Antipolaric brothers

Andrew Mason · 23 Nov 2010, 22:49 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:49:59 +0000
Subject: (urth) Antipolaric brothers
Message-ID: <AANLkTinyMLhxu-Bj9CcsV9=np-ZmdhY6DAiu=P6j5UZy at mail.gmail.com>

Lee Berman wrote:

>
> I do like Andrew's dark/light twin comparison of Severian and Silk. Not sure Wolfe had
> Silk in mind when he first wrote about it.

Well, as I understand it, _Long Sun_ wasn't planned at the time, and
it was only while he was working on it that Wolfe came to see it as
connected with _New Sun_, so the Severian/Silk parallelism must have
been something he thought up later. Does Severian have an antipolaric
brother within _New Sun_? I'm not sure (and I don't see Typhon as
fitting the part, certainly not without the extra knowledge of him we
get from _Long Sun_).

Jeff Wilson wrote:

On 11/22/2010 6:50 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>>>>
>> Interesting you should bring this up now. I am finishing up RttW and at the
>> end there is a mysterious character on Urth who is tall and blonde with icy eyes
>> and a hawk-like nose.
>
> Dux Caesidius?

Are we ever told Caesidius' hair colour? (Not having read RTTW, I
don't know the significance of this passage; but it might help us work
out possible connections between him and Severian.)

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