(urth) Father Inire - Hethor

[Jeff Wilson]

On 10/20/2011 2:04 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, October 19, 2011 17:06, Andrew Mason wrote:
>>> Isangoma, by contrast,
>>> is a mystery, with no other roots in the story, and has some
>>> definitely puzzling features - why does he have an African name but
>>> look South American?
>>
>> How does he look South American?
>
> The jungle guide and his two young companions are described as looking
> like Isangoma; they seem to pass for natives of that jungle, and
> certainly are not African. 'Though the first two were younger and the
> third much older, all three recalled to me the naked man I had once
> seen in the Jungle Garden.  They were as naked as he and had the same
> dark, metallic looking skin and straight hair.' (COTA 28.)

It's odd that Severian doesn't remark on those attributes in the actual 
hut scene, with four white people for contrast. How commonly would Sev 
have encountered autocthons at the Citadel or in the Algedonic quarter?


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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