(urth) Appian

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

On 8/28/06, Rex Lycanthrosaurus
 <lycanthrosaurus at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Plus your argument also begs this additional question. If the
> penultimate autarch's name is *not* Appian, then what is it? And if it's
> indeterminable, why, in a book that has hundred of named characters,
> often who play only a very minor or marginal role (indeed, there are
> dozens who never even appear on-stage), does he leave in forfeit the
> name of this most noble man, the would-be saviour of Urth, who attempts
> to bring back the New Sun, but comes home a castrado?

What it is I don't have an answer for. But I have several ideas on
why his name might be concealed, beginning with the possibility
that he may be one of Severian's grandparents.

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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