(urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/7/2010 8:41 AM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
>> On 12/6/2010 7:33 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, the epigraphs give it away---Severian has never heard of Kipling.
>>
>> But he has heard Kipling's work, however many times removed. The Boy
>> Called Frog is Mowgli from _The Jungle Book_; the verse could have held
>> its form better over the ages sufficient for the translator to recognize
>> it and give the original. The bible verse for Joseph's dream has
>> certainly survived.
>
> There's no doubt that literature from 'our' time has survived, in a
> disordered and fragmentary form, into Severian's.  Indeed one of the
> passages used as an epigraph - the Fitzgerald - is actually quoted in
> the text, I think by Barbatus or Famulimus. What is improbable is that
> the names of authors have survived.

It's not a problem, because GW knows who they are.

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