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[Ryan Dunn]

I'd like to solve the puzzle, Pat. I mean buy a vowel. No wait...

...ryan

On Jul 13, 2010, at 11:10 AM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:

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>> Fascinating.
>> 
>> I only wish Fr. Inire to Fenrir was a true anagram.
>> 
>> F E N R I R
>> 
>> F R I N I R E
>> 
>> One too many I's, unless we get epically poetic:
>> 
>> I, Fenrir
>> 
>> or we get back to origins:
>> 
>> Fenrir I
>> 
>> As in Fenrir the First, with Fechin and Rudesind (boatman?) as cloned
>> descendants.
>> 
>> ...ryan
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>> On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:48 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>> wrote:
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>>> It seems like a stretch, but I for one expect that Wolfe will stretch
>>> for a wolf reference. I think he expects us to expect that of him.
>>> 
>>> The words "inire" and "finire" (initiate/begin and bring to an end) are
>>> enough to start us off on that path, combined with the logical "Fr.
>>> Inire." He probably began the Autarchy, he initiates Urth into a
>>> mystery, he facilitates the end with the last Autarch.
>>> 
>>> I'll bet the man is a mean crossword puzzler.
>>> 
>>> Thomas Bitterman wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:50 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>       That may have been a bit hasty, but the even though the
>>>>       fettered Fenrir
>>>>       was tied to Gyoll, Inire is awfully mobile about his duty
>>>>       station and
>>>>       commands means of egress and ingress - his position is more like
>>>>       Heimdall guarding Bifrost and standing sentry over doings in
>>>>       distant
>>>>       places on other worlds. It doesn't hurt that Heimdal is also the
>>>>       "Father" of the classes of men, in disguise as another person
>>>> yet
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   Just when I'm ready to leave the Norse association behind, you
>>>>   pull me back in. You're right about Heimdall because he's the
>>>>   Norse Janus. The link between Janus, Pan, and Osirus is Priapus
>>>>   who was variously associated with all of them. Heimdall, as the
>>>>   father of humanity, fits right in there. That leaves us here with
>>>>   reasonable mythological associations for Typhon, Severian, and
>>>> Inire.
>>>> 
>>>>   The only frustrating thing is that the monster Typhon doesn't fit
>>>>   for any this. Fenrir doesn't fit for any of this either except in
>>>>   one way. He is an important father too...he's the father of the
>>>>   race of wolves. And, yeah, his rock is Gyoll which is also a
>>>>   mythical river.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Fenrir as father of "Wolfe"s is good enough for me.
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