(urth) Father Inire

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/27/2011 10:05 AM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Why would one sit on a "step" ladder, let alone do so while actively cleaning a painting?

Because sitting allows an old man to work longer at a stretch, and there 
is nowhere else to sit within reach of paintings high on a wall.

> To me: 1. Rudesind is standing on a step ladder; and 2. Severian thinking he at first sees a man sitting on a high stool (I'm envisioning a bar stool) implies that (combined with the monkey like long arms and the way he "scrambles") that Rudesind is gangly and short indeed.

It seems to me that you are uniquely suited as a motion picture artist 
to illustrate your hypothesis.

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