<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">David Stackoff:<br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">> Perhaps, but I believe Severian observes that Little Sev was pretty well fried. That suggests that energies were <br>> expended in frying him, causing the flash, whether or not some kind of soul extraction occurred.?<br>> Since we know the frying occurred, you'd be proposing a doubled event consuming doubled energies <br>> and producing doubled results (death and scanning). That's too complicated. And?there is <br>> no evidence that?"soul" scanning requires death.<br><br>This doesn't have to be the same as any previous event and in a sacrifice the victim has a good chance of being consumed in the act. Little Sev is a blood
Sacrifice at what can only be called the Temple of the Demi-God Typhoon. At that point Typhon appears. No more energy is required in the consumption than a pillar of fire descending to eat a goat (a traditional effect). Is there more evidence for Severian doing it? I'm not aware of any in the text.<br><br>Nicholas Jost<br></div></div>
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