do the Hierogrammates care about the megatherians?

António Pedro Marques · 23 May 2011, 02:40 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 03:40:47 +0100
Subject: (urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?
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No dia 22/05/2011, ?s 20:55, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> escreveu:

> I have to say there is another 
> connection that people have stressed: Severian calls Abaia a "great beast", 
> "megatherians" means entities connected to the great beast(s) somehow, and 
> Father Inire says the Ascians are the "slaves of Abaia".  That makes it 
> considerably more likely that the two 17s are connected

The part where that argument doesn't work is where there is no evidence at all that the great beasts are 17, and in fact that looks like an impossibly large number for us to only hear about two.

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