Musings on the Hierodule fieldguide

William H. Ansley · 04 Sep 1998, 00:06 · from urth-v0018.mbox · original

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From: "William H. Ansley" <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Musings on the Hierodule fieldguide
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:06:07
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><???--Father Inire.  He's a hunched little guy, a Daedalus or
>Hephaestus or Toth, and since Toth is the most ancient I tend to
>think of Inire as being something like Toth's totem, the ibis, a bent
>neck little bird hobbling around, finding treasures in the muck. (Of
>course, he's also Lewdis Carnal, Victorian child pornographer,
>hunched over his primitive camera obscena. <g>)>
>
>Happily, Inire seems to be just enamoured by little exultantesses, and the=
re
>is no evidence of his actually molesting them. Boy, wouldn't that be an
>embarassment to the reign of the Autarch Severian.

I certainly hope no one reading this list thinks that Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) molested any children. He didn't. He also wasn't a
child pornographer - mantis was joking (I hope).

William Ansley

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