(urth) The Claw

[Jerry Friedman]

> From: Larry Miller decanus1284 at gmail.com

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> Ive always thought that the Claw can do what it
> does through the warping of space-time around it because it is a
> temporal anomaly itself.  We know that the Claw as a thorn was
> annointed for lack of a better word with Severians blood at the end of
> Citadel.  After traveling back to the Conciliators era it becomes the
> Claw.  When Severian obtains the relic it still has his blood on it.
> Now this same blood is still inside Severian as he hasnt been pricked
> yet.  Now we know that two Severians cannot exist in the same point in
> time and space (ala Apu Punchau-why there was no implosion when they
> come into contact could just be that its not a whole other Severian
> just a drop of his blood ) so I believe that this creates some kind of
> anomalous effect around Severian.  This causes the Claw to warp time
> back to the time when Dorcas was alive resurrecting her.

I do like this.  And there's no problem reconciling it with the idea that Severian gets his energy from Yesod--the temporal anomaly could make that possible.

Jerry Friedman