(urth) Hut/Ultan's Library/Catherine

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Wed Apr 8 01:33:35 PDT 2009


James Wynn wrote:
>>> "...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.

Can you refresh my memory on that, please?

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