(urth) Appearances of Inire

[John Watkins]

Or Wolfe is using monkeys as a motif for some reason.  Not every literary
choice is justified in the plot.

That said, at least *some *of the candidates have to be Inire.

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> > "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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