(urth) Spiritual and Ecological Sucession

[Jerry Friedman]

> From: Adam Thornton <adam at io.com>

> 
> 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?

/Lexicon Urthus/ isn't evidence?

That means I hope someone else knows.

> Because in my  mind, Severian, when he goes on his Big Adventure, has always 
>been about  seventeen.  Or perhaps, Seventeen.

That still doesn't agree with the statement from Horn that Severian is younger 
than him when
Horn  is "rising sixteen" (almost sixteen, the dictionary tells me), but it's 
closer.
 
> He sure *seems*  super-callow."

True, although some of it may be his upbringing, which was sheltered in certain 
ways.

> Not to mention  phragyllistic.

And, ex-Pia, ladocious.

Jerry Friedman