Seth Lombardi wrote:
< Okay, if Typhon was Neighbor-Spawned or related it would help finally
< explain the whole Why The Whorl Anyway question, but Typhon was such a
< seemingly sinister and human critter that I have a hard time buying it. His < duality is parasitic and completely antithetical to both the Outsider and (I < think - I've only read OBW) the semi-enlightened noble savage-ness of the < Neighbors. Then again, the Neighbors ain't exactly what I'd call easy to < relate to, so perhaps Typhon was some sort of proto-neighbor, from back when < they were a bit more barbaric. On the other hand, I've always liked the way < Wolfe makes most evil human created - even we seeded Erebus and such.
Or could Typhoon be a similar aberration to Asimov's "Mule"? Not typical of any of the other Neighbors?
Dennis/Endy
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*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.