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

[David Stockhoff]

John, all I did was answer Jeff's question.

John Watkins 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 <mailto: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?
>
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