<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">You're right. Unless they are known in some vernacular as "monster panels."<div><br></div><div>"Gimme a hand here with this shipment o' monster panels. By crikey, who needs fifteen pallets of 'em?"<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 12/15/10, Gerry Quinn <i><gerryq@indigo.ie></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq@indigo.ie><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 12:43 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>From: "Son of Witz" <<a ymailto="mailto:Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>><br>> So, of course I'm trying to figure out what this teratoid symbol LOOKS like.<br>> I see
that it is mostly a medical term for monstrous abnormality and tumours and such., but I don't find associated symbols with an image search.<br><br>I envisage a sort of red octopussy symbol, with rotational symmetry.<br><br>Note that the symbol appears on each mirror also:<br><br>----------------------<br>I was delighted to hear his voice, and largely in the hope that he would speak again, I asked, "Where are we, then?"<br>"On Urth," he answered, and strode across the room to the folded panels. Their backs were set with clustered diamonds, as I now saw, and enameled with such twisted signs as had been on the door.<br><br>-----------------------<br><br>It may just be alienese for 'quantum reflector' or whatever the proper term for the mirrors is.<br><br>That the sign seems teratoid to Severian may not reflect its true meaning, even if it is intended as a hint to the reader that monsters can lurk in mirrors. Then again he associates the symbol with
cacogens, whom he thinks of - at least at this time - as monsters.<br><br>An actual meaning of 'monsters' seems a bit unlikely, especially engraved on every panel.<br><br>- Gerry Quinn<br><br><br><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 href="http://www.urth.net" target="_blank">http://www.urth.net</a><br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>