(urth) Typhon's nature

[larry miller]

Correction.  Meant to say Musk not Blood in my last post.

On 10/12/11, larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dug out my long sun books last night to reread and found the quote.
> Echidna has just possessed Maytera Marble and killed Blood.  She says
> in response to Silks question "The Prime Calcula........His
> Citadel.........".  Wolfe always capitalizes the citadel to seperate
> it from other strongholds so this Prime Calcula must be on Urth.  At
> first I thought this refered to the thing Severian wakes in the mine
> of the man apes.  But the mandragora seemjs to make more sense in the
> context of Silk and Echidnas conversation.
>
> On 10/11/11, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> --- On Tue, 10/11/11, larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon's nature
>>> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>>> Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 7:59 PM
>>> As I posted before the Mandragora was
>>> likely a proto chem Typhon built
>>> to download into.  Theres a point in Long Sun where
>>> Silk having
>>> discovered that the Gods can possess chems and I remember
>>> Echidna
>>> mentioning a Prime Calcula in the Citadel.  Im sure
>>> this was a
>>> reference to the mandragora.  This would also keep
>>> with Wolfes naming
>>> conventions as Calculas is I believe the latin word for
>>> stone.
>>>
>>
>> huh always wondered about that quote.  So the prime stone?  Not referring
>> to
>> the strange seal under the whorl with all those numbers?
>>
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