<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Son of Witz 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; ">On Dec 3, 2010, at 10:30 AM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com">danldo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Son of Witz wrote (03-12-2010 18:04):<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Well, at the end of citadel Severian says that he knows Inire was with him<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in the north, so we assume that we saw him and that Inire was the Uturuncu.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ummm ... This could simply mean that Inire was in the north at the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">same time as Severian, could it not? And why would we assume that he<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">was the Uturuncu?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<br></blockquote><br><br><br>Sure. I'm not convinced either, but this list has got the monkey references in my head as the most likely answer, though not every monkey is him. <br><br>I do think the Cowled Cenobite that leads Severian from The Autarch to the Green Room is Inire</span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>I have no doubt Inire makes cameos. Severian tells Rudesind he knows of one, that being the appearance in the jungle. And it helps that the shaman is described thusly...</div><div><br></div><div>"The old man had a staff as crooked as himself, topped with the dried head of a monkey."</div><div><br></div><div>Only to see Inire described thusly, only a few pages later....</div><div><br></div><div>"...with him, no doubt, will be old, twisted Father Inire, eager to confer during the last few moments that remain; old Father Inire, alive so long beyond the span of his short-lived kind."</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure where the mystery is. Unless you say Severian guessed wrong?</div><div><br></div><div>...ryan</div></body></html>