(urth) Father Inire - Hethor

[David Stockhoff]

On 10/20/2011 3:52 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> 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?

I'd guess rarely if at all, before Thrax.