Dr. Talos

Russell Wodell · 07 Sep 2006, 02:42 · from 2006-September.txt.gz

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From: wrustle at telus.net (Russell Wodell)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:42:31 -0700
Subject: (urth) Dr. Talos
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I have always seen Dr. Talos as the fox in Disney's Pinocchio: 
"Hi-diddlee-dee, an actor's life for me!" And Severian dreams of being a 
puppet, not a real boy...

Russell Wodell
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Thornton" <adam at io.com>
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: (urth) Dr. Talos


>
> On Sep 6, 2006, at 11:35 AM, b sharp wrote:
>> Also, Talos loves whacking the heads off flowers with his cane.
>> What's up
>> with that?
>
> I see that as the Frankenstein flower-picking reference.
>
>> And what's up with him in general?  A homunculus?  Name from a
>> mythical bronze man?  Hot dry skin.  No sex, sleep or food needed?
>
> All of these: Onomastics works quite well here.  Talos is an
> automaton, a creation of Baldanders: "face like a stuffed fox"--think
> of him as a *very* sophisticated alarm clock.  Although he eventually
> acquires a measure of independence.
>
> Adam
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