Thecla/Hethor

Macronaut · 05 May 2006, 17:09 · from 2006-May.txt.gz

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From: macronaut at yahoo.com (Macronaut)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 10:09:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Thecla/Hethor
In-Reply-To: <41048A26-9D41-4CD6-8B84-AE2178D56588 at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20060505170912.68649.qmail at web51106.mail.yahoo.com>

Hethor wouldn't need special powers to move backward
in time if he had been a crewman on Tzadkiel's ship, a
la Gunnie/Burgundofara.  Speaking of which, where is
the little gray man on the ship mentioned?

I don't know about shapeshifting, but the Hethor-Purn
connection is hard to ignore -- Hethor's talk about
feeding the "dying pets," and Purn feeding the apports
and noting that most of them die.  So Purn seems a
likely candidate to me.  Unless the gray man was
working in the apport zoo too.

This wiki thing is sounding better all the time,
especially if entries included page citations.

Macronaut

--- Matthew King <automatthew at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On May 5, 2006, at 8:21 AM, b sharp wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps somewhere in the archives it was suggested
> that it meant  
> > Hethor
> > killed his shipmates (and ate them or fed them to
> his pets?)
> >
> 
> More evidence that we need a wiki.  Bless Google,
> but I can't find  
> things in the archive when I need them.
> 
> > Either way, I'll still stick to my interpretation
> on the Thecla,  
> > Hethor and
> > maybe Appian connection, for now.
> 
> The paracoita does seem more important than a mere
> fembot, if only  
> because she is introduced in our introduction to
> Hethor.
> 
> His immediate assumption of familiarity with
> Severian in that scene  
> struck me today.  Is it possible that Hethor lives
> backward in time?   
> Does this mesh with the theory of a fallen
> counterpart to Tzadkiel?
> 
> I can't remember what happened at Severian's last
> encounter with  
> Hethor, which by this conjecture would be Hethor's
> first.
> 
> Matthew
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