(urth) Appearances of Inire

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Mon Jun 28 17:54:33 PDT 2010


> "Birds unknown to me called overhead, and once a monkey who might, save
> for his four hands, have been a wizened, red-bearded man in fur, spied on
> me from a fork as high as a spire."
> (CotC)
>
> Those are just a few I pulled. The crissing and crossing of things in the
> book is impossible to ignore, however over the top it may seem. No?

Maybe Severian likes monkeys so he writes about them in preference to the
other inconsequentialities that go unrecorded.





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