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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=severiansola@hotmail.com
href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">Lee Berman</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>> > Gerry Quinn: </DIV>
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<DIV>> >As for the Green Man, if he has shape changing<BR>>
>abilities they are fairly limited, as reading the section in<BR>>
>which Severian first encounters him will make obvious.<BR><BR>> I have
trouble believing that a being capable of transporting<BR>> his body through
space and time cannot, in the process, transport<BR>> his ankle through a
metal shackle.</DIV>
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<DIV>That’s because you don’t pay attention to the text. His mode of time
travel is to walk or run through the Corridors of Time. The shackle binds
him in time no less than in space. </DIV>
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<DIV>If you want an analogy, consider a jet liner with a wall built around it at
a distance of 50 yards or so. It can fly, but nevertheless it is
completely trapped by a low wall.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>> I think the Green Man episode is simply another act in the
play<BR>> which is being performed in BotNS for Severian's benefit. That
is<BR>> part of the reason Palaemon and Rudesind are shown forgetting
their<BR>> lines, and partly why we are shown a play in which Baldanders
is<BR>> able to free himself from his shackles at any time.</DIV>
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<DIV>Right. He must be a shapechanger because... well, because you want
him to be, so everything we are told about him must be just a joke on the
reader.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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