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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jwilson@clueland.com
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">> I think The Green Man
may actually be Inire, which makes sense as they<BR><FONT face=Calibri>> >
> ></FONT> both are known to change shape, </FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT
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> > When do the Green Man or Inire display their shape-changing ability?
Are<BR>> > > they attested to do so in the story somewhere?<BR><BR>>
> I should have been clearer. It is Vertumnus who is known as a<BR>> >
shapechanger, being the god of seasons and change.<BR>> >
Inire-the-shapechanger is an old Borski theory. Certainly Inire must<BR>>
> have some method of disguise to pass as human, even a short,<BR>> >
monkey-faced one.<BR><BR>> Pretending to be a bent, old man works, since most
people don't want to <BR>> see more. This easily affords him the old shaman
disguise, since the <BR>> covered face and the exposed physique is the
complement of his Vizier <BR>> disguise. And being purpose-made to pose as a
human, by beings who can <BR>> make human-appearing beings, eliminates a
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">As for the Green Man, if he
has shape changing abilities they are fairly limited, as reading the section in
which Severian first encounters him will make obvious.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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