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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=soloviev@irit.fr
href="mailto:soloviev@irit.fr">Sergei SOLOVIEV</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>I agree with Sergei – Typhon may well have come from off-Urth but he is
human, or close enough for government work. </DIV>
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<DIV>Even if he has psychic powers (I personally think he has near-supernatural
charisma and leadership abilities) that doesn’t really disqualify him from being
human I think.</DIV>
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<DIV>It’s true that Severian makes much of his astonishment at Typhon, given
that we would probably be less amazed by him than by other things Severian
doesn’t make a fuss about, But he never mentions anything else strange
about him, and when you think about it, he does refer to “the flesh of
humankind”.</DIV>
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<DIV>A possibility occurs to me: do the people of Severian’s time recognise a
constellation called Typhon, probably represented as a two-headed man?</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn </DIV>
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Well, if Typhon would be an alien, it would be much more difficult to
graft<BR>> his head to Piaton. And why take such risky and complex operation?
I think<BR>> that the straightforward explanation is much more
convincing.<BR><BR>> Larry Miller wrote:</DIV></DIV>
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> [—] I think hes an alien mainly because<BR>> > of Wolfes naming
strategum and some things that he says to Severian.<BR>> > When telling
him about his grafting to Piaton he mentions the solar<BR>> > decay and
says "I should have left then." I think maybe hes refering<BR>> > to
escaping back to his homeworld. His comments about "sending his<BR>>
> thoughts into far places" are a reference to some psychic abilities
he<BR>> > has (and I know there are those on here that disagree).
And theres<BR>> > Severians initial description of the newly resurrected
Monarch.<BR>> > "...it was as though one of the monstous constellations of
the night<BR>> > sky had fallen to Urth and clothed itself in the flesh of
humankind."</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>