Subject: RE: (urth) The Claw
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:07:40 -0700
From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 

There are more posts in Roy C. Lackey's posts than are dremt=20
of in your philosophy:

> It also didn't work for Jonas. Sev couldn't even restore him=20
> to the condition he had been in before he got zapped, much=20
> less reach back in time to restore him to the way he was=20
> before his ship crashed. Didn't work for Jolenta, either,=20
> though Sev had known her both before she was bitten and=20
> before she was Jolenta.

I seem to recall some discussion of this in the past ... but ...
it seems to me that the common factor between Jonas and Jolenta
-- aside from their names beginning with the syllable "Jo" --
would consist in their both having an artificial nature (though
Jolenta _begins_ as a natural person, Doctor T. artifically
enhances her ... sort of the Pamela Anderson of posthistory).=20

Perhaps the Claw (or Severian) cannot heal artificial persons,
but only natural persons ...

--Blattid


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