Book of the New Sun

thecla = karlie kloss
dorcas = kenzie reeves
jolenta = anastasia kvitko

>give me some meaningful examples
>gives no examples

> In Sword, ch. 25, very near the beginning, Severian discloses that Dorcas had had strong feelings for Jolenta and had been very depressed at her death, that he believes that Dorcas and Jolenta had engaged in "sexual play" at some time, and that he had been jealous of Dorcas's feeling for Jolenta, though not, he claims, sexually. I don't think that any of this had been mentioned at the time it happened: certainly not Dorcas's depression at Jolenta's death, and to my recollection no hint of any relationship between Dorcas and Jolenta beyond Dorcas's natural goodness and compassion on the one side and Jolenta's contempt on the other.

>My other example I'm less sure of. In Citadel, ch. 2, Severian loses himself in his memories, and "Dorcas's voice whispered in my ears: 'Sitting in a window ... trays and a rood. What will you do, summon up some Erinys to destroy me?" The first of these sentences is close to what are almost the first words Dorcas speaks in the text (though not identical; another can of worms). The second I was unable to find. Severian's thoughts immediately following suggest that this sentence was spoken to Severian, and its juxtaposition with the first sentence suggests that it may have come near the end of their last conversation, in which case their parting was stormier than Severian let on at the time. Or it may have had something to do with Severian's jealousy, discussed above.

1. How does telling us that at that point in the narrative make him "unreliable" in a way that effects the story?

2. There's nothing to indicate that those quotations are unreliable. The same character said two similar things. The rest is conjecture.

If these are the best examples of Severian being "unreliable", then he must have been a pretty reliable guy.

he is pretty reliable but hes also technically unreliable in that hes not a mouth of god narrator and there are mistakes/changes he makes in the telling of the story

later in the story he ponders about why morwenna (a women he executed) poisoned her husband and son even though he knows and talked about earlier in the story how she was really innocent and framed by another women who proudly admitted to doing it

what does the term 'story' mean to you?
what would have to happen for spunky to have an impact on the 'story'?
what is the 'story' of botns?

>what is the 'story' of botns?

He totally bangs his grandma but never mentions it cuz shits traumatizing

>tfw you realize Severian is named after Boethius

pretty sure something like everyone from nessus is named after a saint