Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:52:05 -0700
Subject: Re: (urth) The Green Man's restitution
From: Lisa Schaffer-Doggett 


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 02:51 PM, cilluff1@optonline.net wrote:

>    I also think it's not impossible
> that Wolfe either forgot this or the second Green Man scene got edited 
> out.
> But in support of the "forgetting" theory it always bugged me that the
> slave Sev meets asks Severian to mention him to Malrubius and to ask
> Malrubius a question and, when Sev later meets up with Malrubius again 
> the
> matter, as far as the reader knows, never comes up again....
>
>

Don (referring to himself, as pleases him, in the third person) replies,

I think you mean Palaemon rather than Malrubius.  I don't think Wolfe 
forgot to have Severian mention the slave to Palaemon.  I always took 
it that Severian took it upon himself to answer for his master and that 
was the end of it.  Of course I also think Severian and Palaemon are 
essentially the same person so take my opinion for what it's worth to 
you.


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