(urth) The Claw

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/22/2011 1:21 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>> 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.

Except that it only seems to work when the White Fountain is above the 
horizion.


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