(urth) Wind god

[Jeff Wilson]

On 11/5/2010 7:57 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> Andrew Mason- According to Dorcas's account of the Conciliator he used to disappear and reappear,
>> suggesting that Severian's trip to Typhon's time is not the sole source of the legend.
>
>
>> Son o'Witz- I like this. It adds to the idea that the Tomb Builder Severian is out meddling
> around beyond the text.
>
> Agreed, Andrew brings up an interesting idea that I hadn't thought much about before. Severian does
> see a couple guys who look like himself in the crowd at the inn during the Zama incident.
>
> Moreover, Typhon himself describes the Conciliator as a "wonderworker" to Severian. This would seem
> to be a sarcastic comment given that the demonstration to Typhon we see of The Conciliator's power
> consists of him jabbing a dagger into a tabletop.

Lee, this an example of the kind of selective reading that pisses off 
people. In the second sentence following Typhon calling the Conciliator 
a wonder-worker, he gives a perfectly straightforward reason for calling 
him that: "[...]and since diseases and deformities seemed to flee from 
him, I ordered him brought to me."  The disappearances mentioned my 
Dorcas would seem to indicate that his departure into the Corridors was 
further attested by the soldiers who witnessed it after he left Typhon's 
presence. It's not as if Sev had a chance to fail to produce miracles on 
command, when Typhon himself had him sent away after the knife incident.


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