Two tombs

don doggett · 10 Jul 2006, 03:14 · from 2006-July.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 20:14:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Two tombs
In-Reply-To: <000c01c6a39e$01299360$df3ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>
Message-ID: <20060710031457.38545.qmail at web32413.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

--- "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:
(regarding Typhon's family)

 At
> any rate, none of them
> seem to have had an impact on Urth's future history.

This isn't quite true since, as the gods of mainframe
on the Whorl, they helped to shape Silk and thus
Severian, if the last book of the SS is to be
believed.  But that's not really what you meant by
your statement, I imagine. You mean the immediate
influence of their mortal lifespans, no?

Don

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