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

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Wed Jul 7 13:05:19 PDT 2010


He was resurrected.

The book was written by this guy who is well know to believe in God.

Doctor Ockham to the Library.

Doctor Ockham to the Library, stat.

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> On 7/7/2010 2:19 PM, John Watkins wrote:
>> Well, I don't know that Severian was always already artificial
>
> Why is that necessary? What if --as seems likely to me-- Severian
> drowned in the Gyoll at the beginning of SotT? That would mean that for
> almost every event in which Severian takes part (with the exception of
> early childhood memories) he was an artificial presence.
>
> Actually my original point was to show that debating a theory with snark
> isn't always so easy in a Wolfe novel.
>
>> --I know that at one point or another in the narrative his personality
>> is artificially resurrected.
>
> Is that an important distinction? Wouldn't the extrapolation of this be
> that Pas and Scylla were not artificial persons?
>
> u+16b9
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