(urth) A new mystery ...

[Son of Witz]

Roy,
that helps me so much. thank you.

I got a whiff of the Author of V when he mentioned the bower

"but I will write for a little while more before I go to my bower to  
sleep: "

bower a pleasant shady place under trees or climbing plants in a  
garden or wood.

lazy summer days on Ushas, writing in the grotto

~witz

On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

> David Stockhoff wrote:
>> I found the relevant passage:
>>
>> "But if Apu-Punchau is myself, what was the body I found on  
>> Tzadkiel's
>> ship?"
>> Nearly whispering, Famulimus sang, "The man whom you saw dead your
>> mother bore. Or so it seems to me from what's been said. Now I would
>> weep for her if I had tears, though not---perhaps---for you still  
>> living
>> here. What we did here for you, Severian, the mighty Tzadkiel
>> accomplished there, remembrance taking from your dead mind to build  
>> your
>> mind and you anew."
>
> Yes, which is why I said what I said. Tzadkiel is the Hierogrammate  
> who
> created the new body on the Ship. There were two bodies on the Ship.  
> The
> dead one had written the first four books. The new aquastor body  
> Tzadkiel
> made went on to become the Conciliator and Apu. After Apu got older  
> and was
> strangled, B, F & O created a new body in the tomb, which is why  
> there were
> two bodies in that tomb. The newly created body went on to write the  
> fifth
> book. The dead Apu also came back to life when the first faint light  
> of the
> white fountain reached Urth that night Sev fled the tomb, but that's  
> another
> issue.
>
> Btw, aquastor and eidolon are interchangeable in the Urth Cycle. The  
> former
> is the more formal term, the latter is the common, just as Increate  
> is the
> learned term for what the less educated call God.
>
> -Roy
>
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