> Sergei: > By the way, the scene in the skill of the Typhon's monument (the > mountain) in "the Sword of the Lictor" > has also a biblical parallel - Devil tempting Jesus in the desert. > Devil had taken Jesus to the top of > a mountain etc. Also, Typhon offered Severian food (although Severian takes it unJesus-like) and dangled him over the precipice. J.