(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sun Jul 4 12:59:20 PDT 2010


Exactly. That's kind of what I meant: "your" being like "that old" or 
similar---a folksy storytelling manner of speaking. I'm not sure what 
part of speech it would be---maybe an intensifying article.

António Pedro Marques wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote:
>> Or he could be any hierodule or alien.Or he may know who Severian is,
>> and his special connection to it. Or he could simply be speaking in
>> vernacular.
>
> Or the possessive may mean he's pointing to it for the benefit of 
> Severian, since he (Rudesind) knowns all thee is to know about the 
> picture anyway.
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