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The Man Apes are in an environment laced with mutagenic substances (radiation, toxic wastes, etc.) and they never get to see the sun.<
This is why I particularly enjoy Dan Maitz's cover painting for Claw, in which the zoanthrops are blinded by the light of Severian's Claw. This ties in with a remark made by Dorcas, something along the lines of "People are always saying that when the New Sun comes, he will be too bright to look at."
Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
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"Ignorance, that light of fools steers a wayward path"
-Brendan Perry