(urth) Monkey business

[brunians at brunians.org]

Ook ook?

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> 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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