(urth) Severian's skin color

James Wynn thewynns at earthlink.net
Thu Jun 23 11:26:20 PDT 2005


>--- "Roy said:
>>> You have, genetically
>>> speaking, Typhon = Tussah = balding Horn. And no one
>>> noticed. Not Quetzal,
>> who knew the latter two.

Don said:
>>Is this an acknowledgement that Quetzal personally
>>knew Typhon?  You realise you're saying that Quetzal
>>came from Urth then, and didn't slip onto the Whorl 30
>>years prior to the start of LS.  I'm not trying to
>>dredge up the old blushas greeshas blurth blah blee
>>debate but I would like a clarification. Thanks

Chris said:
>Quetzal knew Pas, the same as any other augur in the Whorl. And given 
>Typhon's preoccupation with his face, it is assumed that he would *not* have 
>given Pas a different face than himself.

I think Roy was saying that Quetzal only knew Tussah and Horn.
Wolfe has clarified when Quetzal entered the Whorl on the urth list by saying
that Quetzal was "a late arrival" but that he's not the only Inhumi on the Whorl.
I'm inclined to believe that the Neighbors/Inhumi were involved in the Whorl's
launching based the Inhumis' thematic connection with Dionysus and the LS/SS
similarities to the "King Midas and His Golden Touch" story. 
http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/midas.htm

But it's not iron-clad. Wolfe's interweaving of myth and literature can provide
clues but he *does* go off-script as I have learned with frustration. And of 
course, the text itself says nothing of this.


~ Crush



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