Father Inire: teratoid

Jerry Friedman · 14 Dec 2010, 17:13 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:13:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid
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>From: Lee Berman severiansola at hotmail.com
>
>
>...
>Perhaps I'm being too literal here and should join in with David on the Wolfean 
>joke. But for me, the glyph is in 
>
>an alien "language". Who is it supposed to warn of danger? Barbatus getting lost 
>in the Secret House? 
>
>For some reason David continues to dance away from what I see as the clear 
>association here: If mirrors connect to 
>
>monsters then Father Inire connects to Hethor.
>
>
>>Son o' Witz- So, of course I'm trying to figure out what this teratoid symbol 
>>LOOKS like.
>
>Heh, me too. 
...
I'd never noticed the irony that when Severian tells us the appearance of the 
glyph but doesn't know its meaning, and when we wonder what
the glyph looks like exactly, "We are like children who look at print and see a 
serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last."

My theory is that it's the word in Father Inire's native language for 
"mirrors".??As people are saying,?since the?mirrors can call monsters, it's
appropriate that whatever is written there looks monster-like to Severian.

(Sorry if this message is messed up.? Yahoo seems to be misbehaving.)

Jerry Friedman


      
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