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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">David Stockhoff</A> </DIV>
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10/14/2011 6:15 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > *From:* David
Stockhoff <mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net><BR>> > > > On the
other hand, Typhon would have known of the dangers of<BR>> > > >
inbreeding, and it also seems that he didn’t much like the idea of<BR>> >
> > genetically engineering his offspring.<BR>> > ><BR>> >
> Why do you think this?<BR>> > Because he had access to the
technology, and he didn’t use it.<BR>> How do you know this?</DIV></DIV>
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these things are obvious? We know he had the technology, because the Whorl
is loaded with it. It seems obvious that a technology that can produce
Mucor or a psychic internet can prevent, say, the blindness of Tartarus, who
seems otherwise sound. So Typhon must have chosen not to use
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> > > So it would be remarkable if he married his sister. Duke
Rigoglio<BR>> > > > doesn’t mention anything unusual about his
marriage – you’d think <BR>> > such<BR>> > > > a thing would
be remarked upon.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > WE would. Would anyone on
Urth?<BR>> > In Severian’s time, people certainly would.<BR>> How do
you know?</DIV>
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<DIV>When I re-entered the cell, Agilus was sitting cross-legged, his back
propped by the wall. "Don't ask me about Agia," be said. "Everything you suspect
is true--is that enough? I will be dead tomorrow, and she will wed the old man
who dotes on her, or someone else. I wanted her to do it sooner. He couldn't
have prevented her from seeing me, her brother. Now I will be gone, and she
won't have even that to worry about."</DIV>
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<DIV>Clearly incest is not the norm in Severian’s time.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>- Gerry Quinn</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>