(urth) Monkey business

[Mr Thalassocrat]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:

> Okay, let's see if we can find some middle ground in all this monkey
> business.
>
> That some characters in the Urth Cycle are compared, in some way, with
> monkeys is beyond dispute. Since Wolfe wrote it, I think almost everyone
> will agree that the simian markers signify *something*. What seems to be at
> issue is what that something is.
>
> There are also some appearances of monkey-like creatures, including the
> dog-ape hybrid figure who looked in on Severian in the lazaret.


** Not very important, but I don't think a dog/ape hybrid is
intended. "Cynecephalus" (dog-headed) is a term which seems to get applied
to baboons - eg *Papio cynocephalus **
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Baboon*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Baboon>
* *
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