(urth) Is Severian A Real Person?

[brunians at brunians.org]

Ah! You do in fact know what a scruple is.

I thought that you had gone stupid on me.

Why do you scruple to call the narrator Severian in that passage?

.


> 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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