(urth) Hut/Ultan's Library/Catherine
James Wynn
crushtv at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 07:24:53 PDT 2009
>> "...and quite suddenly I felt that he and I were dead..."
> but I think it just the general creepiness that give him thoughts
> of being dead and buried; indeed the 3rd paragraph before the
> end of the chapter includes "To the upper levels of that place
> I returned several times, but I never again entered that tomblike cellar,
> or ever wished to."
Although I realize some people have physical reactions to this sort of
thing, a minor extension of Don Dogget's clone theory would provide a
narrative (rather than a purely metaphoric --and to my mind desperate)
explanation for Severian's morbid sensation.
J.
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