The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

John Watkins · 07 Jul 2010, 17:36 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:36:48 -0400
Subject: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by
	Rudesind
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On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> wrote:

>
> If Zak can change from a strange dwarf thing to a furry monster. Could
> Inire change from a red wizened ape who could be a man, into Inire, into
> Fechin, into Rudesind? If he IS doing these things, and spying on Severian's
> journey, isn't that important?
>
>
>

Where's the evidence that Inire, in particular, has the same power-set as
Tzadkiel?  As I understand is, Tzadkiel is a Hierogrammate and has certain
powers thereby--and it is not even clear that all other Hierogrammates
possess the same powers.

Inire seems to be a Hierodule.  Hierodules use illusions to conceal their
facial features on occasion, but they do not appear to have Tzadkiel-esque
shapeshifting powers.

Is there evidence that Inire is in fact a Hierogrammate, or that Hierodules
in general can shapeshift?



>  On Jul 7, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> > I'll have to ask yet again - clues to *what*, please? IF some of the
> characters that appear throughout the book are Inire in disguise, then what?
> What happens? What doors open? What new understanding of the story is
> enabled? What's the net worth of such a knowledge? What is it that we don't
> grasp about the book that we'd begin to grasp that way? No one has answered
> this so far.
> >
> > It's as if we posited that Watson's second wife was in fact Mary
> Morstan's cousin. What would that contribute to the story?
>
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