(urth) Is Severian A Real Person?

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Sun Aug 1 11:19:31 PDT 2010


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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