Really. That's pretty interesting - is that documented somewhere?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Duffy</b> <<a href="mailto:David.Duffy@qimr.edu.au">David.Duffy@qimr.edu.au
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Paul B wrote:<br><br>> Well, Severian's attitude to details is famously bad - he tends to include,
<br>> interpret and omit things liberally. It's furthermore not too surprising<br>> that he mis-identified the old man some years later as he grew more shrunken<br>> and old since Severian's memory is provably faulty at times. Interestingly,
<br>> he even mis-identifies himself on the funerary bronze in Shadow, and in his<br>> similarity to Ouen, which in Citadel was described as uncanny.<br><br>I think that's a detail from Luria's description of his mnemonist, who IIRC
<br>had difficulty associating a profile view and frontal view of the same<br>person.<br><br>David Duffy.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">
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