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

[David Stockhoff]

Ryan---Try getting text files of the books and keep searching them for 
clues. More textual evidence is always welcome!

See you all after the weekend.

Ryan Dunn wrote:
> 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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