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David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Tue Jul 13 08:08:19 PDT 2010
I'm very impressed with how you snuck that conclusion in there. ;)
Granted, the wolf is not critical to the story---almost a tease. But I
think a cacogen hitching his star, so to speak, to Ushas is just similar
enough to being chained to a rock when you have the entire universe open
to you as master of Doors, to be impossible to ignore.
Ryan Dunn wrote:
> 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
>
>
> On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:48 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>> 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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