# The Man-Apes and the New Sun (Re: Environental Impacts)

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 06 Feb 1998*

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### CRCulver
*06 Feb 1998, 15:13*

> 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>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html
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"Ignorance, that light of fools steers a wayward path"
-Brendan Perry

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