(urth) Rudesind / Inire / Lunar Picture

[John Watkins]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> wrote:

>
> . It would mean he is in collusion with Inire, and it also reenforces the
> Severian prior being a wanderer of the corridor of time. Later in the story,
> doesn't he tell Rudesind to give his future self directions to the library
> if he comes by? If so, might that not be Rudesind relaying a message to a
> younger Severian, who was Autarch?
>
>
I like this, because it fits with what we know about Rudesind (he delivers
messages for Inire).

I'm not sure that we *know *Severian was sending a message to his younger
self.  He really just says basically "Well, send other boys along the same
route," which is consistent with him just telling Rudesind he did the right
thing and to keep up the good work.

But that ties into my broader skepticism about the "other" Severian.  We
treat the "two Severian" theory as canon, when really it comes from
Severian's own musings at the end of Citadel. I think some of the chief
phenomena the theory was mean to explain (the tomb, Apu Punchau) are shown,
to some extent, in Urth to be explainable by the time travel of a single
Severian.

But who knows.



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