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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Since there are many other instances, the “I forgot” topic is something like a running in in TBotNS:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>„there was one thing I wanted to ask Agia; but I could not recall what it might be“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>„beyond the stair I could remember nothing“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>“That was Beuzec, of course; I had failed to recall the name until I saw him”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>“For you others, as I am told, memory dies; mine scarcely dims”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>„I could not at once recall where“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>“At that time, I did not recognize …”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>“a woman I recalled but could not identify”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>„I made several false starts“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>“Somehow I missed the little inn”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>„I thought I recognized the scent“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>“I find I have no memory of such a sound”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>„Even now, all I recall“:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='layout-grid-mode:line'>“I recalled only“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>“for the mind is too full at the time of struggle to do much recording”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>„suggesting something I could not quite recall“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>„I have the facility of recalling everything. I can´t always lay hands on it“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>“While I was ill I had never paid much attention to the people who brought our food, though when I reflected on it I was able to recall them clearly, as I recall everything”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='layout-grid-mode:line'>…</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nessuno<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Urth [mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Marc Aramini<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 6. August 2014 02:47<br><b>An:</b> The Urth Mailing List<br><b>Betreff:</b> (urth) Severian forgets a few things ...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It's been a long time since I thought about New Sun, but as I am near that point in Wolfe's career where I am going to have to do some of the short fiction related to the books, I have to reread it now, and will probably do a write up sooner or later, but these quotes kind of jumped out at me as I glanced through the opening sections of shadow of the torturer.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>“In the remembered terror of the fight I had forgotten [the coin]”<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>“I tried to recall what her meal had been … I could not, though I nearly burst my brain with the effort.”<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>The first one is explainable as kind of a passive oblivion, but the second one he is consciously trying to recollect something and failing to bring Thecla's food to mind, even though it is revealed that his dinner is exactly the same as hers, save for Mutton: "Leeks and lentils, bread and mutton."<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>"Ah, the torturers get mutton - that's the difference." <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>So should that be perfect recall until he is distracted by a woman he finds exotic and attractive?<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>