(urth) Boatman as Inire

Roy C. Lackey rclackey at stic.net
Sun Aug 8 10:36:39 PDT 2010


Lee Berman wrote:
[snip]
> So, yeah, if everything else, B, F and O, The Conciliator, Ushas, Juturna,
Apu Punchau, etc.,
> in UotNS refers back to  the first four books, what does the the evolution
and shape shifting
> of shaggy blob apport, to monkey-like thing to Zak, to Tzadkiel, male and
female refer back to?

Exactly that -- to the evolution of the Hierogrammates outlined in "The Key
to the Universe" chapter in CITADEL. On the Ship, Severian was shown some of
the stages of unnatural selection imposed by the Hieros on some lowly
creature that eventually resulted in Tzadkiel's kind.

-Roy




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