Fish and Caves

Lee Berman · 23 Dec 2010, 22:54 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:54:19 -0500
Subject: (urth) Fish and Caves
Message-ID: <SNT123-W50CB9B53721E2EF591E8E6CF1C0 at phx.gbl>

>The human conventions of distinct identity and distinct names may be something only 
>we need, not they.

That was in regard to monster sea creatures but there is their heavenly mirror images, also.

Apheta does not have a name, until she meets Severian and needs one. She is a larva.
She lives in a spiral-shaped cave. Tzadkiel is said to have a "son". Exactly how are
these offspring of Hierogrammates produced?

We aren't shown but we can guess, looking back to their mirror image race on Urth (and Blue).

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