(urth) Spiritual and ecological succession

[David Stockhoff]

On 1/13/2011 4:24 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> Andrew Mason wrote:
>> Severian does tend to distinguish rather firmly between the time when
>> he was a  boy (including the opening part of SOTT) and the time when
>> he was a man, even though only a year or so seems to have passed  I do
>> sometimes wonder if another year or two went by without his noticing.
> Footnote to this: Severian says towards the end that he revived
> Triskele two years before he had the Claw, though a simple reading of
> the text would suggest it was at most a year and a half. This could
> just be a slip, by either Severian or Wolfe, but another possibility
> occurs to me. Triskele's chapter is strangely self-contained. Could it
> be that it did not happen at the place where it comes in the narrative
> - between Sev's meeting with Vodalus and his visit to the library -
> but rather during an earlier winter?
I agree that it feels like that.


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