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It's a particularly tasty one.

You never know where these things are going.

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> 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:
>
>> F E N R I R
>> E X O A T E
>> N O X I O S
>> R A I L M N
>> I T O M A C
>> R E S N C E
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>>> 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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