Inire as a hierodule

David Stockhoff · 16 Jul 2010, 12:18 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:18:31 -0400
Subject: (urth) Inire as a hierodule
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Of course, if he has accepted a name given him, he has had centuries to 
learn how to spell it. But certainly there is no overt suggestion that 
he does not identify as Father Inire.

"Cousins" is ambiguous. I took it to mean beings who would be his 
brothers except he has distanced himself from them by going native on 
Urth. But it could mean anything.

Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> John Watkins wrote (07-07-2010 19:12):
>> 2010/7/7 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com
>> <mailto:entonio at gmail.com>
>>> John Watkins wrote (07-07-2010 19:00):
>>>> But we're supposed to understand that he's a hierodule.
>>> Why not some other kind of being?
>> I'm eager to consider any kind of being that there is textual evidence
>> for.  He himself refers to his own kind in his letter, though, doesn't
>> he?  So unless he's lying, or there's some more direct set of
>> information to rely on, what kind of being other than humans has
>> Severian encountered?
>
> I finally got around to revisiting the letter.
>
> First thing of, he refers to himself as 'Inire'. That suggests against 
> mangling of the name, at least including word boundaries.
>
> Second, he twice mentions his 'cousins'. Not his brothers nor his 
> makers. I suspect he's not a hierodule. Something related to them, but 
> not one. Not that it matters terribly.
>
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