(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

[John Watkins]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> wrote:

>  *honks clown nose*
>
>

Heh heh heh.


>  ...ryan
>
> On Jul 6, 2010, at 8:19 AM, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Wait a minute now.  Severian goes out of his way to heal the girl in *Sword
> of the Lictor*.  That was an unusual display of compassion/interest for
> Severian, and we've only routinely seen him so interest in women for one
> reason.  So Severian is himself Inire.
>
> And healing a young girl who was head/near-dying is pretty much a direct
> reference to the Talitha cumi incident.  So Severian is Inire and Jesus as
> well.  And Lewis Carroll.  (Note--Talitha cumi, or Talitha cum*aean*?  The
> pun is a bit too on-the-nose.  Maybe the Cumaean is also the girl Severian
> raised, through time travel?  Sure, one's a girl and one's a...snaky thing,
> but given the Tzadkiel precedent and the abundance of masks I feel this is a
> valid possibility.)
>
> Now, there was also an X-Files episode called Talitha Cumi, but unless Gene
> himself is time-travelling (which I suppose we can't rule out, given *
> Peace*) I doubt it could have any connection to the Book of the New Sun,
> despite the character who heals people miraculously, the concealed
> identities, the hidden aliens, and the missing family members.  Actually,
> maybe I need to check *Peace *out again...
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:47 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> That's an assumption many have made. Thecla's story indicates Inire's
>> well-known fondness for and interest in young girls, and the way she says it
>> suggests the kind of matter-of-fact acceptance of perversions one might find
>> at a court. But without any evidence for sexual contact, Inire strikes me as
>> a Lewis Carroll figure at most. The truth is we don't know why he is
>> interested in them.
>>
>> Little girls are not common enough is TBotNS to be much of a help.
>>
>>
>> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/5/2010 9:47 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>>>
>>>> If we have a
>>>> gold ankle ring and brown, feathery coloration to identify the Armiger's
>>>> Daughter,
>>>> perhaps monkey features, obscured eyes, lust for young girls, artistic
>>>> interest and
>>>> losing material possessions are a constellation of traits for
>>>> identifying Father
>>>> Inire.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Where does Inire display carnal interest in young girls?
>>>
>>>  _______________________________________________
>> Urth Mailing List
>> To post, write urth at urth.net
>> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>>
>
>  _______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth at urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth at urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20100706/021159ef/attachment-0003.htm>