Father Inire Theory

Jeff Wilson · 05 Dec 2010, 02:31 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:31:15 -0600
Subject: (urth) Father Inire Theory
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On 12/4/2010 11:25 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>
>> M. ben Witz: Wait a sec. I JUST finished NewSun again and I can not remember the
>> old boatman in any other scenes besides the near drowning at the beginning and when
>> we meet him on the Lake of Birds.
>
> That's an interest post to me Witz. Most do not think the boatman at the drowning is
> the Boatman at the Lake of Birds. I think Borski suggests that the "drowning" old boatman
> is Maxellindis' "Uncle", who is also a boatman, because they both speak of undines. Actually
> all three of these boatmen speak of undines. I wrote it as Maxellindis' "Uncle" because
> Severian suspects it isn't really her uncle.

Maxellindis' uncle was under constant observation by Eata for four or 
five years on their boat before *he* died, also during the time when 
Inire was actively serving Autarch Severian.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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