Typhon's nature

Jeff Wilson · 13 Oct 2011, 03:19 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:19:17 -0500
Subject: (urth) Typhon's nature
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On 10/12/2011 1:02 PM, larry miller wrote:
> I think calling it a fetus my be a mistake on Severians part.  I think
> the Mandragora may in fact just be small.  It tells Severian it was
> deformed- maybe in reference to its stunted growth?  Maybe thats why
> Typhon never transfers into it. While Im thinking about it does anyone
> have an idea what the "emerald bench" Severian mentions in the same
> chapter could be?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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