<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">That's an interesting point. Inire calls forth only fish and angels. Which makes him seem not so satanic to me. What do you think?<div><br></div><div>But Hethor calls forth true monsters, and we are told they are conjured from mirrors.</div><div><br></div><div>As for your last point about apports---they are monsters too, as a category. Yes, some may be sentient, or even human---who knows? Perhaps the worst monster to emerge from a mirror is the one we see there?<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 12/14/10, Lee Berman <i><severiansola@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Lee Berman <severiansola@hotmail.com><br>Subject: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid<br>To: urth@lists.urth.net<br>Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 1:03 PM<br><br><div
class="plainMail"><br><br>>David Stockhoff- I think the answer is in the word "teratoid." Teratoid means monster-like---<br>in other words, RESEMBLING A >MONSTER. What could this be but a"universal" symbol denoting the <br>presence of monsters and connoting danger? Three pairs of horns >and three sets of tentacles would <br>do the trick for most people.<br> <br>I'm okay with that. But here's the thing..the only thing we see coming out of those particular mirrors <br>is the silver fish-thing in the Domnina story (though I think Inire says there could be more creatures <br>to come if given more time). Borski has suggested the fish is a "potent Christian symbol" or<br>something like that.<br> <br>Our only other BotNS view of such mirrors is the old Autarch's book, in which we see an island-sized <br>version of angelic Tzadkiel. How can these two mirror creatures be reconciled with the monster association?<br> <br> <br>I'll
toss out what I think is another related phenomenon. On Tzadkiel's ship we are told the apports<br>are creatures which have been inadvertantly transported by juxaposition of the ship's mirror sails.<br>We get as crazy a collection of aliens as we'll ever see in a WOlfe book. But, we are told, sometimes the<br>apports are people, though (from an angelic point of view?) people can be categorized as monsters from<br>a higher being's perception, or something like that. Apheta explicitly defines Severian as a monster.<br> <br>How can we encompass all these mirror views with meaningful understanding? Any thoughts? <br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" href="/mc/compose?to=urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>Subscription/information: <a
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