Hahaha, no, the Russian psychologist Luria about his mnemonist subject S. The day a kabbalist can say something meaningful about facial recognition will be an interesting day indeed.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 7/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</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;">
Is this Isaac Luria the Spanish Qabalist you are talking about?<br><br><br>.<br><br><br>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Paul B wrote:<br>><br>>> Well, Severian's attitude to details is famously bad - he tends to<br>
>> include,<br>>> interpret and omit things liberally. It's furthermore not too<br>>> surprising<br>>> that he mis-identified the old man some years later as he grew more<br>>> shrunken<br>
>> and old since Severian's memory is provably faulty at times.<br>>> Interestingly,<br>>> he even mis-identifies himself on the funerary bronze in Shadow, and in<br>>> 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<br>> IIRC<br>> had difficulty associating a profile view and frontal view of the same<br>> person.<br>><br>> David Duffy.
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