Appearances of Inire

David Stockhoff · 29 Jun 2010, 03:20 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:20:16 -0400
Subject: (urth) Appearances of Inire
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Exactly.

But which?

John Watkins wrote:
> Or Wolfe is using monkeys as a motif for some reason.  Not every 
> literary choice is justified in the plot.
>  
> That said, at least /some /of the candidates have to be Inire.
>
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com 
> <mailto:jwilson at io.com>> wrote:
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>     > "Birds unknown to me called overhead, and once a monkey who
>     might, save
>     > for his four hands, have been a wizened, red-bearded man in fur,
>     spied on
>     > me from a fork as high as a spire."
>     > (CotC)
>     >
>     > Those are just a few I pulled. The crissing and crossing of
>     things in the
>     > book is impossible to ignore, however over the top it may seem. No?
>
>     Maybe Severian likes monkeys so he writes about them in preference
>     to the
>     other inconsequentialities that go unrecorded.
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