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[Jerry Friedman]

>From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
>From: António Pedro Marques > 
>> I'd never before noticed the 'old man' part.

Me neither.

>> I've always pictured Typhon as not looking a day over 33. 
> 
>I’d have guessed 55 or 60 (with Piaton being 20-30).  Not really ‘old’ as
> such, but getting on a bit.


I have trouble imagining how Severian could think a person with a fifty-
something head and a twenty-something head and body was born that
way.  But then I've long had trouble imagining how he could think it no
matter what the ages were.  Were they matched in skin color, hairiness,
etc?

Jerry Friedman