<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Lee Berman <severiansola@hotmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> urth@urth.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 19, 2012 3:50 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> (urth) Oannes<br> </font> </div> <br><br><br>David Stockhoff: What's the evidence that Typhon is bisexual?<br> <br>Yep, you guys did a good job listing the evidence. The erection<br>in Severian's presence, the tribute, the painting. Added to the<br>matings with Echidna and his relationship with Kypris, of
course.<br> <br>I agree with Antonin that a rape might have been implied as the <br>upcoming event after Severian had been fed and had sworn utter fealty <br>and obedience to Typhon. Which may be part of why Severian refused to <br>swear it. His torturer days might have alerted him that some men <br>(like some animals) use sex as a way of affirming male-male dominance.<br> <br>>Gerry Quinn: I think it’s more of a power thing than a sex thing with <br>>Typhon, though.<br> <br>Agreed, but it is still sex. The choice of "fair women and boys" implies <br>exercising sexual power and coercion. Not the sort of tribute subjects <br>you'd pick if you planned to hold gladiator fights or build giant monuments <br>to yourself. The painting does corroborate this view.<br> <br>>The painting doesn't really mean anything<br> <br>I'm sure you wouldn't intend to speak for others, so perhaps that could<br>be amended to, "The painting doesn't really
mean anything to me".<br> __________________________________________________________<br><br>Circumstantial, but likely enough. <br><br>Gerry is right that whoever painted that painting may have had his own motives that have nothing to do with any basis in fact. But even if Pas/Typhon was only rumored to be bisexual, that at least suggests that someone thought he was, and so he might have been.<br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>