<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 27, 2010, at 1:09 PM, John Watkins wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Actually, thanks.</div>
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<div>Rudesind delivers a message for Inire and Severian I think says that Inire is Rudesind's master. So there's good reason to believe that, at least.</div>
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<div>Inire makes clever devices with mirrors which can be used to travel through space and maybe outside the universe. It's a bit of a leap to call him a "time traveller," but not much--the mirrors could be used that way and if Inire's a hierodul then he might be a time traveller in the sense that F, B, and O are--i.e., living backwards (like Merlin) and maybe "skipping" big chunks of time.</div>
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<div>I see no reason to accept as a premise the idea that Inire is capable of Sev-as-White-Fountain walks in the Corridors of Time.<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com">danldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Ryan Dunn <<a href="mailto:ryan@liftingfaces.com">ryan@liftingfaces.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Rudesind's master is Inire, and Inire is a time traveler.<br><br>
</div>I see two assertions here with no particular textual support for either.<br><br>I'm just sayin'.</blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>MORE PROOF INIRE IS RUDESIND'S MASTER:</div><div><br></div><div>"The old Autarch told us you were his sentinel in the House Absolute, and now we know you're a servant of Father Inire's."<br>"I am," the old man said. "I have that honor, and it's his letter I carry."</div><div><br></div><div>.</div><div><br></div><div>Is this obviously still a question, Dan'l? I thought this was accepted as truth. I could have missed something however.</div><div><br></div><div>...ryan</div></body></html>