(urth) Is Severian A Real Person?

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sun Aug 1 14:54:29 PDT 2010


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?
>
> .
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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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