(urth) mysteries of the long sun?

[Antonin Scriabin]

Ah!  Thanks for correcting me ... I was conflating the two injuries.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:28 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/28/2011 12:52 PM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
>
>> His injury by the vulture is also one of the reasons he is able to become
>> close with Crane; his hurt ankle serves as a pretext for Crane to give him
>> the wrapping, etc.  So the vulture serves an importance narrative purpose as
>> well.  Also, Wolfe seems to have a thing with lame protagonists.  Weer,
>> Severian, Silk ... not sure why that is.
>>
>
> His leg injury  occurs when he falls out of the window because Hyacinth is
> taunting him with her azoth. He only gets a cut from the gyrevulture.
>
> The Silk leg injury another example of Silk and Auk acting out the life of
> Hephaestus. Hephaestus was alternately tossed off Mt Olympus by Zeus
> (lighting bolt) and Hera (make of it what you will), and injured his leg.
> There's the prophesy in Genesis in which the serpent bites the heel of the
> "enmity" which in turn crushes his head. Also, Jason and Cinderella had only
> one shoe and Oedipus had a club foot.
>
>
> J.
>
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