(urth) Monkey business

[Jeff Wilson]

On 7/8/2010 11:31 PM, Mr Thalassocrat wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net
> <mailto: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// /

Yes, but the translator says that animal names are given by role rather 
than by taxonomy.


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