(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 173

[Son of Witz]

On Dec 22, 2010, at 8:12 AM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

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>>> Son of Witz-
>>> Here is an idea:
>>> Spring Wind and Bird of the Wood have a sort of tryst, a brief encounter when he comes to Urth. If S.W. Is Typhon, couldn't BotW be Catherine the tim travelling Contessa, shuttered back to Typhon's era for an engineered tryst, then she is back through the corridors of time, or the mirrors, to birth in Severian's era.
>>> Fish and Frog are set adrift on a STREAM. I think thys is a metonymic relation to The Brook Madrigot, and the story reads, "Far that basket sailed..." perhaps the womb-basket sailed up the stream of time.
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>> James Wynn-
>> I like the idea of the stream as Brook Madrigot. In fact, that interpretation seems obvious now. If Catherine were a time traveller, it explains where she's got to. But if Sev's followers kill his brother, that event should be easy to identify.
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> I just remembered that there IS cloning in tBotNS. The House Azure, right?
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Yes, the Khaibits (sp?) and the soldiers with faces more akin than brothers.

The stream seems obvious when now, but I hadn't even thought to connect this story to Typhon and Severian.