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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=entonio@gmail.com
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">> </FONT>Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote (24-10-2011
19:13):<BR><BR>> > By the way, no human emotions are attributed to any of
the explicitly<BR>> > alien personages in BoTNS. Would not making this in
case of Hethor break<BR>> > the rule (IF he is Inire, who is an
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5; font-color: black">Inire does have some
characteristic habits and behaviours, though – he’s not utterly inhuman in the
emotional sense. And Odilo in ‘The Cat’ certainly believes Inire has
emotions that he (Odilo) understands<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5; font-color: black"><BR>> Maybe. And do we
know for certain FI is an alien?</DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5; font-color: black">If I remember rightly,
Severian refers to him living much longer than “others of his short lived kind”,
suggesting that Severian considers him to be an anomalously long-lived
Hierodule. He also says he “has made his home here” meaning Urth.
Maybe he’s a full Hiero, or at any rate something more than the average
Hierodule?</DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5; font-color: black">- Gerry
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