<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Follow-up: I think Mr Million died when he was scanned. So it's not impossible. But Typhon did not.<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 9/27/10, Nicholas Jost <i><nickjost@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Nicholas Jost <nickjost@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: (urth) note Re: Short Sun blog<br>To: urth@lists.urth.net<br>Date: Monday, September 27, 2010, 12:19 PM<br><br><div id="yiv235235784"><style type="text/css"><!--#yiv235235784 DIV {margin:0px;}--></style><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span
style="font-weight:bold;"></span></b></font><br>From: Jeff Wilson <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jwilson@io.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=jwilson@io.com">jwilson@io.com</a>><br><br>Typhon's resurrection by Severian is not reasonably believable as a <br>biological process, and I certainly did not casually accept it as one <br>when I first read the books, or the third time. But it is just as <br>believable as the result of Severian's time-bending superpowers as any <br>other resurrection in the books.<br>************************************<br><br>Why is it always assumed that Severian brought him back?
There<br>is none of the mythic special effects around his contact with Typhon.<br>However, there is a blood sacrifice and associated special effects<br>when Little Sev dies. On my reading I always assumed that the<br>"magic" ring sucked down Little Sev's soul and used it to power<br>the monster Typhon. Its not like we don't have soul sucking<br>monsters in these stories with meta-physic complications<br>running around. Little Sev dies and Typhoon rises. The <br>dragon done ate 'im.<br><br>Nicholas Jost<br></div></div>
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