On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Son of Witz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
this rendering does bring up one other question I've been toying with, which is, wouldn't these future ice age folk be sorta hairy. Anything I've seen has a sort of modern whiteboy look, ie, not so hairy. I suppose he might look like a manly russian old school dude. I mean, he's a wolf and the name Severian is Russian, No? anyway, I don't really think there is much mention of his hair, other than the black hairs on the back of his hands and head, and his shaving. I don't think there is anything to say he's not a hairy chested man.<br>
<div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>There's a passage -- I can't recall whether it's in the Book proper or Castle of<br>the Otter -- where either Severian or Wolfe says that each continent has its<br>
proper racial "type" of person, and that after invaders have been there a few<br>thousand years they begin to look like the people they've displaced.<br><br>By that logic I would expect Severian's people to look like native South<br>
Americans.<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant<br>-----<br><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer">http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer</a><br>
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