<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 29, 2010, at 12:06 AM, John Watkins wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; "><div class="im">But why go to the trouble to make a point of a character having monkey-like qualities, which is clearly how Inire is described (at least second</div></blockquote></span></blockquote></blockquote><br><div></div><div>I don't have any firm opinions about this subject, but this could just be a very cheeky signifier to show ANY meddling with Severian. These Monkies might just be Agents of Inire.</div><div><br></div><div>Why would the boatman be an agent? Maybe the boatman stirred Dorcas his way.</div><div>Don't know, but if they're monkeying with his timeline to produce some certain characteristics then Dorcas is somehow a part of it, right.</div></body></html>