(urth) Appearances of Inire

[David Stockhoff]

Thanks.

And thanks for that disturbing image!

Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> On Jun 28, 2010, at 5:52 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> There is a detailed discussion of exultant families and their
>>> dwindling---this suggests to me a dying race of world-rulers, not a
>>> created class of freaks.
>>>       
>
> They're both. Exultants have greater height genetically, and enhance it
> further by harvesting hormones or actual glands from their khaibits. This
> modification for greater height may be a tradition going back as far as
> the stone town:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Head_Shaping.jpg
>
>
>   
>> Yes, there used to be more families over the course of histories, but it
>> seemed to me that Gurloes was impressing upon Severian the VASTNESS of the
>> exultant families still going, no?
>>
>> There are nearly 3,000 exultant blood lines still going, based on this
>> math...
>>     
>
>   
>> 'It gives about half a page to each. There are seven hundred and forty-
>> six pages.'"
>>     
>
> 2 x 746 = 1492, but that may not be a one for one correspondence, as one
> family may include others by marriage, like Prince Charles being a Windsor
> as well as a Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and a 
> Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, which are themselves obviously
> made of other families, each with their own laws about succession and
> inheritance.
>
>
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