(urth) Mythic Women in BotNS

Son of Witz Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Tue Jan 25 14:33:10 PST 2011


On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I understand the idea (shared by many) that if Severian is to be the Epitome of Urth he must
> be fully human. (yet, in the Jamesian model, isn't SilkHorn 100% human, 100% Neighbor?)

But Silk isn't the Epitome of Urth, brought as a representative of his entire species to bear the judgement from the Heirodules.  He IS humanity.


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