<div>Or Wolfe is using monkeys as a motif for some reason. Not every literary choice is justified in the plot.</div>
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<div>That said, at least <em>some </em>of the candidates have to be Inire.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Jeff Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwilson@io.com">jwilson@io.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> "Birds unknown to me called overhead, and once a monkey who might, save<br>> for his four hands, have been a wizened, red-bearded man in fur, spied on<br>> me from a fork as high as a spire."<br>
> (CotC)<br>><br>> Those are just a few I pulled. The crissing and crossing of things in the<br>> book is impossible to ignore, however over the top it may seem. No?<br><br></div>Maybe Severian likes monkeys so he writes about them in preference to the<br>
other inconsequentialities that go unrecorded.<br>
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