(urth) Who's Right?

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/3/2010 12:53 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
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> On Dec 3, 2010, at 10:30 AM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes"<danldo at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Son of Witz wrote (03-12-2010 18:04):
>>> Well, at the end of citadel Severian says that he knows Inire was with him
>>> in the north, so we assume that we saw him and that Inire was the Uturuncu.
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>> Ummm ... This could simply mean that Inire was in the north at the
>> same time as Severian, could it not? And why would we assume that he
>> was the Uturuncu?
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>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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> Sure.  I'm not convinced either, but this list has got the monkey references in my head as the most likely answer, though not every monkey is him.
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> I do think the Cowled Cenobite that leads Severian from The Autarch to the Green Room is Inire.

I agree, though this is more of a dsep cover as the human advisor to the 
Autarch. The cowled cloak is to let him "disguise" himself by removing 
it - you'll note that the shaman's mask covers what is normally open, 
and the nakedness reveals what is normally covered, almost completely 
changing his outward impression with the exchange of one for the other.


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