Severian's sister/ancestry - query.

Ryan Dunn · 06 Aug 2010, 05:12 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: ryan at liftingfaces.com (Ryan Dunn)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:12:50 -0400
Subject: (urth) Severian's sister/ancestry - query.
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On Aug 6, 2010, at 1:06 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> Alpheta, Tzadkiel, Famulimus, Barbatus, and Inire are all alien creatures from beyond time and space whose existence follows physical laws foreign to all urthly experience. They masquerade as humans, befriend and seduce Severian in furtherance of their alien agenda and are the parties responsible for the White Fountain and its genocidal, climate changing, mass-extinction-event, continent shuffling flood.
> 
> They all had good reasons for doing all this, but it's not like they asked permission or gave due process.


True, I just got wrapped up in the hero quest aspect of the text, I guess, and the need for a new Sun, come hell or high water (or both).

...ryan

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