(urth) started my second read of New Sun

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Gurloes is a very unhappy man.

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> Actually, Palaemon gave Severian Terminus Est and advice about his journey
> to Thrax.  When he is doing this, he becomes confused and tells Severian
> the
> wrong direction, which made me think that Palaemon had gone South (
> whereas
> Sev is sent North) himself as a younger man.  Gurloes is the strange and
> slighty creepy master who uses the powder and the metal phallus.  Umm,
> what
> a weirdo.
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems unlikely to me that the Guild would have set up a test for
>> Severian where someone was killed needlessly; they abstain from unjust
>> and unnecessary violence.  I think perhaps Gurloes has some idea of
>> Severian's greater destiny (b/c it is Gurloes that gives him TE and
>> sends him out into the world with the hint that he might one day
>> return) and might be in on some plot to put Severian on the Phoenix
>> Throne, but... and this is the big problem with this theory... if you
>> were hinging the hopes of your entire planet on surreptitiously
>> guiding a young man to the throne so that he might travel to Yesod and
>> complete the trial, why expose him to the dangers inherent in the
>> journey itself?
>>
>> One could argue that Severian's life is a series of Dickensian
>> coincidences machinated by powers beyond his knowledge to fulfill a
>> certain role, but if those powers are as truly omnipotent as such a
>> scheme would suggest, why the rigmarole of the New Sun at all?
>>
>> yvt,
>> LH
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