(urth) Is Severian A Real Person?

[David Stockhoff]

I don't answer a silly question just because it's asked in a manner that 
is relatively civil, compared to most of that person's questions.

Call it a scruple.

brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> You don't know what a scruple is.
>
> Else you would have answered my more or less civil question.
>
> What character in the Book of the New Sun do you identify with and why?
>
> .
>
>
>   
>> I could lend you some scruples, but you'd waste them.
>>
>> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>>     
>>> Because I enjoy fucking with weasels.
>>>
>>> What's your forfeit to be?
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> 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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