(urth) Like a good Neighbor

Sergei SOLOVIEV soloviev at irit.fr
Sun Nov 20 12:09:49 PST 2011


Once I found a dead cat on a winter road - a cat killed by car, pressed 
flat and frozen,
with intestines around.
I felt that I have to take it off and give it a more decent burial. 
Believe me,
it was not pleasant or easy. Maybe I could do what Horn did - cut corpses by
sword and clean the sewer, though it would be harder. I could not be a 
torturer
and executioner, like Severian. I think that they are very different, and
when you say that they are similar, it is imagination, not experience.
There is similarity, but difference is important.

Sergei

Marc Aramini wrote:
> But Horn re-enacts Sevs flooding when he gets a light, a dark sword, and cleans out corpses to make way for a flood of purifying water.  So how different are they, really?
>
> --- On Sun, 11/20/11, Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr> wrote:
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>> From: Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 11:56 AM
>> Horn is a very different character,
>> and what is good for the development
>> of the character of Severian, is not good for Horn.
>>
>> Sergei
>>
>> Marc Aramini wrote:
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>>> Well well well ... and Severian's fall in the ship on
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>> urth?  his sacrifice in the temple of apupunchau? 
>> the themati drowning, the death by flower, did all these
>> deaths and resurrections in the same series do the work
>> harm?  This is a mystical work, but there are
>> occasionally explanations to the at first inexplicable.
>>     
>>> --- On Sun, 11/20/11, Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr>
>>>       
>> wrote:
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>>>> From: Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr>
>>>> Subject: Re: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
>>>> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>>>> Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 11:49 AM
>>>> My opinion is that this "additional"
>>>> resurrection does Wolfe's
>>>> book harm, not good.
>>>>
>>>> Sergei Soloviev
>>>>
>>>> Marc Aramini wrote:
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>>>>> And if you insist there is nothing that could
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>>>> resurrect him after he dies, then we have been
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>> reading a
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>>>> very different series of books, my friend.
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