From: "Chris" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Malrubius' ghost
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:09:35 +0000

Interesting quote, and goes along with something I'd wondered myself.

But looking at it from the flip side, do you think it might be possible 
that, when Severian refers to the ghost of Malrubius, he's actually using a 
sort of euphemism? To be more direct, perhaps it was Silk astral travelling 
again, and since Severian had opted not to explain Silk in the first place 
he filled in a name to substitute in the ghost sequences?

Civet

>Just one more thing that I forgot in our recent discussion of whether or 
>not
>Silk could pass for Malrubius in the astral travel scenes of Return to the
>Whorl:
>
>in the comments for The Book of the Short Sun when it was released for the
>SFBC in one volume, Wolfe said a little bit about it, urging readers to 
>accept
>the astral travel and perhaps to discover the secret of "Malrubius' ghost". 
>  I
>obviously threw that catalog away a long time ago, but someone else should
>remember it as well.  I say this is further reason to think that Silk in
>astral form certainly resembles Malrubius, and that the evidence is not
>circumstantial.
>
>Marc Aramini
>
>
>
>--

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