(urth) Urth & Earth (was "Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe")

[Jeff Eoff]

Was that DragonCon, James?  I'm pretty sure I remember a moment like
that in the Wolfe Q&A.  I don't recall the exact phrasing, but I do
recall we had to shout Typhon a couple of times before he recognized
who we were talking about.

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:13 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Typhon and Pas are not the same person.
>>
>> Pas began as an iteration of Typhon.
>>
>> Since then they have had seperate histories and are now two persons.
>>
>
> Last September, I sat in a Q&A with Wolfe. The following words (in their essence, it's been 9 months now) were stated:
>
> Some Guy: "Typhon managed to sort of be on the Whorl in the form of Pas."
>
> Gene Wolfe: "No! Typhon *was* on the Whorl in the form of Pas."
>
> I want to convey how emphatic Wolfe was when he made this correction.
>
> Ergo, Pas is not the Typhon that Severian met and threw off the mountain, but (as Wolfe sees it) both THAT Typhon and Pas are the Typhon that created the Whorl.
>
> Just as when Kypris possessed Chenille, she wasn't the Kypris that one might meet at that moment in a Sacred Window. But she *was* Kypris.
>
> J.
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