(urth) Claw = Fang?

[Jeff Wilson]

On 11/25/2012 9:24 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>
> On 11/24/2012 7:33 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> On 11/23/2012 10:18 PM, the badger wrote:
>>> This is a minor point but I noticed towards the beginning of Shadow,
>>> during the Feast of Holy Katherine, at the climax of the ceremony the
>>> torturer's wheel appears to be covered with serpents which turn into
>>> roses (it's all an effect created by colored paper, as Severian notes).
>>
>> Good show locating this textev, Badger!
>>
>
> You have to wonder how far to take this.
>
> If a rose is one of Severian's symbols, and a serpent is not, then what
> does that mean? Is the thorn of the field at least an honest adversary,
> encountered while toiling, and the rose the best of all the thorns? Was
> Typhon a serpent?

Typhon absolutely plays the serpent's part when he shows Sev all the 
countries of Urth and offers him dominion over them in return for his 
oath of fealty.


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