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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>----------------------</span><br>
<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>
<span></span><br>
<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. 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". 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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