(urth) Is Severian A Real Person?

[David Stockhoff]

I didn't mention Severian at all or even TBotNS, so I can't scruple to 
do one or the other.

Why do you scruple to read people's posts?


brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> What is a scruple, Stockhoff?
>
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>>> I recall another passage in another work, where the narrator says he
>>> often thinks he doesn't drink enough water. I enjoy these mundane
>>> observations.
>>>       
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>> I did no such thing.
>>
>> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>>     
>>> Still, you scruple to call the narrator Severian.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>
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>>>> I recall another passage in another work, where the narrator says he
>>>> often thinks he doesn't drink enough water. I enjoy these mundane
>>>> observations.
>>>>
>>>> Lee Berman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>> brunians- The only difference between Severian and you and I is that
>>>>>> he
>>>>>> has a
>>>>>> different Author
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I presume the Author of you and I is to be considered of an
>>>>> intelligence
>>>>> too vast,
>>>>> penetrating, universal, inhuman and mysterious to ever be comprehended
>>>>> by us.
>>>>>
>>>>> How true is that of the intelligence of the author of Severian?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Gurloes is a tragic and interesting figure.
>>>>>> He is father to Severian in a way that Palaemon is not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I agree. There are places in Wolfe's work where I am sure he is
>>>>> referring to his
>>>>> own wife and children in addition to his fictional characters. The
>>>>> part
>>>>> where he
>>>>> describes Master Gurloes as being tragic, a complex man trying to
>>>>> appear
>>>>> simple,
>>>>> someone who eats too much and not often enough, seems to be one of
>>>>> those
>>>>> sort of
>>>>> places.
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