<div dir="ltr">If it's any help, this particular sentence has been discussed before: <a href="http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0019/0025.shtml">http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0019/0025.shtml</a><div><br></div><div>
-Matt</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Bennewitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:witz@trog.org">witz@trog.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
In Claw chap XXV, Severian is having life memories before he falls asleep.<br>
while there is obviously the potential for Thecla memories to intermix here, this following passage is still confusing:<br>
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"I played again with pebbles in the courtyard beside the fallen curtain wall, as Thecla dodged the hooves of my father's mounted guard."<br>
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Who's Father?<br>
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Do any of the other 'interruptions' from Thecla's memory happen mid sentence like this? I searched the archives and found that this was suggested.<br>
I find it problematic that the narrative voice would change in mid sentence.<br>
Even if the memory is Thecla's why would she be dodging the feet of her father's guard?<br>
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IS this tidbit pointing to Severian's father as Autarch or some other Exultant family?<br>
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