Urth & Earth (was "Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe")

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:32:06 -0400
Subject: (urth) Urth & Earth (was "Travelling North aka miscellaneous
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Pas was recorded from Typhon's brain.

Since that point their lives and experiences have been very different.

Pas has had many years to think.

Who would not be a different person after that many years?

.

>>
>> Typhon and Pas are not the same person.
>>
>> Pas began as an iteration of Typhon.
>>
>> Since then they have had seperate histories and are now two persons.
>>
>
> Last September, I sat in a Q&A with Wolfe. The following words (in their
> essence, it's been 9 months now) were stated:
>
> Some Guy: "Typhon managed to sort of be on the Whorl in the form of Pas."
>
> Gene Wolfe: "No! Typhon *was* on the Whorl in the form of Pas."
>
> I want to convey how emphatic Wolfe was when he made this correction.
>
> Ergo, Pas is not the Typhon that Severian met and threw off the
> mountain, but (as Wolfe sees it) both THAT Typhon and Pas are the Typhon
> that created the Whorl.
>
> Just as when Kypris possessed Chenille, she wasn't the Kypris that one
> might meet at that moment in a Sacred Window. But she *was* Kypris.
>
> J.
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