Short Sun blog

Jeff Wilson · 25 Sep 2010, 05:14 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:14:40 -0500
Subject: (urth) Short Sun blog
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On 9/24/2010 11:29 AM, Dave Tallman wrote:
> Lee Berman wrote:
>
>     Jeff, your argument below on the more modest, machine assisted
>     abilities of Typhon is a good one. What isn't addressed, for me, are
>     the similar abilities of the Mandragora. Within your framework of
>     thinking are you saying the Mandragora has similar machinery to
>     Typhon's at his disposal? Or that Typhon and the Mandragora are
>     unrelated? Or something else?
>
>
> I am not persuaded that the Mandragora has anything to do with Typhon.
> There are a couple of unanswered questions with this theory.
>
> 1) Why would a clone of Typhon be stored in the Autarch's visiting room?
> Typhon wasn't an Autarch -- the title wasn't invented in his time. The
> Matachin Tower was just part of a prison then.

I just posted a quote from URTH that seems to say that there were 
Autarchs before Typhon, and in SWORD Typhon answers to the title of 
Autarch without correction or comment to Severian.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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