<div>Maybe all Severian has is the memory of the pain and thinks it's real. He is self-reporting all of this; there's no objective record as to whether he actually had the injuries or not.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Son of Witz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">It just ain't the same.<br>><br></div>>-Roy<br><br><br>Hey Roy,<br>no argument that they're not the same stories.<br>I'll spare you my nuance to that though, I think I've typed about it enough for now.<br>
<br><br>Regarding the Aquastor body Tzadkiel makes.<br>I'm not sure this reading is necessary.<br>No one else finds that dead Severian. Gunnie says Zak found him, and since Zak is Tzadk, he would have been the one to 'hide' the body.<br>
BUT, when he is awakened by Gunnie and Zak, he still has all the other injuries he sustained in the fall/fight with Sideru in the spiracle, EXCEPT the compound fractured leg. His arm is still burned and he is in agony.<br>
Why would his brand new body have some parts 'fixed' and others not? why the pain?<br><br>Perhaps the Severian that closes the eyes of the Dead Severian is the Form Severian closing the eyes of the Instance of Severian before that body is fixed. a possibility, I guess, but its' a bit out of sequence. He sees Tzadkiel clap and has a vision of a new face, then he's back in the airshaft with the body. I would expect them reversed if this idea is true.<br>
<br>but the idea leads me to some other questions I'll compartmentalize in another post.<br>
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