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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tom@bitterman.net href="mailto:tom@bitterman.net">Thomas
Bitterman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV>On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:15 PM,
Jeff Wilson <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:jwilson@io.com">jwilson@io.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>Severian disagrees; *everything* in his story is
supernatural to some degree: "if the Eternal Principle had rested in that
curved thorn...then it might rest in anything, and in fact probably did rest
in everything, in every thorn on every bush, in every drop of water in the
sea. The thorn was a sacred Claw because all thorns were sacred Claws; the
sand in my boots was sacred sand because it came from a beach of sacred
sand. The cenobites treasured up the relics of the sannyasins because the
sannyasins had approached the Pancreator. But everything had approached and
even touched the Pancreator, because everything had dropped from his hand.
Everything was a relic. All the world was a relic. I drew off my boots, that
had traveled with me so far, and threw them into the waves that I might not
walk shod on holy ground." CITADEL XXXI<FONT
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<DIV><BR>I always felt bad for his boots at this point. They've been
good boots and didn't deserve such treatment. Heck, they're
relics. It seems like one could walk on holy ground with holy
boots.<BR><BR>I have always thought that Severian went back and fished his
boots out. He never mentions being barefoot later on that I can
remember.</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>He's the Autarch. He has more boots
now than Imelda Marcos.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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