(urth) Is Severian A Real Person?

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sun Aug 1 11:13:06 PDT 2010


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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