Typhon's nature

larry miller · 12 Oct 2011, 10:56 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: biglar1984 at gmail.com (larry miller)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:56:47 -0400
Subject: (urth) Typhon's nature
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Dug out my long sun books last night to reread and found the quote.
Echidna has just possessed Maytera Marble and killed Blood.  She says
in response to Silks question "The Prime Calcula........His
Citadel.........".  Wolfe always capitalizes the citadel to seperate
it from other strongholds so this Prime Calcula must be on Urth.  At
first I thought this refered to the thing Severian wakes in the mine
of the man apes.  But the mandragora seemjs to make more sense in the
context of Silk and Echidnas conversation.

On 10/11/11, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- On Tue, 10/11/11, larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon's nature
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 7:59 PM
>> As I posted before the Mandragora was
>> likely a proto chem Typhon built
>> to download into.? Theres a point in Long Sun where
>> Silk having
>> discovered that the Gods can possess chems and I remember
>> Echidna
>> mentioning a Prime Calcula in the Citadel.? Im sure
>> this was a
>> reference to the mandragora.? This would also keep
>> with Wolfes naming
>> conventions as Calculas is I believe the latin word for
>> stone.
>>
>
> huh always wondered about that quote.  So the prime stone?  Not referring to
> the strange seal under the whorl with all those numbers?
>
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