(urth) Is Severian A Real Person?

[brunians at brunians.org]

Because I enjoy fucking with weasels.

What's your forfeit to be?

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> 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?
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>
>>
>>> I did no such thing.
>>>
>>> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>>>
>>>> Still, you scruple to call the narrator Severian.
>>>>
>>>> Why?
>>>>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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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