(urth) Spiritual and Ecological Sucession

[Adam Thornton]

On 01/12/2011 10:14 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>
> The other, which someone else here pointed out, is that Severian takes Silkhorn
> and Co. to
> see his three-legged dog, and Hide describes Severian as still growing and
> younger than Hide,
> who Silkhorn says is sixteen.  But Severian says he briefly had Triskele not
> long before he
> became captain of apprentices and met Thecla, when he was apparently about
> twenty, and
> I don't think we can see him as a growing boy then.
What evidence do we have that he was that old?  Because in my mind, 
Severian, when he goes on his Big Adventure, has always been about 
seventeen.  Or perhaps, Seventeen.

He sure *seems* super-callow.  Not to mention phragyllistic.

Adam