(urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??
Gerry Quinn
gerryq at indigo.ie
Mon Dec 6 13:01:03 PST 2010
From: "Ryan Dunn" <ryan at liftingfaces.com>
> Do we know whether Severian titled the chapters of his own tome? I had
> never thought of that.
It's a tricky question IMO. Logically you'd expect that Severian titled the
chapters, but somehow chapter titles don't feel like they are so strongly in
the narrator's voice. Still, I'm prepared to believe they are Severians.
Perhaps it doesn't tell us much anyway, as he wrote the book long afterwards
and presumably figured out who the boatman was talking about,
Even more problematic for me are the character lists at the start of the
Long and Short Sun books. Logically, again, these should have been written
by Horn, but I find it hard not to look for Gene Wolfe's voice there.
- Gerry Quinn
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