(urth) Rudesind/Inire/Lunar Picture

[Ryan Dunn]

On Jul 27, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Lee Berman wrote:

>> Ryan Dunn- Why would Severian ask Rudesind to do that? Why would that 
>> be all he asks of Rudesind before dismissing him?
> 
> I think my interpretation is that Severian, at that point, doesn't know
> if he will be successful in bringing the New Sun. If he is not perhaps
> the next torturer boy should also be shown how the sun ought to look via
> the painting, to give him at least as good a chance as Severian for success.

I don't buy it. Severian and Inire walk the corridors of time, so I think he is laying the seeds for a time loop. Perhaps Rudesind, like the botanic, the mirrors, and the atrium of time, are ageless/timeless/infinite.

Why would the next likely autarch be another torturer's apprentice with an errand while Rudesind is on that ladder?


>> I am also the less-turrets version of Josh
> 
> Heh. Pun on Tourette's I assume? 

A grammatical double entendre, why not?


...ryan