(urth) [BGSpam]Re: Typhon's nature

[Gerry Quinn]

From: David Stockhoff 
> 
On 10/15/2011 6:23 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:

> > Clearly incest is not the norm in Severian’s time.
> >
> No one, and I mean NO ONE, has suggested that incest is "the norm" 
> anywhere, ever. At all. You do your own arguments no service when you 
> twist others' arguments into nonrecognition before denying them.
> 
> The rulers of ancient Egypt committed incest almost by definition. Do 
> you really think it was "remarked upon" by Egyptians?
I’m sure it was. 

> It has been suggested that "sacred" incest is a motif in the Sun books. 
> It has been explained why that might be the case. And it has nothing to 
> do with Margaret Meade. Are you interested at all?

A lot of stuff about incest has been posted to the list.  Mostly speculating that every woman mentioned in the text is Severian’s sister, with rather little in the way of justification.  So now Typhon’s at it too?  The implications are complicated, though, for a guy with somebody else’s genitalia.

Show me where the text implies Typhon engaged in sacred incest, and I’ll be interested.  


- Gerry Quinn


 
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