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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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Qunn wrote:<BR>>Andrew Mason:<BR>> >> The monarch repented, and
everything we see of Typhon, both on Urth<BR>> >> and on the Whorl,
would have come after that repentance. I think it's<BR>> >> clear that
this monarch is Typhon, since in _Urth_ there is a specific<BR>> >>
reference to him as having brought the books to to the Citadel.<BR>><BR>>
> Where does it say that?<BR><BR>> _Urth_ chapter 36 (the physician
speaking):<BR><BR>> 'This coast is quake-prone, as the old records indicate
clearly enough<BR>> - praise to our Monarch, by the way, for having them
brought here.'</DIV></DIV>
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enough, though it doesn’t really give the impression that Typhon was trying to
suppress knowledge. But I just found a problem:</DIV></DIV>
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spoil was gathered into a great heap in the city of Nessus, which was then newly
built, to be burned.”</DIV>
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Nessus was built long before the reign of Typhon?</DIV></DIV>
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way, Typhon eventually came to appreciate the pleasures of a good
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you will send me tribute of fair women and boys, of the ancient devices and
books, and all the good things this world of Urth produces."</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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