(urth) Rudesind/Inire/Lunar Picture

[Ryan Dunn]

On Jul 27, 2010, at 12:49 PM, John Watkins wrote:

> Well, at least you're honest.  You'd rather accept that multiple characters with no proven weird abilities are eternal than give up a theory.
>  
> Why would the next likely autarch be another torturer's apprentice with an errand while Rudesind is on that ladder?
> Good Lord, you're literal.
>  
> "Hey Rudesind, next time a young man like me comes by while you're on the ladder, please send him to Ultan like you did for me."
>  
> means
>  
> "Ignore the young man if he's not like me, or if you're not on the ladder--we're both time-travellers and I'm setting up an infinite loop"
>  
> rather than
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> "Thank you.  I appreciated it.  The thanks I ask is that you keep doing what you did."


I still don't know why that specifically is what Severian would ask? Why not, hey clean up the moon guy, i like that picture. Or, hey, if you see that Racho dweeb, give him a kick in the pants. Or hey, bring me a Fechin, he's good.

Rudesind's master is Inire, and Inire is a time traveler. And Rudesind is unbelievably ancient, and it seem time acts differently upon him.

Plus, the time loop thing dovetails in with Severian at the end, standing where Severian the apprentice stood in the Atrium of Time, and re-reading to find out the following...

"There is really no describing the sensation of being watched. I have heard it called a prickling at the back of the neck, and even a consciousness of eyes that seem to float in darkness, but it is neither - at least, not for me. It is something akin to a sourceless embarrassment, coupled with the feeling that I must not turn around, because to turn will be to appear a fool, answering the promptings of baseless intuition. Eventually, of course, one does. I turned with the vague impression that someone had followed me through the hole at the base of the dial."

My theory is textually founded, not THAT crazy, is it?

...ryan
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