(urth) Silk and Malrubius

[Gerry Quinn]

From: Peter Sun Rogers

> Hi all, I just finished reading Return to the Whorl again and it
> struck me that Severian refers to Silkhorn's bird as Malrubius's
>  bird. This made me realize that many of the characteristics that
> Severian attributes to the ghost of Malrubius in Book of the New
>  Sun, echo the traits we know best of Silk quite strongly.

That's interesting, but I think the actual incident where Severian said the 
bird belonged to Malrubius was just a lie Severian told to get rid of the 
heavyset man (Gurloes?).  That said, when Horn put his hand on Gurloes 
shoulder, what did Gurloes see?

- Gerry Quinn