Dionysus, the Mausoleum

Lee Berman · 21 Dec 2010, 17:57 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:57:15 -0500
Subject: (urth) Dionysus, the Mausoleum
Message-ID: <SNT123-W18786928C0A15A23BEE3ECCF1A0 at phx.gbl>

>Andrew Mason- the moral, I suspect, is that Severian is linked to many kinds and classes 
>of people in the Commonwealth.

This sounds almost Dickensian. And in an interview, Gene Wolfe has said that as an only child
he often spent his time people-watching, looking at faces for hints of unknown relatives, missing 
siblings etc. (in a stretch this could be a hint at Gene Wolfe's wondering about his own father's 
habits, which has influenced some of my thinking in regard to Father Inire, but I'll leave it at 
that).

I can generally agree but, since this is SF I can't see restricting the genealogy to the Commonwealth.

>David Stockhoff- So anyway, hybridization is such an important theme...

In so many ways. Hybrids always make the best Conciliators.

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