(urth) Boatman as Inire

Roy C. Lackey rclackey at stic.net
Mon Aug 9 10:47:58 PDT 2010


Jeff Wilson quoted and wrote:
> > Come on. That exchange took place in Apu-Punchau's tomb *after* Severian
had
> > brought the new sun and Ushas was an established fact. The game was
over;
> > there was no longer any point in deceptions.
>
> Was there a point in resurrecting him in the first place?

Apparently so, because Sev was warned not to destroy the revived corpse. Sev
thought that the revived-corpse version of Apu that he left behind is the
Apu who came to the seance in the stone town and got zapped. (URTH, LI, 363)

-Roy




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