(urth) Father Inire as Dionysus

[David Stockhoff]

On 10/24/2011 8:40 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* Lee Berman <mailto:severiansola at hotmail.com>
>
> > Other clues are the aforementioned image of her face in that of
> > Ultan's. Also, it would seem that Vodalus and his crew are not
> > risking their lives and wasting precious alzabo to have their
> > ceremony for eating just anyone. Thecla was important. But
> > perhaps not as important as eating the mother of the
> > Conciliator/New Sun (which Vodalus may or may not know about.
> > But SOMEBODY in power knows about it).
> They’re not so fussy. It looks like they’ll eat anyone, at a pinch, 
> even if some of them have preferences:
> **************************************
> "Going far this time? Going to drown yourself again?" (This from the 
> man at the back of our party, a mere disembodied voice in the dark.)
> "By Erebus, I'm going to sink so far you won't see me until winter."
> A voice I recognized as belonging to the armiger asked, "Have any of 
> you seen her yet?" The others had sounded merely boastful, but there 
> was hunger of a kind I had never heard before behind his simple words. 
> He might have been some lost traveler asking about his home.
> "No, Waldgrave."
> (Another voice.) "Alcmund says a good one, not old or too young."
> "Not another tribade, I hope."
> "I don't . . ."
> ***************************************
> One might consider it as paralleling Severian’s sexual encounters with 
> a wide spectrum of Commonwealth society, and later his absorption of 
> the minds of previous Autarchs. The diabolical communion of the 
> Vodalarii is still, indeed, a sort of communion. Evil is good perverted.
> - Gerry Quinn


I have a hunch Vodalus picks his meals very carefully. His followers may 
not care so much.