<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Roy,</div><div>that helps me so much. thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>I got a whiff of the Author of V when he mentioned the bower</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><b>"but I will write for a little while more before I go to my bower to sleep: "</b></div></div><div><br></div><div>bower <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 16px; "><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">a</span> <span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">pleasant</span> shady place under trees or climbing plants in a <span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">garden</span> or <span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">wood</span>.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">lazy summer days on Ushas, writing in the grotto</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">~witz</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div>On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>David Stockhoff wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I found the relevant passage:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"But if Apu-Punchau is myself, what was the body I found on Tzadkiel's<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ship?"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nearly whispering, Famulimus sang, "The man whom you saw dead your<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mother bore. Or so it seems to me from what's been said. Now I would<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">weep for her if I had tears, though not---perhaps---for you still living<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">here. What we did here for you, Severian, the mighty Tzadkiel<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">accomplished there, remembrance taking from your dead mind to build your<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mind and you anew."<br></blockquote><br>Yes, which is why I said what I said. Tzadkiel is the Hierogrammate who<br>created the new body on the Ship. There were two bodies on the Ship. The<br>dead one had written the first four books. The new aquastor body Tzadkiel<br>made went on to become the Conciliator and Apu. After Apu got older and was<br>strangled, B, F & O created a new body in the tomb, which is why there were<br>two bodies in that tomb. The newly created body went on to write the fifth<br>book. The dead Apu also came back to life when the first faint light of the<br>white fountain reached Urth that night Sev fled the tomb, but that's another<br>issue.<br><br>Btw, aquastor and eidolon are interchangeable in the Urth Cycle. The former<br>is the more formal term, the latter is the common, just as Increate is the<br>learned term for what the less educated call God.<br><br>-Roy<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>