(urth) Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?

[David Stockhoff]

On 12/17/2011 7:34 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* David Stockhoff <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>
> On 12/17/2011 6:54 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> > > > > Yes. To what enchantment do you refer?
> > > > That which kept her preserved and asleep for some 20 years. (You can
> > > > argue that this did not happen, and I agree. But then there are two
> > > > narratives here, aren't there? And one of them is informed by 
> various
> > > > tales about preserving sleep underground, and women in lakes.)
> > > That’s a circular argument. “Dorcas is like Sleeping Beauty. 
> Therefore
> > > she was under an enchantment, rather than dead. Therefore she is like
> > > Sleeping Beauty.”
> > "Dorcas is like Sleeping Beauty, in that she was apparently under an
> > enchantment, rather than dead." There---fixed it.
> At the cost of having to assume Severian’s power is something 
> considerably different and weaker than what we thought – i.e. when he 
> resurrects someone it was because she was set up to be ‘resurrected’.

You must read every other sentence, like a half-blind character out of 
Borges. How did you miss when I said that's NOT what happened???