note Re: Short Sun blog

Roy C. Lackey · 27 Sep 2010, 19:33 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:33:04 -0500
Subject: (urth) note Re: Short Sun blog
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Nicholas Jost wrote:
> Why is it always assumed that Severian brought him back?  There
> is none of the mythic special effects around his contact with Typhon.
> However, there is a blood sacrifice and associated special effects
> when Little Sev dies.  On my reading I always assumed that the
> "magic" ring sucked down Little Sev's soul and used it to power
> the monster Typhon.  Its not like we don't have soul sucking
> monsters in these stories with meta-physic complications
> running around.  Little Sev dies and Typhoon rises.  The
> dragon done ate 'im.

Typhon had been revived before Little Sev died. That's how he knew Sev had
the Claw. He said he was watching when Sev tried to use it to bring back the
boy.

-Roy

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