(urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.

[David Stockhoff]

Jonas stopped being a meat man when he was wounded. That has always 
seemed clear to me. Perhaps the personalities went back and forth for a 
bit afterward, and it was indeed the meat man who spoke of drop 
ceilings. The Jonas who led Severien to the metal door was a metal man. 
I don't see that it matters much in terms of the shippiness of the 
architecture.

The teratoid glyph plainly connotes DANGER: MONSTERS.

On 12/14/2010 1:19 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>>> Here's the entrance to the transporter room:
> We had descended perhaps a hundred steps when we reached a door painted with a crimson *teratoid*
>> sign that appeared to me to be a glyph from some tongue beyond the shores of Urth.
>>> Wolfe is spelling it out!  Okay, an alternative interpretation is that the symbol is associated with Inire.
> But if you>  >  prefer, here's another allusion to starflight.  [See, I can play the allusion game too!]
> this wing has always been Father Inire's.   Inire grabs the high tech stuff, natch.  A starship is perfect for him.
>> -Meaningless. You can't have stairs and doors with DANGER glyphs underground?
>
>
> The word "teratoid" does not connote "DANGER". It pertains to monsters. The association of mirrors and monsters
> seems unmistakable here.
>
>
>
>> Jonas speaks of his childhood on Urth. He says that 'Kim Lee Soong' was a common name in his youth 'in lands now
> lost beneath the waves'. Does he actually speak of his childhood?  He was a robot, after all. Still,
> I take your point that he seems to have known something of the Urth of his youth.
>
>> It is true that just because Jonas recognizes a drop-down ceiling, it doesn't mean it is a ship.
>
> Jonas is part-robot, part-human.  His head is human. Why is it being assumed that all his memories are first and
> foremost robot memories? I would tend to assume the opposite. 		 	   		
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