(urth) Wind god

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Sat Nov 6 23:02:00 PDT 2010


On 11/5/2010 3:43 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Lee Berman<severiansola at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>
>
>> Andrew mentions disappearing *and* reappearing. It would be the reappearances that support the idea
>> of out-of-text re-emergings of doppelganger Conciliators. Mustn't read one word and skip the other.
>
> I've always taken it to imply that Severian made other trips to Typhon's era.

I think it is more likely to be the "other" Severians of previous 
iterations who may have been the helpers at the inn.

> Of course, it could also be just a case of the tale growing in the
> telling, that there was just the one disappearance but a thousand
> years have embellished the matter somewhat.

This probably is intended to be understood to have happened in addition 
to any extra trips that may have been made.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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