(urth) Monkey business

Ryan Dunn ryan at liftingfaces.com
Fri Jul 9 10:12:59 PDT 2010


On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Lee Berman wrote:

> Another suspicious scene occurs in regard to the old person in 
> Casdoe's house. The red flag goes up for me because, over a long sequence 
> of events,  nobody (except Severian's narration) acknowledges this person.
> Nobody says, "hey Little Severian, tell grandpa its time to eat" or "hey,
> grandpa, a monster just ate two of our family, we have to leave". Only 
> Severian interacts with that old person.
> 
> My guess is that was done to avoid the use of any revealing pronouns. 
> My guess is that Severian has misjudged the gender of this person. I 
> think this person's description of Fechin is so adoring and admiring
> that it must come from a woman, not a man. And thus perhaps we have
> two unreliable narrators.


Could the elderly person in Casdoe's house be an aquastor?

...ryan



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