(urth) Is Severian A Real Person?

[brunians at brunians.org]

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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