is there a point at which the old Autarch asserts himself?
> 
> After the fall on the Ship that killed Severian, URTH, Chapter IX, p-65:
> 
> "The old Autarch, who lived in my mind but seldom spoke, muttered through my
> swollen lips. '_Find another_....'"

I think John Watkins meant, and I am more interested in, is there a 
point where Old Autarch asserts himself over the _narrator_, like Thecla 
seems to have?


-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >