(urth) Oannes

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

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 From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
To: urth at urth.net 
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 3:50 PM
Subject: (urth) Oannes
 


David Stockhoff: What's the evidence that Typhon is bisexual?

Yep, you guys did a good job listing the evidence. The erection
in Severian's presence, the tribute, the painting. Added to the
matings with Echidna and his relationship with Kypris, of course.

I agree with Antonin that a rape might have been implied as the 
upcoming event after Severian had been fed and had sworn utter fealty 
and obedience to Typhon.  Which may be part of why Severian refused to 
swear it. His torturer days might have alerted him that some men 
(like some animals) use sex as a way of affirming male-male dominance.

>Gerry Quinn: I think it’s more of a power thing than a sex thing with 
>Typhon, though.

Agreed, but it is still sex.  The choice of "fair women and boys" implies 
exercising sexual power and coercion. Not the sort of tribute subjects 
you'd pick if you planned to hold gladiator fights or build giant monuments 
to yourself. The painting does corroborate this view.

>The painting doesn't really mean anything

I'm sure you wouldn't intend to speak for others, so perhaps that could
be amended to, "The painting doesn't really mean anything to me".
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Circumstantial, but likely enough. 

Gerry is right that whoever painted that painting may have had his own motives that have nothing to do with any basis in fact. But even if Pas/Typhon was only rumored to be bisexual, that at least suggests that someone thought he was, and so he might have been.
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