<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Perhaps, but I believe Severian observes that Little Sev was pretty well fried. That suggests that energies were expended in frying him, causing the flash, whether or not some kind of soul extraction occurred. <div><br></div><div>Since we know the frying occurred, you'd be proposing a doubled event consuming doubled energies and producing doubled results (death and scanning). That's too complicated. And there is no evidence that "soul" scanning requires death.</div><div><div><br>--- On <b>Mon, 9/27/10, Nicholas Jost <i><nickjost@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Nicholas Jost <nickjost@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: (urth) note Re: Short Sun blog<br>To: urth@lists.urth.net<br>Date: Monday, September 27, 2010, 12:19 PM<br><br><div
id="yiv675505911"><style type="text/css"><!--#yiv675505911 DIV {margin:0px;}--></style><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></b></font><br>From: Jeff Wilson <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jwilson@io.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=jwilson@io.com">jwilson@io.com</a>><br><br>Typhon's resurrection by Severian is not reasonably believable as a <br>biological process, and I certainly did not casually accept it as one <br>when I first read the books, or the third time. But it is just as <br>believable as the result of Severian's time-bending superpowers as any <br>other resurrection in the books.<br>************************************<br><br>Why is it always assumed
that Severian brought him back?
There<br>is none of the mythic special effects around his contact with Typhon.<br>However, there is a blood sacrifice and associated special effects<br>when Little Sev dies. On my reading I always assumed that the<br>"magic" ring sucked down Little Sev's soul and used it to power<br>the monster Typhon. Its not like we don't have soul sucking<br>monsters in these stories with meta-physic complications<br>running around. Little Sev dies and Typhoon rises. The <br>dragon done ate 'im.<br><br>Nicholas Jost<br></div></div>
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