Cumaeans

Roy C. Lackey · 06 Feb 2009, 06:28 · from 2009-February.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:28:55 -0600
Subject: (urth) Cumaeans
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David Stockhoff wrote:
>> I also have always assumed that the great toothy butterfly-creature
Severian sees flying through the pages of Father Inire's mirror book was an
Inhumu. Is there any consensus on that? Was it Tzadkiel?<<

No inhumi. It was Tzadkiel.

"And it was pleasant indeed to sit upon that bank, occasionally refreshing
my laboring tongue with the cold, clean water of the brook, and recount to
Tzadkiel how I had seen her first between the pages of Father Inire's book,
and how I had helped to capture her aboard her own ship, and how she had
been male and called herself Zak, and how she had cared for me when I was
injured." (URTH, chap. XL, p.-283)

-Roy

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