(urth) Fuligin as Black Hole...

[John Watkins]

Or Gene, like Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton, thinks fair-skin-in-black looks
cool.

If the coloring has some meaning beyond that particular to the torturers'
guild (they torture people and seem to have some connection, literal or
metaphoric, to Catholic priesthood, so are in black), then it must be read
in connection with the robes of argent, the color more white than white,
that Severian is about to put on at the end of Citadel.  So I think a
connection to the old sun and/or its black hole is probably intended.

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> wrote:

> This likely has been covered, but might the darker-than-black fuligin cloak
> be a metaphor slash foreshadowing of the dying sun.
>
> Either the phenomenon that much of tge suns core is alleged to be made up
> of anti-matter; or perhaps the white fountain up through a black hole. A fun
> visual metaphor for pale Sev and his black cloak.
>
> Or maybe the cloak just represents space at large, and pale Sev tge New Son
> flesh-donned.
>
> ?
>
> ...ryan
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