# Oy! *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 07 Nov 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *07 Nov 2002, 20:56* Okay, I assume everyone is agreed that Typhon, in SWORD, is a Satan image in much the same way & extent that Severian is a Christ(ian) image, right? I mean, he goes through the whole tempting in a desert place routine and all that, so anyway... Roy C. Lackey wrote (among other stuff)... > Typhon, who had his own head cut off to spite his ego, had > his head attached to Piaton's body. It was probably some > complication of the surgery, or Piaton's resistance to having > his mind and body subordinated to Typhon's will, that led to > the death of the body behind the curtain. It never occurred to me before that there was an Oz reference here. I mean, how are you supposed to deal with temptation? Ignore it until it leaves you alone. In other words: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain ... ---