(urth) Mandragora

[Jerry Friedman]

> From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>

...

>But the 
> homunculus itself claimed to be a deformed fetus, preserved artificially in a 
> semi-living state.


Have I said this before?  I feel certain that the homunculus is lying (or Severian imagines that it is).  It pretends to agree that it's nothing of interest, and dead, as a reason for him to kill it.

Jerry Friedman