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The more I consider it, the better I like the biohazard symbol as a
candidate. It has tentacles and each one has a small pair of horns
on top. <br>
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u+16b9<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>From: "Son of Witz" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>><br>
</span><span>So, of course I'm trying to figure out what this
teratoid symbol LOOKS like.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>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.</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="">On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:43
AM, "Gerry Quinn" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:gerryq@indigo.ie">gerryq@indigo.ie</a>>
wrote:<br>
</span><span>I envisage a sort of red octopussy symbol, with
rotational symmetry.</span><br>
<span></span><span>Note that the symbol appears on each mirror
also:</span><br>
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<span>I was delighted to hear his voice, and largely in the hope
that he would speak again, I asked, "Where are we, then?"</span><br>
<span>"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.</span><br>
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<span>-----------------------</span><br>
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<span>It may just be alienese for 'quantum reflector' or
whatever the proper term for the mirrors is.</span><br>
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<span>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. Â Then again he
associates the symbol with cacogens, whom he thinks of - at
least at this time - as monsters.</span><br>
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<span>An actual meaning of 'monsters' seems a bit unlikely,
especially engraved on every panel.</span><span><br>
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<div><span>From: "Son of Witz" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>><br>
</span>Thanks for pointing out the second mention of the
"twisted signs". Â Every description of things in the book seem
to be repeated, phrased slightly differently. Trying To hunt
these down and compile them is tough.</div>
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