(urth) "Myfather's mountedguard"

[John Watkins]

It's my impression that the Severian and Thecla personalities and
memories are far more prominent.  Neither the old Autarch nor his
predecessors had either the Claw, which made Thecla "alive" in
Severian, nor Severian's eidetic memory, so the old Autarch's memories
of Autarchs past would be dim and imperfect compared to Severian's
Thecla-memories.

Certainly Thecla asserts herself in Severian in ways that the others
do not, or rather, certainly Severian records Thecla's moments of
self-assertion in ways he does not record such moments for others.
But that could be in keeping with his general reticense about the old
Autarch, whose name Severian surely knew.

On 10/14/08, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Duncan Truter [mailto:dtruter at gmail.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 02:20 PM
> >To: urth at lists.urth.net
> >Subject: Re: (urth) "My father's mounted guard"
> >
> >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
>
>
> Sure, it would seem that everyone he absorbed, via Thecla or Autarch is capable of coloring his memory.  I'm curious if anyone has identified other instances of this.
>
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