Horn on Blue

larry miller · 10 Oct 2011, 01:19 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: biglar1984 at gmail.com (larry miller)
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 21:19:46 -0400
Subject: (urth) Horn on Blue
Message-ID: <CAMBsQ=+2QmapNnKOUG87m39As8Hn3P8HY6CtuSzTBhpyeEHhgw at mail.gmail.com>

when Horn is laying dying in the pit on Blue he remarks that he sees a
man with a long nose that looks like a black spider and says that the
man touches his forehead with something.  Did this strike anyone as
similiar to Severian and the Claw?  Horn also remarks that the area is
littered with large chunks of Blue glass (like the azure crystal
housing the Claw). Maybe Horn sees one of Severians time traveling
iterations and Horns transferring into Silk is like Jonas transferring
into Miles.

On 10/9/11, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Some people do find it controversial whether the name 'megatherians'
> refers to the monsters (Erebus, Abaia and co.), but that's by the by.
>
> As James says, there is definitely a connection between the Mother on
> Blue and Scylla on Urth - I think they are said to be sisters. There
> are indications, notably the bean story, that the monsters on Urth
> came from space; this may mean either that they came from Blue, or
> that they came to both Urth and Blue from a third planet.
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