(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned byRudesind

[Ryan Dunn]

It wasn't my approach. Mine is simpler, and more benign...

I was hoping to glean some insight from this knowledgable group as to my suspicion about a potentially overlooked passage, in an attempt to categorize that insight and use it (or not) to found/confound/expound upon a theory.

...ryan


On Jul 8, 2010, at 8:17 AM, António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

> David Stockhoff wrote (08-07-2010 13:13):
>> That was never the approach.
> 
> I didn't say it was your David's approach.
> 
>> The approach was to try to explain the
>> passage in a way that added significance, that justified itself.
>> 
>> António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>> Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 06:01):
>>> 
>>>> It is the same with my assertion that he told us Agia's skull hit the
>>>> stone with the sound of a hammer, despite her full head of hair.
>>>> That, to
>>>> me, was not just colorful description. It was a clue about the nature of
>>>> her skull, and thus HER, and thus her affect on Severian, and thus her
>>>> effect on his journey, and the whole book for that matter.
>>> 
>>> And that's why I think your reducing it to determining at all costs
>>> whether
>>> she is a robot or not is not the correct approach.
>> 
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