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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Lee Berman <A href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</A><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail><BR>...<BR>Perhaps I'm being too literal here and should join in with David on the Wolfean joke. But for me, the glyph is in <BR>an alien "language". Who is it supposed to warn of danger? Barbatus getting lost in the Secret House? <BR>For some reason David continues to dance away from what I see as the clear association here: If mirrors connect to <BR>monsters then Father Inire connects to Hethor.<BR><BR><BR>>Son o' Witz- So, of course I'm trying to figure out what this teratoid symbol LOOKS like.<BR><BR>Heh, me too.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I'd never noticed the irony that when Severian tells us the appearance of the glyph but doesn't know its meaning, and when we wonder what</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">the glyph looks like exactly, "We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last."</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">My theory is that it's the word in Father Inire's native language for "mirrors". As people are saying, since the mirrors can call monsters, it's</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">appropriate that whatever is written there looks monster-like to Severian.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(Sorry if this message is messed up. Yahoo seems to be misbehaving.)</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Jerry Friedman</DIV></DIV></div><br>
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