(urth) thanks (was: Re: academic commentary)

David Duffy davidD at qimr.edu.au
Mon Nov 29 19:05:34 PST 2010


On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Jane Delawney wrote:

> thanks for your response Lee and also to others, I'm just catching up. Yes, 
> that is exactly the reference I was thinking of. IMO Wright either misses it, 
> or chooses to disregard it.
>
>> Sort of similar to the reversal we see where Barbatus and Famulimus, so 
>> tall and beautiful
>> and from a giant spaceship, take a knee and bow before scruffy Severian.
>> 
> And he's baffled and embarrassed because he's no idea they live in reverse 
> and know he's The One. Yes, that too - no mention in Wright. He'd have found 
> both these little episodes difficult to explain in terms of his hypothesis of 
> devious manipulative Yesodis who steer naive and none too bright...

Surely that's exactly what devious manipulators would do ;)

David Duffy.



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