Inire as a hierodule

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 16 Jul 2010, 20:20 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:20:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Inire as a hierodule
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Message-ID: <738613.56697.qm at web84102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

"Cousins" could indicate a certain distance, political, cultural, motivational, or otherwise. 

As in "our American cousins..." in a Le Carre novel.

--- On Fri, 7/16/10, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote:

From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie>
Subject: Re: (urth) Inire as a hierodule
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Friday, July 16, 2010, 4:14 PM

From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net>

> There is no doubt at all that Severian believed that Inire was a member of a
> short-lived kind -- he said so. I suspect that Inire's use of "cousins" in
> the letter was just a generic, euphemistic term for his short-lived kind, in
> much the same sense that a Christian may speak of his fellow believers as
> "brothers in Christ".

Also, we don't know anything about how hierodules are born / constructed / hatched.? Maybe he feels "brother" is too suggestive of a human-like reproductive system.

Admittedly he seems to have no problem with calling himself "Father", but then again the word "father" here is clearly (?) being used metaphorically.

- Gerry Quinn

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