(urth) Short Story 110: The Cat

[Marc Aramini]

Do you think my assessment of the problematic timeline in The Map is
accurate? It's been years and years since I read New Sun - going through it
again now.  Ironically I know New Sun perhaps more poorly than any other
work by Wolfe at this point in time.


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <
jwilson at clueland.com> wrote:

> On 8/26/2014 12:45 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>
>> In Thecla's story, she and her thirteen year old friend Domnina play
>> between Father Inire's two great mirrors, and move candelabra to
>> opposite ends of them.
>>
>
> I believe there are a couple of mistakes here.
>
> "'I was thirteen, Severian, and I had a friend named Domnina....'"
>
> Thecla was thirteen, Domnina's age is not given.
>
>
> "'You must take my word for it that at one place in the Hall of Meaning
> there are two mirrors.'"
>
> The mirrors here are never referred to as Father Inire's. Indeed,
> Domnina's sighting of a liminal being in them surprises him and his demo
> takes place at the many-mirrored chamber,  so it is unlikely the two
> mirrors in the Hall of Meaning are specially associated with Inire any more
> than any other feature of the House Absolute is.
>
> --
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