<div>Well, as Dan Rabin pointed out on this list, Severian implies pretty strongly in Autarch that he knows Inire was the uturuncu:</div>
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<div>"We even know that your master was with us in the jungles of the north, where he tried until it was too late to rescue my predecessor."</div>
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<div>If that's right--if we were supposed to pick up that the bent old shaman in the jungle was Inire--then we're pretty directly being challenged to reread the text from the beginning looking for the guy (and to question whether Severian's "perfect" memory is consistent with Inire's stalking.) I buy motifs, and I buy red herrings, but I don't buy that there's that broad clue and a million monkeylike references without there being at least a little fire.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:30 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">> Or Wolfe is using monkeys as a motif for some reason. Not every literary<br>> choice is justified in the plot.<br><br></div>Maybe *Wolfe* likes monkeys are writes about them in preference to the<br>
<div class="im">other inconsequentialities that go unrecorded.<br><br></div>
<div class="im">> That said, at least *some *of the candidates have to be Inire.<br><br></div>Why is that?<br>
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