(urth) Pike's ghost

[Gerry Quinn]

From: Larry Miller 

> Before this thread turns into another Typhons Nature Ill just say
> this: In Castle of the Otter in the Onomastics chapter Wolfe very
> clearly lays out his naming scheme.  His first rule is "Everything is
> just what it says it is."  He even refers to Typhon as a monster and
> Piaton as a man.  Typhon therefore is not human (or at least not in
> the same way as the Urthlings are) even in Wolfes eyes.  There are
> things in the text that also seem to point to Typhons "alienness."
> Whether you choose to read them that way is up to the individual
> reader ultimately.  This may just be one of those things we will have
> to agree to disagree on Gerry.
Can’t a man be a monster?
- Gerry Quinn
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