Appearances of Inire

John Watkins · 29 Jun 2010, 01:36 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:36:54 -0400
Subject: (urth) Appearances of Inire
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Well, as Dan Rabin pointed out on this list, Severian implies pretty
strongly in Autarch that he knows Inire was the uturuncu:

"We even know that your master was with us in the jungles of the north,
where he tried until it was too late to rescue my predecessor."

If that's right--if we were supposed to pick up that the bent old shaman in
the jungle was Inire--then we're pretty directly being challenged to reread
the text from the beginning looking for the guy (and to question whether
Severian's "perfect" memory is consistent with Inire's stalking.)  I buy
motifs, and I buy red herrings, but I don't buy that there's that broad clue
and a million monkeylike references without there being at least a little
fire.
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> > Or Wolfe is using monkeys as a motif for some reason.  Not every literary
> > choice is justified in the plot.
>
> Maybe *Wolfe* likes monkeys are writes about them in preference to the
> other inconsequentialities that go unrecorded.
>
> > That said, at least *some *of the candidates have to be Inire.
>
> Why is that?
>
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