From: "Daniel Fusch" <dfusch@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) 'Ridden Like Beats?' That Sounds Painful...
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:19:38 PST

I wonder...would that be beats as in radishes, or beats as in poets?


>From: "Talarican" <exultnttalarican@mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: urth@lists.best.com
>To: urth@lists.best.com
>Subject: (urth) 'Ridden Like Beats?' That Sounds Painful...
>Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 23:28:04 -0500
>
><quote>
>'  The novelist [!] Gene
>Wolfe makes an identical, albeit lovelier, observation:
>
>We say, 'I will,' and 'I will not,' and imagine ourselves ...our own
>masters, whhen the
>truth is that our masters are sleeping.  One wakes within us, and we are
>ridden like beats, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of
>ourselves.
>
>Quick, those of you with Severian-like memory, where is the quote from?
><unquote>
>
>I know! I know! BNS, Sword,  XVII "The Challenge". Severian is explaining 
>to
>us at length why he is describing in such detail the episode wherein he
>meets "the shopkeeper's sister" (Agia) and gets the serious hots for her. 
>He
>suggests the above as a reason why Ymar got up and followed the dog in the
>story. Really confusing.
>
>No, I don't have Severian-like memory, just happened to have re-read that
>passage, researching more IAQ's.Whew! I feel an IAQ coming on already!
>
>(think if GW were to hear of THAT typo, he'd write it into a story
>somewhere?)
>
>
>
>works
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