Ah! Thanks for correcting me ... I was conflating the two injuries. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:28 PM, James Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">crushtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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His injury by the vulture is also one of the reasons he is able to become close with Crane; his hurt ankle serves as a pretext for Crane to give him the wrapping, etc. So the vulture serves an importance narrative purpose as well. Also, Wolfe seems to have a thing with lame protagonists. Weer, Severian, Silk ... not sure why that is.<br>
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His leg injury occurs when he falls out of the window because Hyacinth is taunting him with her azoth. He only gets a cut from the gyrevulture.<br>
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The Silk leg injury another example of Silk and Auk acting out the life of Hephaestus. Hephaestus was alternately tossed off Mt Olympus by Zeus (lighting bolt) and Hera (make of it what you will), and injured his leg. There's the prophesy in Genesis in which the serpent bites the heel of the "enmity" which in turn crushes his head. Also, Jason and Cinderella had only one shoe and Oedipus had a club foot.<div>
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