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

[Ryan Dunn]

So then Inire is a robot.

Hell, three of the few male "friends" to Severian, Talos, Jonas, and now Inire.

Genius! :)

...ryan


On Jul 7, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

> Lee Berman quoted and wrote:
>>> David Stockhoff- Any thoughts on the question of Fechin having painted
> Inire
>>> as a little boy, thus proving that he is Rudesind, who was painted by
> Fechin
>>> as a little boy?
>> 
>> I don't think I'd ever hope to prove something but rather find
> suggestions. And
>> in that scenario, Rudesind says a great artist visited him, when he was a
> boy
>> artist, to see his work. "It was Fechin, Fechin himself!". Was Fechin, the
>> great artist or the boy?
> 
> Since you have claimed that both Rudesind and Fechin are really Inire, it
> doesn't really matter, does it? They are all the same person, and I guess
> the part about being a boy is just a lie. And I guess the old man at
> Casdoe's cabin lied about being a boyhood friend of Fechin's, too. Because,
> in the interest of pedantry, I feel obliged to point out that Inire had been
> vizier to all the autarchs, going back at least a thousand years to Ymar.
> Maybe Inire had a protracted boyhood and only grew up and got old in the
> last seventy years or so.
> 
> -Roy
> 
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