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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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10/15/2011 6:23 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR><BR>> > Clearly incest is not
the norm in Severian’s time.<BR>> ><BR>> No one, and I mean NO ONE, has
suggested that incest is "the norm" <BR>> anywhere, ever. At all. You do your
own arguments no service when you <BR>> twist others' arguments into
nonrecognition before denying them.<BR>> <BR>> The rulers of ancient Egypt
committed incest almost by definition. Do <BR>> you really think it was
"remarked upon" by Egyptians?</DIV></DIV>
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sure it was.
<DIV style="font-color: black"><BR>> It has been suggested that "sacred"
incest is a motif in the Sun books. <BR>> It has been explained why that
might be the case. And it has nothing to <BR>> do with Margaret Meade. Are
you interested at all?</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black">A lot of stuff about incest has been posted to
the list. Mostly speculating that every woman mentioned in the text is
Severian’s sister, with rather little in the way of justification. So now
Typhon’s at it too? The implications are complicated, though, for a guy
with somebody else’s genitalia.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black">Show me where the text implies Typhon engaged in
sacred incest, and I’ll be interested. </DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black">- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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