Fr Inire + Cumean + others

David Stockhoff · 17 Jul 2010, 12:53 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:53:29 -0400
Subject: (urth) Fr Inire + Cumean + others
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I'd guess something happened at that moment to put Severian into that 
perspective. Perhaps it wasn't Severian who slipped into 4 dimensions 
but the Cumaean.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 7/16/2010 6:40 PM, Jane Delawney wrote:
>> Sev's vision is entirely in accordance with the Hindu/Buddhist cosmology
>> Wolfe invokes in many places (manvantaras and all that) and represents a
>> vision of the 'Long Body' of an 'occult' initate ie. in BOTNS terms, a
>> witch. 'Long Body'? well, that would be the body of a human or other
>> living being seen from a four-dimensional POV; from that POV your body,
>> mine, everyone else's, would definitely seem many eyed and snake-like!
>
> Where do the many eyes come in? Why don't other people share the same 
> snakelike appearance when looked at tin the same way by Sev?
>
>

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