(urth) Appearances of Inire
David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Mon Jun 28 20:20:16 PDT 2010
Exactly.
But which?
John Watkins wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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