(urth) "My father's mounted guard"

[Duncan Truter]

he reveals in UOTNS that he's not just Severian and Thecla, but
equally the eunuch autarch and all of his predecessors. maybe there's
someone else here other than Severian or Thecla?

Duncan


> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:02:18 +0000
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>>But why have those two memories in particular become entwined? Neither
>>knew the other as a child, neither played in the other's play places,
>>they probably weren't even toddlers at the same time.
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> I suppose it's because of stream of consciousness, symbol association.
> He's got her memory from the corpse eating, and because he can't forget, her memories just mingle in with his.  There are other moments where he slips into Thecla mode, but it doesn't usually screw with the subject/object structure of the sentence.
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> As a narrative device, it's obviously problematic, but tasty.